Pet Hair Vacuum – What Makes One Great?

If you own a dog or a cat or both, you know how difficult it is to rid your home of pet hair. Pet hair contains oils that enable the individual strands of hair to cling to carpeting. Using a conventional vacuum cleaner is not very effective as the pet hair quickly becomes entangled in the brushes and beater bars of the vacuum.

Today you can purchase special pet hair vacuum cleaners that are specially designed to tackle the chore of picking up pet hair. The pet hair vacuum cleaners come as either upright models, portable, hand held, bag less and even in robotic models.

A good pet hair vacuum must have a lot of power and suction. With a conventional vacuum cleaner the suction tube is on one side of the vacuum head. When the pet hair enters the vacuum the hair wraps around the brush roll. You end up having to take scissors and try to cut the tangled hair off of the brush roll and this is often nearly impossible to do. A good pet hair vacuum sucks the hair directly into the vacuum and then into the bag. The suction tube should be located in the center of the vacuum head and not to one side. This gives you suction power all across the head. A high quality pet hair vacuum also comes with a large vacuum tube so that the hair does not collect into the tube, instead it goes directly into the bag. The brush rolls should also be very stiff on a pet hair vacuum so that it combs the carpet well.

If you are in the market for a great pet hair vacuum, you should take a bit of time to see what animal owners have to say about these vacuums. By reading customer reviews online you will hear both the good and the bad points of different pet hair vacuums.

Pet hair ’sticks’ to carpeting and furniture so be sure that the vacuum you choose has a sufficient amount of amps. The higher the amps, the more suction power you will receive. It is also essential to select a pet hair vacuum that has a relatively short hose or no hose at all, such as the upright models. This will stop hair from clogging the hose and will save you a lot of time and frustration that you would otherwise spend cleaning the vacuum.