Cat hair and carpet, argggghhh!

kerrybyrne7 wrote: »

Hi all

Not sure if this is the right place to post but here goes...

We have recently had new cream carpets fitted and cat hairs are driving me bonkers! We've not had this problem before as we have wooden flooring down stairs and have had floorboards upstairs for the last 2 years since moving in and renovating!

Now my question is how do you keep on top of cat hairs, I've tried hoovering every other day but it only seems to pick up the surface hairs not the ones that become embedded.

Thanks in advance

Kerry

Hi Kerry,

Put on a rubber glove, the type you do the dishes with and rub over the surface, it brings all the hairs up, its pretty quick and easy to do, the only thing that works for me

xx

Griizelda wrote: »

Wear croc (or fake croc) shoes and drag your foot sideways over the carpet. It works on the same principle as the rubber gloves but without having to bend down and gives your inner thigh muscles a workout at the same time!

This is what I do, but wearing a trainer shoe not a Croc - it works really well, and if my legs aren't feeling up to the workout then I'll just get on hands and knees with said shoe in my hand, and do it that way. I only have to do it in one large-ish room though - not sure I'd be keen for more than one room :eek:

Buy a rubber broom, you can get them in places like home bargains, pound stretcher etc. for about £4. I have beige carpets and a black dog and black cat. I sweep the floor every day, takes less than 5 mins to do all downstairs and then hoover twice a week. Works a treat.

Good luck x

Hi

We live a very frugal life but with our pets the thing that I have to have is a Dyson Animal - it picks up every hair..not cheap but we both work fulltime and so the time saved it worth the money spent!

Oh gosh... nightmare... we moved into our first house last december and first thing we did was replace the appalling tatty old carpets with new beige ones. They looked FANTASTIC! We then got 2 cats in may... luckily we picked a heathery style so they don't look too bad but I do often think we should have gone for hard floors downstairs where they spend most of their time.
We only hoover once a week! Shocking! And yes they look ok when you hoover them but when you get down to eye level with the carpet it's nasty how much is really there.
Ours improved a lot when I started using a furminator (brush) on our furriest cat (short hair, but very luxurious fur). I use it outside with her every fortnight, the garden gets covered in clumps of hair but she ends up lovely and shiny and sheds soooo much less, the difference is particularly noticeable on our dark sofas. The other cat won't entertain the idea of being brushed...

The main problem I have now is how to stop them scratching up the carpet in the corners and edges of the room. They have pulled it off the gripper rods in lots of places, and also as the carpets are so new, their scratching brings up so much fluff, which looks terrible.

Our carpets used to look so great, now they look pretty crap, ah well! Next time, it'll be hard floors probably, which is a shame as carpet is so nice and warm and cosy!