Calling all people with clean floors, dogs and gardens...

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How?

I mop daily and sweep at least once a day if not more. I use a specialist dog cleaner. I have tried numerous types of mops and buckets including buckets that separate clean and dirty water.

My floor is never clean. I've literally just finished mopping and sat down and already I can see dog hair everywhere. Within about 30 minutes I can guarantee there will be mud too, even if I do not let the dogs into the garden. It's like they breed mud.

Nvm, I've just looked again and there is already mud [sigh]

People who know how quickly my floor gets dirty can tell when I've just mopped but to anyone else who enters the house, it looks like I've not mopped in weeks.

I suspect the key is not having dogs but I am asking anyway in the vain, and probably misguided hope, that there is some secret or magic cleaning tool I am unaware of.

My house and garden have been destroyed since our bundle of “ fun” joined us and now we live in a shit hole so I have absolutely no idea what to suggest or a suitable answer at all but happy to follow because I’ve given up trying…

I've heard good things about robot vacuums. I don't have one but might be great for dog hair.

I take my glasses off

Three big, hairy, stupid outdoor dogs and I've given up, it's clean in my imagination and that's good enough for me.

Sounds like a plan 😂

Lowering your standards is the answer.

Unless you have a crawling baby, a floor is for walking on, it will never be hygienically clean. You can try but with animals, feet and buttered toast it ain't ever gone happen for more than 2 minutes, save your sanity

Change the flooring to match the colour of the dogs.

sorry, that’s all I’ve got 😂

I’ve trained mine to go on his towel as soon as he gets in to help matters, but I know what you mean about the debris even when they haven’t been out.

I've been looking at people's pictures, which is what triggered my post. People post lovely photos of their dogs lying on fantastically clean floors. All my photos need editing.

I'm beginning to think it is my Photoshop skills I need to improve rather than my mopping skills.

I thought the title was suggesting how to keep gardens neat and tidy too …

I have a big dog and goes in and out as she pleases. The robot seems to always be going when it’s charged. I steam mop every night, usually before shower and bed. It seems to look okay.

Robovac and an aircraft floor cleaner:)

Dog has his hair cut every 4 weeks and we have ornamental fencing around our closest patio so that he doesn’t get near any wet / dirt in the garden . The fencing was originally installed for his safety as he kept digging up and trying to chew poisonous bulbs .

I just popped into see if there are actually any people with dogs, gardens and clean floors!!

I have a friend who swears by a Bissell Crosswave floor cleaner, but she doesn’t live where it rains as much as the UK.

Train your dog to clean the floor. And then to do the gardening. After all, you don't keep a dog and bark yourself......

There’s an amazing vacuum/mop thing called dirt master cross over, one of the cleaning accounts I follow uses it and the grime and dog hair it picks up even after having just swept/hoovered is amazingly gross.
Pricey though. But it does self clean!

I've been looking at the Bissell Crosswave. That one looks the same but cheaper. When I think about how often I use the Henry and the steam mop, however, I'm not convinced I would use it over a mop and sweeping brush.

Does anyone have one? Are they as life-changing as they claim to be or will it live under the stairs with the Henry and the steam mop?

I've been looking at the Bissell Crosswave. That one looks the same but cheaper. When I think about how often I use the Henry and the steam mop, however, I'm not convinced I would use it over a mop and sweeping brush.

Does anyone have one? Are they as life-changing as they claim to be or will it live under the stairs with the Henry and the steam mop?

What make of dog do you have and how often do you brush it?

I've found that reducing the amount of fur is more effective than cleaning up behind it. I have a portable fur dispenser labrador.

They are different breeds and responsible for different elements of the mess.

Big dog is responsible for most of the mud and hair. He is an undetermined breed. MN thinks he is a Huntaway. The rescue thought he was a Beagle/Rottweiler/Bernese Mountain dog x. The vet thinks he might be a pit/lab/rottweiler x.

He is black and tan and sheds an entire dog's worth of fur every day. We have a deshedding glove I use on him after his evening walk to brush off dried mud and we have a furminator we use on him when he is moulting but it doesn't make a great deal of difference. The whole house becomes coated in black fur when he is moulting.

I have taught him to wipe his feet when he comes in but for some reason, he only wipes his front paws. He'll stamp his back paws on the mat but he won't wipe them. It helps but he still tracks in some mud.

Floppy Puppy is a long-haired, cream-and-white Chihuahua. He is responsible for bringing in bits of grass and twigs and pebbles but he doesn't really shed. He loves being in the garden even when it is wet but he's not really heavy enough to get a lot of mud on his tiny feet.

The other dog is a short-haired lilac and white Chi. She refuses to soil her precious paws by walking on wet ground or dirt but she does shed. It's not noticeable as she is a similar colour to the floor but when I sweep the fur the pile is grey, not black making me think it is an equal mix of lilac, white and black fur.

The floor is a light grey laminate. I am thinking of changing it but I don't like the look of wood-coloured laminate and a darker floor would show the light dog fur and paw prints. I've had black tiles before and they were terrible for showing foot and pawprints.

I don't rate the furminator that much. It works, but it needs cleaning every two seconds. I use an andis deshedding take on the lab. It would probably work on the double coated areas of the Rotti, but maybe not the other two.

Thank you @HappiestSleeping

That looks different to the one we have. I have added it to my Amazon wishlist for when I get paid.

I have 4 dogs - 2 medium size ones and two little ones and pale limestone floors. I have bifold doors and an open plan kitchen dining living room. I open the bifold doors and get my leaf blower out and blow the whole lot outside🤣 It genuinely saves hoovering and then I mop the grubby bits 🙂

I use a conventional mop but as we can have between six and nine dogs here, we have several Swiffers for different parts of the house and they are brilliant for picking up hair and fluff!

www.swiffer.com/en-us/shop-products/sweeping-refills/swiffer-sweeper-dry-heavy-duty/

Pair of marigolds and a good scratch/massage in the garden should help the shedding.
For wet/muddiness I shave my dogs feet like poodles and leave a couple of towels laid out by the back door so they have to walk across them before reaching the tiles. Looks a mess but saves me mopping every night.

Genius!!

We have 4 large dogs, and in the winter we use the mats that absorb as they walk in, towels after the mats and then we have cheaper machine washable rugs around the kitchen. We also restrict areas until they are dry.

I buy them in Wayfair or ikea and replace most years they aren't fashion statement rugs just mop up muddy feet rugs.