[luckyduckling]

I just bought my first house. The place smells pretty bad from dogs. I plan to spray the whole place, including the subfloors, with Killz restoration to block the odor.

We will be living in the home, so we would like to fix the odor problem asap. But there are many drywall repairs that need to be completed, and we plan to skim-coat the textured walls to make them smooth.

Would it be an error to spray the walls before the drywall repairs and skim coat?

 

[stick\shift]

While I would not spray inside a house, you could apply a coat of primer now. There are better choices than Kilz but as long as you're using a oil based version, it's fine.

 

[luckyduckling]

Thanks. We're going to completely coat the walls in drywall mud. So you think a coat of killz now, skim coat, then another coat of killz after? Or just apply paint directly on the mud and drywall?

Also, why not spray inside the house?

 

[luckyduckling]

Also, we bought a bunch of oil & shellac based Killz. But I could still return it if you think there's something better!

 

[cocomonkeynuts]

Skip the Kilz. Alcohol/shellac based BIN is the only primer I would bother using.


cleanup with denatured or ammonia.

 

[MTN REMODEL LLC]

I'm a little surprised that you smell or sense the DOG odor from the walls. smokers house definatelyn yes.

Just a suggestion, and as COCO recommends, I would probably do the flooring first and see if that does not solve your smell issue.

With distress properties I've run into a lot of smell issues....I usually hit the suspect flooring first with the "Natures Miracle" disinfectant smell eater. Let it have a week and then hit it with a blocker and spend the money for a proven blocker shellac.

Just a suggestion

 

[woodco]

I would use coverstain. Better than kilz, and less brain damagey. I prefer BIN as well, but it is twice the price. And I agree with not using it on the walls, but if you do, just do it once. After it gets floated would be better, to kill two birds with one stone.

 

[huesmann]

Yeah, I would hit offending areas with an enzymatic cleaner before painting.

 

[ront02769]

Where the smell comes from depends on where and how often the dog had a “oops”. Couple of years back I had to deal with a ranch style house, single floor with basement, 3 bedrooms, truss roof, 18” cellulose in the ceiling, 6” fiberglass in the walls, and a horrendous smell that multiple restoration companies had tried to get rid of and couldn’t. Solution? All sheet rock came down. All insulation came down. All electrical pulled up into truss area,walls charted and then cut loose and moved down to one end of house. Entire real hardwood floor.....and subfloor which had rotted areas due to animal excrement.....pulled out. Exterior wall studs/bottom plates that had also rotted replaced. Entire floor replaced. Walls put back in place after removing portions showing problems with your basic pet pee, and then it was reconnect electric, replace kitchen (apparently pets will poop/pee even inside cabinets which had their doors torn off by the owners), replace windows which and doors were mostly trashed due to owners, not pets, and then do basic “finish this up like a new house”. NOT what the OP has...but just a note that pet smells can get pretty much everywhere (esp if their owners are also pigs)

 

[MTN REMODEL LLC]

Where the smell comes from depends on where and how often the dog had a “oops”. Couple of years back I had to deal with a ranch style house, single floor with basement, 3 bedrooms, truss roof, 18” cellulose in the ceiling, 6” fiberglass in the walls, and a horrendous smell that multiple restoration companies had tried to get rid of and couldn’t. Solution? All sheet rock came down. All insulation came down. All electrical pulled up into truss area,walls charted and then cut loose and moved down to one end of house. Entire real hardwood floor.....and subfloor which had rotted areas due to animal excrement.....pulled out. Exterior wall studs/bottom plates that had also rotted replaced. Entire floor replaced. Walls put back in place after removing portions showing problems with your basic pet pee, and then it was reconnect electric, replace kitchen (apparently pets will poop/pee even inside cabinets which had their doors torn off by the owners), replace windows which and doors were mostly trashed due to owners, not pets, and then do basic “finish this up like a new house”. NOT what the OP has...but just a note that pet smells can get pretty much everywhere (esp if their owners are also pigs)

WOW....WOW

Ront....And I thought I'd seen dealt with crap....

(I did have one property, that I bought a 95Mask to tear out their shower...but not anything like you experienced)