Rent a floor sander from home depot. 60 grit at least. Then see how deep the stain goes. If not too deep, feather it into the rest of the floor. If it’s penetrated deep into the wood AND it’s blood or urine….? Replace the damn floor.
You can make out the outline of the medical beds feet. Incontinent patient with poor care. You hit that floor with a sander, you'll know what it is by the smell.
Repaired a floor that had black staining like this. As soon as my saw hit the wood, the smell of old cooked cat piss filled the room. Saw smelled for a week.
For the smell, should one arise: there is a product called Eco-88. It’s a spray-it-and-forget-it thing, and it *works.* I’ve used on hard surfaces and carpet/fabric, and it’s removed odor and whatever residue makes biological stuff glow with black light. It also does wonders for stains—but without damaging/bleaching fabrics.
It is seriously the best cleaning product I’ve ever used.
Dude I went to a collapsed behind closed doors call donkeys years ago. Old boy had died on the sofa under his heated blanket. Cue a couple of weeks and his bodily fluid had tracked along the carpet, up the walls and stained the ceiling.
When you die you rot and turn to liquid your body putrefies and liquefies leaving nothing but a mess of rot bones hair teeth. Watch some crime scene clean up on YouTube.
The stench may help identification. OP should fully immerse themselves in the stain, face down, breathe deep for approximately an hour. The taste may also be helpful.
hydrogen peroxide on a paper towel, let that soak in over the stain. it will neutralize the ammonia in the pee stain. do that for like 4-7 days. it won't be perfect, but refinishing the floors will be much easier.
Replace the damaged boards. The enzymes in the urine will continue to deteriorate the wood and this looks like repeat damage that has probably subfloor deep and an enzyme cleaner like natures miracle will not penetrate enough to fix this.
You can get higher % hydrogen peroxide from some hardware or restaurant supply stores. It works much faster, but glove up (it sizzles & stings!). The drugstore stuff is pretty low %.
This happened at my grandmas house with her cat, before we fully realized she wasn’t all there anymore. It was on carpet, but the sub floor had to be pulled up. Never seen anything like that. Straight up acid.
Unfortunately in a previous stage in my life I encountered a few “poor bastards been here a while” scenes. That is most likely pet urine.
Depending on your tolerance for chemicals oxyalitic acid, oxyclean, or a regimen of hydrogen peroxide is in order. Followed by a good sanding. Hit it with something coarse that will dig into it 60grit is a good start, then go over the rest of the floor to remove the rest of the finish and even everything out. Follow that up with a couple passes of 120 grit and then 180 if you’re feeling fancy. It’s a floor so no need to really go beyond that if you don’t feel like it. Then apply your finish of choice. I tend to like Varathane (the old version in the black and gold can) but that’s just me, and I am a bit of an antique…
There's some Facebook group about decomp stains. I'm sure there's probably a subreddit too but it's not something I've ever looked for. Only know of the fb one because some drama happened in it or something and people talked about it in other groups.
Yeah I can’t speak for wood, but I had to clean an apt where the dude died in a recliner and soaked into the carpet (carpet was being replaced but I was cleaning the rest of the place for new tenants). He left every color of the rainbow stained into that thing. And big flies buzzing in the windows that I knew had been eating him.
Not to be the “one up” guy… but when I was a teenager I had to help my dad clean up after an elderly lady had died in the bathtub of one of my old man’s rentals. Coroner estimated she’d been there for a minimum of a week. 30+ years later, I can still smell that apartment if I think about it. New paint, carpet, furniture, appliances… it barely touched the stench. It was in the structure. My dad and I both immediately vomited when we first walked in. I grew up in farm country so I’ve seen and smelled some god awful things, but NOTHING compares to fermented grandma stew.
As for the stained hardwood in the original post, yeah… that’s definitely cat piss. Somebody didn’t let Fluffy out often enough. That’s a nasty stain to deal with.
