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One continuous problem I have is keeping an apartment with 2 longhairs clean - long hairs get all over the place, and when I go to vacuum, the beater bar on my vacuum gets clogged up every time, and I have to "unspool" the hair. In the words of my mom, "there's enough hair in here to knit a sweater!" So, just wondering... how do you guys cope with long hair everywhere? Are there certain vacuums you recommend?
Hi there,
Well it's a common problem and there is nothing worse that hairballs roll over the living room carpet. I vacuum every week and it's an ongoing battle. It would have been nice to have a Dyson but they are a bit expensive so I got a bagless upright cleaner from Electrolux which does the trick. Of course brands depend on where you live.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
John.B
Longhairs shed. As I tease my shorthaired husband when he finds hair in unexpected or unwanted places, "Any place is a great place to shed!" However, we do shed more in some places than in others. Where you usually comb your hair is such a place. One thing that really helps with vacuuming is to first get the hair up in places you shed a lot. If you wear shoes with waffle soles, such as running shoes, you can drag your feet across the carpet in such areas, and your shoes will drag up large hairballs. You can then just pick them up and put them in the trash. That is all hair that will NOT end up in the vacuum.
As for hair wrapped around parts in the vacuum cleaner, I've found that using scissors I can cut the hair into shorter clumps and it is then easier to remove. If it goes around a roller just half way, for example, it comes out a lot easier than if it goes around the roller several times. So just cut it.
Yeah, I know, you hate the idea of cutting hair, but cutting it after it has fallen off your head is okay. Really. [grin]
Bill
Me and my partner are longhairs so I flip the Dyson over and take scissors (the only time I take scissors to hair) and snip away and then pull it out. I do this every time after I vacume. Then we knit more sweaters.
So take up knitting.
Kevin
Awwww come on Todd, what's wrong with a little hair here and there!LOL.As long as I'm out of shedding season my vacuum isn't really that clogged up.I get more fur from the cats! LOL.
Mark
Rake first and vacumm later.
I have a soft rubber rake thing that I got at a CVS (on of those seen on TV items) and I rake up all the excess hair that I've shed before using the vacumm - really makes a difference. Just a small garden rake should work just as well.
Karsten
I bought a Dyson Animal DC17 on sale at Best Buy and it is the most amazing invention I ever used, it's obscene the amount of crap it vacuums up. We had 2 Boston Terriers that had passed over a year ago and it sucked up their fur out of the carpets from that time.Regular price they are about $550, but of you catch a sale it's worth it! Havent had to de-hair the beaters yet.
Shop Vac.
Don't use a vacuum cleaner ? :-)
I personally don't use it, but a broom instead. Maybe not so efficient, but I don't care. But I imagine the problems with a vacuum cleaner... My problem is more on the wheels of my desk chair, and I haven't find how to deal with it yet...
Vivien
I have a similar problem with my shed hairs in the axles of my wheelchair, computer table and personal lift. I get my nurse aids husband every 6 months or so to clean things up for me.
On carpets, I usually rake up the large hairballs with rubber shoe soles and use a canister type "shop vac" for the rest.
On my patio, the wind usually sweeps up shed hair into neat balls that accumulate in sheltered corners.
- Oren
Hey Oren,
I have a long-haired female friend named Hester, who has hip-length hair. I was visiting her one day in her apartment when she started her hair-brushing ritual. While we were chatting, at the end of her brushing session, she suddenly opened up her 2nd story living room window, pulled out all the hair that had accumulated in her brush, then gently tossed it out her window...
This is for the birds -- they love using human hair when they make their nests!
I can varify that statement, as there's one neighbor hood in town where I have actually been "attacked" by swooping birds who suddenly fly down and try to pick off some of my hair w/ their beaks!
Well, at least us longhairs are "contributing" to Mother Nature in ways we hadn't originally intended when we first grew our hair out.
I bet your patio is a haven and a virtual gold mine for our feathered friends to visit every spring!
- Ken
Walk around barefoot. I always end up with it snagging between my toes!
I've got a Dyson and every now and then it needs to be dehaired. It's easy enough - just cut the hair across the roller rather than having to unravel two foot-long strands.