I live in northern Florida and everything is usually built on concrete slabs. We are planning on replacing carpeting in three rooms which are adjacent to each other. We want to pull up the old carpet and pad before the new carpet comes and treat the concrete for cat urine odor. What would you recommend we use to treat and seal the odorous areas? The new pad we're going to put down is an "odor eaters" pad that has a plastic top barrier to prevent liquid from soaking into the pad. I want to make sure we treat the areas that an old cat we had soiled so my other two cats don't think they can do the same thing to the new carpeting. Don't tell me to get rid of the cats because they are members of the family and that won't happen!!:) A professional installer will be installing the new carpeting, but I'd like to make it easy and quick by getting rid of the old stinky stuff and prep the subfloor.

:thinker: This was posted previously under a different title. We had to remove a piece of carpet and replace it with a piece of the same carpeting. Of course you can see the difference between the piece and rest of the carpeting. Is there any way to age carpeting to blend it in? ***Moderator's note: Duplicate thread (different title) deleted***