/diy/ - Do It Yourself

anyone have experience with dogs and pissing in the house?

I temporarily homed an older dog several years ago who took to peeing in a couple spots in my living room (on entertainment center and underneath my bar). Now that dog is gone (and has been for a few years) but Some of the piss soaked into the wood and my current dog now thinks it's the neighborhood fire hydrant. I'm ready to pitch the entertainment center (when the sun hits it, it stinks!) and tear down the bar and redo it (it's not very fancy) I realize I'll need to replace the carpet and possibly some of the floor underneath. I've tried those enzymatic cleaners and they didn't stop anything; if anything it seemed to make him go more often in those places! It was as though he was fighting me for ownership of that spot!

My concern is, if I go to all this trouble to remove, replace, etc--completely eliminating anything that was ever touched by urine-- will my dog still go to those spots to pee?

He holds his urine just fine in his kennel and we put him outside fairly often so I'm just worried that all my work will be for not. Besides those spots, he doesn't "go" anywhere else in the house. Advice? I live in an area that has extremely cold winters and scorching summers, so putting him outside seems to not be an option.