Just wondered if anyone has any cost effective ideas on how to stop the urine smell on gravel? I have two male dogs, one has been castrated and one is intact. It has only become a problem since we have got the pup (which is obviously the intact one).
I've bought kennel cleaning products etc, but nothing seems to help. As soon as the sunshine hits it the smell is horrendous!
Any suggestions?

Silly question but do you hose the gravel?  We hose the entire garden at least once a week and their is no smell.  For the entire boy smell, I'm pretty certain you can buy special disinfectants to hide the smell.  My boy used to pee right at the back door nearly(ease when it was raining, lazy git) and the smell was pretty bad but a quick wash with some bleach took the smell off the slabs.  My girls like to pee right at the end of the garden on the smallest bit of grass but there is no smell.

One of the cheapest solutions is ordinary biological soap powder mixed in warm (not hot) water and left to soak in for 30 mins or so then hose off. It really does get rid of urine smells.

Thanks to you both, I will give it a go :-)

I've used biological washing powder (Asda Smartprice) in warm water (Hot water kills the enzymes I believe) and just thrown it over the slabs, then rinsed quickly with the hose an hour or so later and you can practically smell the smell going away!

We've washed our concrete with it too and it's really good. I'd recommend it to anyone

> I've used biological washing powder (Asda Smartprice) in warm water

I go for the budget/value biological washing liquid rather than the powder - dissolves better :)

Remember that lots of us have hose pipe bans so watering cans will have to suffice....:)

Odor-kill is very good as well . We used to use biological liquid and then this every few days and kept the niffs at bay :-)

http://www.animal-health.co.uk/eMerchantPro/pc/viewcategories.asp?idCategory=22

No problems now as we have a much larger garden so patio and gravel cleaning is no longer needed :-)

The cheapest method I find with an entire dog is diluted bleach, use watering can and sprinkle the area as frequently as needed. I ofted use the cheapest economy bleach and pour this onto his peeing posts, one is right beside our front door kills the smell instantly.

on my gravel, once my dogs have had a pee I 'flush the loo, so to speak'   with a bucket of water. after all if we didnt flush it would start to smell pretty fast. I also use Safe4 to clean/disinfect a few days in the week.

water mixed jeyes fluid does a gr8 job

yuk! sorry, do not like the smell of Jeyes and would not use  on my girls loo.

You do need to be careful using Jeyes if you have cats and many yrs ago one of my girls developed an allergy to Jeyes. It takes an age for it to be rinsed off and the smell turns rather unpleasant after a while lol.

Bio washing liquid here too. :)

Hi

I would buy some odour Kill smells really good i use this on my decking as i have 5 male dogs.xx

I have read but not tried, nor do I know anyone who has tried but - digging out the whole run area and underlining it with a substantial layer of agricultural lime should help.   Then when you hose the run off the urine and water is washed down into the lime layer which is said to kill the smell.  People used to do something similar to this when we had outhouses.  My Baba and Grandpa always had a pile of lime in the outhouse, they had no running water in the house.

I have no idea of the cost and obviously this would be fairly labour intensive to prepare the run but the reward would be enhanced ease afterwards.  I wouldn't want to put bleach on gravel my dog has to walk on.  Vinegar I might. 

does anyone know if any of these"remedies"can be used on grass(without killing it,)please?

Jeyes has long been outlawed for boarding kennel use ,not only for the effect on dogs , but also down the drains.

> One of the cheapest solutions is ordinary biological soap powder mixed in warm (not hot) water and left to soak in for 30 mins or so then hose off. It really does get rid of urine smells.

What ratio would you use ? I also hava a problem in the house :(

> One of the cheapest solutions is ordinary biological soap powder mixed in warm (not hot) water and left to soak in for 30 mins or so then hose off. It really does get rid of urine smells.
>
> What ratio would you use ? I also hava a problem in the house :-(

I use about 75ml to a full mop bucket but if I think it's extra smelly or it's very warm I use more. If I have had to treat a stain on carpet then I do tend to use a quite strong solutionof approx 20ml to 500ml. For general mopping I would use about 20ml in a half full mop bucket.

My wife and I had the same problem with urine smells in our yard from our two black labs...The odor was in our gravel driveway and on our artificial turf. The smell was so bad we couldn't even use our yard. We got a product called uri-cide and it immediately solved the problem and the smell was gone in a matter of minutes. The initial cost was a little expensive, at around 35 bucks a quart, but the product is a concentrate so one quart lasted about 3 months. Great investment and it totally solved the problem. Their website is www.uricide.com

The cheapest method I find with an entire dog is diluted bleach, use watering can and sprinkle the area as frequently as needed.

This is where I'd go too - and locating the run where it gets the sun, when out!!!   May not be possible on artificial grass however?

Is diluted bleach not dangerous for the dogs?

Is diluted bleach not dangerous for the dogs?

Of course, but you'd need to let it dry ....... ?   Or then hose it down to further dilute it???