Pet Hair
Chris Collins • 22 September 2016

5 Tips to minimize the fur

A puppy is sticking its tongue out while laying on a couch.


  1. Embrace your pet grooming chores daily – it pays dividends in reduced cleaning hours. Give your fury loved ones a quick once over outside every day. You will certainly notice a difference in your home.
  2. Use an electrostatic or microfiber dry mop on hardwood, tiled or laminate floors. Straight vacuuming will simply blow hair around.
  3. Damp mopping – works well on tile floors. But don’t over wet your floors when mopping as wet hairs will be left behind. Wet floors cannot be followed up by a vacuum without missing wet hairs that have stuck to the floor.
  4. A triple action vacuum head is best for taking fur from carpets. If your vacuum doesn’t have a triple action head then use a rubber broom, followed by vacuum – Rubber brooms work well to scrap the hair off the carpet into a ball. Then the following vacuum should be done in alternating directions to target stubborn hairs.
  5. To clean pet fur off furniture & upholstery without a triple action vacuum head - use damp rubber gloves and rub over in one direction. Watch the hair come off in one ball, rinse off

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