Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 months agoAh dang, I’m sick of dusting stuff
I’ve found that regularly wiping the floors helps quite a bit. You don’t have to be super thorough, just reduce the amount of dust in the room.
Not sure, if vacuuming would work similarly well, since it kicks dust into the air, which can settle on surfaces again…
The floors are the least of my worries because I spray mop it, it’s the dust on shelves, plants, irregular shaped stuff that’s annoying and much more time consuming to dust
I’m saying spray-mop the floor once a week and you’ll take most of the dust out of that room before it settles on harder-to-clean surfaces, which reduces how often you need to clean shelves, plants etc…
Most dust in a typical household is from shed skin cells, from either humans or pets. And I do imagine that most shed skin cells just fall onto the floor at first and can be collected there.
It’s not the particular surface that people are concerned about, but more frequent cleaning of that surface might reduce overall dust settling everywhere
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 months ago
Since that’s something you care about, I will offer an out of topic advice: robot vacuums (in general: vacuuming a lot) decreases the amount of dusting you end up doing.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 months ago
Depending on what's on your shelves, you might find my solution of use. Whenever things are a bit too dusty in my house I put on a filter mask and fire up an electric leaf blower. Blasts all the dust off of the various hard-to-reach surfaces and into the air. Then I either use a high-volume blower fan to circulate the air out of the house through a window (if the weather's nice) or if it's winter I just let it settle and vacuum it out of the carpet (some ends up back on the shelves, sure, but most surface area in the house is floor so it's still a net win).
Some other stuff gets knocked off the shelves in the process, but I just consider that a sign of weakness. Those things didn't deserve their prominent position on those shelves to begin with.
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 months ago
You are insane and I like that!
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
But the dust will settle on everything, including the shelves you just cleaned?
FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 month ago
A bit, sure. But as I mentioned, the majority of the surface area in my house is the floor. I'm fine with it settling on the floor because I vacuum that with a vacuum cleaner anyway.
There's always going to be some dust on the shelves. Even if I meticulously cleaned them with the most thorough of methods more dust would immediately start accumulating anyway.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are there dumb robot vacuums? I don’t want to buy a little spy robot that maps my apartment layout to sell to advertisers or whatever.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
valetudo
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There are, but the mapping functionality drastically increases how well the vacuum works.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yes, for some values of dumb. New ones? I don’t know. But many older ones have no connectivity.
librervac.org/Supported_Devices might be a good start (and maybe even end).
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 months ago
I had one like that, it’s so dumb it had to go at random and often loses the way back home. I assume they still exist. The technology has definitely improved and you can jail break most of them. Last I brought was a little spy bot, honestly, but with some attention you can either overwrite the software (and keep the physical improvements) or block it from accessing the internet. [details figures out by my partner]
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s the stuff I have on shelves, hanging, on tables, etc that’s annoying to dust. The floor is easy to deal with comparatively.
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 months ago
Keeping the floor dusted removes overall dust everywhere
TheFogan@programming.dev 2 months ago
I think the point being made is, dust doesn’t stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.