Thanks to everyone who offered advice both in comments and back-channel regarding our cat issue.
Planned order of operations, to be executed until smell is gone:
1. Pour one gallon of Nature's Miracle Cat Formula into the afflicted area. Place fans so it dries before it molds, even in Seattle in February. (Done.)
2. Borrow a steam cleaner (identified) and clean the area repeatedly with Simple Green. Again, place fans.
3. Take up the carpet with an experienced friend (identified), polyurethane the subfloor and replace the pad ourselves, estimated at $50.
In other news, I stayed home from work with a migraine today, argh argh argh, and thus will probably miss the Jason Webley event tonight. This does not change my homework, which is to write a cover letter extolling my virtues. Since I'm having trouble writing it myself, I'm having my excessively verbose protagonist write a letter about me, then translating it out of anachronistic aristocrat.
Planned order of operations, to be executed until smell is gone:
1. Pour one gallon of Nature's Miracle Cat Formula into the afflicted area. Place fans so it dries before it molds, even in Seattle in February. (Done.)
2. Borrow a steam cleaner (identified) and clean the area repeatedly with Simple Green. Again, place fans.
3. Take up the carpet with an experienced friend (identified), polyurethane the subfloor and replace the pad ourselves, estimated at $50.
In other news, I stayed home from work with a migraine today, argh argh argh, and thus will probably miss the Jason Webley event tonight. This does not change my homework, which is to write a cover letter extolling my virtues. Since I'm having trouble writing it myself, I'm having my excessively verbose protagonist write a letter about me, then translating it out of anachronistic aristocrat.