My client is an older gentleman who bought a new home, didn't seal the grout after he moved in, and four years later, the bathroom looks like this!
I've already called in a cleaning team, and they did a decent job of cleaning it up, but unfortunately, the urine smell lingers.
What would you do?
Many thanks; I'm looking forward to hearing your responses!
So basically the guy doesn't have a good aim?? I would think that the tile would need to be taken out and some type of paint (several coats) used to seal the wood flooring underneath then new tile installed. Would ammonia work?
Have you thought of trying an industrial strength ionizer? I also have all boys and have this issue, although not nearly as huge of a stench as you have indicated this house is, and I wonder if an ionizer treatment would be the magic answer. The AR authority on this is Michelle Molinari of Feature This Dot Dot Dot if you would like to ask her about it.
Hi Tamara,
If you need 100% permanent eradication of urine odor (or any odor, for that matter), you might want to consider the industrial strength ionizer Tori Lynn speaks of, which she purchased from me.
There's no fooling around with these babies. It can permanently de-funkify an entire 3000 sq. ft house in a matter of a few hours.
Check out my sister's blog on Stinky Stenches. We sell them because we use them, they work, and real estate agents & sellers are floored by the results. We found ourselves referring dozens of sales to the company who makes them, then we got smart and we now rent them and sell them, too. We 100% money-back guarantee them, and none have ever been returned.
Good luck, in any event, with that odor. We bought a condo once that had a tiled bathroom that smelled faintly of human urine many years ago. We couldn't get rid of the smell. So, we figured it was in the grout. We tore the bathroom up and replaced EVERYTHING, only to STILL have that urine odor come right back. It is insidious how certain sources of odor can smell so bad for so long. I sure needed an ionizer back then, only they had yet to be invented, I suppose.
~Michelle
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