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Old 05-21-2008, 03:48 PM
 
Location: South Dakota
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My hubby and I moved into base housing about 5 months ago. Ever since, the carpet (cheap, I'm sure) is eating my vacuum up with some sort of carpet fuzz. I've done a bit of research, but now I'm really irked. The vacuum is making a funny noise and by the time I turn it off, anything it has "pulled" (which is just fuzz) is left behind for me to pick up.

What on earth do I do? I'm replacing the belt today, but I know it's going to happen again. Is there anything I can do to stop the fuzz?

Hair spray the carpet?
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Old 05-22-2008, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Falling Waters, WV
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I am having the same problem. We purchased a new house with the standard carpet and everytime I vacumn I have fuzz left behind to pick up, let alone I have to unclog the vacumn everytime. The hose gets completely filled up with the fuzz and I have to work to get it out and then I usually take the bag and pull out what I can.

It has calmed down some but I am still getting it 8 months later. When we sold our last house we put down cheap carpet (builder grade) to sell but it didn't fuzz up like we have now.
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Old 05-22-2008, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Sugar Grove, IL
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is the carpet brand new? I seemed to remember a lot of fuzz when the carpet was brand new. they told us to vacuum a lot then. Now, it is so old, there is no fuzz to be had!!!lol
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Old 05-22-2008, 08:57 PM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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a lot of that fuzz has to do with manufacturing the carpet, it will go away eventually. The fuzz are fibers that didnt quite make it into the weaving process. I know that this doesnt make your life better, but wanted to let you know what it is.
Really good quality wool rugs do the same thing, just so you know it isnt a quality issue.
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Pocono Mts.
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Before we built homes on our own, we cleaned homes after new contruction, and let me tell ya, that kind of cheap carpeting with the never ending fuzz took out three perfectly good vacuums. I even rented a heavy duty one, and it also became filled with fuzz. I agree that it will eventually stop coming up. I started using a stick vac, because with it I could sweep all the surface fibers without getting all the fuzz, but then you don't get as deep a clean.
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Old 05-25-2008, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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We lived in a rental and the carpeting constantly got little fuzz balls on it in the kids room where they played a lot, it was cheap I am sure. It always did that and it wasn't brand new. Now in our house we got all new carpeting and the first month or so there was some fuzz coming up but it is fine now. So, unless your carpeting is fairly new it will probably just shed like that until you have it replaced.
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Old 05-27-2008, 11:15 AM
 
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I was just complaining to my dh about this issue this weekend. We just moved into a new house and I experience this everytime I vaccum. It is very frustrating but at least I know that it will stop eventually. We've only been living there for 1 month now.
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Old 05-27-2008, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Kent County, DE
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Make sure you have your vacuum set on high for a while. Trust me it does calm down after a while and then you can place your vacuum at the normal setting.
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Old 05-30-2008, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Wake Forest - New Light
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It's not the quality of the carpeting, all grades of carpeting do this. I am in a new home, my upstairs is carpeted , and almost 1 year later, I still get carpet fuzz, mainly from the areas that are not used....but the first couple months, I was changing the vacuum bag alot. It's normal. You may want to attempt to clean the carpets with a industrial machine or an outside service, that may take away more fuzz than just vacuuming, just a suggestion...not sure though
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Old 05-30-2008, 06:02 PM
 
Location: Nor Cal
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My carpet is almost 2 yrs old and I too still get the fuzz. I've gone through 2 vacuums in the last 2 years.
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