Does dog urine seep into the padding under the carpet?

Question

Does dog urine seep into the padding under the carpet?

Answer 1

It can even soak into the floor boards depending on how badly saturated the carpet got.  Look into a heat treatment.

Answer 2

Sure, why wouldn't it?

Answer 3

Any liquid left on the carpet long enough would saturate the padding

Answer 4

YES!  And, I tell you, if you don't get it out right away it is a bear to get out!  Get a good pet cleaner and clean it as soon as possible so it doesn't have time to seep down and soak the carpet pad.

We bought a fixer up and discovered, while steam cleaning the carpets, that the little old lady who'd lived there before had let her little dog pee on the carpets and hadn't cleaned it up!  You could smell it every time the steam cleaner went over the spot trying to pull it up, and now that we have a dog it was harder to house-train him because he could smell the old urine spots and went in the house directly on top of them.  We had to close off access to that room for him until we can replace the carpet pad. :(

Answer 5

Yes, and it's gross, I was looking at apartments once and they said they had got new carpet, but obviously not new padding 'cause the place smelled like dog pee. Needless to say, I didn't rent that one. YUCK.