Dust in home

[birdawg]

Anyone have issues with dust all the time. seems soon as I dust the next day it’s back. Have you been able to rectify the situation

[Toymeister]

Is your home new or in an area where there is a great deal of construction? Fernandina village (OPs location) hmmm, seems less likely.

We have a central vacuum, so all the dust we vacuum up is sucked to the bag in the garage. Getting the dust out of the home is different than catching some of in in a vacuum that is within the environment that it is cleaning.

There will be plenty that disagree with this, I am sure. No comment if it is worth the price paid for dust removal, but is worth it for spouse happiness.

[Two Bills]

If you do not disturb the dust by touching it, it hardly notices.
We found that out when we changed our house cleaning program from pristine too squalor!

[Mortal1]

Dust is caused by many things...when you open and close an outside door pollen and dust come in...all the clothes in your house shed dust particles....people provide dead skin...carpets...opening a box, letter or package...paper products, cereal...furniture...the list is endless and since it's nice year round dust accumulates faster.

I suggest doing away with as many dark toned furniture as possible...then it isn't as obvious(yes it's still there)

[splashes]

check you a/c filter It may be dirty also check the vents in the house They may be the culprit

[jebartle]

If you have tile floor, might be the reason, carpet collects that dust. We have a similar problem, plus a hairy four-pawed canine. Phewww!

[bluedivergirl]

We recently moved our dryer to paint behind it, and discovered the folks who installed it left a loosely connected vent. Lots of lint and dust behind the machines. DH secured the vent, and our house dust decreased quite a bit.

My house is still dustier than I'd like.

[Bonnevie]

I noticed the dust when I moved here. never had this much at my old house.

[Hans53]

Same thing here at our house. Anybody have success with duct cleaning and who did it??

[PugMom]

If you have tile floor, might be the reason, carpet collects that dust. We have a similar problem, plus a hairy four-pawed canine. Phewww!

you know it! we just had tile floors put in & i swear i must sweep the floor 2x a day. what 1 dog doesnt shed, the other will make up for. best item, imo is the rubber broom: the kind you see hairdressers use.

[rjm1cc]

do you have an outside filter for incoming air to your heating/AC system? Check it and make sure it is not missing and is clean.

[Stu from NYC]

We recently moved our dryer to paint behind it, and discovered the folks who installed it left a loosely connected vent. Lots of lint and dust behind the machines. DH secured the vent, and our house dust decreased quite a bit.

My house is still dustier than I'd like.

Congrats think you invented a new word,:bigbow:

[birdawg]

do you have an outside filter for incoming air to your heating/AC system? Check it and make sure it is not missing and is clean.
Ac is a closed system but I change that filter every 6 months

[retiredguy123]

I dusted once, but it just came back. I'm not falling for that again.

[Garywt]

I believe that is how dust works. You dust one day and it returns the next.

[Sensei]

M & S Air Conditioning installed an i wave electronic air purification system on our unit. Dust has been significantly reduced.

[GOLFER54]

I dust once a year with my leaf blower.

[banjobob]

Hire a reputable duct cleaning service , consider how many screened doors are left open ,change furnace filters with quality filters.

[guppyvii]

I’m happy to see this post, I thought I was the only one with excessive dust. Recently I replaced my HVAC, (not because of the dust) and had the 21 year old ducts cleaned as an up charge to the HVAC purchase and went with a much better filter. Then I had the Berber carpets in the bedrooms cleaned. The rest of the house is LVP which has a different set of cleaning issues. . I still have dust, but not near as much as before.

[bonrich]

Even after changing filters on a schedule we still have a considerable amount of "dust," especially in our master bedroom, which is the farthest from the heating/cooling system. Our home is 5 years from original build and the first reason we were told about dust was during the construction of our home the drywall applicators would turn on the fan in the A/C to help dry the dry wall mud, which would suck up any construction "dust" laying around. So we had our ducts cleaned, helped somewhat, but the extent we thought it would. My theory is that there is openings in the taped seams of the duct work and what is being sucked up is the "dust" from the blown in insulation, small enough to find its way into the ducts.
Don't know if that could be true, but it never seems to go away.

[Domenick]

My A/C filter does not get as dirty as I used to see in my other homes. I think that the design of the systems here with the return so high in the ceiling that the dust is not being pulled up. Allowing it to settle on everything inside.

[Kathryn Putt]

We had the air ducks cleaned and that was the problem.

[Bridget Staunton]

Incoming air is only in commercial estsblishments

[JMintzer]

I dust once a year with my leaf blower.

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[Joe C.]

We like having our windows open when the weather is good (like it has been for the last month). And yes, we do have dust. I think a lot of it is pollen and the particles on the lawn that the landscapers disturb when they zoom around on their riding mowers. We do have dark floors and furniture, and notice it mostly when the morning sun comes in at a low angle.
So we dust and vac. (Better than having to scrub the floors).

