If anyone has dealt with this I was wondering the best way to tackle it.


I dry dusted everything last night. Then vac'd today. Then dusted with polish, then dusted again. I wiped the walls and floor in the new room, getting ready to paint. Ill wait and see at the end of the day if we have a new layer of dust or its starting to get better.
Quoting lillucky8:
Ugh, we redid our house before we moved in and it was everywhere! Wet it first then shopvac it. Like spraybottle with water and dampen everything and then vaccum it up. Or sweep but it may get yucky.

I am going to remind him about changing the filter.
Quoting kim8934:seal off the area he is in with a plastic tarp. once he's done, change the filters in your furnace and have a pro come in to clean out the duct work.


Oh, I see. So much for my suggestion. I wonder if a fan blowing out a window in the work area would exhaust some of the dust.
Quoting MamaJane:
He's all done now and we are ready to paint. It's a separate room so he just shut the door. It didn't matter. It was really bad. I swear I can taste it!
I am going to remind him about changing the filter.
Quoting kim8934:seal off the area he is in with a plastic tarp. once he's done, change the filters in your furnace and have a pro come in to clean out the duct work.

Quoting Caitlin411:
We remodled our entire house almost five years ago and I feel like we've been dealing with the dust since.

Quoting Bmat:Oh, I see. So much for my suggestion. I wonder if a fan blowing out a window in the work area would exhaust some of the dust.
Quoting MamaJane:
He's all done now and we are ready to paint. It's a separate room so he just shut the door. It didn't matter. It was really bad. I swear I can taste it!
I am going to remind him about changing the filter.
Quoting kim8934:seal off the area he is in with a plastic tarp. once he's done, change the filters in your furnace and have a pro come in to clean out the duct work.

This is the first year that I feel like the dust isn't completely overwhelming. It's either all gone now or getting our new vacuum is working wonders on keeping all the dust out of here.
Quoting MamaJane:
It just keeps cycling.
Quoting Caitlin411:
We remodled our entire house almost five years ago and I feel like we've been dealing with the dust since.
- MamaJane
on Feb. 1, 2013 at 10:08 AM