House Cleaning Tip Control dust.
Regular dusting and vacuuming are the keys to controlling dust in
your home.
Most people who are allergic to dust are actually allergic to dust mite
excrement (yuck!). Dust mites are microscopic bugs that eat the skin
flakes found in dust. If you provide dust mites with plenty of food by
allowing dust to build up in your home, then they will reproduce
quickly. The increased dust mite population in turn produces more and
more allergens (and more and more dust mites). It’s an endless cycle.
Periodic dust removal does away with not only the "dust", but it reduces
the reproducing population of dust mites. If you have allowed a lot of
dust to accumulate, you will need to dust and vacuum more frequently at
first. Use Let’s Clean Up! to keep to a regular schedule, and after a
while you will notice that there’s less and less dust each time you
clean. When this happens, you can adjust Let’s Clean Up! to reduce your
dusting and vacuuming frequency. In our home, we dust and vacuum each
room once each month and there’s very little dust accumulation between
cleanings. Regular cleaning is the key!
To remove dust from a room, begin by dusting up high. This allows loose dust to fall onto lower surfaces, giving you a second chance to clean it up when you dust the lower surfaces. Do not stir up the dust or flick it into the air; wipe it off in long strokes if possible and keep it on your dust rag. We like to use cloth diapers for dusting, and we shake them out frequently outside our house to avoid releasing the dust back into the air inside our home. Dust and remove everything from the top of each horizontal surface, and then dust the surface itself. This is easy to do if you keep clutter to a minimum. When you have wiped down all the horizontal surfaces in the room, finish by vacuuming the floor.