[Dave_Lee]

Hi All.
Do all you TM operators have a smelly van, like me. Its not smelly all the time and I do deodorise  the waste tank and other parts occasionally. Its when Im driving around with a part full tank of dirty water on board. I cap off the vacuum intake and have a bungee securing the waste tank lid to prevent that from jumping up whilst in transit, but I still get really bad whiffs, sometimes constant untill I empty, then its okay. The only other outlet for the stink, I can think of is the exhaust, but I would have thought the blower etc would have stopped it getting past so easilly?
Dave.

[lee_gundry]

flush out your waste tank with fresh water.

fill a 20L container with water & de odouriser of your choice

suck up its contents


leave 20 mins

dump the contents

fire up unit for 5 mins

HEAVY DUTY CLEAN

fill tank with bleach & water

take van for a spin round block

leave van overnight

empty tank on competitors lawn

Lee G

ps

you may have a leak in waste dump hose

[Len Gribble]

Dave

It’s not always the waist tank it can be you vac hoses, have to admit they some times pen & ink after certain jobs, it’s also relative to porty’s

Lee tried dumping on competitor’s lawn problem he hasn’t got one but his drive looks like it has just been laid; now stopping this!

If you use beach & water open all doors leave open for 15min before getting in.

Len

[Glynn]

Bleach will eventually erode aluminium tanks.
Put strong deodourise mixture in your hydroforce, remove waste tank lid, start machine, liberaly spray (at high pressure) all the inside of waste tank, drain - repeat this three times. Replace lid, suck up through your usual hoses a strong disinfectant of at least 5 galls, start up ven, drive forward 3yds brake hard - do the same in reverse  
stop, drain off all water. Job done.
PS before all that, suck an old wet towel through the hoses.

[SMP]

The correct answer as written by others is to clean the tank out - otherwise you're driving round with a unhealthy, festering tank of sewage in the back (what is that we TM'ers tell our customers about indoor air quality ?!!).

I have noted that with the front windows open on the van the airflow seems to be forwards i.e in through the vents at the back of the van then sucked out of the open window.  So even if you have a bulkhead the stench still wafts forwards.   So the answer is to close the windows and turn the fan on full - still not much fun on a hot days though if you've not got aircon.

Cheers.

[Ray]

Dave

What we found is that the tank stank and no matter how much we cleaned it out it seemed to make no difference. It was only when we removed the APO (AUTO PUMP OUT) and found it fill of thick smelly sludge this was the cause of the stink. We now take out the APO (AUTO PUMP OUT) each month and clean it out.

Ray

[Phil Marlor]

Dave,

I try to pressure wash as much crap out as I can then mix a half a cup full of Jay's fluid in a bucket of water.

Turn on the vac and send it through the hose into the waste tank.

Leave it in the waste tank until you next empty.

Smells lovely after.

Repeat about every 2/3 weeks.

Phil

[Shaun_Ashmore]

have you wash behind your ears?

Shaun

[Len Gribble]

Ray

What’s AOP?

Len

[Phil Marlor]

Going to ask that myself Len.

Just hate it when people use abreviations (spell)

phil

[Doug Holloway]

Hello Everyone ,

So its Leonard and Phillip from now on

Cheerio,

Douglas

[Phil Marlor]

Phil/Len is a shortening of a name, not an abreviation (spell)

CYA,
Philip

[Ray]

APO - Automatic pump out

[Doug Holloway]

Hi,

APO- awful ponging odour.

Cheers,

Doug

[Derek]

Hi

I thought Jeyes fluid had become a banned product...or maybe they have reformulated it..
We use it when gardening for cleaning seed trays washing out the greenhouse at the end of the season etc.

Derek

[Dave_Lee]

Thank you all. I do wash the tank out, but I will try a few of the methods suggested. Glynn, with only around 6" headroom above my tank, it not that easy to pressure wash.
Dave.

[Phil Marlor]

Derek,

Why was it banned, must say it dose seems very powerfull stuff.

Am I ok to use it.

Phil  

[Neil Gott]

The ban was from an EU (Sorry Derek) directive covering fluids for horticultural/agricultural use, and deemed to be harmful if entering the food chain. Jeyes fluid is still ok for most other applications.

[Fintan_Coll]

Jeyes Fluid- a long time since I heard it mentioned before, it was once very much used for a variety of disinfectant uses, never liked the smell of it but I supppose its purpose was to mask other even less attractive smells.

[Derek]

Hi

Jeyes...a universally know name and an excellent product used as has been said in the agricultural industry..great for drains as well...even Grandmother used it all those years ago. There was apparently a risk of it seeping into the ground and subsequently into water supplies

EU restrictions I do believe referred to one of the elements (Coal tar) within its makeup and it has now been reformulated

Derek