Archive for January, 2011

Question : How do I get cat urine out of a pillow top mattress?
I am SO frustrated! Our cat got locked in out room and my husband and I had left for work. She was locked for 9+ hours and peed in our bed. She has never made a mess or done this before. It was our fault she got locked in the room and she couldn’t help it. Wel.. I got in bed and I smelled urine. So I started moving the covers around and sure enough she had peed a HUGE spot which soaked through all our blankets, sheets, and mattress cover leaving the mattress soaked. I washed all of our bedding in bleach/detergent and the smell came out of them. We couldn’t “fliip” the mattress because it’s a pillow top. Well.. The clean sheets and all our bedding stink no matter what I do because the smell rises from the mattress. I am so upset with this and DO NOT know what to do. I dont even want to get in our bed because the smell makes me sick (Im 20 weeks pregnant). We spent $ 1000 on this mattress for my husband when he had back surgery and the mattress is not even a year old. HELP!!!!!
pillow top mattress cover

Best answer:

Answer by iam2much
borrow or rent a steam cleaner to clean the mattress. for an interm fix get a piece of poly sheeting or a heavy duty garbage bag [at least 3 mil thick] and some industrial tape to seal the area that should help the smell and keep the laundry items from absorbing odor. seal the entire premeter of poly/bag