We had to fix up my mother’s house to help her sell a few years ago. She had several cats that did a lot of damage to the floors. We were certain we would have to serious expensive repairs. We had carpets ripped out, hired super skilled floor guys to sand, replaced a few individual boards that had deteriorated. Once he finished it looked gorgeous and left no hint of pets at all. It was also way cheaper than anticipated. If you like the house and you’re willing to get work done, take it.

You'd have to rip out all the flooring. Once it's in the floor it's hard to get rid of. Any accidents need to be cleaned up immediately and clearly they weren't.

Anonymous wrote:Relatively easy, once the pets are out. Get a deep cleaning of the house done before you move in (I would do this anyway). This should include carpet cleaning. If it's really bad, you may want to replace carpets, and you may want to clean out the vents. I suppose it depends on what you think of as a lot of work when you move it, too!

Nope. Urine may have seeped all the way down to the subfloor. We tried to refinish existing hard woods under carpet and they had stains. The floor guy was going to try to restore but after sanding them the urine smell was still there and he recommended we get rid of the subfloor and hardwoods and put new ones in. The smell went away.

I had always thought there was a slight odor when I was dating my husband who bought the house before we met but was not sure what it was from.

Natures miracle?

Dog smells are relatively easy to get rid of. Cats are much more difficult.

It's likely stuck in all the soft surfaces, so carpets, fabric sofas, rugs, fabric chairs etc. Was it full of furniture? Just removing alot of their old dog smelling furniture will help. You can request the carpets be deep cleaned (and show a receipt) in your purchase contract, or get a $ amt deducted for that.

Don’t buy it then.

Get a dog

Nasty! Not sure I want to be removing sub flooring in every room like that.

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Relatively easy, once the pets are out. Get a deep cleaning of the house done before you move in (I would do this anyway). This should include carpet cleaning. If it's really bad, you may want to replace carpets, and you may want to clean out the vents. I suppose it depends on what you think of as a lot of work when you move it, too!

Op here, I believe it’s two big dogs

Cats or dogs?

Remove carpets and possibly replace subfloor depending on condition - if it is cat urine and has permeated the subfloor you’ll keep smelling it if all you do is replace carpet. Tiling over it might seal the odor in.

We visited a house yesterday and like it. But once we entered inside of the house there’s strong smell, then we saw pet doors. We also noticed some stains on the carpets. How to get rid of the pet smell and those stains? Is it an easy thing?