This Detailer Got Out All the Debris I Didn’t Know I Was Missing During My Weekly Couch Vacuum

I call Boston terriers secret shedders, because you don’t see tumbleweeds of hair blowing across your floor like you do with goldens or huskies, but then you vacuum, look at the canister and mutter to yourself, “Damn bitch, you live like this?”

I vacuum my couch once a week, and over the past few weeks I was noticing that I’d vacuum up any big things, but there was a bunch of stuff embedded in the couch fabric that jsut could not get picked up by the vacuum, not even with all the Dyson turbo settings enabled. I have a ChomChom (reviewed here) for this exact purpose, but the ChomChom can’t get into the crevices, and that’s where I was noticing ever increasing debris.

I scoured the globe (browsed Amazon) to find something that could help me get the deeply embedded crevice hair afflicting my couch, and I settled on this Mini Pet Hair Detailer.

This detailer is a triangle with different sized rubber teeth along each edge. You start with the largest and move down to medium, then small, to get every last bit of hair. You don’t need to press hard or wrench your shoulder out of place to get the embedded hair out, but it will take you awhile to attack something like, say, a whole couch. The detailer can get into little crevices and tough areas really well, and I could not believe how much hair it got out of my couch.

I mainly focused on the chaise cushion, which isn’t covered by a blanket like the other two cushions, and I worked in sections. I initially thought I would only detail the edges where there’s piping, but I was so impressed I did the actual seat of the cushion too. Turns out, it needed it.

This is how much crap I got out of my couch — that I vacuum weekly — with the mini detailer

I don’t think this tool will come out every cleaning day, but probably once a month I’ll do some detailing and make sure the secret shedder isn’t embedding hair all over my couch. I’m also excited to use this detailer in my car, which has black upholstery and attracts dog hair like nothing else.