If you have a dog or cat, you already know how shedding season goes. You vacuum the living room, everything looks good and somehow there is another clump of fur rolling across the floor an hour later.
Pet hair gets everywhere. It sticks to the couch, collects along baseboards, gets worked into carpet and somehow ends up in rooms your pet barely goes into.
You probably are not going to get every single hair, especially when your pet is shedding heavily. But keeping it from building up makes the house a whole lot easier to manage.
Do Not Let the Floors Get Too Far Behind
You usually start noticing the shedding on the floor first. On hard floors, the hair kind of drifts around until it ends up under the couch, along the walls or bunched up in some random corner. Carpet is sneakier. It can hold onto quite a bit of hair before you even realize it needs vacuuming. Then you run the vacuum and realize just how much was actually sitting there.
When your pet is shedding a lot, some rooms are going to need vacuuming more often. Mostly the spots where your pet is always hanging out. Maybe that is the living room couch, next to your bed or that one corner they somehow spend half the day in.
Focus on the areas that actually need it:
– Give the area around your pet’s bed a quick vacuum when you start seeing hair build up.
– Take a look under the couch too. Somehow half the fur in the house seems to end up under there.
– On carpet, take your time a little. Pet hair likes to hang on, so sometimes you have to go over the same spot again to actually get it up.
– If you have hard floors, get the loose hair up first. Mopping over a bunch of pet hair just makes a bigger mess.
You do not need to be following the vacuum around the house all day either. Hit the rooms where the hair keeps showing up and leave the rest for another day. Some rooms barely get any fur at all. Spend your time on the places your pet is actually using, because that is where the hair is going to keep coming back.
The Couch Is Probably Holding More Hair Than You Think
Pet hair has a way of working itself into furniture. You might look at the couch and think it is clean, then sit down and end up with pet hair all over your clothes. It gets down between the cushions, sticks to the blankets and just sort of works its way into the couch.
Once in a while, pull the cushions off and see what has collected underneath. And if your pet has basically claimed one side of the couch as their own, put a washable blanket there. When it gets covered in hair, you can just throw it in the wash.
And take a quick look around the sides of the couch while you are there. Somehow the hair always finds its way into places your pet never even sits.
Wash the Pet Bedding Before It Gets Really Hairy
Pet beds can collect an impressive amount of fur pretty quickly.
Shake or vacuum off the loose hair before putting a washable cover or bed into the washing machine. Otherwise, you are sending all of that loose fur straight into the wash.
Blankets your pet sleeps on need attention too. If your dog has claimed one particular blanket as their own, washing that one regularly can keep a lot of hair from moving onto the couch, carpet and everything else nearby.
While the bedding is being washed, vacuum the floor underneath it. That spot is easy to forget until you actually move the bed.
Do Not Forget the Places Hair Likes to Hide
The big clumps of fur in the middle of the floor are easy to see. It is the stuff hiding around the house that can hang around for a while.
Look behind doors, underneath furniture and around table legs. Check along baseboards and underneath radiators if you have them. Fur also likes to gather around floor vents where moving air can blow it into little piles.
You might clean a room and still find hair tucked behind the door five minutes later. That is pretty normal in a house with a shedding pet.
Moving a few things out of the way while you vacuum can help you get the hair that has been collecting underneath.
Check Around the Vents Too
Pet hair does not just sit on the floor. Some of it ends up floating around and before you know it, there is fur stuck around the vents too.
Take a look at the vent covers once in a while. If you see hair collecting there, just vacuum it up or wipe it off while you are cleaning.
The HVAC filter can pick up more stuff when you have pets in the house too, especially during those weeks when they seem to be shedding nonstop. Check it like you normally would and change it when your system or filter calls for it.
And really, you are not trying to make the house look like a pet has never stepped foot in it. Some pet hair is just part of having them around. A little fur here and there comes with having them around. That is probably not happening anyway. It is just about keeping the loose hair from taking over.
Brush Your Pet Before the Hair Ends Up Everywhere Else
Some of that loose hair can be dealt with before it ends up all over the house. Brushing your pet regularly helps catch a good amount of it before it makes its way onto the couch and floors.
How much brushing they need can change from one pet to another. During shedding season, you will probably notice pretty quickly when yours needs an extra brushing.
And try to do the brushing somewhere you will not mind cleaning up afterward. There is usually more hair left behind than you expect. Because there is probably going to be a pile of hair when you are done.
And yes, there will probably still be hair around the house. That just comes with having pets.
Sometimes You Just Need Help Catching Up
There are weeks when you can vacuum constantly and the fur still seems to win.
That is usually when a deeper house cleaning starts sounding pretty good. Getting underneath furniture, around baseboards, through the bedrooms and into those easy-to-miss areas can help get things back under control.
AmeriStar Maids can take care of the house cleaning while you take care of the furry family members making the mess. Whether pet hair has taken over the floors or the whole house just needs a good cleaning, we are here to help you catch up.
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