welcome back to Andrea Jean cleaning today I'm going to show you how to
disinfect your humidifier I just have the Vicks brand here and this should
work for almost any humidifier but you do want to check the instructions on
your humidifier here but I've seen this done with all different types as well
first things first you want to plug unplug it I asked some gloves here
because we are going to be dealing with bleach and it does dry out my skin one
teaspoon of bleach per one gallon of water one teaspoon per about one gallon
of water now I did not have a gallon jug we don't drink a whole ton of milk in my
family here so what I did is I had this measuring cup and there are 16 cups in
one gallon so that's what I have measured out here and then I just have
some Clorox bleach this lemon a fresh scent you can use whatever bleach that
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this cleaning channel is one way that I do that alright let's get started so the
first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to mix our solution together here I also
do have a newsletter in the description box as well if you want to learn more
okay so we got 1 teaspoon it's gonna measure that here jump that in we'll mix
that around shortly and I'm gonna show you how to take this bad boy apart
because there are several little intricacies to it so we're going to set
this aside now as far as taking this apart let me show you probably the best
and easiest way to do that is I like to take the top off like so and then what
I'll do is I'll just set this aside
oops if you have a little bigger area to do this in and then you're just gonna go
ahead and dump the bass out careful not to get the cord in there and you can see
in mind it is pretty disgusting now I did just create a video that will be
linked in the description box below about how to clean your humidifier back
naturally with vinegar which you know that I love being pregnant to get all of
that gunk out as well all that build-up and I try to do that about once a week
Czar's this bleach solution I would say about monthly or you know whatever you
really think about it I have two of these humidifiers in my home because I'm
in Wisconsin and it does get pretty dry here so this top part just slips off
like that essentially twist off and then inside here there's actually another
part if you can see that and this just pops right off and you can see hopefully
the camera will pick it up there's a lot of buildup in there as well so we're
just gonna put these little pieces inside and I'm gonna go ahead and flip
it over and there's a twist off here my husband tends to put on super tight so
let's see if I can get it this time you grab this
ah my goodness normally it shouldn't be this tight you guys he just like really
cranks it on there Oh got it
all right pull that off like so and we'll go ahead and dump the water out
we're gonna save this because I'm gonna show you a little trick here in a second
but you look inside disgusting this is where the gloves are going to come in
handy and we move some things around here here we go that's my husband
hearing me talk about him if these bad boys on okay so we take our
picture here or your gallon whatever you have on hand and then you're just gonna
fill this up right to the brim so that everything is immersed in our solution
perfect and then I'm going to take these two of the parts here and I'm just gonna
dump them in this as well so that they can get disinfected along with
everything else carefully move this apart to the side
and then here we have our tank there are two parts to this as well there's like a
little rubber section here onto the lid I'm going to take the remaining on my
solution and I'm going to dump it right in here fill that up
the next thing that I'm going to do oh I should have saved a little bit but we'll
recover I'll show you something else here go ahead and put this back on and
now I'm just going to shake it because I really want to get it in all sides of
this you can see it's leaked in there on me so it helps to do this over a kitchen
sink or sink like this or over your bathtub okay one last thing I'm gonna go
ahead and grab this santé bowl here I'm going to pour a little bit of the
solution into the bowl now I could have done this ahead of time
perfect and what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna put this top in the
little rubber thing here inside the bowl so that I can all disinfect perfect now
I'm gonna let everything sit here for about fifteen to twenty minutes and we
come back we'll go ahead and clean everything up and I'll show you how to
do that okay so everything has been sitting for about 15-20 minutes or so
and I just have a little washcloth right here and I'm gonna go ahead and wipe
everything down and we're gonna rinse it out and I will show you that just grab
some of the solution here clean the insides up getting any of that scale
that is built up okay so now if you are looking for some more cleaning
motivation and videos I have a whole ton in the description box all about
cleaning oven racks cleaning your grounds cleaning your bathtub
essentially cleaning anything in your house I even did a video where I
clean the top of the stove with a variety of different substances and I'll
have that linked as well I did a video on cleaning the grates on the top of
your stove that was a fun one so everything's coming off pretty nicely
here and again I would say I would do this about once a month with this bleach
solution nice okay I'm just dumping everything and then the next step is
we're gonna race everything like so there's the top there's a little buildup
on there put that wipe down and then we have our big tank here I'm just gonna
push this around again
shut that out
now inside your tank there's probably a little lever like so if you push that
you can get water to come out through that and you wanted to so that it can
sanitize the little crevices inside there as well all right let's bring
everything over the tub and we'll go ahead and rinse it out really really
well now when I do this I'm going to use pretty more water that's slowly hot not
cold and I'm going to keep the cord out of there as best as I possibly can so
this little process can take you any more than thirty minutes
the last thing that I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this washcloth here and I'm
just going to go ahead and wipe down the insides of this as best as I possibly
can and then I'll show you a little trick here in a second good now as far
as getting the inside of this what you could do is this washcloth is pretty
thick but you can twirl it up like so and then you can bring it through here
let's see if this watch will let me do it yes perfect and then you can kind of
pull it back and forth in here to clean that part out or if you had a kitchen
brush of some sort or a flush that you may use to clean baby bottles I have
three kids one other way so we got plenty of those supplies around here I
don't have everything set here on the towel you know you can let it air dry
like I'm going to do here or you can go ahead and dry everything up put it back
together and start running your humidifier like you normally would but
this is an excellent way to disinfect your humidifier with a product that you
have laying around your house which is bleach but if you want to see that video
about how I clean this with vinegar I'm gonna have that linked in the
description box as well thank you for being here be sure to check out those
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