The outlaws have kindly gifted us a bagless Vax vacuum cleaner. Unfortunately they have a dog, so the dust container stinks of dog, and when you fire the thing up it pumps doggy smell into the room.
Is it possible to remove the smell. It has one filter you can clean, and one you can't (apparently). Would changing filters and soaking the dust container in bleach do the trick ?
15 years after I finally skipped my mums old constellation after she had had it for 15 years before, it still smelt of her dog.
But I never tried washing it.
Eh? You never tried washing it?
I can't really believe that Jethro has asked this. Wash all the filters including the one that you should not. Wash the brush rollers. Wash everything that you can. No need for bleach. The smell will wash away. And yes, we have a dog.
Doggy smell is nice. Be grateful.
Bill
You can get little vacuum cleaner de-odouriser sticks which you're supposed to drop inside the bag each time you change it; your house then smells of 'Sea Mist' or 'Autumn Breeze' or whatever instead of 'Essence du Chien'. Dunno whether there's any reason why they wouldn't work the same with bagless models?
There is only one way to find out for sure. It may well take a more thorough cleaning of all the air path to get rid of the pong. The plastic parts should come clean pretty easily. It is the air filters that will hold most of it. Washing them might not be enough.
Failing that you could let their dog out of the vacuum cleaner.
Well I'm not sure it will, as in my vax there seems to be a coating of something all through the pipework of the machine which you cannot get to. So it really depends where the dog smell is coming from. I would also like to meet the person who designed the dust container as lining up the lid of this to replace it is worse than trying to do a rubik cube blindfolded.
Brian
All one can do is replace all the filters clean out where you can with warm water and fairy and let it all dry and hope for the best, but I had a carpet where my old dog used to lay and despite several washes and cleanings it still smelled of that oily stuff dogs have on their coats.
Brian
If it's owt like my dog, then it's called castrol GTX 10-50.
Tho nowadays it's the other halfs cats that usually come in with a line of oil down their backs from being under a car, kind of funny when they climb on their 'mummys' t*ts in bed and roll about, "awww, have you ever seen such a loving cat" says she..... then asks why i am laughing,
You allow cats in your bed?
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Why wouldn't you? It feels really nice when they rub up against your arse under the duvet. ;-)
Tim
Nothing wrong with an oily tit rub.
Owain
If you have a dog then you might just think the smell will wash away. But dogs stink and you can never get rid of the smell. Ever. (same stories with piss, tobacco, and cats)
Cats stink. My dog does not smell.
Got a bad cold has he?
Tim
Cats "clean" themselves with their tongue. The dirt is then inside them and ends up in the litter tray which is in your home. Only dirty houses smell of their pets.
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She.
All of our cats asked to go outside. Have you never noticed that dogs lick their bums?
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