For those of us with carpeted floors and pets who spend some of their time indoors, it’s almost inevitable that pet accidents will happen on the carpet. While we might simply shrug this off as unavoidable, clean up the visible mess and move on, there are some side effects and consequences to pet stains on carpet that you may not be aware of. Here we look at 3 surprising side effects that pet stains on your carpet can cause, and what you can do to prevent them.
Pet Stains and Odors in Subflooring
Even long after a pet stain on the surface of the carpet has been removed, pet stains may continue to cause odors and other issues in your home. To understand why this happens, it’s important to take into account that carpeted floor has many layers, and if your pet stain was in liquid form, the stain has most likely penetrated and affected some or all of those carpet layers. This is one of the reason pet odors and pet stains are so difficult to remove from carpet. In many cases, a liquid stain will penetrate not only the carpet, but also the carpet pad, subflooring, baseboards, and sheetrock.
Furthermore, pet stains and the odor molecules can become trapped in the carpet backing, where removal can cause delamination/damage to the carpet structure. If you are trying to manage carpet pet stain removal and odor removal but you are not having much luck, it’s worthwhile calling in a carpet stain removal specialist or your local carpet cleaner, to more accurately diagnose the extent of the staining, and the required removal process.
One Pet Stain Can Often Mean More
If you notice that your pet seems to have the same ‘accident’ in the same area over and over again, you’re not just imagining it. Because pet stains and pet odors are so difficult to remove from carpet, these odors linger and can attract pets to soiling the carpet in the same area again. Only professional carpet cleaning can remove pet stains and odors sufficiently to prevent pets going back to the same spot and soiling the carpet yet again, so it is crucial to enlist the help of your local carpet cleaner to remove pet stains whenever they arise.
Pet Stains Could Carry Disease
Home stain removal of pet stains is often unable to remove all traces of the stain, and even trace amounts of solid pet waste left in your carpet can mean millions of bacteria, parasites and disease-causing organisms are left behind. Solid pet waste can carry nasty germs like Toxoplasmosis, E.Coli, Campylobacter and a range of worms, while pet urine contains ammonia which can cause irritation to the throat and lungs when breathed in over a period of time. Deep carpet cleaning and targeted pet stain removal is often the only way to remove these potentially harmful germs and compounds from your carpet after a pet stain.
While pet stains might seem harmless, correct and thorough pet stain removal provided by an expert carpet cleaner offers the best solution to protecting your carpet and your family’s health from some of these surprising effects of pet stains on carpet.