Since that’s something you care about, I will offer an out of topic advice: robot vacuums (in general: vacuuming a lot) decreases the amount of dusting you end up doing.
Depending on what’s on your shelves, you might find my solution of use. Whenever things are a bit too dusty in my house I put on a filter mask and fire up an electric leaf blower. Blasts all the dust off of the various hard-to-reach surfaces and into the air. Then I either use a high-volume blower fan to circulate the air out of the house through a window (if the weather’s nice) or if it’s winter I just let it settle and vacuum it out of the carpet (some ends up back on the shelves, sure, but most surface area in the house is floor so it’s still a net win).
Some other stuff gets knocked off the shelves in the process, but I just consider that a sign of weakness. Those things didn’t deserve their prominent position on those shelves to begin with.
A bit, sure. But as I mentioned, the majority of the surface area in my house is the floor. I’m fine with it settling on the floor because I vacuum that with a vacuum cleaner anyway.
There’s always going to be some dust on the shelves. Even if I meticulously cleaned them with the most thorough of methods more dust would immediately start accumulating anyway.
I had one like that, it’s so dumb it had to go at random and often loses the way back home. I assume they still exist. The technology has definitely improved and you can jail break most of them. Last I brought was a little spy bot, honestly, but with some attention you can either overwrite the software (and keep the physical improvements) or block it from accessing the internet. [details figures out by my partner]
I think the point being made is, dust doesn’t stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.
Since that’s something you care about, I will offer an out of topic advice: robot vacuums (in general: vacuuming a lot) decreases the amount of dusting you end up doing.
Depending on what’s on your shelves, you might find my solution of use. Whenever things are a bit too dusty in my house I put on a filter mask and fire up an electric leaf blower. Blasts all the dust off of the various hard-to-reach surfaces and into the air. Then I either use a high-volume blower fan to circulate the air out of the house through a window (if the weather’s nice) or if it’s winter I just let it settle and vacuum it out of the carpet (some ends up back on the shelves, sure, but most surface area in the house is floor so it’s still a net win).
Some other stuff gets knocked off the shelves in the process, but I just consider that a sign of weakness. Those things didn’t deserve their prominent position on those shelves to begin with.
But the dust will settle on everything, including the shelves you just cleaned?
A bit, sure. But as I mentioned, the majority of the surface area in my house is the floor. I’m fine with it settling on the floor because I vacuum that with a vacuum cleaner anyway.
There’s always going to be some dust on the shelves. Even if I meticulously cleaned them with the most thorough of methods more dust would immediately start accumulating anyway.
You are insane and I like that!
Are there dumb robot vacuums? I don’t want to buy a little spy robot that maps my apartment layout to sell to advertisers or whatever.
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There are, but the mapping functionality drastically increases how well the vacuum works.
Yes, for some values of dumb. New ones? I don’t know. But many older ones have no connectivity at least.
https://librervac.org/Supported_Devices might be a good start (and maybe even end).
I had one like that, it’s so dumb it had to go at random and often loses the way back home. I assume they still exist. The technology has definitely improved and you can jail break most of them. Last I brought was a little spy bot, honestly, but with some attention you can either overwrite the software (and keep the physical improvements) or block it from accessing the internet. [details figures out by my partner]
It’s the stuff I have on shelves, hanging, on tables, etc that’s annoying to dust. The floor is easy to deal with comparatively.
Keeping the floor dusted removes overall dust everywhere
I think the point being made is, dust doesn’t stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.