There is a room in our house, the one where the back door is as well as the doggie door that has been frankly just abused.
The previous owners had a dog and it must have had accidents in there.
Nico has had a couple of true accidents from upset stomach in that room right by the back door before we had a doggie door...that is like elephant poop!

Then I had the three rescues from hell, they peed and pooped in there as well and it wasnt always easy to get to right away, or get totally off of them because they were so fearful of me for so long, that is where their kennel was, and they would happily crap right next to their food bowel and keep on eating.

Levi our previous husky would go in there and pee or crap if given half a chance, even with the dog door and him knowing fully how to use it. But especially in the first two weeks after we no longer kept the dog door open due to his need to escape.

Puppy had been doing really well using the dog door and had no accidents in nearl two weeks so I had slacked off some in my vigilance. He only had access to the living room the hallway and the back room with the dog door.
I walked back there tonight and found two piles of doody, and some wet stinky laundry he or the cat had dragged out of the basket and then peed on. There was also a sock across the room that smelled like male cat pee...it is a distinct odor from dog pee.

All the pee clothes are soaking in some oxyclean in the washing machine to try and get the odor out of them.

I also wonder if he has been peeing other places in the room and I hadnt noticed it. We dont use the room at all other than for some storage of stuff that cant handle extreme temperature changes and the laundry baskets. At least i know why our house smelled a little like a Kennel, It was driving me nuts!

Everytime there has been an accident i have cleaned with either Nature's miracle or the stuff called Kids and Pets from Target (good Stuff). At one point I took everything out of the room and soaked the entire thing witha gallon of natures miracle and then put plastic over that to give it longer to work before it dried. IT got rid of all smell to my nose when doing the nose to the floor sniff test...but obviously not to theirs.

We never have a problem with them going back to accident spots anywhere else, only right by the back door.

Would resealing the floors in there after a very deep clean work to mask the scent they can still smell?

Is there something stronger than natures miracle that wont totally eat the wood, but i dont mind if it alters its appearance?

These are old floors, probably 80 to 100 years old and not in the best shape. The rest of the floors in house are old and charming but in much better shape and get babied a lot more.

There is no polyurethane on any of the floors, only an old fashioned shellac and then we wax them by hand twice a year.
But we have never waxed the floor in the back room.

I dont want to replace the floors in there until we have no more puppies to ruin it again. And we also have to save up for the cost of labor and supplies to have it done.

So no more freedom for pup at all, and Loki isnt allowed in there until i get it figured out. I dont want him marking over the pups pee.

Jennifer,
A product called "Odo-Ban" works really good to eliminate odors although I have never tried it on wood floors. Know that it is excellent on carpets and in plastic crates. It comes in a gallon jug (concentrate) and you mix it with water. I think I got it at Costco.

Jennifer,
I just looked thru some of my old posts, and see where Carol Boche has used this product too - she said she bought it at Sams Club (it wasn't Costco).

i will have to look for the Odo-Ban..Or just bulldoze the room and start fresh!

OdoBan

This is what I use and I have laminate wood floors so it works well. I also scrub my kennel concrete with it as well.

They do have a "pet odoban" but IMHO, it does not work as well as the "regular".

If you mop your wood floors, then you should be okay with this stuff in your mop water.

If you google "OdoBan" is comes up with quite a few links. And I think in this one I added it has a "directions" area and tells what it should and should not be used for.

Sams Club and Costco are pretty much the same thing, I think it depends on the state you live in.

You could try sraying bitter apple, from Leerburg on and around the places they Poo or Pee, that is once you have got the odour out of the wood, But that is not easy once its in there,
Sealed Wood will not let Pee etc Penetrate so after you get out the smell get the husband to treat the Floor with a Matt sealand for wood, Not Gloss finish the Dogs will not stand up right on it if the run

If this has really soaked into the grain odds are your floor is slightly damaged and it may be worth looking into sanding and refinishing. Any tight well sealed hardwood floor shouldn't have many issues with retaining odors.

Yes, but do not use a gloss finsh on the Floors its slippery for the Dogs, Use a Matt finish, one thing i do know about, i was in the trade doing it for 40 years

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Yes, but do not use a gloss finsh on the Floors its slippery for the Dogs, Use a Matt finish

Good point, Steve. Good way to help protect puppy-joints.

No high gloss in this house, its old and gloss would throw the whole thing off, that and kids with socks on, and puppies at full speed would be a disaster.

So if we sand and then seal will it effectively seal in any odor the cleaners cant get out? Or would it be a better idea to replace the boards in that room all together?

The floors in that room were damaged and sun bleached when we moved in, and then add to that 6 years of dogs and kids tracking in and out with all sorts of mud, wetfeet, the accidents, and they are pretty sad at this point.

I have even thought of tiling over the floors to make it more of a mudroom/laundry room, but I wasnt sure if they would be able to smell the pee even through tile.