Ever since I was a kid, I have had long thick hair, then my mom and my dad both have thick hair too! There are lots of pictures of my dad when he was young and he had a lot of long hair.
My long hair was never a problem until recently, i had to contact a local plumbing company when the drain line needed to be cleaned.
I had a hair stopper in the drain of the shower to keep the hair from going down the drain. I thought that it was toiling well, but it was only catching about 1/10 of the hair that was eventually going down the drain and through the plumbing line. The plumber found a lot of troubles close to the house, so they were relatively simple to fix. It took the plumber about a half an hour to clean out the drain line and there was a lot of hair and soap scum. I was disgusted and ashamed to see the condition of the drain line. I asked the plumber if he could command anything to help with the problem, however he offered me the name of a couple different items that are known to keep dirt and hair from entering the plumbing lines. It wasn’t cheap to have the drain line clean and cleared and 6 months later I had to contact the plumbing company again because the same problem was happening. This time the plumber looked further down the drain line and found a couple of troubles that he did not see the first time. He ended up taking 30% off the bill because the problem could have been his fault too.