[RenoRVer]

I just stopped wearing my glasses. It solved a LOT of problems. :icon_wink:

The face in the mirror is not wrinkled or drawn.
The house is not dusty, the cobwebs are gone.
The yard looks quite lovely and so does the lawn,
I think I might never put my glasses back on.

[Tkoehrin]

Try to change your furnace filter more frequently

[dennisgavin]

I think it's from all the cremations they do down here,,,,,,,,

[maggie1]

:1rotfl:If you do not disturb the dust by touching it, it hardly notices.
We found that out when we changed our house cleaning program from pristine too squalor!:1rotfl::

[Al2014]

The husband of a friend of mine once commented on the dust he saw on a cabinet. He is now an ex-husband. In our house, I see nothing!

[Ksfirefighter]

Any suggestions on contractors for the tile floor?
I might like to tile my iris

[Neils]

My suspect is the interior paint. Flat paint sprayed on drywall.

Anyone notice a change after repainting??

[Slk9786]

We just had Munn’s clean our ducts. Professional and detailed process. They also discovered that the duct work from clothes dryer had not been connected properly to the roof vent. Highly recommend.

[withease23]

If you're not use to air conditioning you probably don't realize the air in your home is dehumidified hence drying the air and causing the dust particles . Try raising the dehumidifier or have your a/c company do it. Many of the newer thermostats allow you to control the humidity. Hope this helps.

[Burgy]

There is a surprising amount of dust if you are within a couple miles of new construction.

[Topspinmo]

When it don’t rain it’s drys out and fine dust get pulled up in air when wind blows, compounded by sandy soil and fine dirt. Now if you have any windows open when cool in mornings or open storm doors, come in and out a lot, leave garage door open, all that compounds dust problem which is already problem anyway. Yes, there are ways to reduce dust some, but it will never go away.

[Topspinmo]

Any suggestions on contractors for the tile floor?
I might like to tile my iris


I’ve go tile floors and don’t like it. Hard on feet, noisy, and slick if any moisture on tile. I brought big rugs to cover it up. IMO complete waste of money to tile floor. Now some spot tiled not bad, just don’t get the slick tile IMO.

[jrandall]

My home too. It is cleaned regularly and still have it. We moved up from Miami and did not have the same amount of dust. I have just learned to live with it.

[jimjamuser]

check you a/c filter It may be dirty also check the vents in the house They may be the culprit
How do you check those vents?

[Cheese]

Yes, this is the dustiest place I have ever lived. Got all my whole house vents cleaned. Helped tremendously. Also upgraded my filter to a MERV 13 rating. There is still dust but doesn’t accumulate as fast.

[La lamy]

I dusted once, but it just came back. I'm not falling for that again.

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

[GypsyRN]

We had the air ducks cleaned and that was the problem.
Use Dawn dishwashing liquid for that breed of ducks and your dust problem might be lessened!!

[Aces4]

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[DAVES]

Is your home new or in an area where there is a great deal of construction? Fernandina village (OPs location) hmmm, seems less likely.

We have a central vacuum, so all the dust we vacuum up is sucked to the bag in the garage. Getting the dust out of the home is different than catching some of in in a vacuum that is within the environment that it is cleaning.

There will be plenty that disagree with this, I am sure. No comment if it is worth the price paid for dust removal, but is worth it for spouse happiness.

I do not do marriage counseling. Wisdom from my dad, if you think you understand your wife, you are wrong. If, you are right, it will shortly change so that you are wrong.

Enjoy it, learn not to see it. Fortunately your hearing goes as you get older.

[chrisinva]

One thing I never knew about FL was the frequent wind. That wind spreads a lot of dust inside even as you open & close doors.

[chrisinva]

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[jimjamuser]

Yes, this is the dustiest place I have ever lived. Got all my whole house vents cleaned. Helped tremendously. Also upgraded my filter to a MERV 13 rating. There is still dust but doesn’t accumulate as fast.
People up north with small yards would plant hedges in the front facing the street to block dust. They often used push lawnmowers. The Villages does NOT allow road-facing hedges for some (?) reason? The fast, riding commercial lawnmower may spew dirt particles in the air, which end up inside neighbor's homes. I saw a real problematic situation with one neighbor (fortunately about a block away) that cuts his own grass and THEN uses a blower to blow HIS grass clippings out onto the PUBLIC road. These do NOT magically disappear - as cars go by they grind up HIS grass clippings and spew the smaller particles up into the air to finally make their way into HIS and HIS neighbor's homes. There should be a nuisance law against that SICK practice!

