How Rid The Home Of Poop Smell

[Nextgen]

Hi,

Before I open my daycare doors can you ladies share with what you use to keep the smell of poop down in the home. I don't want parents to come to a home that smells like poop all day. Also, do you ladies get a lot of complaints from your neighbors about having a home daycare?

[Sherwood]

I buy little baggies on a roll and bag dirty dipes before tossing them. The bags are super cheap and I get them in the pet section close to the dog leashes. I used to use plastic shopping bags but have found the small bags to be more airtight after tied. They go into the kitchen/main trash that gets emptied at least once daily, not a diaper pail.. those are so gross to empty. By the front door I have a Scentsy warmer on a table next to the sign in sheets. I change scents every couple of days.

That's all I can do, but it seems to be enough. No complaints from neighbors.. My group is small and very young so we don't spend a lot of time outdoors making noise, etc.

[mbullette]

I have Bath and Bod]y works plug in's all over my house. I feel my house smells like a poop factory from 8am until 6pm. The parents always say my house smells good but all I can smell is poop.

One of my neighbors has been great and the other has complained a lot. She is older and complains if the kids are loud, if the babies are crying, if its hot and I have the kids outside and the list goes on. She has a home in Florida so she is gone from November until May. I love my windows open in the summer but I have to be careful. Living in Wisconsin you need to enjoy the nice days while you can. I try to take the kids outside when she is not home but that does not always work.

[canadiancare]

I diaper in the washroom so I dump any stool I can into the toilet and put the diaper in the trash can. I dump (ha I keep using the word dump) any particularly pungent ones right into the garage. We only get trash pick up every other week but I get my diapers picked up weekly so they are put in a bag that is separate from the rest of the household trash. I keep my bathroom door shut and, if needed I'll do a small spritz of Lyesol. I have 5 in diapers but only 2 routinely poop here ~ the others save for home.


My neighbours have never complained but I try not to be invasive.

[melilley]

I buy little baggies on a roll and bag dirty dipes before tossing them. The bags are super cheap and I get them in the pet section close to the dog leashes. I used to use plastic shopping bags but have found the small bags to be more airtight after tied. They go into the kitchen/main trash that gets emptied at least once daily, not a diaper pail.. those are so gross to empty. By the front door I have a Scentsy warmer on a table next to the sign in sheets. I change scents every couple of days.

That's all I can do, but it seems to be enough. No complaints from neighbors.. My group is small and very young so we don't spend a lot of time outdoors making noise, etc.

I have those too and the Dollar store sells bags like that that are even scented.

[bunnyslippers]

I baag every dirty diaper separately before throwing away. I keep a trash bin on the stairs to my bulkhead (dc is in basement). The diapers are pretty much immediately outside. I also have a yankee candle plug in right by my front door. Whenever possible, I crack a window.

I have never had any complaints from neighbors...but I live in a very small town and don't have that many neighbors really close.

[MarinaVanessa]

I use a diaper genie and the Arm&Hammer bag refills. I keep it in my bathroom and it fits perfectly between my toilet and the wall.

On top of the I follow diapering procedures very close to centers and use gloves so I just hold the diaper in one gloved hand and with the other hand I pull the glove over the diaper and then hold the diaper with the other gloved hand and do the same. It encloses the diaper inside the gloves ... I heard tell that this is called a "diaper bomb" ::.

Even before I did the "diaper bomb" the diaper genie helped keep a lot of the odor down. Every other day I would empty it.

[Lianne]

I keep a simple diaper pail with lid on my porch and toss diapers in it immediately. Diapers never go in the house garbage. I discovered Scentsy two years ago. It's the first fragrance line (scented melting wax) that doesn't smell chemically to me or give me a headache. I have a warmer plugged in in my livingroom, where diaper changes happen, and in my bedroom at the other end of the house.

[butterfly]

Thanks, I had to giggle when I read this. Only because I've wanted to post the same thing so many times. All of my kids are in diapers! Some days it's too much!

I do the same as most others. I try to wrap the smelly diapers in a bag and then they all go into one main trash - no diaper pails here. I empty that trash atleast 2 times per day.

I have a scentsy burner plugged in by the trash can.

I sanitize the changing table with bleach and sometimes the bleach smell helps cover the smell too.

Often the windows are open for some fresh air - even if just for a few minutes at a time.

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

After I change a poopy diaper, I spray an air freshener I made that combines water, a shot of vodka, and lavender essential oil. It immediately takes the smell out of the air. Love it!

Poopy diapers go into the Diaper Champ (it uses regular trash bags) in the garage. I actually have THREE diaper champs that I bought used since I used to have more wearing diapers/pull-ups than I do now.

I have had as few as 5 kids here when I first opened to as many as 12 kids here (between the ages of 2-5) and I have never once had a neighbor complain. Our houses are VERY close together, too. Less than 5 feet away! The neighbor on my left is always home and the neighbor on my right is always at work. When we go out together to the park, the neighbors always drive slowly and stare as we walk in the greenbelt to the park. It's hysterical. You would think they would be used to watching us go 2-by-2 in a line but no. They love watching. LOL!

[small_steps]

My garage was converted to my daycare so I have a door to the outside in my playroom and after a diaper change I toss the diaper in a walmart bag, tie it, and put it outside in the big trash can. SOmetimes the outside area can get to smelling if the trash sits out too long or during the summer when it's really hot but it doesn't get too bad. I also use a scentsy warmer inside the house that keeps it smelling great!

[SilverSabre25]

I don't do anything in particular and I don't seem to have this problem. The only time it was ever an issue was when I had 4 toddlers and they all pooped at my house at least twice a day...ever day...and one of them was naaaasty. You could smell him a mile away.

[Luna]

I only have one in diapers here now and he is out to break some kind of stink record. He usually has an après-nap poop in his playpen so I light an incense in there before I bring him out, then I turn on the scentsy in my bedroom where I change his diaper. I could still smell yesterday's stink when I went to put him down for his nap today Maybe I'll light two incenses when he gets up?
Poopy diapers go in a grocery bag and I stick it right outside the back door until hubby or I gets a chance to put it into the big garbage can.

[CrackerJacks]

After I change a poopy diaper I toss it outside into a garbage can I have at the bottom of my entrance stairs. I also use air wick plug ins. One in every room.

[My3cents]

I use a small pail that gets emptied every night or as needed.

I open the windows when possible to let the stale air out.
I use a sentsy burner in my bathroom that fills the whole daycare
I spray lysol when needed and when I change the pail
I freshen with a fabreeze gain spray,usually in the morning and at night, just a little.

I ask my parents if it smells in the daycare from time to time just because I am in it all day and used to the smell, my changing station is near the door