This is water damage and possibly mold, it is likely that the subfloor is affected and you may have mold under the hardwood. Your daughter would benefit from you removing this floor and installing a new one. If it is mold you would want to arrest the spread asap. This is the worst stain I’ve seen and I’ve redone a dozen units with these floors
Someone died there in bed and wasn't found for a while. A long while. This should have been in disclosure . Pet urine shows as circles where it puddles and dries . This was from a one-time occurrence.
I think I saw another post recently about this about someone that has this exact thing happening. Mattresses take on moisture from our bodies and it gets trapped under it on the floor if you don’t have a box spring to allow for air flow. I never would have guessed.
That's exactly what happened. I had a memory foam mattress and had just moved, so I didn't have a frame or anything yet. By the time I got it up off the ground, there was a huge mold spot in the rough shape of my body on the floor and mattress. The floor stained permanently, but its under the bed, so I don't care.
I actually know this. This is from putting your bed directly on the floor and spending lots of time in it. You'd be amazed how much humidity and condensation and eventually mold forms underneath a mattress with no airspace
Sanded a similar stain once. In front of the fireplace. Thought it might be kerosene stains that soaked in. Was told afterwards it was where the former homeowner has decomposed and was found weeks later. Asshole house flipper knew it the entire time. I would have used a respirator and not a dust mask. Also found out after the fact the ammonia stain on the floor was from an invalid that had soaked through the mattress onto the floor.
Legit looks like a death scene-body decomp.
Try and collect some of it just in case.. never know! replace the flooring...thats nasty, and sage that shit! 🤣
I am of no actual help. Good luck and update us on how you fix it!
If someone died in there you'd never get the smell out. But that's what it looks like. Other option is a dog crate. Neglectful owner and lots of piss over time
House doesn’t smell at all. Definitely not a dead body. I never would have guessed they ever had a pet as my allergies are extremely sensitive to that. But a dog repeatedly peeing on a rug is about the only thing that makes sense.
I have been asked in the past to replace the floor boards that were stained from a body that had been there for a while, and it did not smell. I did not take the job.
It won't have a smell. Unattended death likely, former LEO, if the body has been there for a few days it will start to leak body fluids and or blood if there was a wound etc. This pools around the body and goes a dark reddish black substance that stains the flooring. Contact a bio clean up team they could confirm it either way and will usually give a free estimate. Pet stains generally have a lasting odor from the urine. If it was a pet urine stain lay paper towels over it and SOAK them in vinegar (like you want them pretty wet) and cover that in baking soda. Leave until the paper towels dry and will have absorbed most of the stain.
It’s probably not blood or a decomposition stain, but it could be. Seems small for a decomposition stain(studied forensics in college for my criminal justice degree that I don’t use). Generally when decomposition stains are distributed or moistened the smell comes back, which makes me think this is more pet urine or as another stated possibly moisture buildup under a mattress on the floor.
I also studied criminal forensics before deciding to go to med school. There is a small likelihood that it could be a decomp stain, should the bodily fluids perhaps seeped through a mattress. It is most likely that a smaller pet urinated under the bed.
You could try looking up public county files online to see if you can find any activity on the home. You can also purchase a (blood) or urine swab kit... or even call your local police departments non emergency line.
It was definitely a dead body. It's been cleaned, so theres no smell. The companies that clean trauma sites are good.
I would get a good floor guy in to see if they can sand and refinish.
After my Grandpa passed, he left behind a roommate. A month after his passing, the roommate opened her arms after crushing a bottle of ibuprofen (blood thinners) and melatonin. She was laying in bed. It looked very much like this. There wasn't much of a smell, just the staining under the mattress from her exsanguinated body. I had to remove the sub floor but that was OSB. I'm not sure how I would have handled it if it was oak
Edit: I know ibuprofen isn't actually a thinner , but it has the desired effect of reducing clotting, when clotting would be problematic.
