smelly hoovers

Kazonline

Anyone know if a bit of borax in the cylinder wold be ok? I thought that might be a good idea as it should absorb bad smells, and also kill dusmites.
Failing that - what about bicarb?
A few years someone (no, not me!) vacumed up quite a bit of cement dust with mine. As you can imagine it wrecked it ( i thought the motor was 'shot'. Called dyson who sent me a new 'cylinder' unit (the whole thing that you take to the bin) Although I have a washable filter that sits uder this part in the vacum apparently there is another filter in that 'cylinder' bit - so if any problems aren't resolved by washing the filter, or if anyone witha dyson notices a problem, it's well worth contacting the manufacturer.

tawnyowls

Redrose wrote:

Thanks tawnyowls - but just checked my instructions and its a big NO NO for washing the filters, will have to replace them at the end of the month.

Bother. Does it say why? I'd be inclined to try washing them anyway - if they fall apart, you're no worse off. Doubt it would impair the filtering capacity - if it did, I suspect they'd fall apart anyway.

nursemolly

hi,
well i unblocked a sink with my dyson......and now, a few days later my dyson stinks every time i hoover. obviously its the damp in the parts...but has anyone got any ideas on how i can resolve this.
i do have some essential oils...would these help???????????

many thanks
molly
xx

wishingonastar_3

sprinkle some bicarb on the floor and hoover it up, takes a day or two, but usually works whenever my hoover gets smelly. if you mix it with some essential oil, it'll mask the smell whilst the bicarb works.

CLARABEL

put some drops of tea tree oil on a tissue and vac it up. lavender oil in the same way when the stink has cleared!

:j :j

nursemolly

i have put some zoflora on a tissue and hoovered it up and at the mo` i have a lovely smelling dyson.
i thought maybe as its concentrated and antibacterial it might work....
so fingers crossed.
thanks
molly
xx

purpleimp

I've used a damp dyson before and it reeked, wash out the filters, dry them off and once they're dry essential oil them, (both sets of filters) I use olbas and it works a charm! HTHxxx

trinity1_2

You could try getting some Neutrodol Vac sacs. They sell them in poundland/99p stores and have 2 sacs in each pack.
Just put a pack into the dyson dust holder and each time you hoover the smell should be gone and it also makes ur carpets smell nice2

susank

How did you unblock it as I thought they were dry only machines!

nursemolly

susank wrote:

How did you unblock it as I thought they were dry only machines!

well i think they are really. but the blockage was so far down the pipe. so i used the hose nossle and placed it over the plughole.
all the manky hair/soap stuff came up a treat. but the water has made the dyson stink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but it still works a treat.