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Cat Piss

I'm not an enormous fan of cats (sorry). They're too independent, I cannot get my head around people giving them a human personality, and the smell of their piss is one of the worst smells known to man. Every house which has a cat litter inside smells of it, no matter how hard they try to ensure that it doesn't....... disgusting.

When we moved into this house we discovered that the laundry room had been used to house a litter tray and the previous owners cat had pissed not only in it, but down the wall and onto the floor. Over the years it had soaked through the ancient lino, and soaked through the subfloor meaning that no amount of cleaning would ever get rid of it. We moved in in the summer and as the heat rose, the smell increased. Revolting and apparent from everywhere in the house. The very first DIY job that G ever did was to replace that laundry room floor, including the subfloor, so that we could live in a stink free environment.

Now - the room downstairs that we're just starting on. A room we've been using for a library but will now be temporarily used as a guest room until Dylan moves down there. It hasn't stunk of cat piss but there has often been a slight odour to the room, an inexplicable odour. Yesterday, however, when G ripped off all the carpet and trim the odour became more obvious - again with the cat piss. It seems that a cat had used the corner of this room to piss in. Since the cat, the carpet had been replaced (not by us) masking the worst of it.....but the piss had soaked through the carpet gripper rods, rusting them and making them stink, and it had stained the concrete underneath. So we now need to replace all that and scrub that concrete with bleach, possibly putting some of that 'killz' odour sealing stuff down.

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE CATS??? grrrrrrrr.