How to partially change flooring in part of hallway?
I had a very old poodle who had numerous accidents in one place in our hallway all the time before he passed away. We are looking to replace that section of flooring but the issue comes in with 4 doorways coming off the hallway. We do not want to change every room or the other part of the hallway yet and may not use the same flooring for them as we do in the section we want to replace now. I have attached a picture for reference on where the doorways are. The one door is just to my furnace closet. There is also a doorway to guest bathroom that cannot be seen in the picture. How do I transition from this section to all the doorways? We were thinking about painting? Is there a reason we should not paint? We are on a tight budget with only 1 of us working. Any inexpensive floor ideas and how to transition to all the doorways would be greatly appreciate. We can do the work, we just don't have alot of money. I am pretty sure we may have to change out some subfloor as well due to all the accidents have more than likely soaked into the wood subfloor. HELP!!!
Sorry for the long post.
Thank you in advance.
I just recently had a huge pet stain issue! I tried many products to clean it; testing in different areas. I tried Resolve brand urine stain spray to pretreat then put Resolve pet stain solution in my carpet shampooer as per the directions. It worked like a dream!!!!! Carpet I was convinced I'd have to replace came out like new and smells fantastic (not perfumy). Give it a go. I spent under $10 on both products combined.
I paint a lot of my floors and we once had a cat who urinated in a corner of our sitting room. Paint sealed in the residual odor. Our upstairs hall has 9 doors opening from it. Left pic is hall and right pic is bedroom off hall. You can achieve more with paint on floors than with any other covering and for less money.
Before doing anything to your floor you have to get rid of the uric acid crystals that form. These crystals are not water soluble so the only thing that water or a water based cleaner will do is wash away the cleaner. An enzyme cleaner will get rid of the crystals which, in turn will do away with the smell and stain. The most important thing to remember is that you have to use an amount of enzyme equal to the amount of urine so you’ll need a lot and probably more than one application. In my company we use a two part enzyme cleaner because we don’t usually have the time to do multiple applications or wait a long time for one to work. You can purchase a similar product here
https://bedwettingstore.com/urine-erase-stain-remover.html
once the surface is clean you can safely change the floor to anything you like. Personally I’d love it painted and maybe add a fun stencil to make it a focal point.