Hi nerds,, welcome back! So today is one of those days that I really keep putting off
all the time, and that is deep cleaning the bath and the entire bath area in general to be fair.
Obviously I keep on top of it every single day, I clean up you know extra hair and gunk and all
that, so I don't just let it fester for a month. But it's that time of the month where I've had
lots of hairy dogs in this week. I've had a German Shepherd, a Border Collie, a Shepherd cross -
I've had so many hairy dogs. I've got hair everywhere and the bottom of the bath really
needs a good scrub. So I figured that instead of just me suffering here on my own, I'll take
you guys with me and I'll talk you through how I do it, what I do, what products I use and so on.
And maybe just have a little catch up as well, because I haven't posted anything for a couple
weeks because I was actually off work. So I'll show you a bit of a step-by-step thing and just
have a little natter, but let's get going. So what I like doing first, I always clear up all the
loose hair that's landed on all the surfaces, on the shampoo pumps, just any kind of surface I've
got, and underneath the bath especially because there's such a massive grid under there. There's
pipework, there's all sorts, all the hair just kind of gathers there and once I blast another
dog it just flies everywhere. So that is a bit of a hair trap and it's really annoying to get
clean, so that will be my first job today. And the same goes for all these units I've got on
the side here. So I've got this standalone unit for pretty much my blaster and all my grooming
sprays, and then on this side I've just got some extra shampoos that I don't use on a daily basis.
And then I've got some full bottles and so on, so basically I just get everything off the shelves
first, I put all the shampoo bottles in the bath so I can just rinse them quickly, and then I can
just wipe off all the hair and dust off the shelves and give them a bit of a clean as well.
Okay, so just to show you a bit closer up. As you can see all these shampoo pumps just have
tons of hair stuck to them, and I just find it so much easier to rinse it all off with the
shower rather than trying to pick it off by hand. And it's the same with all these little bottles
I've got down here, they're just all covered in hair and this is only about a day's worth of
hair. I just figured that there was no point in me cleaning up all the hair every single
day, when I knew that I had another double coated dog coming in the day after. So this is probably
two dogs worth of hair, so it's really time I clean these up. So I'll just show you guys.
Okay and I do try my best not to get any water like down this bit here because as you can see
there's some bubbling up. I don't know if this is like a sealed unit or if water can get down
there, so I obviously just try and avoid it and I'll just pick up all the hair
the best I can. I mean water is going to get down there I reckon either way even if you are really
careful, but yeah that is pretty much all I do with them, and then whatever sort of stubborn
bits I just pick them out and that's it really. Nice and easy and took me about 30 seconds for
all these bottles. I have got so many shampoos it is absolutely ridiculous, and all I need to do now
is just move all of that back onto the now nice and clean surface. There is some kind of staining
here, I don't know what that is. And I also used a rubber broom just to get the cladding clean.
We've got this really nice waterproof cladding on the walls, but the only problem with it is
that it does attract hair quite a lot. So when I am blasting around damp hair does stick
really easily. I tend to leave it to dry overnight and then I blast most of it off the morning after,
and then whatever is still left sort of stuck to the cladding I just use a rubber broom just
to kind of wipe it off quickly. Now that's better! It doesn't usually stay quite this organized for
that long. It's nice to just have it all nice and tidy, even for a little bit. It will probably last
me a couple days like this, I do try and keep all the shampoos in a very specific order so if I'm
in a rush I just know exactly where a shampoo is. Like I mean there's a massive label on all
of them, but you know what I mean. I just like stuff being in a specific order. Okay let's carry on with
the rest. And here we go, clean shelves! I did actually have a dog in in between cleaning this
and me filming, so there is hair everywhere again after blasting. But oh well. And this is the other
side. I still need to open up the blaster and clean up the filter on that, but i'll show
you that in a second. Just as a complete off-topic thing, if you don't have Flairosol bottles for all
your grooming sprays you're really missing out. It really makes your product go a lot further
and it applies a lot more evenly as well so definitely have a look into those. I'll link
a couple in the description below if I can find some really nice affordable ones. I think these
might just be off Amazon in fairness, but I'll have a look and link them down below for you guys.
Okay, so we have the Pedigroom Twin something blaster, and the filter is in a sealed unit.
