If your carpets are wrecked with pet hair I HAVE THE SOLUTION!

[poachedeggs]

Throw out wildly expensive hoover. Go to local hardware shop. Spend £2 on a rubber squeegee for cleaning windows. Put kettle on. Use squeegee to brush hair out of carpet quickly and easily. Drink tea and admire revitalised carpet.

:)

[Areyoumadorisitme]

Ooo, good idea. It comes out of most carpets in our house but our bedroom one, which is also strewn with my dark hair. I will give it a go

[lisaro]

I can make you happier, OP. Wilkos sell a rubber bristled brush with long handle for this. Also great for tiles, gardens (washes easily). Wilkos, you may pay my advertising fee in chocolate.....

[poachedeggs]

We don't have Wilko here (it's a bugger because I love that place! ) but it's easy to screw a long handle onto a squeegee :)

[Melissakitkat]

Scraping my crocs across the carpet accumulates cat hair - scarily satisfying! X crocs are better than my dyson!

[SoupDragon]

Yes - Crocs work wonders. Even cheap Primark ones that your children have outgrown.

[SoupDragon]

As do any rubber soled shoe actually. I often scrape my converse across the carpet whilst wearing them :o

[poachedeggs]

I used to use crocs but I went through a pair doing it so didn't find it cost effective!

[shaktar]

Cannot believe how disproportionately happy this thread has made me - my bedroom carpet is revolting due to fluffy cat and my post pregnancy moulting. Before I skip to the shop; a squeegee is the flat plastic blade thing isn't it? And is the wilko one a rubber bristled brush? Thankyou!

[freddiemisagreatshag]

I got a rubber brush for this too. It's fab so much better than anything else.

[Mamuss]

I had a long handled rubber brush that was fantastic, it was all one piece, it didn't come apart. And it said on the side 'not suitable for dishwasher'....

I now have a Dyson animal and its great for our carpets with 2 cats and a dog