Cleaning is a simple task, but not always easy, much less dusting. However, cleaning your home is very important. Here are smart and easy dusting tips to help keep your home clean.
Dusting Tips - Best Methods
These 10 best dusting methods will significantly cut down your effort and cleaning time. There's no need to always hire and spend on handy professional cleaners when you can do it yourself.
1) Dusting Light Fixtures & Ceiling Fans
Use a bendable duster when dusting light fixtures and ceiling fans. There's no need for a ladder when doing this, unless your ceilings are really high. Just bend the rod to suit any fan or light configuration --including a ceiling fan (bend shaft to 90 degrees). After dusting, remove the microfiber cover and wash it.
2) Dusting Moldings, Door Frames & Corners
Moldings, door frames and corners always have spider webs and dust. You deal with a lot of these when dusting these places in your room. These areas are also usually overlooked. The laziest and easiest dusting tips for this: Get a microfiber cloth (or an old sock), place it over the end of a mop rod, and use elastic to secure it, and viola! You have an instant high-duster!
3) How to clean dust off of walls?
We get this question a lot. Personally, I don't do this but if it needs to be done, there's a way in how to dust walls easily. Spray a microfiber cloth with a bit of water and get a flat head mop (no need for expensive cleaning products). Simply clean your wall with this tool using a "W" pattern --saving you energy and time. Working it up and down also ensures you're dusting the entire space.
4) How to dust bathroom vents?
Cleaning your bathroom is crucial, especially the vents. Vents run for many hours, sucking up a ton of moisture, dirt, and dust. How to clean dust from these super dusty vents? Just use your vacuum with brush attachment. This loosens and sucks up the caked dust or dirt.
5) How to clean dust from baseboards?
Refer back to my tip: #2 Dusting Moldings, Door Frames & Corners. Lightly spray a cloth or old socks and attach it to a mop rod. This means no bending down or tough work, making dusting so much easier. It also allows you to clean hard-to-reach areas, such as behind furniture.
6) What's the best dusting method for antiques and delicate items?
Use a lightly misted makeup brush or small paintbrush for detailed cleaning of: small delicate trinkets, silk flowers, delicate ornaments, antique pieces, and such.
7) Pro Tip: Dusting in the Right Direction
Just like snow, dust falls from the top to the bottom. When removing dust from the air or any surface, start from the highest part and work your way down to the lowest. Otherwise, you'd have to redo dusting.
Another method is working in a spiral formation: work clockwise when cleaning all four corners and moldings, move down and dust the tops of frames (window, art, doors, etc.), then lower to dust table tops, and finally all baseboards. Then last is vacuuming. Doing this prevents dust from falling on already cleaned areas.
8) Cleaning/Dusting with Microfiber Cloths
I've been talking about microfibers for many years. Why dust with anything else? It helps you spend much less time cleaning! A microfiber cloth is electrostatically charged which means it literally attracts dust. In addition to being highly absorbent, it also doesn't leave dust or lint behind, leaving your surfaces with NO streaks. In other words, this tool helps you clean more efficiently, saving you time!
9) Replace Air Filters & Clean Ducts
These are major sources of allergens and dust in your home --especially after a home restoration project. You're collecting more dust if you haven't been replacing your air filter every season. Getting your air ducts cleaned is the best dusting method. Hire handy professional cleaners to come and vacuum all your vents and remove all residual dust in your house.
10) Areas You Can't See/Delicate Areas
Use a pantyhose-covered dust brush with a vacuum for these areas. The nozzle will collect dust with a dust brush --without sucking up items or valuables you don't want vacuumed up.
Bonus Tips For Fusting:
1) What is best for dusting?
The best dusting method is using microfiber cloths. They collect and hold tons of dust without releasing it in the air. When dusting irregular places and flat surfaces, lamb’s wool is a great material to use. These disposable cloths are the quickest and most effective when you clean house furniture and electronics.
2) When dusting, is it better with a wet or dry cloth?
The logical reason why wet cloth is better than dry: dust bonds to the wet surface.
Above are some great dusting tips to follow to keep your house clean. Always remember that having a cleaning schedule will help prevent your home from becoming very messy.
