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Title: vacuum trouble
Post by flaming_bunny on Jul 18^th, 2004 at 2:28pm

does anyone else have trouble with the vacuum cleaner because of all the long hair it has to pick up? my parents are always complaining that i clog the vacuum up.....especially when my mum cleans my room (i know, i know....at my age i should be the one cleaning my room, but my mum enjoys it.....honestly ::) )
just wondering if anyone else has to regularly pull long hairs from the vacuum....and gets hell cos of it :P
they should make special long hair friendly ones...!

Title: Re: vacuum trouble
Post by eKatherine on Jul 18^th, 2004 at 3:19pm

When I was a kid, my older sister bleached her hair and grew it longish - longer than shoulder, but I don't think it ever quite got to BSL. She would sit around and "finger comb" her hair, actually just ripping through the mats. The living room carpet was always coated with a net of tangly fragments.

Yep, my mother didn't like that. 8)

I've found you can take a little pair of scissors and snip through the hair trapped in the vacuum brush. That makes it a lot easier to remove the mass of hair.

Title: Re: vacuum trouble
Post by flaming_bunny on Jul 18^th, 2004 at 5:45pm

great tip! i'll tell my parents next time they moan ;)

Title: Re: vacuum trouble
Post by drummergirl08 on Jul 18^th, 2004 at 6:49pm

My mom just lent-rolls the carpet first, it's easy and no hair in the vacuum!

Title: Re: vacuum trouble
Post by bikerbraid on Jul 19^th, 2004 at 1:45am

I try to make a point of only combing/brushing my hair in the bathroom. I can easily sweep the hair from the floor and it keeps it out of the vaccuum cleaner brushes.

Title: Re: vacuum trouble
Post by Anais Satin on Jul 19^th, 2004 at 6:19pm

back from Canada.. woohoo... takin' a rest at my uncle's house before we drive home..

when I'm on the phone with nothing for my hands to do, I take a potato brush and "scrub" the carpet before vacuuming.. to remove all the hair to form hairballs. Then those hairballs just go in the trash! yay

Title: Re: vacuum trouble
Post by bikerbraid on Jul 20^th, 2004 at 12:37am

wrote on Jul 19^th, 2004 at 6:19pm:

when I'm on the phone with nothing for my hands to do, I take a potato brush and "scrub" the carpet before vacuuming.. to remove all the hair to form hairballs. Then those hairballs just go in the trash! yay

Want to come to my house and "scrub" the carpets?

Title: Re: vacuum trouble
Post by Cairn on Jul 20^th, 2004 at 5:55pm

I think my vaccuum doesn't like to pick up long hairs. I vacuumed my bedroom the other day, and the next morning scraped a handful of hairs off the carpet (I hadn't vacuumed in a long time). Maybe I should take a look at the vacuum brush to make sure it's not too clogged.

And I've also been trying to do my hair only in the bathroom. It is much easier to sweep up any strays.