Removing Urine Smells from Mattresses by Debra Wyatt (last updated February 24, 2014) When someone accidentally wets the bed, usually the first thought is that the mattress is ruined. The worst part of urine on a mattress is the smell. It seems like that smell will never go away. With some work you can have that urine smell out of the mattress. When first discovered remove all the linens from the bed and put the soiled linens in the laundry room. Take a clean white towel or rag and blot up as much of the urine as you can. Sprinkle some baking soda on top of the mattress, fully covering the damp areas. Let the mattress absorb as much of the baking soda that it can. This can take some time; usually about 10 minutes will do the trick. Vacuum up as much of the baking soda as you can. This will go a long way in helping to eliminate the smell. Place all the linens that are washable into the clothes washer. Add detergent as you normally would plus a half cup of ammonia. The ammonia will eliminate the smell of urine.
Then dry the bed linens as normal. While the linens are being washed and dried, now is a good time to work on removing the urine from the mattress. When the urine is gone, the smell will be gone too. Items needed for light cleaning solution: 2 squirts liquid dish soap 1 tablespoon white vinegar 2 cups cool water In a small bowl mix a couple squirts of liquid dish soap, one tablespoon of vinegar, and two cups of cool water. Take a clean white rag or wash cloth and dip the cloth into the water. Using the dampen cloth start to work on the mattress. Try to apply a blotting motion with the damp cloth against the mattress. If you press to hard you will be pressing the urine into the mattress instead of removing it. Keep blotting until the liquid is absorbed. Keep working with the blotter until the stain disappears. If the stain seems to be stubborn then it is time to move on to the heavy duty cleaner. Items needed for heavy duty cleaning solution: 1/2 cup hydrogen peroxide
2 cups warm water In a medium size bowl mix the hydrogen peroxide, ammonia, and warm water. You want the bowl to be big enough that you can get your hand into it without having the cleaning solution all over. Using a new, clean, white towel or rag, start to blot the stain with this new mixture. After the stain is removed then sponge the mattress with cold water and blot dry. If at all possible, take the mattress outside on a sunny, warm day and let the mattress air dry. (Make sure you let the sunlight hit the face of the mattress where the urine was.) If that is not possible then let the mattress dry as much as possible indoors before putting the bed linen back on to the bed. Your mattress now should have a nice clean smell, and is ready for the clean linens to be put back on. Keep Your Hardwood Floors Like New Bona's hardwood floor cleaner is the #1 choice of professionals. The no-residue formula is specially designed to be safe for floors, families, and the environment.
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Blood is also a common mattress stain, but it is a little harder, though not impossible, to get out. Some food stains are hard to get out, like red wine. Urine can be very hard to eliminate. Of course, all of these mattress stains could have been prevented with a simple mattress protector. Until then, though, here are some options. There are many professional mattress stain removers available from the market. It will pay to shop around and find out who will give you the best service. Try to find a company that is self contained and mobile. Make sure to ask about the chemicals they use, and what side effects they might cause. It’s your right to ask and know this information, so if they refuse, keep looking around. As well, remember to make sure they are bonded/insured. Mattresses aren’t cheap…and if they ruin yours by cleaning it improperly, you’re up a creek without a paddle if they don’t carry insurance. Reading review sites will help you find the best professional for the job.
Salt and club soda can remove mattress stains. This method is most effective against fresh stains that have not been allowed to dry. It’s very simple and quite effective. First, wet the stain with club soda, and gently work it into the fabric. Cover the stain with table salt. Let it sit for a couple hours, and the salt will gradually change colors as it absorbs the stain. If you don’t get to the stain right away, you will want to try another technique. Try soap and water to get rid of the mattress stain. The sooner you can get to the stain, the better chance you have of saving the mattress from a scarred life. The difficulty in mattress cleaning is that every bit of moisture soaked into the bed must be removed somehow. So, keep that in mind as you scrub at this stain with your mixture of dish soap and water. Dab at the wet stain with a dry towel to remove the moisture. To dry the mattress, lay it in the hot sun for a day or two, or you can try sucking out the moisture with a shop-vac.
Use borax to remove mattress stains. Borax is a highly undervalued cleaning agent. Boric acid has been used to clean things almost as long as people have been using lye. Simply mix borax and water to create a paste, and spread it over the stain while working it into the fabric. Let that sit and dry for an hour. Then, brush off the dried borax powder and give it a look. Then, scrub the spot with a little soap water and a brush, rinse it with a wet towel, and dab with a dry towel. Amazon sells 20 Mule Team Borax at an affordable price. If the mattress stain persists, there’s always bleach. Grab a few towels you won’t mind becoming bleached. Use a mild bleach like hydrogen peroxide so you don’t melt your mattress. Dab the stain with the straight bleach, and scrub it a little. You will want to wear gloves for this, and make sure there isn’t anything you don’t want bleached in the area. Dab at the stained area with a wet towel, followed by a dry towel to try to remove some of the bleach.
Obviously be sure to use towels that you don’t care if they’re damaged from the bleach. Steaming away mattress stains. The best part about a steaming vacuum cleaner is that it sucks up moisture really well. This gives you a better chance of actually removing the stain, instead of just driving it deeper into the mattress and covering it up with bleach. The steam cleaner will cost you a few bucks, but it might save you a lot of hassle. posed of proteins, these are some of the better stain removers available. They work by targeting organic material and dissolving it, making it easier to remove from the fabric. Something like Lifekind Natural Stain and Odor Eliminator at Amazon may work. Lemon juice and salt. There are a wide variety of uses for this combination, and cleaning mattresses is one of them. Make a paste of the two items, apply to the stain, and let it stand for 30–60 minutes. Then, vacuum or sweep it off the mattress, and sponge the stain with cool water.