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Apr 7th, 2019, 14:21 | #1 |
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Removing pet hairs
I've just acquired a 240DL estate which was used as a ferry for the family labrador (beige colour), so the back area has lots of hairs embedded in the grey carpeting. After vain attempts with a scrubbing brush I tried my previous trick of dragging a hacksaw blade across the surface, as I did when we had a white cat and a dark blue hall carpet (!) but that didn't want to do dog hairs.
Has anybody any other suggestions such that it is presentable again. P |
Apr 7th, 2019, 14:33 | #2 |
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There are propriety hand held ‘tools’ for the job, but the use of scrabbled up sello tape with sticky side down usually does the job.
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Apr 7th, 2019, 14:34 | #3 |
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If you have the patience of a saint then you could use the old sellotape method but you could be there a while. Another option could be to simply take it to a car valeters. For £20 or so they could do all the work and I'm sure they will know enough tricks to do it well.
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Apr 7th, 2019, 15:12 | #4 |
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We use a rubber toothed brush on the house carpet if the vacuum cleaner cannot cope. It seems to work on the house carpet. Don’t know when or where we obtained it though.
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Apr 7th, 2019, 15:41 | #5 |
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You could try a wire or suede brush whilst using the hoover nozzle
If not sellotape or a clothes roller |
Apr 7th, 2019, 16:09 | #6 |
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Have you tried a putsi, other makes of wet and dry cleaners are available. I have a George wet and dry which the neighbour I lent it to said not only removed the dog hairs but also the smell when used with autoglym shampoo in the wash tank.
A car I baught was owned by horse and dog lovers with mucky kids, the George did a wonderful job of cleaning all the various marks and hairs from it. I did think of getting it proffesionally valeted but at £50 with 2 cars decided £110 for the George and diy was better value for money. Paul. |
Apr 7th, 2019, 19:43 | #7 |
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Blowtorch, you'll have to get a couple of mates to hold the dog down though.
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Apr 7th, 2019, 20:23 | #8 |
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Wire brush is the only job as someone mentioned above!
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Apr 7th, 2019, 22:03 | #9 |
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Very frustrating dog hairs to deal with, I deal with mine in the below steps which works quite well.
- A quick brush to see if the majority of it can come up - They use strong tape sticky side down to try and get the more stuborn ones - I then go over it again with those dog rolling cloth things which you can pick up anywhere now - Then comes the brush for anymore stuborn ones - Then the hover again I have a little jack russell and his hair gets everywhere After all the above steps and the area is completly clean, I bought every possible seat cover etc to make sure it doesnt happen again.
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Apr 8th, 2019, 01:36 | #10 |
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I would just use a vacuum cleaner but only in one direction (not the boy band), this lifts the hairs slightly each time they move rather than just going back and forth over them which does nothing.
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