DIY Lint Removal
Published by Joel March 22nd, 2007.My Navy-issue pea coat has seen better days. Like everything wool in our home it is covered in pet hair, made even worse by a one-year stint in a friend’s trunk after he “borrowed” it. While going through my coats in preparation for spring storage, I realized I hadn’t worn it all winter, because it is nasty. The standard packing tape loops are just barely working. Does anyone have a better lint and hair removal trick that doesn’t involve buying a gadget or spending loads of money?
Try a rubber glove (dishwashing, medical, etc–non-powdered though, duh)
Good duct tape works a hell of a lot better than packing tape. Also, if you have a good upolstery attachment for a your vacuum cleaner that works really well.
Sounds like it could use a Martinizing either way, and that’ll get rid of lots of the hair and such before you bother the tape removal methods.
Definitely go at it with a vacuum, then take it to the cleaners. For daily stuff, I get use those masking tape on a roll dealies, and they’re great. The thing that sucks about pet hair is that it doesn’t always just attach itself to your clothes, sometimes it works its way into the fibers, and that, i’ve found, requires sitting down and pulling them out manually. Having said that, you must be doing something right because you guys are never covered with the coast of pet hair that i usually am ;)