<VV> Re: Mighty mouse lived in Mark's vair

[Harry Yarnell]

Larry's pretty much right. I bought a Reatta that mice used as a latrine,
and I stripped the interior, washed the seats and scrubbed the carpet,
sun-dried, and reinstalled. Used an ozonator for 24 hours inside the closed
car, and no more trace of rat piss.

Harry Yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage
perryman, MD
hyarnell1@earthlink.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LarryAMiner@cs.com>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: <VV> Re: Mighty mouse lived in Mark's vair


> In a message dated 2/26/2004 4:18:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> virtualvairs-request@corvair.org writes:
> > It is pretty clear that mice and/or rats had gotten into the car,
> Mark,
> If urine has penetrated fabric it will have to be cleaned to extract all
the
> dried salts.  They obsorb moisture from the air and re-odor.  Basically
> thoroughly wet clean everything that you can get to first.  Then if you
can find
> somone with an ozone generator run a hose from it into the closed up
interior for
> a couple of hours.  The ozone is three oxygen molecules and tries to
revert
> back to the basic two molecules by attaching itself to something and
changing
> the chemical composition.  Someone who does fire or smoke restoration in
your
> area should have one.  Until you eliminate all the urea crystals and then
treat
> with ozone you will continue to have this problem.  I have seen guys
actually
> pressure wash the seats and set them out in the sun to dry.  Hope this
helps.
>  ps You might want to put vaseline on the rubber trim if you ozone for a
> prolonged time since it can break down the rubber.
> Larry Miner
> 63 vert
> 64 vert project
> Corsa Corsa/NC