That skunk was a louse conclusion

That skunk was a louse conclusion

The solution me and the homeowner hit upon was air. I brought in my most powerful fan and turned it on in the most odiferous room in the house, the mudroom.  In a few moments on high the room was remarkable better. I left her the fan with instructions to open the windows and doors and run it till the odor was all gone.

Eventually the air forced out the smell and other than the baking soda and peroxide no chemicals were used.

Did you know in the wild not even a bear will attack a skunk. His odor is so strong nothing will attack it except maybe a mountain lion with a cold. The one animal that will attack a skunk over and over and over is a dog. Somehow as bright as they are they are dumb in this area.

I see you. I know you’re not a cat because my nose would be in ribbons by now. I’m gonna bark at you till you go away. Oh good. You’re turning your back on me. Mmm. You’re lifting your tail. Nice white stripe. Maybe that’s a sign of surrender?  See, you can’t mess with a dog as smart as me.  I wonder what comes next.

What comes next is our plug for stain and odor removal. Hinsdale pet odor removal. Burr Ridge pet and stain removal. Oak Brook Cat urine treatment. Clarendon Hills urine odor removal? That’s us.   We even have some ideas if your dog gets skunked.

So whether your carpets need a light touch up or there was a bad thunderstorm last night and your pet had a rough night of it call us at Beyond Carpet Cleaning.   We’ve only been in business 40 years so we don’t have all the answers but maybe we’ve got yours.

Carpets cleaned to perfection, commercial and residential , leather and fabric furniture cleaned and restored.  Tile and grout deep cleaned and polished. Marble and stone diamond polished. Pet accidents made like they never even happened.

You know, your pet doesn’t want to make a mess in the house.

Well maybe sometimes they are acting out because you would not let them go for a ride in the Bentley but most of the time they want to behave. Still, no animal should be allowed to destroy your home. For a season one of our dogs was a living poop grenade.   Insert food, pull pin and clean up all over the place the next day.  He finally got better but man was it rough while we were going though it so yes, I know your pain.  Beyond Carpet Cleaning. Call us today 630 932 8004

That skunk was a louse.

That skunk was a louse.

I saw some brave policemen the other day.   It was on a video.

A young skunk had a yogurt cup stuck on his head and there was no hope of him getting it off. So they gently put a blanket around him and pulled the cup off and the skunk ran away free. No thank you but you had to know he was grateful to God.

Years ago my daughter as a little girl saw a squirrel with a yogurt cup on his head and insisted, “daddy you have to help him.”  Squirrels have big incisors and my hands are soft and biteable so I was not thrilled with the idea but I went out and together me and the squirrel managed to get the cup off his pink yogurt covered face and head with my fingers still intact.

Another time something was getting into my garage and trashing my trash so I set out a Havahart catch them alive and unhurt trap to get the possum. Of course it turned out to be a skunk.

While the young creature lay in the trap a crow flew down to the lowest branches of the nearby tree sat on a limb and raucously mocked him.  I don’t speak skunk and only a few words of crow and a smattering of vulture but his manner, non-verbal communication and voice pitch were unmistakable and mocking.

My father in law and I finally figured out how to get the skunk out without anyone—especially moi getting sprayed, gnawed, mangled or bitten.

Finally yesterday one of my clients called me.   Her couch needed a redo and oh by the by, one of her two dogs got skunked and did I know any remedies.

Forcing down my initial impulse to run screaming from the home I told her about some products that would do a good job.  Then we hit on an easy organic solution.  Air.

She had already bathed the dog in a combo of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide and that worked wonders.   She had actually caught the dog as he came in the door so he didn’t skunk up the entire house, just a few spots.  But even the few steps he took in the door had filled the house with the strongest of odors.

After I had retreated the couch for other issues we discussing a few options and finally I bought out one of my killer fans.   To be concluded…

If you have skunk odors Burr Ridge. If you have pet odors Hinsdale.  Oak Brook pet odor removal. Clarendon Hills pet stain and odor removal call us today. Cat odors call us right meow. 630 932 8004

Yarp the Yipe

Yarp the Yipe

I know a dog. Could be anyone's dog. Your dog. Her dog, their dog but i know this dog.

