Help! My ds has been weeing behind his bed!

[mosaica]

There's been a pretty bad urine smell in his room, and I kept thinking it was dd who's potty training now. Yesterday we moved ds's bed and the smell was awful - he eventually admitted he was basically too sleepy to go to the toilet at night and just weed in the space between the bed and the wall. He's just turned 6. I just cannot believe he's been doing that! He must have done it for quite a few nights as the skirting board paint is peeling - just disgusting.

What do I do to get rid of the smell? My dh says the wee has probably got into the floorboards, so he doesn't think the Rug Doctor will shift it. I'd rather not replace the carpet as i've got two younger dds and one of them is not potty trained yet.

Maybe the cleaning stuff you get for cat urine? I think the carpet will be beyond saving tbh as if it has got into the floorboards and you have to treat them the carpet will surely be soaked and ruined? Once you treat the boards you could try the rug doctor - maybe cut out the affected area of underlay and chuck that too.

You need bicarb and lots of it!

You need to sort the carpet and also lift it up and let the floorboards dry out too.

The wall can be washed down with a bicarb solution and then freshened up with a disinfectant solution. The carpet needs bicarb sprinkled on. Leave for as long as you can and then vacuum up. Repeat as many times as possible. Oh could also use some tea tree oil and mix the bicarb into a solution and use it to rinse out the urine first.

Good luck, it's gonna take a couple of days or so and some elbow grease!

Could you cut out the carpet that is affected and leave the rest as it won't show under the bed. Then replace the rest when kids finished potty training?

Not my proudest confession BUT I used to pee behind my dresser which used to be on a slant in the corner of my room at about the same age. I can clearly remember doing it and not just the once. I also remember being embarrassed when I realised people could tell I'd done it and stopped straight away.

The stuff you use on cat wee should be fine, although you do need to use quite a lot of it.

Is the floor chipboard or "planks?"

My son also did this when he was 6. It was a long time ago, but as far as I remember I cleaned the spot of carpet where he went over and over again and eventually the smell did go completely. Once he'd been found out, he never did it again as Mattissy said.