De-stinkifying our house
I'm ripping out drywall because it smells like pee.
I took this picture in progress. I ended up ripping out all the drywall along the stair to the left as well as some more on the main wall.
We’ve had an issue with the pee smell for several years, partly from our own cat and partly from the previous owner’s dogs, we believe. When it gets warm and humid: eww. We’d tried painting the plywood, but that didn’t do the job.
After removing the drywall, I could see on the back where the urine had soaked in and spread up, which is pretty nasty. Also, there was a lot of sawdust and hair trapped below the drywall, between it and the subfloor. That sawdust absorbed some of the stink as well, so a good scrubbing with a wire brush knocked it off hopefully.
I’ve let it dry out a few days now and I’m going to apply a couple coats of Kilz soon, then I’ll patch-tape-mud-sand-paint the areas that I’ve cut out.
