How to clean around dusty edges of carpet and stairs?

[Totallybannanas]

I have a cream wool carpet in the bedrooms and it's looking very great around the edges due to dust. I have a shark hoover with a different attachment and it's not sucking anything up. Also finding the stairs difficult to clean with attachment with hair and dog fluff not budging, it's driving me crazy!

I always use the crevice tool on my Dyson to do the edges of the floor and the brush tool for the skirting boards and cornices

For stairs a brush and dustpan does the job.

A shower squeegy works well especially for hair, or for a really good spring clean masking tape gets everything out.

Have you tried cleaning all the filters in your hoover?

I have a Miele Cat & Dog vacuum cleaner, and the crevice tool sorts all of that out. Brilliant on stairs, too.

We had this before laminate and no matter what we did it always was grey. When they put the laminate down there was a gap between skirting and floor and all the hoover was doing was sucking dirt through the carpet. The dirt was never ending from the gap so it never was clean. Laminate covers the gap now. No problem.

For pet hair though the triangle pet hair remover combs are fantastic.

I have a corded Shark and find the crevice tool really good for edges and dusty corners. It's only a year old yet so suction is super strong.
Is yours a cordless?

A pair of marigolds works, so does a silicone brush I have one like this. from Amazon

When there is a dark line round the edges of a carpet it is usually because a draught is blowing up through the gap between floorboards, wall and skirting board, carrying very fine airborne dirt that the carpet traps like a filter. You sometimes also see it when there are cracks between floorboards and no underlay.

If you are not in a position to take up the floorboards, clean out the void and pack mineral wool insulation into it to block the draught, you can pull back the carpet, sponge the surfaces clean and apply a wide adhesive tape to floor and skirting.

You can also use silicone sealant (which is flexible enough not to crack, like caulk will) and it is almost invisible with white-painted skirting. It can also be used with vinyl or laminate.

You have to clean and dry the surfaces as tape and sealant will not stick to dirt.

Don't use expanding foam unless you have emptied the room for redecorating and have taken up the floor covering.

Absolutely

Have a hoover next to you while you scrape op!!

Rubber brush or toothbrush

@PigletJohn - where do you put the silicone sealant please? Is it between the bottom of the skirting board and the floor boards?

Yes.

Agree the lint remover tool. So many uses

Thank you!

My shark isn’t great either. I accidentally discovered (when DC spilt something) that a slightly damp microfibre cloth works really well along edges and on stairs.