So what can you do to get these odours out of your carpet?
One old school way to do this and avoid shampooing your carpet is to sprinkle baking soda all over the carpet and let it sit for some time. Then vacuum your carpet.
Baking soda
Baking soda has long been known to remove odours from material type objects as well as the air. Vinegar has many uses, and one of them is removing smells. Using a mixture of one part vinegar to two parts water to scrub into the odour in your carpet is a cheap alternative to renting a shampoo machine and purchasing the carpet shampoo you need.
Fresh Air
Spraying your carpet with some type of air or carpet freshener will help, but only masks the odour and it will return. The carpet powders do basically the same thing, masking the odour for a time, and then the odour comes back. Of course another way is to shampoo your rug. Getting a very strong smelling carpet shampoo is always a good idea. Making sure you go over the area multiple times where the odour is on your carpet as opposed to only once or twice will also be a good way to ensure you get the area where the odour is, cleaned thoroughly.
Elbow Grease
Also if you have just certain areas where the smell is coming from you may want to scrub that area with a scrub brush prior to shampooing with a machine. If shampooing your carpet doesn’t work, then you may have to pull the carpet up a bit to clean the pad beneath. This is a big undertaking, as it’s not easy to pull up a carpet.
Strong odours
If the odour in your carpet is from your pets, such as urine, there are shampoo products on the market made especially for this odour. Urine is a very strong odour and because it is a chemical composition, the stain can be removed but usually the odor remains.
Professional help
Another option is hiring a professional carpet cleaning company. This can be the most expensive option, although if the odour remains after the cleaning, that company would have to come in and do it again at no more cost to you. When hiring a carpet cleaning company this issue should be addressed. If all else fails, it may be time to give up on the carpet and pull it all up.
Change the capret
Going with a laminate flooring or some other type of non carpet flooring might just be the best solution as they are so much easier to clean and keep odours away.
Colin McDonald writes on behalf of Floors 2 Go – Cheap laminate flooring