Are some houses just dusty?

[Fleurchamp]

I live in a Victorian townhouse (in London, the air is filthy) and just find my house so dusty. I dusted all through on Sunday and have to do it all again today. I use my handheld Dyson every day on the hall and stairs carpet and the canister is virtually full each time, I use the main vacuum once a week. I use the main vacuum in the living areas daily.
My bathroom is the worst, it has to be wiped over daily or a thick layer of grime forms on the damp areas - I keep the window open a crack because of condensation which I doubt helps.
I was speaking to my sister and she says a weekly dust is fine in her house (modern house in the country).
We only have open floor boards on one floor, the rest are engineered wood/ amtico and carpet only in hall and stairs.
Is it just my type of house or is there anything else I can do?

I'm not in London but I live in a Victorian house in an area that has air pollution. Things need dusting every day or two.
Devices like tv and audio are always dusty. I usually have windows open.

Floor boards or laminated floors will look dusty compared to carpets.

I have previously lived in modern houses in less polluted areas and I think the dust is part house part pollution. I clean windows far more often in my current home because they get so dirty.

Our old 30s semi was very dusty- our bedroom was particularly so.
Now live in another 30s house but a lot bigger and more rural. Really don't notice the build up of dust between cleans.

1851 stone cottage. Dusty. Wipe down basin every day or second day and yeah dusty. Lots in Dyson 7 to empty some is cat hair the rest dust. If I miss a week or so I can write my name on the bedroom chest of drawers. I live in the country mind you we have a lot of tractors about. I always open the bathroom window I don’t think that makes any difference but better for condensation.

Sounds normal ime.

The dust in my house seems never ending, though I do wonder if it's partly because it faces south so the sun streams in and shows every single spec of dust and all the dust dancing around in the air. The windows never look clean either.

Our old house faced north, with fewer windows, so maybe we just didn't notice the dust as much.

have you got any open fires?

Or holes in ceiling for downlighters?

Road traffic makes fine dust, but it's black

My house is south facing, I have open fire places and downlights in several rooms...
The dust in the bathroom is black, what on earth must we be breathing!

Open fires make a LOT of dust

Dust from the ceiling void can fall through downlighters (including plaster dust from when the hole was made)

Bathroom dust is usually light grey from exfoliated skin, and towels. If yours is black it is probably traffic or chimneys coming in through the windows. Save up for an extractor fan.

I used to live in an edwardian terrace and now live in a new build. The terrace was definitely dustier.

Yes I’ve often wondered this. My previous house in the city was so dusty, it used to really get on my nerves. I would be forever hoovering and dusting but never stayed looking dust free for long. I’d dust in the morning and by the evening I could actually write in the dust on the tv stand!

My house now in the countryside isn’t as bad, I can go longer without actually needing to dust.

I love in a rural early Victorian property And it’s so dusty.
Every time I go to a holiday let i marvel at the lack of dust after a day or two. By the end of the week in just envious. I do much less housework than I do at home, and It’s much cleaner.

The dust on furniturs seems to consist mostly of skin particles and bits of our clothing and furnishings, so we cannot really blame air pollution.

(There are people spending their life researching this stuff. )

The dust in my house is dark. It is worse in rooms that tend to have open windows, and is darker than the dust in my previous houses being.
I live in an urban area, Previously, I lived in village locations.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus well that makes me feel better

The dust is definitely darker in the bathroom, we have an extractor fan but it is pretty useless (I assume this needs to be cleaned out at some point?!?) and I wage war with DH because he constantly turns it off because he doesn't like the noise, hence why the window is open.

I live in Victorian terrace in London, but not a particularly polluted area. When I clean the bathroom, within 2 days there's a layer of dust already. Drives me mad.

Not too dusty here. 1930s house in town. But I notice a lot more dust in bathroom when we have guests, I think they wear darker clothes & darker towels. Leaves a lot more fabric fibres...

I think pets create dust

Do you use the fireplaces? If not, can you put those balloon things in.

What about an air purifier, dyson type thing with a filter?