With the colder weather coming in the next following months, chances are your pets will be spending more time inside than outside. Plano, TX is reknown for being a “family friendly” suburb, and many of these families have numerous pets. If you have pets and like to entertain your friends and family at your house, it’s quite beneficial a good idea to clean your house in order to eliminate pet dander and pet urine.

Pet urine is obviously not a pleasant smell and you guests will not want to stick around for a long time. Dogs, cats, birds, and other creatures are not always the most cleanliness of housemates. Even if your pet is potty trained, it’s very likely that your animal will leave pet hair and dander on your carpets, upholstery, drapery, and furniture. Pet dander consists of the loose dermal skin cells which our pets shed on a regular basis.  Although pet hair can be much easier to spot, pet dander is virtually invisible. The overexposure in your house to pet dander can in some cases lead to asthma, and other respiratory complications.  The proteins from pet saliva, hair, and urine are what usually trigger a person’s allergic reaction. Research gathered estimates that 15-30% of allergic reactions are from cats, dogs, and other animals.  Common allergic reactions include rashes and eczema, coughing, watery and itchy eyes, congestion or runny sinus. With excessive amounts of pet dander in your home this can start aggravating your allergies even if you usually are not allergic to cats or dogs.

Not everyone crates their animals, so when left unattended accidents can happen. Pet urine leaves stains, but can also not be detected with the human eye. Pet urine is comprised of thousands of bacteria organisms found in urea, sodium chloride, urine acid, and other detoxified wastes. It’s also very difficult and time consuming to get rid of the foul odor pet urine and feces leaves behind. The bacteria live off of any moisture or food sources in the particular area.  After you can determine all the pet urine stains, it’s important to remove and replace the soiled carpet padding. Also, when pet urine is left sitting on an area for a prolonged time period, it may soak into the sub floor. In this case the sub floor needs to be treated with the anti-microbial solution or an enzyme. With extreme cases, some sub floors need to be sealed. After replacing and treating the sub-floor level, it’s time to continue with the carpet cleaning. A proven and efficient carpet cleaning method is through hot water extraction (“steam cleaning”), it’s advised that you clean the underlying side of the carpet. Various carpet cleaning companies use effective and powerful chemicals solutions mixed in their hot water extractors. After the sub-floor layer has been sealed, the back of the carpet is completely clean, and then the new carpet padding and carpet can be set down. Finally, you’re ready for the surface carpet cleaning using hot water extraction.  When the high pressure cleaning is finished, allow your carpet for a sufficient drying time.

After your carpet has been treated with hot water extraction carpet cleaning, the overall result is a cleaner and healthier home! If you live in the Plano, TX or neighboring areas and have pets, consider getting a hot water extraction carpet clean that will be beneficial to your entire household.