[DAVES]

Ac is a closed system but I change that filter every 6 months

That is what I understand. Many posters do not realize we do not all have the same systems. I also change the filter every six months and have a closed system.
I expect there are people with the system that takes the less expensive 1 inch thick filters and the instructions are to change them every month.

I buy the original carrier filters. The off brand filters are not that much less. I had a guy in a store tell me the off brand filters that they sell are a little bit small. He offered to show me how to use wooden paint stirrers to make them fit.

The whole system is rather crude. Little prevents air from bypassing the filter. The gaskets are held on with contact adhesive-another name for scotch tape. How many people have seen them hanging and ripped them off. I had one coming off. I glued it back with plyobond a glue invented and used to glue rubber pads on to tanks in WWII.
I'm sure solvent based contact cement will work well and it is easier to find.

[birdawg]

Try to change your furnace filter more frequently
Every 6 months and it’s not that dirty

[Topspinmo]

Yes, this is the dustiest place I have ever lived. Got all my whole house vents cleaned. Helped tremendously. Also upgraded my filter to a MERV 13 rating. There is still dust but doesn’t accumulate as fast.


Don’t every move to to high plains or desert states.

[birdawg]

My suspect is the interior paint. Flat paint sprayed on drywall.

Anyone notice a change after repainting??
Had all rooms painted some twice. No help

[Topspinmo]

People up north with small yards would plant hedges in the front facing the street to block dust. They often used push lawnmowers. The Villages does NOT allow road-facing hedges for some (?) reason? The fast, riding commercial lawnmower may spew dirt particles in the air, which end up inside neighbor's homes. I saw a real problematic situation with one neighbor (fortunately about a block away) that cuts his own grass and THEN uses a blower to blow HIS grass clippings out onto the PUBLIC road. These do NOT magically disappear - as cars go by they grind up HIS grass clippings and spew the smaller particles up into the air to finally make their way into HIS and HIS neighbor's homes. There should be a nuisance law against that SICK practice!


Lawn contractor do same thing. I can visualize reading about it now, joe smith got arrested for sweeping leaves and grass into street, 10K bond set.

[DAVES]

People up north with small yards would plant hedges in the front facing the street to block dust. They often used push lawnmowers. The Villages does NOT allow road-facing hedges for some (?) reason? The fast, riding commercial lawnmower may spew dirt particles in the air, which end up inside neighbor's homes. I saw a real problematic situation with one neighbor (fortunately about a block away) that cuts his own grass and THEN uses a blower to blow HIS grass clippings out onto the PUBLIC road. These do NOT magically disappear - as cars go by they grind up HIS grass clippings and spew the smaller particles up into the air to finally make their way into HIS and HIS neighbor's homes. There should be a nuisance law against that SICK practice!

Nothing is perfect. I don't think any of the lawn mowing guys bag the clippings. I've had a lawn most of my life and I mowed my own lawn till I moved to the villages. The bag on a lawnmower is very porous. It does not really pick up much dust, it goes right through the bag.

These posts. Everyone seems to think they are perfect. We have chosen to live on top of each other and that has pluses as well as minuses.

As far as hedges, I doubt they block dust. The ones that flower, release pollen part of what people call dust. In any case they do block vision. People in cars could not see you as you step out of your home. Your car? Your dog? Your grand kids?

[DAVES]

If you Google "how often should I change my home AC filter" you will see that most web sites recommend 90 days. Here is an example (not my company):

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If you purchase one of my washable, permanent, MERV 8 rated, air filters all you have to do is rinse it out with your garden hose. I send out an email reminder to rinse it out every quarter so you won't forget.

Take a look at my website and call me if you have any questions. My 1" filter costs $75 and a 4" filter is $110. You will never have to buy another home air filter again!

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Truth, reality, I do not find my air conditioner filter to be at all a problem.

[DAVES]

Lawn contractor do some thing. I can visualize reading about it now, joe smith got arrested for sweeping leaves and grass into street, 10K bond set.

Only 10,000? Some of our fellow villagers think they should be hung in the square.
I regularly am thankful that the inmates are not running this place.

[skippy05]

Find an AC contractor to install you an Aprilaire Air filter as a part of your normal AC in your house. You do not need the digital (automation) portion of this, only the Aprilaire filter receiver in lieu of the normal Air Filter you already have on your system. After they do that, then order your Aprilaire replacement filters from Amazon and you'll be able to change them yourself as needed. This is what I use and I got it because of the dust problem you mention. And, yes it does work. Just don't let them sell you all the replacment thermostats and digital stuff that you can also buy with this system. All you need is the filter hold apparatus installed on your system.

