Owners of cats, dogs, hamsters, raccoons and other animals will never give up their four-legged friend for the sake of cleanliness in the house. Meanwhile, the issue of cleanliness is really relevant. After all, all animals covered with wool shed. And in autumn and spring they shed very intensively. Their hair settles on all surfaces and just sticks so that it is impossible to remove it. And it is necessary to do this, because six causes allergies.
Yes, and it's unpleasant when her shreds fly all over the apartment. Why does wool stick to textiles? First, static electricity is to blame. Secondly, the hairs of the coat are not completely smooth. They have a scaly structure. In dead hair, the scales open and cling to the fibers of the tissue. This is why wool is so difficult to remove.
Removing wool from textiles
Most wool on sofas, armchairs, carpets, blankets in those places where the pet likes to lie. If you put your clothes on this place, the wool will stick to it. Therefore, you need to be more careful and throw things anywhere, and also do not pick up an animal if you are in clothes for work or leisure outside the apartment.
It is best to remove wool with sticky materials or use the property of static electricity.
- You can cut off a piece of adhesive tape, attach it to the surface where the wool has settled, and tear it off along with it. Suitable for cleaning clothes.
- To remove a larger area, you can make a homemade roller by winding double-sided tape in a spiral onto a plastic bottle. Now you can roll the roller on the sofa or chair.
- Wool is the hardest thing to remove from carpet. You can use rubber summer slates. Put one on your foot and rub the carpet with the sole. Wool falls off and is easily dragged into the vacuum cleaner.
- An old remote control with rubber buttons is suitable for cleaning the blanket. Dump wool by attaching the remote control buttons to the fabric and vacuum.
- Buy a vacuum cleaner with a turbo brush. If there is a pet in the house, this is a rational decision. With a turbo brush, it is easy to collect all the wool, including from hard-to-reach corners.
- Wrap a wet cloth around a long-handled brush and act like a mop. Walk on the carpet and the wool will fall off. Next comes the vacuum cleaner.
- On sale appeared rubber gloves with spikes for quick removal of wool from fleecy surfaces. It is easy for her to remove the hair that has come out by stroking the animal.
To prevent wool from sticking to textile surfaces, they can be treated with a special antistatic spray.
How to remove hair from smooth surfaces
If your dog or cat sleeps in the same place in the house every time, you can put a fluffy bedding there. Most of the wool will remain on it, however, it will have to be changed often. It is easy to remove the wool from the smooth floor of the furniture surface with a vacuum cleaner, and then walk with a slightly damp cloth.
In order to have less hair, the animal needs to be combed regularly. It is advisable to do this not in the house, but on the street. On sale there was such a unit - an electric broom. The working brush rotates at high speeds and hooks the hairs from the textile. The brush itself is easy to clean by simply removing the mesh along with the adhering hair.
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