My Dog Peed On Laminate Flooring

My dog baby peed on my new flooring several times when i was away.

My dog peed on laminate flooring.

Laminate and vinyl flooring are quite forgiving surfaces for accidents provided you act quickly and use the correct products and technique. Before the smell has any time to soak in or the uric acid can damage any surfaces soak up the pee. So while i was looking under my sink i found orange glo. Dog pee is primarily water and water will damage natural wood engineered wood and the substrate that the laminate flooring planks are made from unless they are specially treated to be water resistant.

How is laminate flooring with your dog or pets. Today i was on here looking how to get these stains off my new dark laminate flooring. Once they swell they compress against each other. No one knew how to remove the white stains from my floors.

It is also what causes the strong odour. Unless you are a quick draw on the mop. Laminate is not technically waterproof so it doesn t work very well with standing water as it would be the case if doggie decides to pee on it while you re out and you can t clean it for hours. This is what damages certain types of flooring.

If your dog urinates on your laminate or vinyl floor quickly soak up the liquid. Knock over a pet bowl full of water and you have just wrecked. Dog pee generally has a ph neutral reading at first but if left it will become acidic. Dog urine will damage laminate flooring real wood flooring engineered wood and tile grout.

Those who have had dog urine for a long time on their hardwood floor can notice the detrimental effect dog urine has as it eats away at the flooring. My dog friends have had success with the nature s miracle on wood floors so i think that the dog urine has gone down below the surface and is creating an odor from between the planks of flooring. Water causes wood fibers to swell. However you can buy laminate flooring that have been treated or coated with waterproofing substances.

To begin with it might seem like a small trivial matter and owners usually just wipe it off and assume that fixes the issue. If you were gone while the dog peed and it s dry then put a warm wet cloth over it to get up most of the puddle. Laminate flooring is not a good idea at all if there is any possibility of water ever getting on it either from above or from below. I just wanted to make a quick video about the problems with laminate flooring and pee pee pets.