Cat Smell

[Joseph F.]

In a property I recently purchased, I gave one of the tenants a Notice to Terminate.  Not only were they giving me the run around with respect to rent but they had four cats in the apartment and were very dirty tenants.

Fortunately, they moved out.  Now I have to rehabilitate the apartment.  I plant to pull out all of the existing carpet. linoelum and any area where there is the slightest sign of cat urine.

Despite my plan, I suspect that the apartment will harbor a cat smell.  I have been told that there are products available that eliminate even the strongest of odors.

Does anyone have any recommendations on product or otherwise?  

Has anyone used "Odorfix Plus"?

Thank you

[Kenneth LaVoie]

We've done a couple of these jobs. Mostly it will be flooring. Obviously all carpeting has to come out. Once you get down to the barest floor, use 2-3 coats of oil based(?) polyurethane. You are literally "hermetically sealing" the odor in. We've done this twice, one apartment had 4-5 cats, rodents, and were allowed to pee freely all over the place...not a trace of that odor left. Labor intensive but 100% solution. You can wash everything else with Odor ban or whatever other chemical out there promises to rid urine smell.