The Most Effective Ways to Remove Dust in Your Home

Every home will have some dust in it, but there are ways to minimize the dust in your home and keep the place looking tidy and mostly dust free. If you feel like you are constantly fighting with dust or having trouble getting rid of the dust in your home, there are some cleaning methods that may be helpful to you.

We are sharing some of the best dust removal and dust reducing tips here, and we hope these will prove helpful to you. 

Dusting for the Allergy Sensitive

Let’s start off by talking about an issue that affects a lot of people- dust allergies. Even if you don’t have an allergy to dust or dust mites (tiny bugs that hide in dust), you may still have a sensitivity to dust. Most people do, which is why a dusty environment can make you sneeze, cough, or wheeze, and you may experience cold or allergy symptoms when cleaning. 

Many people will dust their home in a way that is bad for their sinuses. They may use a dust wand or feather duster as they tidy. While these cleaning tools do a good job of removing dust from various surfaces, they don’t get rid of the dust. They simply push it onto other surfaces or, more likely, into the air. When dust is moved from a flat surface to the air, it can get into your sinuses more easily.

So, we recommend cleaning up dust with a wet cloth. This will pick up the dust and hold onto it rather than just moving it to a new spot or kicking it up into the air. If you know you have a dust allergy, then you can protect yourself with a dust mask and cleaning gloves while you remove dust. 

Clean the Dust-Prone Areas

We will get into some other dust removal methods in a moment, but for now, let’s focus on some of those trouble areas in the home where dust tends to accumulate. You might forget some of these when you are cleaning.

Countertops and shelves are probably the first place we go to when we are trying to clean up dust. You know there will be dust on your entertainment center, on the television and computer screen, and on your appliances. You might forget to clean up the dust on your computer tower, however, which accumulates dust very quickly. Be careful not to use water near sensitive computer components, though. You should also clean the vents in your home, as well as light fixtures, baseboards, and windows. Don’t forget to clean under the beds and furniture as well, and a dusting attachment on the vacuum cleaner can be an excellent way to take care of those areas. Doing a deep cleaning of all these areas will help make your home dust free and sanitary.

Use Extendable Dusting Tools

You may not be able to easily reach all of the areas in your home that need dusting. The light fixtures may be the most problematic, but before you pull out a ladder to clean them, consider using a dusting tool with an extendable handle instead. Some vacuum cleaners can even do a good job of cleaning light fixtures on the ceiling once you have the right attachment installed.

If you plan to do some dusting throughout your home on a particular day of the week, make sure you have the tools on hand to do the job well. 

Perform Regular Cleaning

Dust in your home can get out of control if you don’t stay on top of it, which is why we recommend that you pick a day each week to set aside for dusting. As you do your dusting, you can determine if you might need to dust more frequently- perhaps two days a week.  

For thorough dust removal in your home, consider hiring a cleaning service. You can have them dust the rooms that give you the most trouble or dust the entire home. They can do some dusting for you as part of a more comprehensive home cleaning service that could include scrubbing, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, and other chores. 

Whether you do the dusting yourself or have someone else do it, ensure that this house chore is done on a regular basis. That ensures better air quality in your home and keeps the dust problem under control. Regular cleaning has the added benefit of giving you less work to do in general. You can stay on top of the dust in your home by sticking to a cleaning schedule and then spend less time cleaning as you keep up with it. 

Use the Right Tools

There are a variety of cleaning tools to help you in your fight against dust. You don’t have to limit yourself to a dust rag and a vacuum cleaner. You can also use a lint roller to get the dust that clings to lampshades and other delicate surfaces. Dusting polish or beeswax does a great job of coating furniture and other surfaces so that dust does not cling to them as well. If you are trying to clean your blinds, then a blind duster can be very helpful.

As you clean in your home, you will get a better idea about what kind of tools you need for dusting. Don’t limit yourself to just a couple of tools that are not ideal for cleaning all of the surfaces in your home. Consider buying a few of the items we mentioned here to make dusting easier and to speed up the cleaning process.

You may want to keep your dusting tools in their own caddy so that you have access to all of them easily and quickly when they are needed. That way, you don’t have to go looking for the tools you need when it is time to dust. 

We hope these tips help you to keep a cleaner home and keep the dust under control.  

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