Cat hair removal tip

By Value hunter on Oct 23, 2009 | In In real life, In the home

We have a short piled wilton carpet in the front room. We have tried three dysons, each failing to remove our long haired cat's hairs from it, each one simply spreads the hair around and it can take upto an hour with the vacuum to lift most of it.

Dyson engineers and customer services agree that their machines cannot do the job alone, even though two of the machines are "pet specialists" in removing hair from animals and preventing allergies, one machine has even won awards for its effectiveness when used in a home with pets. (As with all awards, they are of little real value I find, most aren't worth the paper they are written on).

The third and final Dyson engineer told us that he was completely bamboozled and said it was not the "type of cat hair" as others had suggested.
He advised us to try a tip his mother used to use back in the 60s and 70s, get a spray bottle (50p from your local hardware store) and fill it with ordinary cold tap water - then spray over areas to be vacuumed - only a fine spray, don't soak the patch you are hoovering!

As if by magic, most of the pet hair was lifted from the carpet!

The fine spray of water removes the static from the carpet and hair making it easy for the vacuum's roller to lift instead of spreading it around.