this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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Load Bearing Wisdom

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[–] ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Dust sources are:

  • Leaky air ducts: air ducts leak up to 11% on both the supply and return lines for a total of ~20% whenever your central air turns on. Yum fiberglass insulation!
  • Shed skin flakes: humans drop 1.5 lbs of skin a year. Dusty!
  • Dryers agitate clothes while heating them. Yum lint!
  • Shoes track in dust. Yum dirt.

You could consistently clean the air with a hepa filter that you clean regularly.

You could install a hrv system with a hepa filter on the intake duct while being anal about no leaks in the ducts. Then set it to make positive internal air pressure.

You could get a vaccume and mop roomba robot.

You could take off your shoes before coming into the house.

You could try to seal all your existing ducts.

Between all these suggestions, I think your dust would become negligible.

Fun.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One significant source of dust in households is textiles like rugs, pillows and curtains.

[–] sga@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And you! you and other living things shed your skin cells, and so do all non living things which have wear and tear leave microscopic things behind (almost everything)

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

Mmm dead skin flakes

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

Lots of dust talk but very little about ashes.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

This isn't load-bearing wisdom so much as load-bearing questions

[–] awaysaway@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

can anyone else not see this community? when I go there it says the entire c/ is empty

[–] Bubs@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

It's a new community with just one post so far. Does your Lemmy client hide posts you've already read?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago