Customer Reviews

Pledge Fabric Sweeper for Pet Hair, 1 sweeper

5 star:		(64)
4 star:		(44)
3 star:		(32)
2 star:		(20)
1 star:		(38)

 

 

This is a wonderful product for removing pet hair from furniture. However, I didn't realize before I bought it that they expect you to throw it away after the container is full. What a waste as the roller is perfectly reusable. Ever the crafty one, I found a way to empty the container without taking the roller off as some have suggested. You can easily pull the lint, pet hair, etc., out of the container by rotating either roller from the center and outwards. You will discover that they are halves. Now with the opening between the rollers exposed, slightly lift one of the rollers open a bit further and gingerly pull the pet hair or lint through the opening. If you have a vacuum cleaner with one of those skinny attachments, suck it out with that. Presto, ready to use again!

First off, I really wanted to give this product 5 stars, but there's one big reason I can't. Once the little container on the back is full, it's meant to be tossed. In my house - it lasted about 2 minutes and would end up costing us a fortune. However, with a little creativity you can make this product re-usable.

Had Pledge done that originally, and even sold it for twice the price, it would be a 5 star product. I agree with the prior review that there is NO reason they couldn't have done that. But yes, the product does say not to attempt to disassemble in any way.

This product worked wonderfully. Once I figured out how to empty and re-use it, it saved me HOURS of vacuuming furniture. I have a very large dog that is free to roam our home and sheds constantly. I used the product on many types of fabrics including a corduroy couch, microfiber/microsuede couch, pillows, cotton comforters, etc. It worked like a charm and was practically effortless.

The clear plastic container area on the back filled up in about 2 minutes. It is "riveted" on and cannot be removed. At the point it is full it's meant to be tossed. Not worth the $5 price for 2 minutes of work. However, I very carefully popped off one end of one of the rollers and was able to empty the container and then re-use the product. That could easily wear down or break the fasteners so in the end, to save time and money, we cut a U-shaped slit in the top of the clear plastic area and can open and close it to empty it and re-use. It took some manipulating to make sure the edges weren't sharp, but we made it work.

I really do think functionally this is a 5 star product but couldn't give it such for the mere fact that it's meant to be a throw away, and not re-used.

We have three shedding pets (a Black Lab, a boxer, and a fluffy cat), so we're always looking for ways to control the tumbleweeds of hair that accumulate in the apartment. After seeing the commercials for this product, I was eager to try it.
How it works: two half rollers covered with the same rough textured fabric that covers old school lint brushes. Roll it back and forth in short strokes across the upolstered fabric of your furniture. As one roller is picking up hair off the fabric, the other gets cleaned by the edge of that first roller, pushing the collected hair into a small container which doubles as a hand grip.
If you have a smooth surface, the hair comes up pretty easily, however surfaces like carpet, or with deeply embedded hair, require a lot more rubbing/scrubbing with the tool to pick up hair. I found this tool does a pretty good job, and having the collection container is a huge plus.
HOWEVER...the hair collection container is NOT REMOVABLE!!! This means, once the container fills with hair, you're supposed to THROW IT AWAY!

Um, WHAT? Are the people at Pledge seriously that far out of sync with the state of affairs in the world today??? You can see from the design that they COULD have made it removable, and probably the actual designer INTENDED it to be removable. Instead, they use bright blue plastic pins to hold tightly in place, what otherwise to be an easy to open snap cover. Unfortunately, they do NOT mention this in the commercial, or on the box, or I would have NEVER paid for this product. I do intend to cut off those pins, and re-use this product until it falls apart, then I'll be back to my other methods of hair removal, never to purchase this product again.

I own a cream point Himalayan cat-- a very fluffy blue-eyed Persian breed. When he's not trying to set my house on fire, disconnect my internet or trip me via the claw (he did all three yesterday!), his main job is to be a little fur factory. I vacuum, five minutes later he runs over the area, and there is a wad of white hair on the carpet again. Forget about sitting on my couch wearing dark clothing in this kind of environment.

Enter the Pledge fabric sweeper. I decided to try it, and it does work very nicely on furniture type surfaces where the fabric is stretched over something and you have something to push against. Forget about using this on loose, hanging curtains, for example. The rollers will grab some hair on the curtains, but you've got to be able to press down against something and put your back into it a little to get it to work. So the thing works on furniture pretty much like they advertise on those commercials where the woman is trapped in a glass room with a dozen cats for a week. (I'd hate to see OR smell the litter boxes after that test! I sure hope they had some ventilation for that lady!)

