I don’t usually do reviews for individual products, but I’m in love with this thing and I think it’s worth sharing.
This is the best thing I’ve ever found to remove pet hair from carpets and furniture, bar none. I vacuum on a regular basis but this found hair that I didn’t get with the vacuum.
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Why I decided to try this one out.
I’ve always had cats, and for the last 8 years or so they’ve all been black cats. So there’s usually a lot of cat hair that needs to be cleaned up in my house.
I vacuum using an excellent vacuum cleaner
(#ad), and I used to use an actual cat comb to scrape the couches to get any hair off of those.
The problem with using a comb is that it has teeth, and it can pull fibers out, so you can’t use it on carpet.
I had seen ads for the Uproot pet hair cleaner and even though it was pretty obvious that they were scraping up pet hair that had been planted there just to get scraped up, I decided to try it out. (Click here to see it on Amazon #ad)
And I’m NOT SAD that I did, this one is a winner, and it’s one of the things you really can’t put down because you just start looking for more things to clean. Their packaging isn’t lying.
Testing it out.
I have a cat tree that’s about 4 years old, and the lowest seat on it had a lot of fur embedded in the seam and on the seat. I vacuum it occasionally, but since the cats love that seat the most, it’s just built up a bunch of hair in the seam that wouldn’t come out using the vacuum.
I decided to use it as my demo because I have to look at it all the time and I always think “there’s a ton of hair on that thing” every time I glance at it.
I scraped the seat once and this is what came out:
So that was extremely promising! I did one more scrape on the same spot, and even more hair came out.
I kept working on the seat for a minute, and I got this much out with pretty much no effort. And that wasn’t even the part that bothered me the most about it, that was the seam!
I started working on the seam by digging the corner of the cleaner carefully into the crevice where the seat met the wall. Since these are two different pieces of carpet, I had to be careful with this so that I didn’t pull the seat fabric away from the wall fabric.
I ended up pulling some random fibers out, so I slowed down and didn’t get in there as enthusiastically, but it still worked really well.
I kept working and probably spent a little less than ten minutes on the whole job. I ended up removing a giant wad of fur (the photo doesn’t do it justice, it was about 4 inches tall.)
Before and after, and why it works:
Here’s the before and after. The thing about this is that I do clean this thing, but because the hair gets matted down into the carpet fibers. the vacuum holds onto it.
It’s like making felt, where the fibers of the fur start to cling to each other. (Read about how that works here.)
So to separate them, you need something that grabs onto the fibers and separates them. This Uproot thing did the trick.
The interesting thing about it is that it doesn’t have teeth like a comb does, it’s just a piece of coiled metal. The coil grabs the fur and pulls it out instead of grabbing the fibers of the carpet, so there’s no damage.
Watch out for this one thing.
Well, two things, really. First, you won’t want to stop using it. The first night I opened it I was seriously up until after midnight roaming around looking for things to scrape!
It’s like the Magic Eraser when those first came out, I think I cleaned every surface in my house to see what it would do.
The other thing is that depending on the kind of fabric you’re scraping, and how dry the air is, you might build up some static.
I was scraping my couch, and it must have built up some static that made it hard to remove the hair once I got a bunch of it.
So you might have a little trouble removing the wad of hair that you collect, but that’s not a big deal, and if that’s the only downside of this thing, I’m not going to complain about it.
Go get one for yourself on Amazon using my affiliate link here: Uproot Cleaner Pro Pet Hair Remover.
And they have other products with accessories and dog grooming kits, too: Uproot Products on Amazon #ad.
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