Usually a good dog. A nice doggie. But every now and then this mutt is not so nice. Starts out nice but then makes a wrong turn at don't pee over there lane and the next thing you know you got odor deluxe going on.  It's stinks like someone had a polar bear in their basement all winter and didn't know about it.

How did this happen to me? I’m a good person. I don’t cheat on my taxes. How did a get a dog or cat with bladder issues and a proclivity to anoint my drapes?

We got a dog one time. Let’s call him Yarp on accounta he’s laying at my feet and if he reads this my ankles are within striking distance.  So Yarp came to us from Texas. He was a rescue who barked with a southern twang. Woof woof Y’all.

So I went down to O’hare or Midway, I forget which to pick him up and there is this scrawny black thing standing shivering in his crate.  After finally convincing the clerk I was in fact not the po po I got the Yarp and loaded him and the crate up and brought him home. 

We already had one dog and he did not want to share us so we started out with that strike against us or Yarp depending on how you look at it.   I opened the crate and the black flame leaped out like the devil was chasing him with one of those stabby forks. He raced up the stairs, pushed the master bedroom door open and lifted the leg on my beautiful expensive drapes.

How did he know what room to try and establish his superiority over?  After giving him the right foot of fellowship I cleaned the drapes and kept my bedroom door shut. More than once Yarp has been unhappy with a real estate or oilrig purchase I’ve made and has acted out writing his displeasure in the carpet.

So while I am an excellent carpet cleaner I’m not as good a pet trainer as maybe you are. Or the dog whisperer. Either one.

The worst in coming home and finding out Yarp had a bad day.  No one pays me to clean that up and it’s the worst.

Till next time call us Hinsdale Carpet cleaning. Burr Ridge pet odor removal.  Clarendon Hills pet stain removal. Oak Brook pet accident clean up.  630 932 8004

do it yourself carpet cleaning

Do it yourself carpet cleaning?

Why would you do that?

To save money?

Let’s think about this. Someone has a machine to rent and some soap to sell and you think, how hard can it be?  I can surely do as good a job as the Neanderthals who cleaned for me the last time.

So you go to the store and pick up a heavy machine and enough soap to last six lifetimes and you follow the instructions and what do you get?

A machine that does not spray properly and leaves your carpets wet and streaky.  Kinda funky.

But you did save some money right?  Did you?  What do they pay you an hour at work?  Multiply that times the time you spent and the quality of the work you got when you did it yourself.  Now you have over wet carpets with zebra stripes and a sore back—and you still get to haul that iron beast back to the store. Oh Joy.

Somethings we can do ourselves. Some not so much.  In school a friend decided she was going to sculpt a bust of queen Nefertiti.  Never mind she had no skill. She’d seen a bust in a picture or somewhere and how hard could it be?  I can do this. I really think I can do this. I’m sure of it. this is cake. And all this before she picked up a tool and went to work on the plaster and vermiculate block.

It turned into a free form bit of art. Lots of smooth sides because that sandpaper really eats that soft material right up. She had a lot of spunk but not a lot of skill—at least not in sculpting.

We all want to do as well as we can for our hard earned money. As a younger man I would try to do things myself.  I once took a tune up your car course at COD. My wife was lucky to get the car into the dealer to repair my repair so their ended my career as an auto mechanic.

We are all good at something. I’m excellent at cleaning carpets because that’s how God wired me. You’re great at your job but just because my doctor is an excellent physician does not mean he can paint a room or trim my hedges.

Stick to what you’re gifted at and let me do the carpet cleaning. We’ll both be a lot happier.

Carpet cleaning Hinsdale. Pet odor removal Hinsdale?  Pet pee removal Burr Ridge?  Furniture cleaning Clarendon Hills?  We got you covered.

