Clough
May 7, 2010, 12:11 AM
Hi, All!
I started work on a spinet piano for a customer last Saturday. Replaced all of the bridle straps, a lot of the felts under the keys and proceeded to tune it.
The problem was, that it had a whole bunch of mouse nests in it! We removed as much of the mouse stuff that we could. When we removed the action, there was actually a mouse that was dead, not totally decayed, that was stuck flat against the upper half of the bass strings! It was so gross! :eek:
Gross as it was though, it was still highly unusual, so I asked the husband to take a picture of it for me.
Anyway, the smell of the mouse urine is still pretty bad! It's in the wood.
We've tried pine types of cleaners. Baking soda. I can't remember what else as I know that the customers were working on it also when I wasn't there.
What are some ways that you might have tried and been successful at getting rid of the smell of mice urine from wood, please?
Thanks!
I started work on a spinet piano for a customer last Saturday. Replaced all of the bridle straps, a lot of the felts under the keys and proceeded to tune it.
The problem was, that it had a whole bunch of mouse nests in it! We removed as much of the mouse stuff that we could. When we removed the action, there was actually a mouse that was dead, not totally decayed, that was stuck flat against the upper half of the bass strings! It was so gross! :eek:
Gross as it was though, it was still highly unusual, so I asked the husband to take a picture of it for me.
Anyway, the smell of the mouse urine is still pretty bad! It's in the wood.
We've tried pine types of cleaners. Baking soda. I can't remember what else as I know that the customers were working on it also when I wasn't there.
What are some ways that you might have tried and been successful at getting rid of the smell of mice urine from wood, please?
Thanks!