[jimjamuser]

Lawn contractor do some thing. I can visualize reading about it now, joe smith got arrested for sweeping leaves and grass into street, 10K bond set.
It is JUST a dirt-producing, lazy, obnoxious, small-minded, inconsiderate, and selfish way of disposing of grass cuttings. One of MY big pet peeves. Should be OUTLAWED! I hope every dog owner for miles around walks by their home and does not use a plastic pick-up. Would serve them right!

[rjm1cc]

Ac is a closed system but I change that filter every 6 months

I think most good systems bring in outside air. My first system did not but my current system does and I have an air intake and filter outside of the home.

[jimjamuser]

Nothing is perfect. I don't think any of the lawn mowing guys bag the clippings. I've had a lawn most of my life and I mowed my own lawn till I moved to the villages. The bag on a lawnmower is very porous. It does not really pick up much dust, it goes right through the bag.

These posts. Everyone seems to think they are perfect. We have chosen to live on top of each other and that has pluses as well as minuses.

As far as hedges, I doubt they block dust. The ones that flower, release pollen part of what people call dust. In any case they do block vision. People in cars could not see you as you step out of your home. Your car? Your dog? Your grand kids?
The front of the road is MANY feet away from the house so a hedge has nothing to do with safety. And plants LEAVES do block dust. They are sticky with small hairs. And I was NOT saying to BAG the clippings. Just don't be a jerk-dork and blow the clippings out onto the PUBLIC STREET. It is PUBLIC - it should not be desecrated by an ignorant homeowner. I would NEVER stoop THAT low to think that I am MORE important than my neighbor's HEALTH. Many people are allergic to dust and are on oxygen in TV Land - so it is MUCH more important here than up north, when we were all younger and had stronger lungs.

[oemsp1]

Anyone have issues with dust all the time. seems soon as I dust the next day it’s back. Have you been able to rectify the situation

Same here. Construction and wind......

[Carlsondm]

Anyone have issues with dust all the time. seems soon as I dust the next day it’s back. Have you been able to rectify the situation

The Villages has a lot of construction dust and blow sand in some areas. We are in a new area south of 44 and notice it on the cars daily. The outside air has dust particles in it and we add that to the dust of daily living and the dirt mounts

I am allergic to house dust so I noticed the increase in dust right after we arrived. I am also an IAQ/xxxx engineer.

Here are steps to consider.
Use small rugs at all entrances to trap dirt. Wash frequently.
Minimize carpets and drapes. They are dust collectors. Use easy to clean area rugs with hard surface floors like vinyl, wood, tile, etc.
Use HEPA or better air cleaners in the bedroom at least for healthier sleep. If you can HEPA filter the house ventilation, that is the best fix for generated house dust.
Central vacs are great, as well and hepa filtered vacuums. They reduce adding to the home.
I use microfiber mops and don't let the settled duct become airborne again. I love my robot vacuum, and I empty it in the garage ... carefully. We leave shoes by the door and notice immediately if the floor feels 'crunchy'. The robot vac works well.
I dust with microfiber cloths and vinegar water spray and wear a mask when necessary.
The house dust is noticeably reduced.

Hope that helps.

[Topspinmo]

One thing I never knew about FL was the frequent wind. That wind spreads a lot of dust inside even as you open & close doors.

It’s not wind, it’s tropical breeze from east or west coast which ever makes it here first.:)

[Topspinmo]

Only 10,000? Some of our fellow villagers think they should be hung in the square.
I regularly am thankful that the inmates are not running this place.

I was being sarcastic due to some of bails set in Sumter county for felony offenses. Especially the punks that beat the waiter to death at spainish springs. Has nothing to with The messiah that running this place.:icon_wink:

[gb1944]

We had Sunshine Air install air knight air purification system on our A/C. Besides purifying the air it also keeps down the dust. It has worked great.

[stebooo]

Sure it's not pollen

[Bay Kid]

Burning. They love to burn here. And we are worried about pollution.

[Bbgranny1]

We contacted Munns and they installed a special filtration system on our unit. Made a big difference. Somewhat costly though.

[deano_hoosier]

something surprised me, our place in Rio Ponderosa, just north of 466....was not tyvec wrapped, nor was our neighbor's house. I guess that was not part of the building code 20 years back. I has to affect dust level for us.

[mneumann02]

Anyone have issues with dust all the time. seems soon as I dust the next day it’s back. Have you been able to rectify the situation
I went to a MERV 13 air filter and it has decreased our dust issue- not solved it but decreased it.

[RICH1]

Open your front door and try using your leaf blower .

[Neils]

Had all rooms painted some twice. No help

Thanks for the feedback. Especially before I started painting

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Some of the quotes, the worst dust they ever had, were lucky they never lived in Arizona near the dessert, even after a cleaning you could see the dust landing back on my furniture, and especially my black stainless steel appliances, after awhile you just don’t look close.I have here in the villages the best dust buster , her name is Kathy and she comes once a week God bless her