Rubber Brooms - How have I only just discovered these?

I'm on the case! Thanks everybody.

I saw some in Home Bargains last week. Wish I'd bought one now!

I bought my rubber broom from Wilko, it also has a scraper on the other side. Brilliant!

I am going to buy a rubber broom today! Never knew about them so thx. I live with an adult son with long hair, a cat with lots of fur and I am losing my hair with stress - I have hair everywhere which causes me much work. So yeah I need this broom.....?

I have just ordered one from ebay it will be great for my bedroom carpet when Poppy is moulting.

I've got a small rubber hand brush that I got from Sainsburys a couple of years ago.
It's brilliant for going along the edges where carpet meets skirting board before vacuuming. Also those awkward bits where the stairs turn a corner.

Yes have rubber broom and rubber hand held brush. Excellent.

I got my bright orange rubber broom with adjustable handle length from B&M under £10. very useful.

About 10 or 12 years ago I spoke to the buyer at Lakeland and asked if she would consider stocking the tools that I read about on Flylady.com. It is a brilliant American site that shows busy people how to get their homes organized quickly. It is also free. Flylady has a range of cleaning tools and there are rubber brushes etc. in her range. I am a therapeutic counsellor and at that time I had a lot of young professionals for clients who were struggling to keep on top of home , work, studying etc. A lot of them found Flylady's methods to be very good and Lakeland did find someone to produce rubber brushes etc. I bought the products myself and they are really good.

I like the idea of doing the stairs!
I have two vacuums - one old cylinder one that only reaches halfway down the stairs and another upright that is too heavy for me to carry up the stairs, but it's hose reaches halfway up ( but not enough to meet up with the other one)
So before I go out and buy yet another vacuum (cordless) I will give this a go !

This sounds brilliant. I am going to look for one.

Ooh, thanks for that tip Grandmall

B&M were selling a rubber hand brush and dustpan for £4 last time l went in, a real bargain, and good for brushing down the stair carpet and around the kitchen base unit edges.

We have had a rubber broom for years, so glad they are still being made as ours is more or less worn out. Never used it indoors though, always been a garden broom. Brilliant for sweeping leaves off the grass. Really comes into its own brushing away snow and slush, both on the paths and on cars etc.

I got mine , both rubber Broom, and dustpan and rubber Brush from B&M... wouldn't be without them now, but they seem to have stopped selling them

I used to have a white cat and she was always shedding hair, came across these brushes and tried one and it was great for collecting the hairs off the rugs etc. Was always amazed how much came up even after the vac had gone over.

I have a rubber, long handled brush, and hand brush bought in 1997, when our kitchen had a big makeover.
The big one has been relegated to the garden, but must say they have been great.
Both from Lakeland, along with lots of other 'things' I couldn't live without.

I am hoping it will collect the hair shed by my, very hairy, dog of indeterminate breed.

After reading what was possibly the same thread I bought a rubber hand brush too, already having a broom. It is wonderful for cleaning carpet along the skirting board. The spikes on the 'nose' are particularly efficient. I think Lakeland do one too.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rubber-Brush/303756104384?hash=item46b94652c0:g:qAoAAOSwNHxfpW8j

Makes perfect sense ‘Phoenix*

I have a rubber bristled (if that makes sense?) brush for the dustpan too, much easier to clean after use.

We have a labrador who sheds hair constantly and this sounds just the thing I need - will have a look for one pronto!!

I agree they are really good. Bristles one side and a flat scrapper the other.

I was going to say'thanks for the heads up'! But seriously I am going to buy one.

I have had a small one for years. It gets all the trodden-in dust and grit out of the stair carpet. Swept from one step to the next all the way down and vacuumed up at the bottom, it takes no time at all.