In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Out for my walk. Need some small brushes to get the rest of the dust out of the heaters in my place. Dust build up happens fast in this place and I don't need to set off the new smoke detector by accident.
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Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
I don't really have room for one of those things. I just put a mask on so I wouldn't breath in the dust I was sweeping out and I was fine.
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Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I'm on the tenth floor and each apartment has their own thermostat to regulate heat.
When I got back today, I gave each heater and going over with the brushes and vacuumed the one in the bedroom. I turned it on before supper and what I did worked. So, I am happy.
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Give your dog a big hug for me. My buddy's dog just died a few days ago and I loved that thing more than I did most people. :(
I gave my other buddy some "orders" this morning after finding a good paint sale. Surprisingly, he called me up after he bought everything. I was sure he was going to ask if he could pick me up to pick out the colors and paint for him. He didn't even bother looking at other colors and got the exact same ones I've used in my porch and my living room. (Not too surprised about that though, because I've got a ton of compliments on the two colors and how they compliment each other... including from him).
So, hopefully, the plan is he'll stop working early on Wednesday, we'll get the furniture to my place and then start painting. He asked me if I'd come by Thursday night and help him finish the job and I told him that wasn't a problem.
I'm hoping he got his "homework" done tonight though. He was supposed to dust all the walls, get the TV off the wall mount, take the wall mount down and patch it... and then sand that down tomorrow night and see if it needs any more mud before I get there on Wednesday.
Finger's crossed.
Also talked to my mechanic again because I love annoying myself. Supposedly it will be done tomorrow but it's not like I haven't heard that before. Whatever.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:I'm trying to understand your setup. Most large apartment buildings - I consider a 10 story blgwith elevators to be karge- have a ginormous hiut water heater (bouker) in the basement that provides hot water for the entire building, and some sort of central heater that orovuide hot air (and here, usually AC) for the whole building as well, with complex pneumatic or solenoid valves to control hot and chilled air flow so that each apartment has its own thermostat.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I'm on the tenth floor and each apartment has their own thermostat to regulate heat.
When I got back today, I gave each heater and going over with the brushes and vacuumed the one in the bedroom. I turned it on before supper and what I did worked. So, I am happy.
In older buildings, each unit had a gas floor or wall heater and sometimes a window AC fitted in after the fact. REALLY old buildings had radiators. But I can't imagine a newish bldg with any of those bc of inefficiency and safety concerns, so
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Brenda doesn't have more dust in her apartment than I've got in my house. I've never cleaned my ducts since I've been here, and god only knows the last time they were cleaned... if ever.
I don't have any carpets to hold any of it in anymore. I usually vacuum before somebody comes over to visit, but only on the 1st floor and the stairs to the bathroom on the 2nd floor. Maybe I hit the floors upstairs about once a year, and the floors in the basement about twice a year.
I barely ever dust. Maybe once a year. My jet black TV stand in the livingroom is covered in it. I probably only hit the ceilings with my vacuums about every 2 years for the cobwebs that start showing up when you don't regularly get the dust sucked up.
I do it enough where it's only a fine coating. A while back I was cleaning my grandma's kitchen that probably hadn't had a deep clean for about 12 or more years and I couldn't believe the thickness of the dust coverage. There were still cats living there before the last clean which made it even worse. It wasn't on any of the highly used surfaces that get cleaned regularly like the table or countertops, or heavy foot traffic areas, but in the nooks and crannies and above the fridge and underneath it were pretty ghastly. Fortunately there wasn't mouse crap in it too... It looks like 99% of the mouse activity remained in the basement since they did have some food in that fruit cellar which they were munching on and didn't need to venture upstairs where human activity was a regular thing.
I'm just not all that sensitive to dust. Perhaps Brenda is more sensitive to it and it's why it's a bother for her.
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I guess I still find it astonishing how dusty our house gets, even compared to other places we've lived in SoCal. Last time I visited my childhood home it was winter, and there was hardly any dust anywhere, even upstairs that is hardly used. Here, it's a constant battle. I've tried eliminating as many sources of dust as possible but it's still seriously dusty.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I'm trying to understand your setup. Most large apartment buildings - I consider a 10 story blgwith elevators to be karge- have a ginormous hiut water heater (bouker) in the basement that provides hot water for the entire building, and some sort of central heater that orovuide hot air (and here, usually AC) for the whole building as well, with complex pneumatic or solenoid valves to control hot and chilled air flow so that each apartment has its own thermostat.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:We have the same problem here. Part of the problem is that we're bounded on two sides by fwys and on two sides by busy roads. And when it gets dry and the wind blows, it gets dusty. We track a lot of silt in on our shoes, despite mats at all the doors. And our air handler hasn't been cleaned in a decade, but when they installed they made it inaccessible.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... Maybe you should get yourself one of those ionizers so you don't breathe all of that dust in?
I just looked into it... I dunno. They say that the ozone created by the ionizers might be just as bad if not worse for you.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't, huh?
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
But you're ten floors up, so all of the ground-level dust should never get to your apartment.
Do all of the apartments share a central heating unit? If so, do you have individual thermostats, or just ducts and registers to control your heating? Or does each apartment have its own furnace?
Anyway, unless there's some way to clean the ducts and air handler, there's not much can be done cheaply. There is a cloth you can fit behind the register grill, they claim develops static electricity when air flows thru it, and the static charge attracts dust better than a plain filter. It can be cut with scissors, it's cheap, and can be changed as often as necessary.
Aside from that, most of the high efficiency room air filters tend to be noisy or expensive - often both. And altho they catch a lot of dust, it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in the times I have to vacuum and dust. Allergists AFAIK have given up on the idea of cleaning up air inside the home.
But there are a few significant sources of dust.
One way to stop dust is a shoes-off spot near the doorway, and big mats. I got so tired of sawdust being tracked into the house I put a lot of mats down so "people" (ahem!) who don't wipe their feet have to take at least four steps on them on the way in.
And most dust settles to the floor, so carpets need to be vigorously vacuumed with a cleaner that has a beater bar/brush, good suction, and good filtration. I like to vacuum hard flooring as well.
Cloth upholstery and curtains are also source dust. In fact, the more surfaces you can make wipe-able, the better off you'll be.
I've found that giving the house a good vacuuming (including vacuuming soft furniture) and dusting hard surfaces with a damp cloth helps reduce the overall amount of dust and the number of times I have to do it.
And now, I have to finish vacuuming bc the dog is shedding, and altho I've given her a bath and brushing there's dog fur all over the floor.... It's terrible.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I'm on the tenth floor and each apartment has their own thermostat to regulate heat.
When I got back today, I gave each heater and going over with the brushes and vacuumed the one in the bedroom. I turned it on before supper and what I did worked. So, I am happy.
In older buildings, each unit had a gas floor or wall heater and sometimes a window AC fitted in after the fact. REALLY old buildings had radiators. But I can't imagine a newish bldg with any of those bcNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME