- [Mother] Gross. Are you really sure you want to show this?
- Well it was your idea,
so now we're going to have to go with it.
- Okay. It was my idea to buy this flashlight.
This is a UV flashlight.
And the reason why I bought this is because, two months ago
Steph got a second Greyhound.
That Greyhound has a little trouble
with the whole potty situation.
So, when she'd pee in the house, Steph would immediately
clean it up, but there still is lingering smell.
And we really couldn't see where it was.
So we bought a UV light that came with a pair
of the safety glasses.
So we started looking, and this is what we found.
- [Daughter] So the first step was to vacuum up the carpet.
As you can see here, we're using our Hoover Pet Vac,
which we shared with you a couple months ago.
And here's what the carpet looks like just
to our regular eyes.
As you can see, there's really no spots, but here
mom's using the UV light and I am cleaning up the spots
with the carpet cleaner.
And this is a Hoover carpet cleaner that we invested in.
We got this because we wanted something that would clean the
overall carpet because we had a lot of stains we needed to
take care of.
- [Mother] So while Steph cleaned, I held the UV light
and we just traveled all around the room
and she cleaned as she went.
(upbeat music playing)
- So we did this two times,
and here you can see, this is what
the carpet looks like now.
And yes, you can still see spots.
- [Mother] Doesn't look very much different, does it?.
- [Daughter] Yes. It doesn't look like that different.
So we actually did some research.
And what we found out was when you have urine,
sometimes it can actually change the, the
it can create color loss in your carpet that you can't see
to your normal eye, but under UV
you can see it's still it's clean
but there is at the, like
a pH change- - [Mother] This is the whole
chemical thing- - [Daughter] Yeah
- [Mother] It changes things chemically.
- [Daughter] So, so the nice thing is this will show you,
if you're smelling urine spots,
you can use this to be able to really see where they are
if you can't see them kind of with your normal eye.
I also want to say, I did try two different enzyme cleaners
that you just spray to try to get rid of the urine smells
and they worked okay. But overall, the thing
that worked the best was to use the UV light
and actually get that carpet cleaner in those spots.
And we're in the bedroom now and I don't smell urine.
I do smell clean though.
- Yes. I have acute an acutely sensitive nose to smells
and I can smell when something is a little bit off,
especially mold or mildew or pee.
So I'm, I'm kind of the test person so if I can smell it,
then it's still there.
If I can't smell it, then we're good.
- I also want to mention the glasses we're wearing.
These are to protect you from the UV light
cause this can be dangerous
for your eyes to look directly at.
So, I will tell you we only had one pair
of glasses at first, and so mom was wearing them
and I was using the light and I felt a little weird.
So there is some truth. You do need to wear these glasses?
So the light actually comes with a pair
of glasses and then I ordered another pair on Amazon.
But if you buy two lights
then you would get two two glasses.
- Well, actually it ended up being these weren't
it wasn't much more to buy combo-
- exactly - as opposed to
buying the individual glasses.
- This was 20 bucks and I would totally recommend it.
It's good to be able to kind of pinpoint
instead of just trying to clean the whole carpet.
I can really spend time
on the areas that are, are actually stained.
- [Mother] Well another thing about the safety with this.
If you're, if you're holding that flashlight
and you're cleaning, you need to protect your hands
because it's the same UV that can cause a sunburn
or a sun tan, so protect your hands.
Put a pair of gloves on or something like that.
- And don't shine it in your dog's eyes or any
any one's eyes.
That's well, don't try to anyone's eyes.
- Well we actually kept the dogs out when we were doing it.
So just, just be safe.
It's it's not a toy.
It's a very, it's a very useful tool-
- [Daughter] Yeah-
- [Mother] but it is not a toy.
- And you might be wondering,
we did share a video where we had a
professional carpet cleaner come
and clean my carpet and moms'.
And we want, I want to do that again, but the reason why
I didn't bring him in for this was because Tasha is still
having an issue with using the carpet as her bathroom.
So we're working through it.
But ultimately when she's fully through with some
of these issues, I will probably have them come in
and do a full professional cleaning of the carpet.
And this could be useful for other things.
We had a water leak at mom's house, which we'll be sharing
about in the future videos, but this would have
been helpful to be able to see exactly where the, where the-
- See the mold- - where the leak
and all that was.
So would recommend this, would get this again,
especially if you have animals.
- Yes.
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- Bye.
- [Daughter] Tasha's on my foot.
- [Mother] Okay.
- [Daughter] Are you on my foot?
- You guys did the oh!
- [Daughter] what?
- [Mother] You move and she moves.