How To Clean Human Urine From Carpet Using Water Only?

Having hard times cleaning your kids’ pee from the carpets? Don’t panic, just follow our article on ‘how to clean human urine from carpet using water only?‘ Even, you don’t need to carry it to a cleaning service.  

Removing urine from carpets and rugs is a tricky job for most people. It’s really hard sometimes to get rid of body fluid stains and odors caused by the decomposition of the fluid. But there are some methods that come in handy while cleaning the carpet properly all by yourself at home. 

This article will let you know and learn the easiest way of cleaning a urine-soaked carpet and point out the common mistakes people do during the process.    

Easy DIY Methods Of Cleaning Human Urine From Carpet: 

DIY carpet cleaning is different from a professional cleaning service. Because professional carpet cleaning requires heavy machineries and commercial cleansing products. On the other hand, you can clean your carpets easily with simple home supplies at cheap cost by following three of our methods such as 1. Cleaning with water; 2. Cleaning with vinegar; 3. Cleaning with baking soda.

These three methods are explained in three different articles in our site. And in this article we will share our practical knowledge on how to clean human urine from carpet using only water?

Products And Tools Needed For The Method:

Start cleaning with the following supplies to maintain proper hygiene and effective cleaning.

• Rubber gloves
• Towels/Paper towels/Wet napkins/sponge 
• Water
• Spray bottles
• Heat drier

Cleaning Urine With Water:

You can clean human urine from your carpet just using water (also water is commonly needed for all the other methods). When you see the accident, start cleaning it immediately with water, don’t wait or go to the departmental store for a cleansing product  if you don’t have it at your home instant. Just follow the steps given below.   

Step-1: Clean Up Wet Urine:

It’s always good to clean up the urine while it is fresh. Because with time the urine might leach through the carpet into the underlay and the floor underneath. So, start absorbing the urine instantly using paper towels. Feel free to use as much as paper towels needed for maximum absorption.

Step-2: Soaking Up The Urine:

Find out the spot and the volume of the mess on your floor carpets or rugs first. Then quickly soak up the spot with sufficient water through a spraying bottle. In case of dried stains you have to pour some warm water and let it soaked up for 10 minutes. This will loosen up the dried salts for easy absorption. 

Step-3: Rinsing The Stain:

To rinse it out pour some cold water on the entire pee stain carefully so that your carpet doesn’t get soaking wet. Then wait 5 minutes before blotting with paper towels.

Step-4: Blotting Up The Urine:

After rinsing the stain with sufficient water spray you have to blot up the moisture from the carpet with paper towels. Repeat treatment may be needed until the stain and odor are completely removed.

Step-5: Dry Up The Spot:

Finally, dry up the spot with a hot air drier and it will take maximum 5 minutes. If you don’t have a drier just wait and let it dry up by itself and you’re as fresh as before.

Common Mistakes’ To Avoid While Cleaning Urine With Water: 

Mistake 1: Do not start cleaning with bare hands, always put on rubber gloves during the whole process. Otherwise you might be affected by zoonotic diseases.

Mistake 2: Don’t rush, take enough time to clean your carpets.

Mistake 3: Don’t use any hard object for rubbing the soaked urine stain. Otherwise, you may damage the carpet badly.

Mistake 4: Don’t be lazy and late to clean up the mess instant. Because, once you are late, it becomes harder to clean up the stain.

Related Questions:

Why Human Urine Creates Bad Smells On Carpet?

Urine consists of uric acid and urea. The reason for the bad smell after urination is these dried salts present in the urine. The salts draw humidity from the air and that humidity activates these salts and started to release them as water vapor. With this vapor, there is ammonia (NH₃) gas produced from the decomposition of the urine and that’s what we smell. Human pee creates less smell compared to dogs’ and cats’ pee. And among them, cat pee is the worst smelling.

How To Clean Carpet Urine And Stains Like a Professional? 

Professional-level carpet cleaning requires experience and pro-cleaning devices and accessories. For example, if you have a Bissel Big Green Deep Cleaning Machine and you are expert enough to operate it then you don’t need to hire a person for the job. Make the arrangements of cleaning products and other tools and follow the process on the manual. In that case, you will have to input the right amount of cleaning agents (shampoo, detergent) into the machine. And the machine will automatically do the soaking, rinsing, absorbing the residues and finally dry it up through its hot air blow feature.   

Why You Must Clean Human Urine From Carpet?

First of all, your pet may spread zoonotic disease and affect your whole family if the animal isn’t vaccinated periodically. Human or pet urine contains uric acid and urea which absorb moisture from the air and help to grow different kinds of mold which cause fungal infections in the human body and other lung diseases.

Final Touch:

So, we believe that people who find it tricky and gross and don’t know how to clean human urine from carpets and rugs with water only? is no more a bigger problem. In fact, it was never been that hard if people have already followed a similar process like that. And now this article has cleared all the probable and necessary questions of the DIYers. Cleaning urine from carpet doesn’t need any sophisticated knowledge or skill. Any one can do that at home all by himself if he follows these 3 methods carefully.