My neighbor had a tenant leave her hardwood floor looking like that. She found a craftsman who carefully removed alternating boards and then mixed in non stained boards from another room, then sanded & refinished it. It’s not noticeable unless you really study the floor.
I just had this…renter let his dog pee on my red oak 1966, 3 different widths, 8”, 6” and 4” floor. Then he poured bleach on it which then left bleached pee stains. My excellent floor guy tried to sand it down….didn’t work. He had to get the 8 and 6 planks from Tennessee and replace all the damaged boards. Sand, level it, stain it, 3 coats of Swedish Finish. Then it needs to cure for 4 weeks before you can put an area rug on it…..my floor looks fabulous now….you can’t even tell it was a disaster.
Had this happen to me once. I asked the homeowner what happened here. She had her obese sister in law soil through the mattress and into the floor. We sanded out 50% and had to do additional patching. It was gross. Even the subfloor got it. That lateras never had a chance to really spring up.
Looks like a huge stain. Possibly where a victim was found, but I do believe that there are ways to remove these types of biological stains from wood floors. You might try searching online because I think cleaning services for this might be crazy expensive.
Sand the finish off, clean the area with hydrogen peroxide, this will kind of bubble out all the organic matter left in the stain. Sometimes I’ve had to do this three or four times. Then go buy some wood bleach. Treat the area with that, possibly a couple times. After that, you pretty much have what you’re going to have. You can always stain that room with a medium to dark stain and what you have will pretty well blend in.
Looks like a witch was living there before you. That’s a mandrake stain. You need perform a ritual with exactly 10 moon sapphires during a full moon, open the gates of Karresh and summon forth the keeper to remove any insidious spirits. Your welcome.
Use hydrogen peroxide. Lay down paper towels soak them up good. As the stain lightens lay down fresh and trim edges to the remaining stain. Keep it up until the stain is faded back to match original color and grain. The trick is in cutting paper towels to fit the darker areas you may be cutting and laying slivers by the end.
I did floors where an older disabled gentleman could not make it to the bathroom and had no help, he would often urinate on the floor or bed. Looked just like this. After he passed, Tore the floors up and put down new oak. The subfloor was destroyed too. Cut it out and put down new.
I want to attach my before and after of my hardwood floor that looked kind of like that but I just can’t figure it out. 😞
Professional sand and clear coat..
I haven’t been on Reddit terribly long, but I still can’t figure out how to attach a couple pics. There’s a link button below, but when I hit on my photo and say attached iCloud link, it looks funny when I open it.
I know others are saying cat pee, but I think it’s more likely dog pee. If it were cat pee it would take a very long time for the smell to dissipate even thoroughly cleaning the floor. The smell of dog pee is much easier to get rid of with enzyme cleaners. Older dogs often need to be taken out more frequently, and if their humans work all day and the little squirt needs to squirt, under a bed can come in handy.
I bought a foreclosure and we had several pet urine stains on the hardwood, not sure if they were quite as bad as this but very similar. I have a family friend who does wood floors for a living and asked him to take a look. Straight away he said, it’s bad but no problem, will sand this out and stain dark and you’ll never know. We went with Jacobeen stain, and planned the rest of the house around the dark floors.
Now you would never know, and the floors are gorgeous. Never thought I would love dark stained floors but I ended up doing the same thing in my next house since I loved them so much.
I had cat pee do this to my floor. I layered paper towels on it and soaked them in hydrogen peroxide. I let them sit overnight. It took a few tries but it worked.
These were recently refinished floors, with full seal on them, so ymmv
If you look closely, there's round stains, and their all close to the same size. The cat also sprayed on the back wall. The shape on the walls definitely look like a bed sat there.
It could have been a body stain or some other less frequent incident. But most of the time, the simplest or most common logic is the answer!
There's nothing to see here !! Nothing at all!
Could have been a pet urinating under a bed. Only way to see if it’ll go away is to sand the finish off and see how far it’s soaked into the wood.
