Dusty house

[Cliff Topp]

How the hell do you get rid of dust from a house?

Our house is VERY dusty. We have a black TV on a black glass stand and a black wall-mounted electric fire. Everywhere that should look black actually looks grey!

I can dust and it looks great, for now, but literally the next day it's all grey again. I've tried 'damp dusting' but that does nothing other than leaving streaks everywhere.

The dust is obviously not being removed but just moved around within the house, so just exactly how do I get rid of it?

[Andrew]

Assuming no chimneys or other ancient construction, and no animals or caged birds, then the only solution is remove all the people and cover everything up with dustsheets.

Otherwise, always choose the silver option for TV and HiFi etc, and never, ever black or other dark colour.

[The Natural Philosopher]

You need to pass it through a HEPA scale filter. One way is to buy a proper vacuum like a Henry. And put in a HEPA class filter.

Another way is a machine that will circulate the air through a filter. I have a le Voit*. Its amusing to hear it start up and run in the bedroom if I fry chips in the kitchen...removes smells effectively, not bad on dust either.

I got it because I noticed my shot lungs did better in a car with aircon and a pollen filter.

It doesn't get all the dust - some lands on the surfaces - but it gets a lot. What does land gets Henry'ed.

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[alan_m]

+1 for a henry with disposable HEPA filter bags.

With these bags the inbuilt filters on my Henry remain completely clean and in the past year I've been "hoovering" up a lot of fine plaster dust.

Also consider when manually dusting using one of those micofibre dusters that catch the dust in the fibres rather than just flicking it off into the air for it to settle again.

[Jim Stewart ...]

they say it is mostly dead skin

[Jim Stewart ...]

who is foola ? ...... is he from wagga ? ......

[RJH]

Although it's difficult to tell by how much, my Sebo's filter/bags seem to do a pretty good job.

Yes, a dampened microfbre cloth, rinsed regularly. Although I'd guess the bulk of the dust is resting on the floor.

[alan_m]

Mostly from fluffy paper bog rolls. Switch to the old Izal type rolls and your dusting duties will be cut by a factor of 100 :)

I also have one of those paper roll dispensers in the kitchen. The type where you buy a large blue or white bulk roll of paper, remove the centre cardboard tube and use from the centre outwards. When changing rolls there is always a fair amount of fine paper dust in the dispenser.

[Andrew]

That's where all the black dust on the London Underground comes from, plus *hair* dragged into the tunnels as the train leaves.

London Undergound have teams of cleaners who go through the tunnels between 1AM and 5AM manually scraping it all up.

[Jim Stewart ...]

can you still get the china box to put them in ?

[Cliff Topp]

Cliff Topp explained :

Thanks folks ;o)

[R D S]

Suspended floor? We've some shocking draughts come into our house from between the floor/shirting in certain areas and i'm convinced it brings a load of dust with it.

[Andrew]

Try tucking your shirt in then

[Animal]

I'm guessing a robot vac that does a daily clean would help some. Some carpets hold a LOT of dust an agressive vac could remove.