This picture does not exaggerate. The advertising for this product seems to revolve around pet hair, but that doesnt begin to describe how much of a miracle-worker the rubber squeegee-cum-brush has turned out to be for us.
Our apartment has hardwood floors with area rugs. Its too small to store a proper upright vacuum cleaner, but the rugs are too big and heavy to make shaking them out practical on a regular basis.
We do have an animal that sheds, and we had lately resorted to getting on hands and knees to manually scoop and pick the visible dirt from the rugs. Not at all fun or effective, really.
Enter the Sweepa. Its a rubber brush, bristles and all, with a squeegee blade on one side. This thing picks up hair. It picks up dirt. It sweeps water. And rinses clean after all that.
And you can get one at Amazon for a whopping 5 bucks.
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I think I need this for my sweaters and black wool coats.
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It would be cool to have something like this with an extended handle and another set in slipper form so you can shuffle around and clean up after your rabbits
view Tommy at dodoskido dot com's profile
while not as fancy, you can clean hair off of rugs and ultrasuede upholstery using a rubber glove
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If you have a larger surface, that might prove a little time-consuming. I have a Lab who seems to lose his entire body surface in hair every single day. I try to keep after it with my used dryer sheets -- they work great at picking up the hair (not the dirt though, unfortunately). They usually fall out of the dryer load onto the floor anyway, so I just push them along with my foot, catching as much hair as I can, then picking the mess up and throwing it away. Recycling at its finest.
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squeegee-cum-brush?? Sorry, but am I the only one with my mind in the gutter??
Sorry.
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Interesting! (But why would people let their floors get as dirty as that first photo? :/ )
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Gretchen, that level of hair is what a pair of determined cats can deposit on a rug in two days.
I've been astonished by the condition of the living room rug two hours after vacuuming, and one really can't vacuum every hour on the hour if one wants to do anything else in life. (No, brushing the little beasts barely makes a dent in the shedding.)
view wende in phoenix's profile
That little brush looks like a solution to the new wool rug-shedding problem!
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lizinsac:
follow the amazon link, there is also a kind of rake!
http://www.amazon.com/Evriholder-Products-Sweepa-Deluxe-Rubber/dp/B0001ZJMGM/ref=pd_bxgy_k_img_b/105-5719057-2114032
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