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We’ve talked about this in the past looking for ways to keep the extractors from stinking up the customers’ house. I used to use bleach periodically to kill the bacteria that creates the smell. This works well, but I don’t like the smell of bleach nor the risk of getting on my clothes or someones carpet. I recently started to use Lysol “lemon fresh” cleaner-disinfectant. It smell awsome! I have also added it to my cleaning solution for those nasty college apts. or some of the dog houses my customers live in. It only takes a few ozs. to a jug to make it smell better.
Would it be possible for Cody to enhance the “citrus smell” in our cleaning solution? Using plain 101 doesn’t seem to do it for me any more.
I make it a point to immediately empty the contents in the customers toilet and rinse it twice. This helps a lot. I make sure I clean up any spills on the floor and make everythin diappear down the drain.
I just refuse those jobs. Problem solved.
An extractor can begin to smell by simply extracting a pop spill in the morning of a hot, muggy day and by 6:00 pm, it can smell like sewer.
I also rinse asap after the job is done, then spray down with fresh scent, I also spray down my vacumes.
I just clean the holding take with bleach. Set out to air dry the whole day and then should solve problem. U can also put orange deoderizer or fresh scent or cherry almond and put lid on and plug up whole on top and let sit for couple hours and then air dry.
Mike
Bleach and Lysol both work very well because they kill bacteria. The other deodorizers will not. Check the difference between Lysol/bleach prices vs. the H.B. products.
Used your suggestion, tried the Lemon Lysol last night, much better!
Thanks for another great tip!!
BEWARE! Keep in mind that bleach in your ninja may drip out onto your customers carpet if the valve isnt shut tight and theres any left in the machine. Bleach does eliminate the odor well but rinsing it out thoroughly is must!
I dump in toilet before leaving customers home and if possible rinse with 101 out of the sprayer…No more odor! No heavy lifting of Ninja or HB knockoff into van.
I would never put bleach into the Ninja…I had my pump leak early on, onto carpeting and I was able to clean with no problem…if it had been bleach..oops!!!
Also, bleach is very corrosive. We also use Lysol if we forget to wash out or cannot at the time of service.
With bleach, it only takes one pesky little droplet to make life miserable. We would never use…
Dave
One must use care when using bleach. Simply be sure to thoroughly rinse. Eliminate the risk and there will be nothing to worry about.
out here at the beach i have to deal with alot of pet stains and sand so my unit can get pretty smelly but i just make sure i rinse the reservoir tank out after each use and i run water through the hose too to clean out any trapt dirt. and in my mixture (thanks dan brady) i use the 101 and orange deoderizer and citrus boost. you only need 1 to 2 ozs or orange deaoderizer and i’ve been using 3/4 citrus boost but i may cut that down a little bit. also i’ve tried puttin deoderizer on the red filter but thats a bad idea cuz it shoots out of the blower if it hasn’t dried out completely
Just a FYI, we’ve had to replace a few pumps on the Ninja over the years. The guys at a local shop that we take it to to get fixed say we are using a lemon cleaner that they think is wearing out the seals on the pumps. I believe this may be the Orange Deodorizer as we have also been known to put it in our cleaning solution when dealing with pet spots or with cotton blend furniture (helps prevent water marks). We have since stopped using the OD in our cleaning solution when running it through our Ninja (prefer not to have to flush system every time we use OD as it is not easy to do with the Ninja like it is the Upholstery mate). Don’t know if this will solve it, but just something to keep in mind. We’ll see if this solves our pump problems.
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