How to Remove Cat Urine From Cement Floors

Neighboring cats may have sneaked into your garage to leave their mark. Or maybe your own cat decided that the concrete floor needed a new scent. Either way, you're stuck with a smell that penetrates every corner of the garage. After making attempts to clean it, you may still be greeted by stinging cat odor when you walk into the garage.

Cat urine is designed to be hard to remove--it is an easy way for cats to communicate with each other--but that doesn't mean you have to live with it. For a tried and true method of cleaning cat urine, learn from zookeepers, who are experts at getting cat urine--from much bigger cats--out of concrete.

Things You'll Need

  • Shop vacuum
  • Rags
  • Water
  • Soap
  • Bleach
  • Bucket
  • Scrub brush
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Instructions

    • 1

      Soak up the cat urine with old rags. Remove as much urine as you can.

    • 2

      Make a solution of soap and water in a bucket and scrub the area. Add as much soap as you need to make it sudsy. Be sure to scrub the entire floor that had urine on it. Simple Green is a good soap to use, although any soap can work.

    • 3

      Vacuum up the soapy water. Use rags if you do not have access to a shop vac. Get as much of the soapy water up as you can.

    • 4

      Pour some clean water over the area, and repeat step 3 to clean up the water. This will help rinse any residual soap and urine left behind.

    • 5

      Make a bleach and water solution, following the instructions on the bleach bottle for a general household cleaning solution.

    • 6

      Pour the bleach solution over the area that had the urine, and allow it sit until it dries. It you need to clean the area immediately, vacuum it with the shop vac. When you are done, the area should smell like a well-cleaned floor and not like cat urine.

    • 7

      Repeat these steps if needed. Areas that have been used by cats several times or over long periods of time may require more effort to remove the urine.