Dog Hair - Read at your own risk!

[HawkinsHollow]

Doing an addition and a mostly complete remodel of the existing is a wonderful reset for a house. This house was completely empty and cleaned top to bottom just 10 months ago. Our new house is 100% hardwood floors (except the 3 bathrooms) with zero thresholds between rooms ,a large portion of it is a rather open floor plan and is pretty uncluttered still (hopefully it stays that way !). Also the hvac system was completely cleaned and sealed at the end of the remodel, something I definitely consider worth the money. This situation makes it pretty easy to see dirt, mostly dog hair. It also, luckily, makes it pretty easy to clean up. We have a 50 pound Blue Heeler, I guess she sheds A LOT!! It takes about a 5 days for me to start seeing hair piling up. After about 7-10 days I can't take it anymore and I need to do something about it. A I have a microfiber push broom sotra thing that I push around and it picks up COPIOUS amounts of hair in this preliminary sweep. Here is an example of a picture after 7 days between sweepings. 2x4 end cut for scale. This came from less than 500 sqft of our home. Living room, kitchen and small hallway.

After I sweep I send in our robot vacuum. This thing does a bangup job in our new house arrangement, is able to get under both couches 100% as well. This is what the robot picks up. Sometimes it picks up 2 or 3 times as much.

The vacuum always has quite a bit of dirt in it too. And our family of 3 VERY rarely wear our outside shoes in the house.

I don't write this to brag about my cleanliness or make you feel bad about yours, I just find it absolutely ASTOUNDING how much crap (mostly dog hair) accumulates in 7 days. My goal is to stay ahead of this as long as I can. I don't know maybe consider it a PSA to get yourself a good vacuum and use it often.

As an aside but eerily related, we got beautiful black soapstone countertops in our kitchen. They are stunning!! But, they show EVERY speck of dirt. Crumbs are light colored so they pop off the surface of this counter. Also they show water rings pretty bad. Here is 1, maybe 2 days of use (sorry, yesterday was Friday).

They clean up pretty well though. Because I can see every crumb I wipe my counters a lot, usually once or twice a day minimum. Again, no shade thrown if you don't wipe your counters everyday. Consider this another PSA, maybe wipe your counters more and better, a lot of crap gets on them you might not see.

Thank you for listening to my steamy Saturday ramblings while I am cooling off inside. Have a great weekend!

 

[orezok]

My Pyr is similar. Fortunately she ONLY sheds twice a year. January to June and July to December.

 

[Eagle1]

My Pyr is similar. Fortunately she ONLY sheds twice a year. January to June and July to December.

Nailed it....
My GP/Anatolian is the worst, does the above and then completely blows her coat a few times a year. I mean clouds of fur in her wake.

 

[bigtiller]

Just one 50 lb. dog.
That's a lot of hair, and just on the floor, none on the furniture?
It would probably be double that in April.?

 

[RjCorazza]

Our 75lb Chocolate Lab sheds about the same. I have used robot vacuums on each floor for the last year, and twice per week it's amazing the dog hair they pick up with each run.
I call them CleanBot1 and CleanBot2.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

My Pyr is similar. Fortunately she ONLY sheds twice a year. January to June and July to December.

HaHaHa!! I see what you did there!!!!

You think these things would be bald with all the shedding!

Yep that is only the floor. One of our couches is leather so most of it goes between the cushions or on the floor. The other is fabric with a cover on it, it sticks to that. I take it outside and shake it off once a week.

 

[scootr]

Lifetime QH owner. They shed daily and blow their coat 2 times a yr. They are one of the worst shedding offenders, but worth it in every way.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Lifetime QH owner. They shed daily and blow their coat 2 times a yr. They are one of the worst shedding offenders, but worth it in every way.

Yep, this cutie is worth it!!

We are not sure if she is full blooded heeler, but everything about her is 100% heeler. This pic is funny. She loves her mama and my wife was out of town here. That post-it note is something my wife was writing poetry on a couple days before. She either went on our little coffee table on the porch and got that paper or it blew on the floor. But regardless I walked into the porch and she was laying there holding her mama's poem in between her paws.

Sorry I digress, back to dog hair.

 

[ponytug]

Yep, this cutie is worth it!!
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We are not sure if she is full blooded heeler, but everything about her is 100% heeler. This pic is funny. She loves her mama and my wife was out of town here. That post-it note is something my wife was writing poetry on a couple days before. She either went on our little coffee table on the porch and got that paper or it blew on the floor. But regardless I walked into the porch and she was laying there holding her mama's poem in between her paws.

Sorry I digress, back to dog hair.

That's so sweet! (Cute dog, too!)

I won't even get into how much our GS sheds. She has a dense, two layer coat, and the fine hairs just keep coming and coming. We've learned that conditioner makes a huge difference to the amount we can wash out in a bath, but she always keeps enough in reserve to have her own wake of hair.

Still, we are fortunate that our dog like @orezok's dog, only sheds twice a year...

I broom it up periodically, and we found fairly recently that a Bissell sweeper is actually amazingly good at getting the hair up off of smooth floors, and as good as the vacuum cleaner on carpets, but much faster. (And the HEPA vacuum is amazing.) (The handle on the Bissell is pathetically weak, but after replacing the handle, I love it.)

All the best, Peter

 

[Jstpssng]

I stopped by somebody's house yesterday to talk about a shared property line and they had a bull mastiff who was a regular fur factory. "Oh", they said. "He isn't ours, he belongs next door but comes over when they aren't home."
The breed always reminds me of a pickerel... big mouth and head, tapering back to the tail.
Also good natured as hell; when a dog is that big he can afford to be.