Now the shedding is a whole other topic!
Their shedding is legendary isn’t it? Especially when they are blowing out their undercoats.
One thing I would add is that you must train yourself and every other person in the house to pick up everything off of the floor. Labs are voracious and they’ll eat anything: socks, underwear, gloves, you name it. My lab ate one of the kid’s booksocks and it got lodged in her intestine and wouldn’t pass. A $1500 operation later, she was fine but went on swallowing other stuff until we broke the kids of using their floors as a hamper.