Shower Enclosures - A Hairy Experience

One of the common problems in shower enclosures is the horrible hair clogging up the plughole.

Shower enclosures should be places where you go to freshen up and feel clean, but trapped hair in the plughole can lead to blockages that leave water stagnating with unwanted slime and soap scum. Keeping shower enclosures clean is important to maximise your showering enjoyment and to reduce the risk of blocked drains. But cleaning stray hair from shower enclosures is not a pleasant job!

Shower Enclosures: A Hairy Problem

Ann Kroeker is an online blogger who addressed the very issue of the problem of clearing hair from her shower enclosures. As she lives in a house of six females all with long hair, it’s a daily problem: “Both of our showers have drain covers that should catch the hair and prevent it from going down the drain, but some hair has inevitably slipped through. We’ve dealt with our share of clogged drains over the years, so we’ve been concerned about those renegade strands."

Keeping Shower Enclosures Hair Free

People with long hair naturally shed strands when they shower, and if you have long hair, it may not be a job you want to do, but clearing up your shower enclosure after every use is vital. Blocked drains can be expensive to clear as well as put your bathroom out of order. The inconvenience they can cause far outweighs the daily grossness of picking up stray hair from your shower enclosure. Ann Kroeker has some tips for those who don’t clear their shower enclosures: “It might seem a little gross to somebody who doesn’t like thinking about bathrooms and hair, and for that I apologize in advance. When we shampoo and condition, it’s normal for us to lose a few hairs in the process...Here’s the trick: as we run our fingers through our hair, we make an effort to hang onto the stray strands and then stick them on the wall of the shower–we just unwind the strands from our fingers and press them right onto the wall. They magically cling."

Sticking stray hair onto the walls of your shower enclosure may seem horrible, but it’s better than letting those hairs go down and block your drain. The shower blogger continues: “When we’re done, we just swoosh our fingers along the shower wall to swirl together all the strands. They form a little wad of hair. After drying off, we just toss the wad in the trash can….no clogged shower drains."

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