Removing dark cat urine stain from hardware floors
CDHoover
trying my luck here. We removed the carpet from my den and found a
dark stain (about 1 square foot) in our oak hardwood floor. There is a
very dark section in the center which isabout 5 inches long and across
the 2.5" width of the board. I believe the finish used on the floor
was Fabulon (house was built in 1956). Short of having the floor
completely sanded and refinished, does anyone have any experience with
something that might at least lighten the stain and make it less
noticable? (The cat wasn't courteous enough to make the stain in a
spot where I could easily cover it with a small rug, so that really
isn't an option).
Charlie Hoover
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Tom J
cdhoover@-dittybop-home.com (CDHoover) wrote:
> The pet newsgroups only deal with cat urine stains on carpets, so am
> trying my luck here. We removed the carpet from my den and found a
> dark stain (about 1 square foot) in our oak hardwood floor. There is a
> very dark section in the center which isabout 5 inches long and across
> the 2.5" width of the board. I believe the finish used on the floor
> was Fabulon (house was built in 1956). Short of having the floor
> completely sanded and refinished, does anyone have any experience with
> something that might at least lighten the stain and make it less
> noticable?
My bet is that you can't remove the stain short of replacing a few
boards. The stain is most likely 1/4 inch deep or more.
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Jim Knoll
I have heard of some people having luck with bleaching the hardwood
floor with chlorine bleach in an attempt to remove cat urine. We had
our hardwood floors sanded and refinished a few years ago. I asked the
sander about floor stains that we had and whether one could remove
them w/o sanding. The sander indicated that many stains go deep into
the wood and that sanding is prob the only/best way to remove them.
I know we had a few nail rust stains next to the front door. Those
stains went real deep. Even after sanding and refinishing those
stains still remain.
Your best bet is to prob have the floors resanded and then a nice
coat of poly put on top. Then as the cat sees a need to use the floor
you can easily wipe it all up w/o having it stain the wood. I think
the problem with many older wood floors (like ours was) there was
only a thin coat of wax on the wood. If the wax became worn in
some areas then the floor became succeptable to deep stains as
the wax was not there to protect it.
Jim
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Kevin Seymour
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In article <39B8657B...@earthlink.net>, Kevin Seymour
<kaiw...@earthlink.net> writes:
>Sanding. Also try oxalic acid. Good hardware store should have it.
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