Cat Litter And Hardwood Floors

I was wishing i had a steamer for the floor instead of a spray mop.

Cat litter and hardwood floors. Kitty litter can be so damaging to hardwood floors. It is clearly a letter stain because it was by the litter box there s litter scattered on the floor and the litter stain is on the shape of a paw print. I sweep every day while i am not at work but there are days when i don t have time to. Cat litter tracking is one of the most common complaints cat owners have.

So how you do you protect your flooring from cat litter. It can get into your carpeting and not come out despite several vacuuming sessions. I swept the floor went back over with a microfiber dust mop and vacuumed before mopping. I bought the tidy cat breeze system two weeks ago and my boy 2 years old has yet to use it for 1 or 2.

Hydrogen peroxide is non toxic and effectively cleans germs and bacteria as well as undesirable odor. Hardwood floors are beautiful and they re very popular for that reason. Their litter gets everywhere and i don t know what to do about it. I have tried putting towels underneath the litter boxes.

What can you do to keep your cat happy and your floor spotless at the same time. Here are some of the most effective ways to remove cat urine smell out of your hardwood floor. Call any floor installer in your yellow pages phone book and ask about protection of the wood they d be listed under floor. I have two litter boxes one upstairs and one downstairs.

Removing cat urine using hydrogen peroxide. I d suck it up with a hose attachment to avoid scraping it across the floor. I had cardboard under a litter box on a wood floor and one of my cats peed on the cardboard which soaked through to the wood and kept the floor wet. Where there is a lot of sand that gets tracked in.

Avoid porous flooring if you have cats. Cat litter is abrasive and can damage hardwood flooring easily. Hardwood floors are protected by a coat of polyurethane though this can be discolored with enough ammonia stuff on the litter that sets on the floor too long. So i recently moved with my four cats to a place with all hardwood floors.