It seems no matter how often you vacuum the carpets, sweep the floors, mop, and even dust, every time you turn around your home feels dirty. You see a fine film of dust collecting on the coffee table, on a shelf, and you know if it’s building up there, it’s also building up on the floor and carpeting once again.
You may get in the habit of vacuuming every few days.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but you need to understand where dust comes from. 80 percent of the dust in the average home is actually the product of dead skin cells. Your body, and anyone else who lives with you, is shedding dead skin cells on average every seven days. There’s nothing you can do about that.
Unfortunately, that may not be the only culprit to all of this extra dirt building up.
If you have forced hot air or central air conditioning (which is not all that common in this part of the country), then you have ductwork throughout your house. In the ductwork, this dust will build up. If you don’t clean the interior of the ducts and the registers regularly, every time the heats turns on during the winter, forcing hot air through those ducts and into each room in your house, it’s also going to collect some of that dust and blow it out through those registers.
It’s not easy to clean these air ducts.
You may need some specialized equipment. What you can do in the meantime is remove the registers, or vent covers, clean them thoroughly, and use your vacuum cleaner to reach as far into the ducts as possible.
You should also have your carpets professionally cleaned afterward and that will give you a great starting point moving forward throughout the rest of the winter and into the springtime months coming up.
