A homemade brush made from recycled materials that doesn't allow debris to stick to it.

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When cleaning animal hair, lint brushes become clogged with clumps, so they need to be cleaned frequently. It is much more convenient to use special rubber whisks or make their analogue from recycled materials. This homemade product is well suited for cleaning wool on parquet, linoleum, laminate and wooden floors.

Materials:

wooden slats or boards;
foamed chemically cross-linked polyethylene;
3 screws;
impregnating oil for wood or varnish.

Chemically cross-linked polyethylene foam will be used as a broom in the brush. It is used as packaging material, lining under laminate, and used for insulation and sound insulation of riser pipes. This material differs from conventional foamed polyethylene in its fine pore structure, greater density and retention of shape after compression.

Making a lint-free broom

From a sheet of foamed polyethylene you need to cut several rectangles with sides 5x15 cm. Their number is selected in such a way as to obtain a stack about 2 cm thick. In this case, material with a cross-section of 7 mm is used, so 3 rectangles are enough.

You need to draw the brush body on a rail or board. If you have an old lint brush, you can simply outline it with a pencil.

The marked board is cut to fit the office. In this case, you need to make a slot as in the photo. Its width is made a couple of millimeters smaller than the cross-section of a stack of cut rectangles.

After this, the workpiece is polished. You need to try to achieve absolute smoothness, so as not to drive splinters in later.

Stacked pieces of polyethylene are inserted into the slot of a wooden blank. If the stack is very dense and does not fit, then it can be slightly burned along the edge with a heated steel plate. It is possible to simply widen the cutout.

On the side of the brush there are 3 holes with a countersink for the screw heads. Screwed-in screws hold the broom in the brush body.

If everything is going well, then you should disassemble the brush and soak the wood with oil or varnish.

It doesn’t hurt to immediately cut the existing scraps of foamed polyethylene into blanks for the panicle. In the future, when the working part of the tool wears out, they can be quickly replaced. It also doesn't hurt to cut the leading edge of the broom at an angle. This will make cleaning in corners easier.

After use, this brush hardly gets dirty. Small specks stuck to it can simply be washed off under the tap. Polyethylene does not absorb moisture, so it dries quickly.