Right - some houses are dusty and fluffy and some aren't. WHY????? Explain this pain-in-the-arse fact to me

[pruners]

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No advice but at seems to be the same in my house - no matter how often I brush, mop etc the floorboards it just doesn't seem to be clean and I hate sunny days cos you can actually see the dust floating in the shafts of light.

Yes I live in a v dusty house too - once round with the dyson and the chamber is FULL. I thought it was an old house/new house thing - this is an old house, as was my last one, whereas my parents last house, which was new, was not dusty at all. We both have cats. But they have moved into another new house and this one is very dusty, and now they have no cats! It's all very confusing... I've just looked behind the sofa - arghh - great tumbleweeds of fluff. Where has it come from??

It's not just the house but the environment - e.g. living near roads, how often you light the fire in winter makes a huge difference to your dustload. I am like that with the Dyson (ok a small one) - do one go of big rug, stairs, landings, bedrooms and a few corners of hard floor rooms and it's bursting with dust, fluff, other unidentifiable.

I loathe vacuuming and all housework and I find dust so unfair.

Another very dusty house here im afraid - especially around the tv/tv stand. I swear its about 1cm thick. I could dust it off now and it will all be back by tonight.

Hmm.

When I moved into this flat it hadn't been properly lived in for 18 months and in the mean time had been completely rewired, replumbed, windows changed, painted, new bathrooms and kitchens. And then we moved our stuff in.

It took about six months for all the residual dust to go, and that was with very zealous hoovering, dusting and floor washing.

Pruners do you have an AGA?
Not a silly question - but Agas produce the most enormous amount of dust somehow. Oil fired ones anyway...

we have mega dust, but that is due to floorboards i think, and dust and stuff blows up between them, two dogs and a house rabbit... also, lots of tvs and monitors, which attract dust too i think... and 3 real fires that are used regualrly..

i could do with hoovering every day really

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I have a very dusty house but it has doubled since we got rid of all the carpets downstairs. I think all the dust and fluff used to "stick" and bed down in the carpet and now it floats around freely, driving me mad!

I've noticed that too.

Mind you,you should ry living in Eastern Turkey.Dust gets everywhere-undr loo seat,in bed and embeds itself in anything white.

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i love the quentin crisp quote on dust

.."after 4 years you just stop noticing it"..

lol its the sentiment of my approach to dusting
angle the light and you dont have to look directly..

Puners, that old house which never got dirty, it's not for sale by any chance?

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Our house is very dusty, (I'm currently blaming the huge wool rug which hasn't stopped shedding yet - do they ever?) and I hate the fact. I can dust and then by the evening we have a covering of dust.

Our old house (which was new ) was a lot less dusty, this one is about 30 years and hideous.

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pruners you should hoover daily anyway

My house has dusty areas - the TV and the rather glossy wood sideboard seem to be the worst.

Maybe my DH attracts dust...

You could try getting a couple of ionisers. These make the dust sink and settle on everything which is a nightmare for a while but means you can wipe it up with damp cloth and gradually eliminate it, rather than just stirring it up constantly and never actually removing it from the house. We did this after we had a load of dusty building work done.

Glad I'm not the only one with a house that actively attracts dust!! I just wonder where it comes from - I'm sure previous places I lived weren't this bad. The dust just appears within seconds of wiping it away it seems! I've reasoned that maybe it's cause we have thousands of books in the house, but maybe that's not the case! No bare floors, though I know some of the carpets are worse than others for attracting dust.

Yep, Dysons are great for sucking up all the dust....but awful thing is, my children are terrified of noises!!! First it was my daughter (now nearly 2.5yo), but just as she finally got better about it, my little boy (12mo) is absolutely scared to death of the hoover! (Mixers, food processors, hair dryer, etc are just as bad, but it's the hoover I really need to use!) So it's really annoying that I have to end up with a dirty house too frequently, just because I can't manage to find a time to hoover. It requires his daddy to either take him out of the house, or at least go off & distract him. ..... One of these days someone will invent a silent Dyson - and then I'll have a clean house!!!! LOL

my house is a dust hell. I never before knew a bathroom could get dusty...