Why is my house so dirty

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I have two cleaners come every fortnight for four hours to do a big clean everwhere..all bathrooms, windows, all dusting, hoovering, mopping, cleaning the oven and fridge etc.
There’s only Dh, me, Dd (6) and d dog. I have to wash all the sofa covers every fortnight, the curtains fairly regularly. If I don’t wipe down/dust the dining table, tv unit etc daily, it gets a layer of dust within a couple of days, is this normal?!
I can’t remember it ever being like this before dd and even when she little, it was always clean & tidy

Is it just me?

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Most dust is human skin and a dog always adds a fair amount of dander.

I have fairly light coloured sofas (covers changed to a darker colour in winter) but I always have the dog covers that go over the whole sofa and tuck in as I have a ECS who likes to lean his muzzle on the arm. Dogs confined to one sofa only. And dog beds during the day and night. They are only allowed on the sofa with us in the evening.

I think where you live makes a difference too. We used to live in a town and the dust from outside was black. Life is muddier in the country but there isn’t as much dust somehow. And if there is it’s very light.

Do you open your windows daily Op ? Always best to let the air circulate.

Except for a few asthma sufferers allergic to house dust mites.

This
It's probably a combination of human skin cells and particles from the log burner
Very very bad for your health

Are you in the UK? We moved countries/continents several times and there's a huge variety of dust.

I have two teenagers and two Labradors, and work full time. I have accepted that we are destined to live in a rather dirty house.

I’ve got a Eufy vacuum that does the downstairs daily. I blitz the housework at the weekend or when guests are coming but generally don’t tend to worry too much. I certainly don’t wash my curtains!

Water filter vacuums are popular on the continent but not in the UK; they work wonders at cutting down dust levels. A faff to empty and clean though.

A couple of points that haven't been mentioned are static electricity which attracts dust to surfaces and holds it....eg anything with a plastic type coating, tv screen, and so on. The other thing is that I live on clay soil and I KNOW this makes a difference because I have lived where the soil was not preponderantly clay and the dusting was much less. Are you SURE you have to wash curtains so often though? Even when I had 2 mud monster dogs I only washed curtains maybe twice a year.

Sense the tone, @RampantIvy, sense the tone!

At least it's not London, I hope?. When I lived there I used to come home, blow my nose and be aghast at the colour of what came out.

Agree! I don't live in London but even just visiting, blow your nose and it's black!!

Thirded.