Bissel Vaccum giving a foul odour

Hi - here are a few tips!
If the filters are washable they have to be dried completely before putting back into the machine, otherwise you're damaging your vacuum by putting in damp filters which won't do much but put back the stale smell into the home. Generally washing filters should be done with a little washing up liquid, washed out, rinsed, drip dry and dried over 24 hours to room temperature naturally (not on a radiator or heater).
Faster drying should employ the use of a low temperature tumble dryer with the filters placed in a pillow case with a towel added to prevent banging off the sides of the electric dryer when in operation.
Also, whilst the filters are drying take off the main hose of the Clearview and wash it out with washing powder with the hose laid in the bath. Alternatively put wet wipes or cleaning wet wipes down the hose with a stick to get out all matter of dirt - clearview hoses are the worst for stinking especially if you have pets. That should improve the general way of your vacuum and giving it a more neutral smell. Also when everything is dried out inclduing the hose, sprinkle some bicarbonate of soda around so that the vacuum picks it up and neutralises previous odours that the vacuum had from the beater bar/floor head.

Take the filter out of the dirt cup and remove the foam filter from around the paper filter and wash it good with water in the sink then lay a paper towel down and fold it around the filter and dry it .the paper filter is washable run water over it and take a brush and brush the dirt out of it in up and down strokes then let dry.there should be a hepa filter on the side and clean it also.its water friendly also.reach up inside the upper cup above the the dirt cup and there is another filter just turn and it comes down.clean it also

In order to prevent the release of a foul odor from the Bissell vacuum, one can change the bag of the vacuum cleaner which causes bad smell most of the time. For bagless vacuum then you can use soapy water to clean the filters and allow them to dry properly before they used further. Another useful method that I often used is the use of baking soda solution to clean the canister, hose, and filter and rinse these further with water. After that, you can use a clean cloth to dry the plastic material and dry the filter under fresh air. The odor in the vacuum happens for so many reasons. When you have to clean the pet hair, pet stain that time the vacuum sucks the odor too. Which causes odor in the future from the vacuum. It is recommended to apply the best vacuum cleaner for pet hair and hardwood floor.