Ever since I was a kid, I have had long thick hair, but 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 concern until recently, then i had to contact a local plumbing contractor 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 working 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 problems close to the house, so they were relatively easy 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 suggest anything to help with the problem; He provided me the name of a couple weird 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 contractor again because the same concern was happening. This time the plumber looked further down the drain line and found a couple of problems that he did not see the first time. He ended up taking 30% off the bill because the concern could have been his fault too.