One significant source of dust in households is textiles like rugs, pillows and curtains.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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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)
Mmm dead skin flakes
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.
This isn't load-bearing wisdom so much as load-bearing questions
Lots of dust talk but very little about ashes.
The dust.
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It's a new community with just one post so far. Does your Lemmy client hide posts you've already read?