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Posted by: Cary Westerbeck on January 03, 2000 at 19:46:13:
I've got a new question for you. My wife and I bought a small, beat, 1950s rambler. The house had been a badly cared for rental. The house has wood floors throughout most rooms, but they were covered with nasty, urine stained berber carpets that we ripped out promptly upon taking possession. The urine had soaked into the wood floors and crystalized in the wood. We sealed the floors with KILZ (Bin primer?)to banish the smell and it worked beautifully. We then carpeted over them, thinking this was our only option. The smell is gone and the carpet is nice, but I long for the wood floor.
Now, I'm curious whether we should have tried to sand the urine soaked floors and then sealed them so that we could enjoy wood floors rather than carpet. Is there hope for a wood floor in this kind of shape? Has anyone ever encountered this problem before? it seems to me that a good sanding and sealing would do the job, working like the KILZ did to seal the smell below. I don't mind some stains as long as the floor doesn't reek.
Anyone have any advice or info?
Thanks,
Cary in Seattle
