Nappy Wrappers any good???

HappySad

Thanks for your responces. It looks like I will just stay with what we used before. A bin with a lid. We just wrapped the nappies in nappy sacks and put it in the bin with lid in the bedroom. It was when you opened the bin to put the next nappy in that you got the smell going out but apart from that it kept the smell in. We would empty that every 2days also.Thanks everyone.

lisa_cee

we had one with our first thought it was a great idea until you realse it smells like one of the bins in the baby changing rooms every time it opens !

stick to nappy bags definately !

Moonbeam

Tesco Value Nappy Sacks are great (as this is MSE site)- we just wrap each one up in them and dump them together in a tesco carrier bag - then out to the wheely bin at least once a day - easy....

Had a nappy wrapper for DS and kept using it, but the cartridges were quite expensive to replace and it began to smell quite bad after a while - also took up a lot more room in the nursery than a pack of nappy sacks.

Raksha

I had one when one of mine was small (can't remember which one) it was great for keeping the dogs away from the 'prize'

Curious_George_2

I had one, all nappys went into a nappy sack first, then sausaged into the wrapper, it was good,
but i found that when the cartridges ran out more often than not i would just use it as a bucket with a lid... so thats what im going to do this time round (as i must of lost my nappy wrapper during the last move)

Spendless

Never saw the point of them myself. I just folded nappy into itself with the adhesive strips and took it straight out to wheelie bin outside. Only if they were very messy did I bother putting them in a carrier bag or nappy sac. I can see if you live in a flat this wouldn't be an option.

Carmina_Piranha_3

i didn't get one to begin with, but they were a couple of quid at the NCT sale so i thought i'd try one and i love it. i use a nappy sack for the soiled ones though to stop squishy poo coming out over my hand - easier putting pooey wipes and cotton balls into a bag too.

it gets emptied twice a week and it's much easier than taking each one to the bin, especially as the wheelie bin is impossible to open with a baby under one arm.

the 'newborn' cassette doesn't prevent smells though, the one for weaned babies is much better.

i haven't noticed any smell from the previous nappies when you put another one in.

Nicki

We had this, but it has a plastic ring which is part of the bin, which you need to put on top of the new cartridges to make it work, and every time my hubbie emptied it, he threw this ring in the bin. After two replacements, I came to the conclusion, that they weren't that good at stopping smells anyway, and went over to using nappy sacks and a normal bin with a lid, which was just as good. If I had another baby, I wouldn't bother with this one again.

Karnam

ours was good at first, but to be honest it was awful to empty (the cutter thing didnt cut the plastic properly, the sausages would untwist so that we just ended up with a huge plastic bag full of nappies) its expensive to keep refilling (its half price all the time, cause the refills are quite expensive)

i just stick the nappy in the bin nowawdays (without a nappy sack) but we empty our bin every day.

Spendless

Carmina_Piranha wrote: »

it gets emptied twice a week and it's much easier than taking each one to the bin, especially as the wheelie bin is impossible to open with a baby under one arm.

Am I right in thinking you change baby upstairs in his bedroom? I never did, changed on mat in downstairs room and the wheelie bin was bang outside back door, so didn't need to take baby with me to bin.