We price it at $17 a sq ft to pull it up, replace or seal tack strip, areas of sub floor and drop in new area of pad then lay plastic over the pad, restretch it, osr it.
If it's downstairs we just do indidual Pee Spots at 35$ ea. unless they are a concentrated visited area. That is to Subsurface each one
I just walk in with Pee meter locate them, mark them, show customer and discuss options. Do it honestly, if it's a lazy customer who won't train the pet I try to talk them out of repair. If it's too far gone I tell them the facts: the room is ruined and whatever I do is temporary and you need to gut theroom. One room is often economivally smarter to replace. If the pet is gone, trained or denied access then let's go all the way. Then I discuss why I can't guarantee any of it since the carpet mfr voids the warranty for urine for a very good reason. Show them a piece of carpet that is glued half way to a pad. Show them the latex backing and discuss how some of the odor will stay trapped in there and the damages of urine and moisture destroying the backing.
The hardest thing for us is scheduling these. We don't drive all over the county doing estimates just lay out the price. Schedule a pee job carpet clean and it can be a 3 hour repair or 20-30 minute repair. That's my only issue besides carrying a few different sizes of pad in a packed truck everyday.
Take your Pee meter during your preinspection with lady of the house and she'll go nuts when she knows how much urine is present. The black light is deceitful I feel, it shows old removed urine spots, many spotters and where you used oxidizers.
Always tell the lady that regardless of what we do that urine esoecially combined with your dormant spot cleaner has broken down dyes & will remove color when we remove it and spot dyeing is extra if you want it. That is a whole different topic and something we do on almost every job. My tech is quick and good and as I remove color she puts it back in.
Don't forget to sell those bottles of odorcide on every job for $33
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