Thread: How do you defurminate your house?

Yes a miele hoover and a pair of rubber soled shoes here too! I wear crocs around the house in the day and as I go from room to room I do the cut fur shuffle and scoot the fur up into a little pile to pick up. I have a sponge thingy that my sil sent me from the States which removes the hair from the upholstery, but this is to be used dry. Hall and kitchen are tiled so that is easy too. But then I only have one big fur ball, I guess Jackie does a lot more cat fur shuffling than I do!

Crocs are great for scooping cat fur into piles I hoover when I forget what colour the carpet is; give the sofa a wash when its more ginger than brown ...... other than that if people don't like the fur they are welcome to leave; my cat lives here x

LOL Karen, your take on housekeeping is a lot like mine. Only I walk around the place barefoot - can't stand wearing footwear indoors - and in the evening I pick the fluff from between my toes. If I didn't, my feet would be tufted like the Coonies'.

Well, we just hoover the place at least every 2 days, that does the trick and it doesn't take long. We have wooden floors downstairs anyway.
We have 4 cats, so there's bound to be cat hair about, it's no biggie. When we used to have a sofa, it did drive me mad scraping all the fur off it every day, so I was glad to get rid of it. Got a very large piano instead!

Two very good items for removing hair (apart from the hoover of course) are a wet rubber glove and the Amaze brush.
AmazeBrush

Wow! I just learned about so many products. Thank you guys.
Nobody mentioned maids, thank you. I won't feel like a martyr anymore.
I did try magic brush and sticky roll but they are not powerful enough for the house.
I wish we wore crocs but we like soft slippers, so shuffling is out unfortunately, otherwise we would dance twist in crocs!

We don't have a special pet vacuum; frankly I did not know it existed. Since our vacuum does OK job (we use Oreck), I will buy AMAZE brush and PET HAIR magnet.
They look very promising on Youtube. Our cats do not like leather furniture and don't scratch it neither, but everything else gets their hair tags. Even my husband's chin
if he forgets to shave. It is so funny to see cat's hair sticking out from his cheeks and chin after he gives hugs and kisses to our lovely girls. With Pet hair magnet I will be able to clean his face as well.
I am on a prawl for brush and magnet!

Even my husband's chin if he forgets to shave. It is so funny to see cat's hair sticking out from his cheeks and chin after he gives hugs and kisses to our lovely girls. With Pet hair magnet I will be able to clean his face as well.
I am on a prawl for brush and magnet![/QUOTE]

Boy never thought about ridding hubby's face pet fur. Let me know how that pet hair magnet works on man scruff.
For our pets (we had a 1/2 MC and a Sheltie) I just used the standard Hoover upright. For furniture, I lift up the Hoover, place it on the cushions, and vacuum away. For the sides of sofa & loveseat, I used their pet comb and actually combed the furniture. I found this to be extremely effective. For the hardwood & tile floors I use a Swiffer. For our clothes, I use sticky tape rollers. Our new 6 month MC hasn't left much fur behind yet. I plan to use the same products, but we'll have to see as he is a purebred MC.

For the stairs I used a good old fashioned stiff handbrush then go over with the hoover attachment, with two playful ones I just hoover the living room everyday and brush the other floors otherwise I have balls of 'tumblefur' rolling around!
The curtains get a weekly wipe down with a damp sponge to get rid of the hair off them otherwise I would have furry linings!
Apart from that we are now buying grey clothes inead of black!!!!!

OK, we tested different products for removing pets hair from the furniture and carpets.

The winner of our trial is a PVA sponge of large size. It is the most efficient and easy to use after you wet it, with long life and no maintenance:

Amazon.com: Smart TV Zponge Super Absorbent High Density Pva Sponges, 5-Pack: Home & Garden

#2 is the Pet Magnet -mostly for clothes
#3 is FurBeGone from Koller-Craft Plastic Products

I was unimpressed with Amaze brush. My husband looked at this product and brought a piece of sand paper from his workshop.
They are the same, except Amaze brush has a handle. Not worth the money, and does not work for the carpets or even furniture.

i vacuum lots!! And use a lint roller on clothes!