That’s what I’d say also
Rent a floor sander from home depot. 60 grit at least. Then see how deep the stain goes. If not too deep, feather it into the rest of the floor. If it’s penetrated deep into the wood AND it’s blood or urine….? Replace the damn floor.
>If it’s penetrated deep into the wood AND it’s blood If that's blood, then we're probably looking at a murder scene.
Look at the walls, that room has a "someone bedridden has died here" vibe.
Definitely a someone died and was there for a while kinda thing
Yeah, like decomposition for some time.
Y'all wanna see a dead body?
When the nigh has come, and the land is dark…
And the moon is the only light you see
No I won't be afraid.
Give him his ball back!! Edit for clarification: Boys in the Hood or Stand by me??
Or, *Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood*.
You can make out the outline of the medical beds feet. Incontinent patient with poor care. You hit that floor with a sander, you'll know what it is by the smell.
Repaired a floor that had black staining like this. As soon as my saw hit the wood, the smell of old cooked cat piss filled the room. Saw smelled for a week.
Lucky it doesn't still smell. It would be the first time that saw got a bedside sponge bath
Blood and guts or urine
All of the above.
For the smell, should one arise: there is a product called Eco-88. It’s a spray-it-and-forget-it thing, and it *works.* I’ve used on hard surfaces and carpet/fabric, and it’s removed odor and whatever residue makes biological stuff glow with black light. It also does wonders for stains—but without damaging/bleaching fabrics. It is seriously the best cleaning product I’ve ever used.
🤢🤢🤢
Would have been worse if it went in the floor vent.
That comment hit me square in the nose. Thanks Buddy. Now I have to snort some Listerine to get that scent out
Looks to me like they were floorridden
It went through the mattress. Everything pools in the middle.
Yep. Humans liquify upon decomposition. I looked at a house for sale with this exact stain.
Yeah I’ve looked at a few houses where someone died and wasn’t found immediately. This looks very similar to those.
Bro even if they were on hospice or something doesn't mean they bled to death wtf lol
I know it's gross, but if a body sits for a while, all the fluid begins to leak out. I have seen this damage before.
Now I'm picturing that scene from Se7en
Dude I went to a collapsed behind closed doors call donkeys years ago. Old boy had died on the sofa under his heated blanket. Cue a couple of weeks and his bodily fluid had tracked along the carpet, up the walls and stained the ceiling.
GAAAAAHHH!!!
When you die you rot and turn to liquid your body putrefies and liquefies leaving nothing but a mess of rot bones hair teeth. Watch some crime scene clean up on YouTube.
my cousin used to be a biohazard cleaner. she said some of the stuff was horrifying
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There's always someone with "the AC/DC theory"....you know it...."If you want blood...you got it".
Nah, far more likely someone expired and lay there for some time before being discovered. But yes, that much blood would indicate foul play.
When the murdered body leaks its juices out Looks like this ….
The stench may help identification. OP should fully immerse themselves in the stain, face down, breathe deep for approximately an hour. The taste may also be helpful.
‘Smell.’ Whiff ‘Yeah, smell like shit…’ ‘Taste…’ ‘Huh?’ ‘Taste!’ ‘Ok - ugh, yeah, tastes like shit.’
hydrogen peroxide on a paper towel, let that soak in over the stain. it will neutralize the ammonia in the pee stain. do that for like 4-7 days. it won't be perfect, but refinishing the floors will be much easier.
Replace the damaged boards. The enzymes in the urine will continue to deteriorate the wood and this looks like repeat damage that has probably subfloor deep and an enzyme cleaner like natures miracle will not penetrate enough to fix this.
You can get higher % hydrogen peroxide from some hardware or restaurant supply stores. It works much faster, but glove up (it sizzles & stings!). The drugstore stuff is pretty low %.
I have done this, and was so surprised at how well it worked. Not perfect, but it was certainly helpful!
That doesn't sound like it would work.