So when you pull off the filter you can just see how much hair actually gathers in this thing. This
is unbelievable, this is only this week's worth of hair as well so it's something that I forget to do
regularly, but you really need to because look at this. This will be a fire hazard eventually if you
just leave it to build up. This will set on fire and cause issues, so definitely try and get into
the habit of doing this regularly. I don't do it as often as I should I don't think. I do it about once
a week or when I remember, so it could be a little bit longer. But you definitely need to get into the
habit of cleaning this. And what I'm going to do with the filters, I'm just going to quickly rinse
this in the shower. You can just see how much gunk there is on that. And I'm just going to let this
dry overnight, I'm going to take the filters off the stand dryers as well and do the same. Okay, and
now finally for the one thing that I've been putting off the entire afternoon, and that is
the actual bath. Luckily I did clean this before I was off for the week, so it shouldn't be too
bad. It should only have like four days worth of dog gunk on it, so hopefully this will go really
quick. So I'll just show you quickly how I do the slats and what I do with the rest of it. This is
really simple, I use one spray for the whole thing. Okay, so what I do I just remove the slats first.
Um yeah so they don't look too awful, there's a little bit of yellowing on there, so there's
definitely a bit of gunk I need to scrub off. Okay so all I do i just lift them out.
Alright, so I'll leave them to the side for a second. So you can see that there's quite a bit of
hair build up all the way along the metal frame, and again just at the bottom of the
bath, but that that's just very simple to get rid. So all I use - this is Safe4 diluted quite
heavily - so I literally just spray this on all the slats there and I'll let the disinfectant
sit on there for a couple minutes. And while that is sitting I'm just gonna do the frame quick.
Okay, so just to show you guys. All i've done with the frame of the bath is just use like
one of these bristly brushes with the Safe4, and I've literally just gone through the entire
frame, top and bottom, definitely remember to do the bottom of the framework because that gets
disgusting so quick if you don't keep on top of it. And all I'm going to do is just I'm going to
do exactly the same with the slats. I'll just show you quickly how I do it. Okay, so very nice
and easy. I've just got one slat in here, it's been sitting with the Safe4 for quite a while now.
Probably about 10 minutes. So all I do - this brush actually fits really well into these sections -
so all I do I just line it up and just wiggle. Just wiggle between the slats. That gets it really
nice and clean, and then just along the sides as well. This is very difficult one-handed you know!
So you get the idea, I mean the easiest solution in the world would be just to jet wash these guys, but
I do not have a jet washer. Or you could get a big plastic tub that fits these in them, and then just
pour in Milton or bleach or whatever you want to use to clean them, and leave them overnight. That
would probably work really well. I'm just going to scrub these slats quickly and get back to you.
And it's done, yay! Only took me about one and a half hours altogether this room. It always
surprises me how much work this teeny tiny space is. It's probably only about I'd say maybe two
and a half by two and a half meters. It's very little but we do have massive ceiling so there's a lot of
space for hair to stick to I guess. But I did want to have a little chat with you guys today as well,
so I'm just gonna find a seat and we'll get to it. Okay, I'm really sorry if you can hear singing
in the background. Next door is having some kind of singing rehearsal whatever. All I'm hearing is
their vocal warm up, so sorry if that's picking up on the microphone. So like I was saying, I had the
week off last week. It was my birthday on Wednesday, it is now Thursday the week after, so it's just
over a week. And since coming back from my little holiday, I have actually increased the amount of
dogs finally. So instead of only doing three dogs a day with half an hour in between each dog, I've
kind of got the cleaning down, so I've been able to reduce that gap to 15 minutes. But it does
mean that I am working later usually. Today I only have three dogs, so I've got a nice normal finish.
But I'm getting used to six o'clock finishes, which isn't a bad thing. An extra hour is not
going to change the world dramatically. And we've got some changes coming up at work anyway that I
can't talk about just yet, but as soon as we have the go ahead for it I will let you guys know. And
there's also over 300 of you who have subscribed to the channel, and that's amazing! So I just wanted
to float an idea at you guys. Would you like me to do like an introduce yourself kind of thing or q&a
or anything like that? So you guys get to know me a little bit more. I know that I don't really talk
about me, I just talk about everything that relates to dog grooming. And you know what that's fine if
you just want to have me as just a face with a name and that's it. But do let me know if you did
want to have like a little q&a with me. And if you do, leave me some questions down in the comments.
Could be anything about me personally, or my dog grooming career, or you know my favorite food -
literally anything. Obviously don't be rude, I will not answer that and I will block you off
the channel, so you've been warned! But other than that, that is the end of this video. My hands are
really really wrinkly from all the disinfectant. Thank you so much for watching this video, if you
did like it, do leave a little thumbs up and leave me a comment down below about your cleaning habits
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