Minimizing Dust in Your Home

Many people deal with the problem of seemingly always having a dusty home or apartment. It can be annoying to always pick up something and find it covered in a layer of dust. It also doesn't look very good when you have guests over! By following a few easy strategies, you can drastically reduce the amount of dust that is building up in your home.

First, you should own a vacuum and use it on a regular basis. At minimum, you should plan to vacuum everything no less often then every 2 weeks. This will be often enough to avoid an obvious film of dust resting on everything. Don't fall for "dusting" products that don't actually pick up the dust. A traditional feather dust mostly stirs up the air and it will just settle down again elsewhere. It's also important to make sure that your vacuum filters are changed so that it is taking dust out of the air and not just moving it around.

Another great approach to minimizing dust is to make sure you have a good air filter in your central HVAC system. All of the air in your apartment or home gradually goes through this system, and a good filter here can pull much of the dust of the air. If you don't know if you have a dust filter in your heating and cooling system, you probably have an old one that's clogged with dust and not doing any good! Less dust in your home will not only look better and smell fresher, but it may even allow you to breath better at home with fewer allergies.