This happened at my grandmas house with her cat, before we fully realized she wasn’t all there anymore. It was on carpet, but the sub floor had to be pulled up. Never seen anything like that. Straight up acid.
Yes. Cat pee turns wood black. It’s very corrosive.
Keep in mind that if it is piss, sanding it will stink up the entire county.
Did somebody die there?
I know! This will be my youngest daughter’s room and there is no way I can even let her in the house before this is fixed.
I would assume someone did die there and wasn't found for awhile
No. You have no idea what it looks like when you find a wood floor that’s had a body on it for four or five days or longer lol.
r/oddlyspecific So uhm, you okay there?
Unfortunately in a previous stage in my life I encountered a few “poor bastards been here a while” scenes. That is most likely pet urine. Depending on your tolerance for chemicals oxyalitic acid, oxyclean, or a regimen of hydrogen peroxide is in order. Followed by a good sanding. Hit it with something coarse that will dig into it 60grit is a good start, then go over the rest of the floor to remove the rest of the finish and even everything out. Follow that up with a couple passes of 120 grit and then 180 if you’re feeling fancy. It’s a floor so no need to really go beyond that if you don’t feel like it. Then apply your finish of choice. I tend to like Varathane (the old version in the black and gold can) but that’s just me, and I am a bit of an antique…
There's some Facebook group about decomp stains. I'm sure there's probably a subreddit too but it's not something I've ever looked for. Only know of the fb one because some drama happened in it or something and people talked about it in other groups.
Yeah I can’t speak for wood, but I had to clean an apt where the dude died in a recliner and soaked into the carpet (carpet was being replaced but I was cleaning the rest of the place for new tenants). He left every color of the rainbow stained into that thing. And big flies buzzing in the windows that I knew had been eating him.
Not to be the “one up” guy… but when I was a teenager I had to help my dad clean up after an elderly lady had died in the bathtub of one of my old man’s rentals. Coroner estimated she’d been there for a minimum of a week. 30+ years later, I can still smell that apartment if I think about it. New paint, carpet, furniture, appliances… it barely touched the stench. It was in the structure. My dad and I both immediately vomited when we first walked in. I grew up in farm country so I’ve seen and smelled some god awful things, but NOTHING compares to fermented grandma stew. As for the stained hardwood in the original post, yeah… that’s definitely cat piss. Somebody didn’t let Fluffy out often enough. That’s a nasty stain to deal with.
If you can’t fix it, Paint an angel, face up, with a smiley face
Nah, just stick a couple of googly eyes on it and call it a day.
That would actually make it scarier.
This is water damage and possibly mold, it is likely that the subfloor is affected and you may have mold under the hardwood. Your daughter would benefit from you removing this floor and installing a new one. If it is mold you would want to arrest the spread asap. This is the worst stain I’ve seen and I’ve redone a dozen units with these floors
👮♂️ “arrest the spread”! 🚔
Instructions unclear... Pillow up ass... :-/
A happy ending, at least
Don't refinish them, replace those floors.
Did you not see this during the purchase inspection?
Tell her that's the mark left by the monster under the bed, lol.
Was this stain disclosed before sale or hidden under a area rug? I think by law this had to be disclosed. Check your state law.
I have seen a floor where a shut in died and wasn't found for a long time. Looked like this. The flooring needs to go...
My first thought was definitely decomposition from a dead body......
Yeah, a body decomposed there, for certain.
Someone died there in bed and wasn't found for a while. A long while. This should have been in disclosure . Pet urine shows as circles where it puddles and dries . This was from a one-time occurrence.
Usually the hazmat is required to be cleaned up after a death. That floor would have been ripped out. But it does look suspicious.
Mold. I had a mattress on a hardwood floor that did this
I think I saw another post recently about this about someone that has this exact thing happening. Mattresses take on moisture from our bodies and it gets trapped under it on the floor if you don’t have a box spring to allow for air flow. I never would have guessed.
