The cat pee problem

       Being newly pregnant and moving all at the same time while trying to handle a two year old... Was exhausting... My husband and I called in back up... We asked our families to make the long drive to first: help us clean and second: move everything to our new place. My parents did the first round... The clean up.... Plus my dad does heating and cooling (among other things), so we thought it would be good to have him check up on things and fix them if possible. Needless to say, we had quite a list.
     
       My mom and I tackled the kitchen first... While taking care of my 2year old.... Which by the way SUCKED.... That kitchen was soooooooooooooooo gross that it took us almost a week to really fully clean it .. Plus the main bathroom was so gross the first day my husband and my dad had to replace the Toilet and the sub floor.... But only after my mom cried out in disgust for at least 15 min in her attempt to clean it... Lol... I still laugh about that.

This is my new toilet! ... And now what my bathroom looks like...lol... Better than the gross other one!

        Still nothing could have prepared us for the trials of the cat pee carpet in the living room. On the left side of the living room we saw a few stains and thought... We will have it and the rest of the house professionally cleaned and all our problems with the carpet, which still looked good in that room.... Would be solved. Well, a few hundred dollars later we ended up replacing the two first floor bedrooms carpet. They were just too worn out.The living room carpet looked way better, but still smelled like cat pee... Especially since the weather was getting warmer... And I was pregnant. So what did we do? We took up the carpet and the padding so we could paint the sub floor hoping that would fix it. NOPE... Then we took out the old padding and put in new thinking that would fix it.... NOPE... Then we had just that spot cleaned again by a professional... NOPE... How did we solve the problem? We looked up.. How to get rid of cat pee in carpet... Here's a link to what we found: http://www.howtocleanthings.com/pets/how-to-clean-cat-urine.htm ..... Yes, vinegar, baking soda, peroxide, and water worked better then anything else! Can you believe it? So if urine a problem... Snicker snicker.... This worked for us! Now I don't feel like I need to throw-up every time I walk into my house. Yay!


        Thanks for reading my post! I hope this was helpful in some way, even if it just made you smile.  Be on the look out for the next post... Kitchen cabinet redo..... Ooohhhhh :)

Jennifer

So we bought a house...

When we first moved here.. My husband, daughter, and I would drive down this beautifully scenic country road by the river and think... Ooh I wish we could afford buying a house on this road. Then we would drive by this large A-frame home off the road that was for sale and my husband would say, "That's my dream home... But we could never afford that..." For almost two years, every nice day we would take a drive down that road and see that house.. And say to each other, I wonder if someone had bought it yet.

        After my husband got a raise and I got a small part time job we started house hunting... One of the first things my husband did was request to see that house. It was exciting to finally see inside, especially after we found out the price had been lowered ... A lot. We liked the inside of the home... Even though it needed some updating, there was a lot of space and the yard was a very nice size. So we kept that house on our mind as we looked around at some others. Even though there was quite a few options my husband really loved that A-frame. And that is where we start this story....

  We bought an older home... Need I say more? Lol.. It was owned by a very, very, very old man... Should I go on? A single older man with his divorced old son... Needless to say we had a lot to clean. More then we even could see when doing the walk through the house with our Realtor. First thing that took us back... The cat pee smell in the living room......


      ....To be continued in my next blog where I give you our cleaning disasters... And what we did to solve them :)

Thanks for reading!
Jennifer