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pet odor removal part two

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Pet odor removal part two.  Ok. Enough chit chat. Your dog or cat or kid had a bad night and peed on the floor.  Once when our middle son was little he was half asleep he took a wrong turn and I woke up to find him standing in the corner of our bedroom peeing in the carpet. He thought it was the bathroom. Of course when he was done it smelled like the bathroom but I digress.

Someone wizzed on your carpet. Find them and kill them later. Right now we want to get that pee out before it starts to stink or attracts vulture or buffalo or whatever.

Get some light colored towel. Red towels will leave red so make them light colored or white.  Put the towel over the we spot and step on it. Continue to move the towel around till you’ve sucked up as much pee as possible and the towel stops showing wet.

Then my little do it yourself carpet cleaner get some white vinegar and mix it with  water. Fifty fifty.  Half water half vinegar.  Pour it on the spot and all around the spot. Soak it good because you have to follow the same path the urine did if you want to get it all out. Okay, now let it sit for half an hour. The vinegar will mix with the urine and break it down.  

So after buffing your nails or having a cup of coffee come back to the scene of the crime with more fresh light colored towels.

Step on the  wet spot with a fresh towel and move it around till you’ve sucked up as much pee-vinegar-water solution as possible.

Now get another towel and fold it over two ply and put it on the slightly damp spot. Put some weights or heavy books on the towel to press it into the carpet. Let it set for 2-3 days. The vinegar will continue to destroy the urine and the solution will wick into the towel leaving your carpet urine free, stain free and just a little damp. Put a fan on the damp and go have another cup of coffee. Congratulations. You are now a successful carpet cleaner and I can use you on the truck. We’ll be by Monday at 8:00 am. Pack a lunch and bring something to drink.  Till next time stay frosty. If you need carpet cleaning Burr Ridge, Pet odor removal Hinsdale, pee extraction Clarendon Hills or pet stain removal Oak Brook please call us today at 630 932 8004. Cat owners call us right meow.

Pet odor removal part one

Hello and welcome back to Beyond Carpet Cleaning blog on all things related to carpet care.  Today we’ll talk about how to get urine out of carpets.

Sometimes my clients insist their pet is not peeing on the carpet but there is an overpowering smell of pee in the affected areas. One lady told me her pet was not peeing down there and we brought in a black lite and it looked like a Miami CSI crime scene.   Ma’am, this is urine I told her. My pet is not peeing down here. I will not believe it. Fine. Then you need to keep an eye on your husband. 

Another woman ran a pet rescue and had one dog she simply could not place. I think there might be a little something in this room she said pointing to a spare bedroom the dog had visited.  I brought in the black light and it look like a Steven King movie gone horribly wrong. There was pee on the bed post, on every single piece of furniture and the walls. There was even pee on the bed itself. Oh that horrible dog was her response when she saw the done deeds.

Finally one of our clients had a unique way of handling dog urine. I just let the dog pee anywhere in the house he wants and when he dies I’ll just replace the carpet. He had us clean the once white now golden carpet a time or two.   The odor was beyond thunderdome.  The dog finally died and guess what. He didn’t have to replace the carpet. He had to replace the carpet, the padding, rip out the sub floor, the walls, I think the studs were ok—maybe.

So pet urine can be a problem. I come home from a hard day of cleaning carpets only to find my own two dogs have left me presents and it’s not even my birthday. Logi you really shouldn’t. No you really really shouldn’t.

You may be great at what you do but that does not mean you are great at training an animal.   I’m not. My youngest son accuses me and says dad our first dog was fine because you trained him but these dogs are not because you gave up on them.   Don’t you have to go off to college or a job or something I tell him back.  Okay it looks like we’re not going to get to how to get urine out of carpets today. Probably next time for sure. Till then stay frosty and if you need pet urine removal Hinsdale, carpet odor removal Burr Ridge, stain and odor removal Clarendon Hills or dog pee removal Oak Brook call us today 630 932 8004