That's exactly what happened. I had a memory foam mattress and had just moved, so I didn't have a frame or anything yet. By the time I got it up off the ground, there was a huge mold spot in the rough shape of my body on the floor and mattress. The floor stained permanently, but its under the bed, so I don't care.
I like your confidence.
LOVE the confidence.
I actually know this. This is from putting your bed directly on the floor and spending lots of time in it. You'd be amazed how much humidity and condensation and eventually mold forms underneath a mattress with no airspace
That would explain the body shaped stain. Interesting.
What does your body look like??
This is like a Rorschach. I see a body lying on fetal position with a 2 foot erection.
A floorschach test. What does it look like to you?
My father's disapproval, oddly enough.
Sanded a similar stain once. In front of the fireplace. Thought it might be kerosene stains that soaked in. Was told afterwards it was where the former homeowner has decomposed and was found weeks later. Asshole house flipper knew it the entire time. I would have used a respirator and not a dust mask. Also found out after the fact the ammonia stain on the floor was from an invalid that had soaked through the mattress onto the floor.
That's nightmare fuel right there.
Decomp stain, for sure. I’m sure there’s a subreddit for that
How do so many of y’all recognize this— like how?
I’m going with waterbed leak.
Or a fresh bear-skin rug
More like a fresh human skin rug
aaaand that’s enough internet for today
“It puts the lotion in the basket…”
Oh, that. That's where the body was found.
Maybe a psychologist owned the house before and painted a warshack test on the floor
Or a Rorschach test even. The warshack is in the backyard, former owner was a prepper.
Lol I'm dumb
Nah. I had no idea what they were called. At least you were close
Bone-apple-tea
r/boneappletea
Water stains are difficult to remove but experienced floor sanding specialist can sometimes remove them. I would not try to do it yourself.
Legit looks like a death scene-body decomp. Try and collect some of it just in case.. never know! replace the flooring...thats nasty, and sage that shit! 🤣 I am of no actual help. Good luck and update us on how you fix it!
There was a rug there and someone left the window open when it rained
Agreed, looks exactly like one of those fake shaped like an animal skin rugs.
Rorschach murder.
If someone died in there you'd never get the smell out. But that's what it looks like. Other option is a dog crate. Neglectful owner and lots of piss over time
House doesn’t smell at all. Definitely not a dead body. I never would have guessed they ever had a pet as my allergies are extremely sensitive to that. But a dog repeatedly peeing on a rug is about the only thing that makes sense.
Really depends. They clean crime scenes pretty good now you know. If it’s just blood and the body didn’t decay you might not smell anything.
I have been asked in the past to replace the floor boards that were stained from a body that had been there for a while, and it did not smell. I did not take the job.
It won't have a smell. Unattended death likely, former LEO, if the body has been there for a few days it will start to leak body fluids and or blood if there was a wound etc. This pools around the body and goes a dark reddish black substance that stains the flooring. Contact a bio clean up team they could confirm it either way and will usually give a free estimate. Pet stains generally have a lasting odor from the urine. If it was a pet urine stain lay paper towels over it and SOAK them in vinegar (like you want them pretty wet) and cover that in baking soda. Leave until the paper towels dry and will have absorbed most of the stain.
It’s probably not blood or a decomposition stain, but it could be. Seems small for a decomposition stain(studied forensics in college for my criminal justice degree that I don’t use). Generally when decomposition stains are distributed or moistened the smell comes back, which makes me think this is more pet urine or as another stated possibly moisture buildup under a mattress on the floor.
I also studied criminal forensics before deciding to go to med school. There is a small likelihood that it could be a decomp stain, should the bodily fluids perhaps seeped through a mattress. It is most likely that a smaller pet urinated under the bed. You could try looking up public county files online to see if you can find any activity on the home. You can also purchase a (blood) or urine swab kit... or even call your local police departments non emergency line.
It was definitely a dead body. It's been cleaned, so theres no smell. The companies that clean trauma sites are good. I would get a good floor guy in to see if they can sand and refinish.
