In addition to the case study info on this and the linked-to pages, we encourage you to also check out our Stain Removal page.  If very well illustrates DooDoo Voodoo's ability to remove unbelievable stains...in just minutes, right before your eyes.

DooDoo Voodoo alone is phenomenal at removing stains and odors.  But, if your odor problems are more in-depth than you think you can tackle yourself with just DooDoo Voodoo alone, you might desire to enlist the services of a professional with a specialized, patented device we own multiples of and have found to be extraordinarily effective with DooDoo Voodoo:  the Water Claw (the family of products is shown to the right).  To find a carpet cleaner in your area who uses the Water Claw (you might have to provide the DooDoo Voodoo yourself), visit this link:  http://www.hydroforce.com/distrib_locator.html.  This link takes you to a page where you can locate a company that distributes Water Claws in your area.  By calling them, they should be able to refer you to a local carpet cleaning company you can hire.  If the company has questions about using the Water Claw with DooDoo Voodoo, have them call or e-mail us and we'll step them through it.  To see short videos of a couple of Water Claws being used, visit http://www.waterclaw.com/videos.html.  One view, and you'll forever understand why conventional carpet cleaning isn't in-depth enough to completely eradicate pet odors.

Regardless whether you use DooDoo Voodoo or not (and we certainly hope you do), you and your animals could also benefit from purifying your air.  We put together an educational page about how we accomplish this at our place, so check out our Freshen Air page.  One of our favorite new tools is Dr. Whitaker's Neoair Plus Total Shield air purifier, which we bought more than a dozen of.

· In early 2006, we undertook a whole-condo odor remediation job for a lady whose cats had soiled the home quite extensively, and whose realtor^® told her that because of the odor, the condo would sell for $50,000 less than market value.  She was ready to rip out the carpet, pad and tack strips, then treat the subfloor, but we urged her to let us first show her what DooDoo Voodoo could do all by itself.

Interestingly, due to a medical condition, the lady has lost her sense of smell, which is both a blessing and a curse.

Here are some pictures to set the scene for you.  The thing the close-up pictures don't convey is that there was urination throughout the condo, not just in the corners and on the stairs.  It had even run down from the balcony and had crept along the kitchen ceiling.  There was a lot of spray on the walls, not just down by the floor where you might expect it to be, but up the walls from where the cats had sprayed while standing on the back of the couch, chairs, tables, etc.

The first few shots show you the general layout of the condo, which is larger than it appears to be in the pictures due to the nature of the wide-angle lens I used.  Note how pristine the carpet looks under normal lighting versus how it looks under blacklight.    (Click the thumbnail pics to see 640x480 versions.)

To read more of this story and see pictures taken throughout the process we went through to rid the place of odor, click here.  (There's a lot of info for those of you who may have urine infiltration of your subfloor.)  You can also download the whole case study as a PDF file (1.4MB in size).

If you're in the Indianapolis area and need this sort of work performed, please contact us.  If you just need carpet cleaning and are in the Indy area, we recommend Kolby Carpet Cleaning Company.  They've cleaned our carpet for years and do a good, affordable job.  Call them at 317-861-0211.  Kolby cleans in the following counties:  Marion, Hamilton, Boone, Hancock, Johnson, Hendricks and Morgan.

Looking from the foyer out toward the river.  Beautiful view.	The condo is in a very desirable area on the north side of Indy.	The condo's layout is really cool. I bet the cats loved it.
The master bedroom.	The balcony over the kitchen.
		Sprayed urine running down the wall & creeping along the baseboard.
The mattress of a $6,000 mattress & mechanized box spring combo.	A favorite area of the master bed- room under normal lighting.	The same area under blacklight.
Urine around a register and down in the ductwork.	Urine along the edge of where a desk was.	The stairs, showing vomit and urine stains.
Repeated spraying.	More spraying in another corner.	Notice the sprayed urine running down both walls.

To read more of this story and see pictures taken throughout the process we went through to rid the place of odor, click here.
 

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· Shown is the landing at the bottom of the stairway leading to our basement. Gracie, the cat on the left, is in the doorway to the room where the litter boxes are. To Gracie’s left, in front of the light-colored section of wall, the cats had peed a few dozen times, plus they had peed on the wall to Gracie’s right, on the door behind Georgette (the cat on the right), on the French doors just visible at the far right of the picture and on the wall where the bottom stair and the French doors meet. Nothing else got the smell out, but DooDoo Voodoo did.

Recently, our water softener broke and flooded the whole area a couple times before we figured out what the problem was. The staining you see in the carpet is due to wicking from that flooding, not urination or DooDoo Voodoo. Interestingly, though, even when the whole carpeted area was soaked (not just moist), it didn’t smell at all. I haven’t used my carpet cleaning machine on the area yet, hence the temporary staining you see as a remnant of the water softener flood. Isn’t it great, though, that (a) the area didn’t smell at all even when it was soaking wet; (b) the cats have never re-soiled the area; and (c) Gracie is contentedly lying there as if nothing were wrong at all...when previously she was peeing in this area more than once a day? I absolutely defy you to find another odor control product on the planet that would have facilitated this the way DooDoo Voodoo has. No way; no how. Excuse the wide-angle lens distortion, but I wanted to get the whole area in the picture so you’d get a good feel for how many places the cats had peed.

The wicking visible is from old urine, other odor neutralizers and more that had been trapped in the carpet backing, the carpet pad and the concrete under the carpet pad. When the water softener flooded the area, the moisture and salt brought the contaminants up to the surface. If I were to treat the whole area with DooDoo Voodoo, it probably would get rid of the wicking discoloration, but I’ll go the extra yard and extract the carpet with my carpet cleaning machine. Interestingly, though not surprising to me given what I know about DooDoo Voodoo’s chemistry, is that even though all these contaminants resurfaced, there is no odor...thanks to the treatments I had done previously with DooDoo Voodoo.

Update:  Here are some pictures from when I worked on the area with the carpet extractor.

The area after the water softener flooded it.  It was soaking wet.	After I mixed up some DooDoo Voodoo and soaked the area by pouring with the sprinkling can.
After tamping the area with my tennis shoes.  Notice the tightly spaced footprints.	Some of what I extracted.  Yuch!  Thanks to DooDoo Voodoo, this didn't stink at all; it just looked gnarly.

 

Tile & Grout
Many people think that carpet and carpet pad are the toughest things to get pee smell out of, but tile grout can be a lot tougher, actually, due to its porosity. If you have an odor problem in your grout, you will achieve the best results by putting a strong mixture of DooDoo Voodoo, or actual DooDoo Voodoo Concentrate, on your grout lines. At this strength, DooDoo Voodoo's scientific action may lighten the grout—which is a benefit, not a detriment—but we want to make sure you’re aware of this in advance.  To apply DooDoo Voodoo to your grout lines, you can use a little squeeze bottle with a spout cap, typically available for a buck or less in the health & beauty aids department of your local discount store.

· From our archives (okay, a box on a shelf in our basement), here are some pictures of indiscriminate urination we were fighting back in the '80s when we started working on DooDoo Voodoo.  We had a really cute house, built in the '40s, and it had beautiful carpeting and hardwood floors...until some of our rescued cats started their peeing contest.  These three pictures show only a couple of the many areas we were dealing with.

Click on the thumbnails to see 640-pixel-wide versions of the pictures.

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