How does Spiker treat pet urine in carpet?
Spiker treats pet urine at the source by injecting enzyme solution into the carpet padding at around 700 to 800 PSI, saturating the pad and the subfloor beneath, where urine actually settles. Most cleaning only treats the surface. The injection drives treatment down to the contamination, and it is then flushed until the rinse runs clear.
The problem is inches below where a machine touches
Pet urine does not sit on top of the carpet. It soaks through the face fibre, through the backing, into the padding, and on a large or repeated accident down to the subfloor.
That is why surface cleaning never removes the smell. The contamination is below the level any wand reaches, and what you can see at the surface is the smallest part of it.
What the pressure is for
Spiker injects the enzyme treatment into the padding at around 700 to 800 PSI. That is enough pressure to drive it down through the pad and saturate the subfloor underneath — the layer surface cleaning never reaches.
Volume matters as much as pressure. The solution has to go down in enough quantity to reach the depth the urine reached, or it only ever treats the top of the problem.
Then it gets flushed, and then it gets time
The area is flushed and the contamination drawn back out until the recovery water runs clear. That flushing action is what dilutes and carries the deposit out rather than simply wetting it.
Then the enzymes need time. They are not deodorisers — they are biological agents that digest the organic material producing the odour, and that continues working for up to about twenty-four hours after we leave.
The honest limit, stated before we start
This is an honest attempt at the problem. We never guarantee a result on pet urine, because until the floor is opened nobody can tell from the surface how far the contamination travelled.
The only permanent fix for deep subfloor contamination is replacing the pad and sealing the subfloor. That is construction work, and Spiker does not pull carpet, does not replace padding and does not seal subfloors. Injecting at 700 to 800 PSI to saturate the pad and subfloor is the deepest attempt available short of a tear-out — and we will say plainly when a floor has gone past what cleaning can reach.
One more thing most companies will not tell you: do not pay for a tear-out while the same animals are still marking the same floor. A flood and flush is the right call until the source is dealt with, because it buys you time.
The follow-up
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Around 700 to 800 PSI, into the padding, with the aim of saturating the subfloor beneath it. Pressure is what carries the treatment down to where the urine actually settled rather than leaving it on the surface.
Because the deposit is in the pad and sometimes the subfloor, inches below where a cleaning wand reaches. Treating the face fibre makes the smell disappear for about a week and then it returns with the next humid day.
Up to about twenty-four hours after the treatment goes down. They digest the organic material producing the odour, which is a biological process rather than an instant one — which is also why a light surface mist does nothing: it evaporates before it can act.
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