Removing long hair from carpet

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Sorry if this is not the right section to post but does anyone have recommendations for how I can pick up long hair from short pile carpet?

My hoover, which is a Miele hoover that is for pets, is very powerful but it still can't pick up my long hair from the carpet.  I have to pick it up with my fingers and wonder if there is a tool that I can use?

My hair reaches the middle of my back and it seems to magnetise itself to the carpet so that I have to pretty much peel it off the carpet so it needs to be something that will stick to the hair strands I would think, like cellotape.  The hoover just pushes it around but can't suck it up unfortunately even though it is a very powerful hoover that can even suck the carpet off the floor grippers!

tacpot12

Yes, the "Dual-sided Lint Remover & Hair Scraper" from Temu. Cheap as chips, and they don't lose their effectiveness much. I bought two expecting that it would wear out, but it really hasn't done so. 

Cairnpapple

We find our Henry mostly does the job with rubber gloves helping to pick up on any particularly awkward areas.  However I've seen silicone brooms recommended and they're not expensive, e.g. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3342095

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Cairnpapple said:

We find our Henry mostly does the job with rubber gloves helping to pick up on any particularly awkward areas.  However I've seen silicone brooms recommended and they're not expensive, e.g. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3342095

i have very long hair that reaches the middle of my back and it seems to magnetise itself to the carpet.  when i pick it up with my fingers, i almost have to peel it off the carpet, lol

this is why the vacuum cleaner, which can pretty much lift the carpet from its grippings on the floor, still can't pick up my hair, lol.

i don't think a brush like that will be of any use unfortunately.  i was thinking maybe use cellotape but tacpot12's suggestion may be the way to go.

born_again

Try a squeegee.
Really pulls stuff like this out of carpet pile.

Savvy_Sue

I no longer have this kind of hair, but when I did, I used to have to scrape my slipper along the floor to lift it - if the hoover picked it up it got no further than the brushes, which would be so thick with it they'd stop picking up anything else. 

If you think about it, unless your hair is in matted clumps, even a pet hoover is really only going to be able to wind the hair round its rollers. 

Mind you, I'm talking about an upright cleaner - you might expect better from something without a head and just a nozzle, but that's going to take so long to cover any ground! 

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Savvy_Sue said:

I no longer have this kind of hair, but when I did, I used to have to scrape my slipper along the floor to lift it - if the hoover picked it up it got no further than the brushes, which would be so thick with it they'd stop picking up anything else. 

If you think about it, unless your hair is in matted clumps, even a pet hoover is really only going to be able to wind the hair round its rollers. 

Mind you, I'm talking about an upright cleaner - you might expect better from something without a head and just a nozzle, but that's going to take so long to cover any ground! 

yeah, using the nozzle would take forever, but that doesn't work because my hair is like woven into the carpet    i am not sure how they manage to embed themselves into the carpet to such a degree as the carpet is short pile but as I said, it feels like there is some sort of magnet that makes the two stick together.

maybe there is a lot of static in the carpet and in my hair, so it creates some sort of magnetic force for the two to stick together.  I am having to manually peel it off around the room and this is taking forever.

maybe i need a demagnetiser? 

Ksw3

I can second a squeegee, it's amazing how much it can pick up. Almost embarrassingly so!

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Ksw3 said:

I can second a squeegee, it's amazing how much it can pick up. Almost embarrassingly so!

i looked on amazon and it may work, but as i had said earlier, my hair isn't just on the carpet but it seems to be embedded into the carpet.  i will get one and see if it works.

KxMx

You could ask around friends/family/colleagues to try out their vacuum cleaners, see if there is one that performs better with your hair than current model.


I did the slipper trick with my previous vacuum, changed to another one (Samsung Jet 60, recommended to me by a friend with very floofy cats) and it picked up so much of my hair initially that I had to unblock 😮
I now don't need the slipper trick and remove hair from the outside roller regularly. 

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KxMx said:

You could ask around friends/family/colleagues to try out their vacuum cleaners, see if there is one that performs better with your hair than current model.


I did the slipper trick with my previous vacuum, changed to another one (Samsung Jet 60, recommended to me by a friend with very floofy cats) and it picked up so much of my hair initially that I had to unblock 😮
I now don't need the slipper trick and remove hair from the outside roller regularly. 

I took savvy_sue's advice and used the shortest nozzle and it seems to work quite well but it does mean it takes a long time!  Some of my hair is stuck fast into the carpet, so I would need to peel it off first before using the nozzle method.

I think it is because I step on to them and so this makes them embed into the carpet.  I will look at getting that brush, squeegee, which may help to peel them off the carpet first before using the vaccuum nozzle on them.