Pet Urine Case Studies In addition to the case study info on this and the linked-to pages, we encourage you to also check out our Stain Removal, Extraction Instructions and Salvaging Pee-Soaked Subfloor pages. These very well illustrate DooDoo Voodoo's ability to remove unbelievable stains...in just minutes, right before your eyes, as well as indescribable odors.
NEWS: We're proud to now be distributors of some fantastic subsurface extraction tools, which are specifically designed to pull impurities from not only your carpet fibers, but also your carpet backing, pad and even subfloor. These have only been available to professionals, but are now available here and start at just $47.99 with free shipping! You can learn more about these SOS Subsurface Extraction Tools on our PRODUCTS page (and be sure to follow the Learn More link for tons more photos, case studies and tips). These tools provide the same functionality as pro-only tools (called Water Claws) that cost hundreds more. Even many professional carpet cleaners don't possess this level of specialized tooling, so for a very low investment (starting at just $47.99!), you'll be performing pro-level odor and stain remediation yourself...and without even breaking a sweat, because the tool does the work for you. I highly encourage you to learn more on the PRODUCTS page and to follow the link to our SUBSURFACE page. Regardless whether you use DooDoo Voodoo or not (and we certainly hope you do!), you and your animals could also benefit from purifying your air. We put together an educational page about how we accomplish this at our place, so check out our Freshen Air page. One of our favorite new tools is Dr. Whitaker's Neoair Plus Total Shield air purifier, which we bought more than a dozen of. · In early 2006, we undertook a whole-condo odor remediation job for a lady whose cats had soiled the home quite extensively, and whose realtor® told her that because of the odor, the condo would sell for $50,000 less than market value. She was ready to rip out the carpet, pad and tack strips, then treat the subfloor, but we urged her to let us first show her what DooDoo Voodoo could do all by itself. Interestingly, due to a medical condition, the lady has lost her sense of smell, which is both a blessing and a curse. Here are some pictures to set the scene for you. The thing the close-up pictures don't convey is that there was urination throughout the condo, not just in the corners and on the stairs. It had even run down from the balcony and had crept along the kitchen ceiling. There was a lot of spray on the walls, not just down by the floor where you might expect it to be, but up the walls from where the cats had sprayed while standing on the back of the couch, chairs, tables, etc. The first few shots show you the general layout of the condo, which is larger than it appears to be in the pictures due to the nature of the wide-angle lens I used. Note how pristine the carpet looks under normal lighting versus how it looks under blacklight. (Click the thumbnail pics to see 640x480 versions.) To read more of this story and see pictures taken throughout the entire process we went through to rid the place of odor, visit our page about salvaging pee-soaked subfloor. (There's a lot of info for those of you who may have urine or feces infiltration of your subfloor.) You can also download the whole case study as a PDF file (1.4MB in size). If you're in the Indianapolis area and need this sort of work performed, please contact us. If you just need carpet cleaning and are in the Indy area, we recommend Kolby Carpet Cleaning Company. They've cleaned our carpet for years and do a good, affordable job. Call them at 317-861-0211. Kolby cleans in the following counties: Marion, Hamilton, Boone, Hancock, Johnson, Hendricks and Morgan. To read more of this story and see pictures taken throughout the process we went through to rid the place of odor, click here. To see pictures taken in one of our bedrooms while I was remediating urine, vomit and poop stains from our little special-needs dog, Rocky, click here.
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Recently, our water softener broke and flooded the whole area a couple times before we figured out what the problem was. The staining you see in the carpet is due to wicking from that flooding, not urination or DooDoo Voodoo. Interestingly, though, even when the whole carpeted area was soaked (not just moist), it didn’t smell at all. I haven’t used my carpet cleaning machine on the area yet, hence the temporary staining you see as a remnant of the water softener flood. Isn’t it great, though, that (a) the area didn’t smell at all even when it was soaking wet; (b) the cats have never re-soiled the area; and (c) Gracie is contentedly lying there as if nothing were wrong at all...when previously she was peeing in this area more than once a day? I absolutely defy you to find another odor control product on the planet that would have facilitated this the way DooDoo Voodoo has. No way; no how. Excuse the wide-angle lens distortion, but I wanted to get the whole area in the picture so you’d get a good feel for how many places the cats had peed. The wicking visible is from old urine, other odor neutralizers and more that had been trapped in the carpet backing, the carpet pad and the concrete under the carpet pad. When the water softener flooded the area, the moisture and salt brought the contaminants up to the surface. If I were to treat the whole area with DooDoo Voodoo, it probably would get rid of the wicking discoloration, but I’ll go the extra yard and extract the carpet with my carpet cleaning machine. Interestingly, though not surprising to me given what I know about DooDoo Voodoo’s chemistry, is that even though all these contaminants resurfaced, there is no odor...thanks to the treatments I had done previously with DooDoo Voodoo.
Update: Here are some pictures from when I worked on the area with the carpet extractor.
Tile & Grout
Now, I'd like to mention a product to you: GroutShield. While I've not used it specifically for the purpose of sealing in odors in grout (and I did not use it in the bathroom shown), I have used it for coloring/sealing grout, with good success. In the real world, it didn't turn out to be quite as easy to use as it looks in the videos (don't let it dry on the tile too long...that's all I'm saying), but it seems like a fantastic product that does what it purports to. Visit http://www.groutshield.com to learn more. I, personally, have found that DooDoo Voodoo is a FANTASTIC cleaner and brightener for grout, not to mention its odor-killing abilities. But if you desire to change your grout's color and keep liquids and dirt out of it, I recommend GroutShield. · From our archives (okay, a box on a shelf in our basement), here are some pictures of indiscriminate urination we were fighting back in the '80s when we started working on DooDoo Voodoo. We had a really cute house, built in the '40s, and it had beautiful carpeting and hardwood floors...until some of our rescued cats started their peeing contest. These three pictures show only a couple of the many areas we were dealing with. Click on the thumbnails to see 640-pixel-wide versions of the pictures.
After seeing these pictures, which don't even capture all the areas we were working on, I'm sure you can understand why we were so motivated to develop DooDoo Voodoo. You see, we're not just some capitalists out here trying to sell you something. We know exactly what you're going through...because we went through the exact same trials & tribulations you are! Before we perfected DooDoo Voodoo, we had to throw away toasters, laser printers, couches and lots more furnishings because of indiscriminate urination. Our own experiences, coupled with our decades of animal charity work, helped us understand the importance of developing a product that really, truly could get rid of pet urine odor. We knew how angry we felt when our rescued animals trashed our house, and we had seen firsthand how many animals were relinquished and euthanized due to indiscriminate urination, so we took our responsibility to develop DooDoo Voodoo very seriously. It's gratifying to now be seeing DooDoo Voodoo helping pet owners cope with indiscriminate urination and saving so many animals' lives. Please check out our Testimonials page for satisfied customers' comments. Somewhere in all our boxes and files I'm sure we have other archive pictures. We'll post them here when we run across them. If you've got any photos you'd like to share with us and would allow us to post here on the website for others' benefit, we'd appreciate receiving them. E-mail them to us in JPG format to info@doodoovoodoo.com. Let others learn from what you've gone through!
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