A tenant just moved out, and you need to rent your property again. But the tenant owned a cat. A cat that did not enjoy using his litter box. The cat and his owner may not be around anymore, but the odor remains. Now you have a choice: use a home remedy such as ammonia to attain a quick fix or eliminate the odor for good with OdorXit.
Your first option is the easiest, most cost-effective one. It even gives you a sense of power that comes from tackling that odor yourself with your own concoction. But will your home remedy work? Or will your next tenant want out of the house because the smell that dried urine continues to produce is horrendous?
Before you can understand why home remedies don't eliminate odors, you need to understand the cause of the odor. Urine residue is a water soluble and hydroscopic urea salt. When this urea salt becomes damp, it reacts with its surroundings and produces a gas called mercaptan. This gas is the smell associated with urine contamination.
To solve the urine contamination, the urea salt must be dissolved and then removed. If both of these processes do not occur, the contaminated area will become larger and more deeply imbedded in the cracks and pours of the flooring. And, as you know, the smell will remain.
Products like bleach, ammonia and vinegar do nothing to alter the urea salt. They can dissolve some of the urea salt if mixed with water, but once the urea salt is dissolved, the solution must be removed. Removing it prevents the contaminated area from growing larger and more deeply imbedded in the cracks and pours of the flooring.
Bleach will often lighten the stains but does not react with the urea salt. Mixing bleach and ammonia, even in small quantities, produces free chlorine gas that can and will severely burn your eyes, nose and lungs. In addition, enzyme products produce small amounts of ammonia gas as a byproduct of their reaction with urea salt. If there is any bleach in the area, it will produce that same free chlorine gas.
Some other notes on using bleach. Bleach is formulated to clean and whiten clothing. In order to attain that goal, many other chemicals are added. Eliminating urine is not one of those goals. So even if you are using the bleach for a disinfectant, it will not work. A better alternative would be to use swimming pool liquid chlorine shock. It is much more concentrated and not mixed with chemicals for laundry use. But do not use OdorXit in combination with chlorine products. The chlorine breaks down the organic salts and oils, making them ineffective.
It's the organic salts and oils in OdorXit that make this product superior to any home remedy. All OdorXit products work well on a wide range of surfaces and odors because they actually neutralize or absorb the substances that are causing the odors. They do so without enzymes, bacteria, perfumes or harsh chemicals. They are also non-staining, non-toxic and biodegradable.
Consequently, OdorXit is the ultimate odor solution.
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