Spring Cleaning Tips

Why Does a Flat Dog Shed All Year Round?

Because you have broken its calendar. Coat cycling in a double-coated breed is triggered by day length rather than temperature, and a dog that spends fourteen hours a day under artificial light in a flat held at twenty-one degrees never receives a clean seasonal signal. Instead of two heavy moults a year, you get a continuous low-grade shed that never stops and never peaks.

Where Does The Hair Go Once It Leaves The Dog?

To the edges. Air currents in a flat move along walls, and hair migrates to the perimeter of every room, under the sofa, behind the bedroom door, into the gap beneath a fitted wardrobe. The middle of a carpet can look immaculate while the room’s entire hair budget sits in a fringe six inches from the skirting. Hard floors show it faster and hide it worse, which is why laminate flats look messier and clean up quicker.

What Removes Hair From Carpet And Upholstery?

Rubber. That is the answer nobody wants, because it means a tool and some effort rather than a machine. A rubber-bristled brush or even a window squeegee, dragged firmly across carpet in short strokes towards you, generates enough static and mechanical grip to lift woven-in undercoat that a vacuum passed over forty times will leave in place.

How Do You Groom a Dog With No Garden To Do It In?

Ten minutes with an undercoat rake, every day, indoors, done properly. This is the highest-value thing in this article and it is the thing that gets skipped, because it takes place on your time rather than the cleaner’s. Hair removed from a dog before it lands is hair that never enters the cleaning problem.

Why Does The Flat Smell Of Dog When Nothing Looks Dirty?

Sebum. Dogs coat their hair in skin oils, those oils transfer to every textile in the flat, and they oxidise over weeks into that specific warm, slightly rancid note. The sofa is the reservoir. So is the mattress if the dog sleeps on the bed, and so are curtains, which nobody washes.