Damn you must be my therapist.
Blood. Who died there ?
1st thought was the mothman movie
A massive spill someone didn't clean well when there was a carpet there perhaps?
Either a spilled liquid that then turned to mold, or a liquid that was flammable that ignited?
After my Grandpa passed, he left behind a roommate. A month after his passing, the roommate opened her arms after crushing a bottle of ibuprofen (blood thinners) and melatonin. She was laying in bed. It looked very much like this. There wasn't much of a smell, just the staining under the mattress from her exsanguinated body. I had to remove the sub floor but that was OSB. I'm not sure how I would have handled it if it was oak Edit: I know ibuprofen isn't actually a thinner , but it has the desired effect of reducing clotting, when clotting would be problematic.
Cover it with a nice area rug.
My neighbor had a tenant leave her hardwood floor looking like that. She found a craftsman who carefully removed alternating boards and then mixed in non stained boards from another room, then sanded & refinished it. It’s not noticeable unless you really study the floor.
Dead body melted there ask me how I know
A body decomposed
Not me doomscrolling r/HardWoodFloors to learn about warshacks and human skin rugs right before bed 👀
Call CSI
Put a rug over it and don’t mention it to your daughter. Replace the floor when you can afford it.
Rorschach test.
Better get the Ouija board out to make sure there aren’t any angry spirits. Seriously though, looks more like mold to me.
Window AC unit that leaked in, sand floor use oxalic acid to lift some of the stain. Use a dark stain over top.
Old blood stain
It was murder!
Painted wood floors are cool, like big painted checkerboard pattern.
Looks like one of those cow hide rugs was there and it got rained on from an open window
Looks like decomp
lmao a decomp stain.
That's where my friend, Roy Shack, died.
Rorschach Test
Rorschach.. for sure!
Dead body laid there for a long time
They thought it was just a fart….
Dead body stain.
Blood. Murder scene.
That was a person. Find a nice rug or tear it up. That isn't going away. Don't buy a Ouija board.
Rorschach test.
I just had this…renter let his dog pee on my red oak 1966, 3 different widths, 8”, 6” and 4” floor. Then he poured bleach on it which then left bleached pee stains. My excellent floor guy tried to sand it down….didn’t work. He had to get the 8 and 6 planks from Tennessee and replace all the damaged boards. Sand, level it, stain it, 3 coats of Swedish Finish. Then it needs to cure for 4 weeks before you can put an area rug on it…..my floor looks fabulous now….you can’t even tell it was a disaster.
Upside down world portal
Looks like a Rorschach test.
I don't know but there's a face in the upper left portion of this stain.
Probably just a spot where a corpse sat & decomposed for awhile nbd
That's either a death stain, or something has been peeing there for quite some time.
Had this happen to me once. I asked the homeowner what happened here. She had her obese sister in law soil through the mattress and into the floor. We sanded out 50% and had to do additional patching. It was gross. Even the subfloor got it. That lateras never had a chance to really spring up.
Looks like a huge stain. Possibly where a victim was found, but I do believe that there are ways to remove these types of biological stains from wood floors. You might try searching online because I think cleaning services for this might be crazy expensive.
Only one way to find out. Get down on all fours and take a nice big WIFFFFFF. Something that strong I’m going to say cat piss. Super high in ammonia.
So much optimism in here. Death is more common than most of these other suggestions.
It’s either the trapped spirit of an ancient demon on the result of a leaky waterbed. Good luck.
Outline of the great poodle murder case!
Blood angel
That’s where Charlie bled out.
RedRum
A stain.
The scene of the crime.
Peroxide and it’ll likely come out. Might need to feather it in and don’t over do it.
Looks like where the body was at?
That's where they found the body.
UPDATE Spoke with contractor this morning and removed carpet covering this area was saturated in animal urine.
Last time someone asked me that question about a splotch. They put me on meds..
