The Solution To Your Stinking Vacuum
I used to hate that smell when I started up my back pack vacuum especially if their were customers present.
You know the smell. It's of stale, not fresh, not clean vacuum. I’m trying to clean a building yet my vacuum smell doesn’t agree with the notion.
As a business owner this really bothered me....
I am pressing on pain points of “not cleaned properly” when I’m talking with potential customers yet if these customers sit in the building during one of my cleans they smell a stale vacuum.
I tried several things to remedy this. I made sure my bags were dumped or clean, I made sure my filters were washed but I couldn’t get that smell to stop. One day I tried vacuuming up a small amount of cinnamon about a tablespoon amount.
Go ahead and laugh but don’t knock it until you try it cause it kind of worked. So once per week I’d vacuum up some cinnamon. This worked ok but not as good as I would have liked it to have.
So because I am one to always keep trying new things until I get my desired results I kept experimenting with things. Carpet fresh into my bags. Then baking soda. After that I tried dry sheets.
Were Dryer Sheet The Holy Gail I Was Looking For
I put the dryer sheets in between the paper bag and the cloth filter and I thought I had found the holy grail of smell good. The only problem with the dryer sheets is they lost their scent too quickly. Then one day as I was cleaning out my car I realized what I had been doing wrong.
The dryer sheets were good but not as good or as strong as those car scented trees that hang from your mirror. So I gave it a try I opened a brand new fresh one cut it into 3 pieces put 2 into a ziplock bag (which I put into my cleaning caddy) and one piece in between the cloth filter and paper bag.
What I found was this lasted significantly longer time than the dryer sheets and I was sold. I have religiously done this now for over 5 years.
This can work with uprights too as long as you find a place to put it that’s safe. Usually on the filter that blows the air back out.
Give it a try today before you start all your next clean then come back to this article and tell me what you thought.