Vacuum Cleaner Bag
Tips For A Cleaner And Nicer Smelling
The vacuum cleaner is a amazing household invention that has helped in the care of our carpets. These wonderful labor saving devices were designed to vacuum up the dust and dirt that accumulated in and on the carpet. Unfortunately, after a time, the vacuum cleaner bag, that encases the disposable bag, becomes saturated with the smells absorbed by the carpet.
These odors can be associated with the smells tracked in from the outdoors, pet odors as well as the built up odors from the normal day to smells associated with dust. Fortunately, there are some steps that you can take to minimize and remove these smells trapped within the vacuum cleaner bag.
Tips to clean and freshen up the vacuum cleaner bag between uses include the use of cedar chips, baking soda and using detergent soap.
Cedar Chips
Cedar chips, when incorporated with a vacuum cleaner bag, provide some useful benefits. These chips can be placed in the vacuum cleaner bag itself or directly placed in the disposable bag by being vacuumed off the carpet.
Cedar chips provide a lovely scent when the vacuum cleaner is being used as well as when just being stored. Cedar chips also serve as a natural insect repellant and if the vacuum cleaner is stored in a clothes closet insects, such as moths, will be warded off.
Baking Soda
A common household product that is use to neutralize smells is baking soda. Not only is this simple product used to neutralize smells in the refrigerator, but can help to dispel smells associated with the carpet and the vacuum cleaner bag.
A simple way of deriving benefit from the baking soda is to sprinkle the baking soda on to your carpet. The baking soda can remain on the carpet as a long as it is practical. Then, simply vacuum the carpet. This process will not only deodorize your carpet, but the vacuumed baking soda will deodorize your vacuum clear bag as well.
Detergent Soap
Another tip in helping to neutralize the smell of the vacuum cleaner bag is by simply washing the bag in your washer. By adding laundry detergent and a bit of lemon juice a clean and fresher vacuum cleaner bag will result. Drying of the bag can be accomplished by hanging the bag outdoors to dry.
In addition, between washings, the odors of the vacuum cleaner bag can be dissipated by adding laundry detergent. Just simply add a couple of powdered tablespoons of detergent in the bag.
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