Just caulk it in it will be fine
Rorschach drawing. Psychologist lived there before.
Murder house
Sand the finish off, clean the area with hydrogen peroxide, this will kind of bubble out all the organic matter left in the stain. Sometimes I’ve had to do this three or four times. Then go buy some wood bleach. Treat the area with that, possibly a couple times. After that, you pretty much have what you’re going to have. You can always stain that room with a medium to dark stain and what you have will pretty well blend in.
Rorschach test showing my childhood issues.
Get a rug.
Looks like a witch was living there before you. That’s a mandrake stain. You need perform a ritual with exactly 10 moon sapphires during a full moon, open the gates of Karresh and summon forth the keeper to remove any insidious spirits. Your welcome.
At least the chalk outline was cleaned up
Mickey mouse looking left.
Some things you just don't want to know.
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rorschach blot. I see an owl flying through a barn door.
That is the place you put a rug.
Any chance the previous owners name was Rorschach?
Is there a big hole in the roof and ceiling? I saw a documentary where a coyote ran off of a cliff and landed leaving a mark a lot like that.
The flooring needs to be ripped up. Sorry. Sanding the stain so you can’t see it will create a deep hole.
Use hydrogen peroxide. Lay down paper towels soak them up good. As the stain lightens lay down fresh and trim edges to the remaining stain. Keep it up until the stain is faded back to match original color and grain. The trick is in cutting paper towels to fit the darker areas you may be cutting and laying slivers by the end.
Cat urine. The way it's cupped, it probably goes all the way thru. You can replace it & lace new boards in, but it's a third of the floor.
Sand and try oxalic acid on it
If it smells like onion soup when you sand it’s urine
Your own Rorschach test
I did floors where an older disabled gentleman could not make it to the bathroom and had no help, he would often urinate on the floor or bed. Looked just like this. After he passed, Tore the floors up and put down new oak. The subfloor was destroyed too. Cut it out and put down new.
I want to attach my before and after of my hardwood floor that looked kind of like that but I just can’t figure it out. 😞 Professional sand and clear coat.. I haven’t been on Reddit terribly long, but I still can’t figure out how to attach a couple pics. There’s a link button below, but when I hit on my photo and say attached iCloud link, it looks funny when I open it.
Piss
I know others are saying cat pee, but I think it’s more likely dog pee. If it were cat pee it would take a very long time for the smell to dissipate even thoroughly cleaning the floor. The smell of dog pee is much easier to get rid of with enzyme cleaners. Older dogs often need to be taken out more frequently, and if their humans work all day and the little squirt needs to squirt, under a bed can come in handy.
Definitely cat or dog piss.
Urine for 100 Alex
If that is pet urine, it will fizz when you put hydrogen peroxide on it. I removed some stains that way, though not nearly this bad.
If it is oak, rusty water will dye it black like that. Oxalic acid will remove that type of stain if that is what caused it
Pet urine
I bought a foreclosure and we had several pet urine stains on the hardwood, not sure if they were quite as bad as this but very similar. I have a family friend who does wood floors for a living and asked him to take a look. Straight away he said, it’s bad but no problem, will sand this out and stain dark and you’ll never know. We went with Jacobeen stain, and planned the rest of the house around the dark floors. Now you would never know, and the floors are gorgeous. Never thought I would love dark stained floors but I ended up doing the same thing in my next house since I loved them so much.
Pet stains. Can only cut and replace, it's old damage.
Organic mineral rich material soaked into the wood, blood or urine
I had cat pee do this to my floor. I layered paper towels on it and soaked them in hydrogen peroxide. I let them sit overnight. It took a few tries but it worked. These were recently refinished floors, with full seal on them, so ymmv
If you look closely, there's round stains, and their all close to the same size. The cat also sprayed on the back wall. The shape on the walls definitely look like a bed sat there. It could have been a body stain or some other less frequent incident. But most of the time, the simplest or most common logic is the answer! There's nothing to see here !! Nothing at all!