The problem with this product, as noted elsewhere, is that you are supposed to throw it away after it fills up. There's no escape hatch in the back where maybe you could pull it out with tweezers (I cut my own so I'll get tons more use out of this, and you can too!). Fiddling with the rollers too much will result in eventual wear and tear which will cause the product to become utterly useless.

Also, I'm no green freak, but even if I had the money to waste on multiple units over and over, I wouldn't. These things are not cheap, and if there's anything I can't stand, it's WASTE. Wasted money on multiple units, more resources spent on garbage pick-up-- should I even bother to invoke the word LANDFILL here? The company's environmental claims on its website are hysterical when one considers the audacity of WASTE inherent in this item.

Customers, buy ONE unit, cut a hole in the top, and enjoy hair-free furniture without lint rollers for many, many uses. Pledge, Mr. Bigglesworth does NOT approve of this foolishness. Start making reusable units and stop trying to pull the fur over his little blue eyes, a'ight? HE IS WATCHING YOU.

I love this product! I read the reviews before buying, and easily solved the disposability issue by having my husband heat a 3/4" copper pipe and melt a hole in the clear plastic case, right where the label is. When full I simply suck out the HUGE quantity of pet hair with the vacuum and I am good to go.

Okay, I'm going to give this thing 5 stars regardless of the fact that the price to use thing thing regularly -- as it will most definitely be required -- will end up producing exorbitant costs. And I mean hundreds of dollars a year if you have pets like Huskies in S.California like myself.

Why the five stars then? Well, it works pretty brilliantly -- it is pretty sad that it took our species this long to figure out something like this for such a pet friendly nation. If you have a flat surface with dog hair, this thing will likely wipe it clean without too much effort.

Now onto the costs. First of all, if you own a heavy shedding dog like myself, then you're aware that they can shed bags upon bags of hair not just these almost laughable containers that come with these sweepers. Furthermore, there is absolutely no reason why Pledge couldn't have made these a bit more reusable other than to extort the consumer $[...]. All it takes is to make it so you can manually put on and take off these plastic coverings because the roller itself looks like it can last quite a while.

These things are most definitely not for heavy use if you're looking for a cheap way to keep your house, clothes, and cars clean -- unless of course, you're willing to set aside 4.50 a week or so to buy these. I'm sure you can alter these things a bit haphazardly so you can open the plastic covering when you need to dump out the hair and reuse the darn thing.

For lighter users, I highly recommend, these things are pretty awesome. Works infinitely better than those lousy lint rollers and far more efficient. It picks up hair and loose articles not everything that ends up sticking to the tape.

Good job on the product, boo on consumer consideration.

Ok, like many of you I was very irritated when I got this product home and realized it was meant to be used once till full and disposed. The commercials completely lead me to believe that you can simply pop the top off, dump the hair out, and reuse it. Not so. However, I looked at it for a little bit and discovered that it is reusable- simply take that skinny wand attachment from your vacuum and stick it up between the two brushes. Switch your vacuum on and presto! Reusable! It works beautifully; I'm really glad I figured out a way to get many many uses out of it, so now I can recommend this to my friends. Works wonders on pet hair, lint, small crumbs, the works. Even used it on my curtains.

My wife and I love dogs and have done nothing but fight the hair on the couch trying vacuum cleaners, covers, etc. This product takes the hair right off, (see the pick I posted) Like one reviewer said you can get it for $5 at Walmart and in the paper we found a $1 coupon. Per the instructions with small back and forth it comes right up.

You can re-use it by taking a screw driver and pushing back the tabs that hold the rollers in. By taking one end out that's enough to clean it out. It snaps right back in.

This product does work great when it comes to picking up pet hair BUT it is only after you buy it, use it and then try to empty it that you discover it is designed to be disposable. Most of us have figured out how to modify the container one way or another to make it a multi-use product, but we shouldn't have to. It should have been made multi-use to begin with. Also, Johnson never mentions the "one-use" concept in any of the ads. It would have been really simple to have included a line like "and when it's full, you can just throw it away", but then no one would have rushed out to try the product - at least not at the current price.

It is a shame that a great product concept has been degraded in the hopes of a quick profit.

I was a bit hesitant buying this product, as many products claim to solve all of your pet hair problems. I arrived home and went to work on the couches. After that...I went on to my rug.

WOW!!

Then I went after the culprit - gently first - and he LOVED the rub down with it!! :) I wouldn't suggest using it on anything but a short-haired dog, of course. I don't know how much you can use it - as it is only used until it no longer picks up any hair. I would have given it four stars for that reason, but if pet hair is a problem - this is an excellent fix!!

Walmart sells this product for approximately $4.62, so it isn't badly priced there. Hoping that there is more than one in the products that are listed on here for $6+ dollars.