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Preventing dust in your home. A common issue. My issue. | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10708928  United States08/27/2021 11:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For those who live in the city with lots of paved road, dust isn't typically as as bad an issue that effects them as those in rural locations that live off of gravel county roads. Dust particulate from those locations can be excessive if a gravel county road gets excessive traffic during the dry season. I live in such a location. The dust is a real issue. You can see it overhead or from a high vantage in the summer in rural locations. It hangs over the road lattice and proliferates out from there, picked up by the wind. It's like a rural pall over the land and settles on everything, bedding, counter top, floor, car and whatever else isn't in a sterile environment. The nature of dust is such that it can contain any number of microbe, both harmful and beneficial. Depends on many factors. It can and does affect the lungs of otherwise healthy individuals with varying degree. Smoke particulate is also a type of dust that settles out over time in a region and with the numerous fires, it will surely not just hit rural location. Dust is inevitable anywhere you go, but worse for some over one location or residence, over others. Aside from all of that, dust is harmful to electronics, pets, vehicles and whatever else needs oxygen to operate. My goal is to reduce the dust where I live, but is seems like a daunting challenge. Many people oil the county road. It does work for those adjacent to it, but we have a stream nearby also adjacent to it and the cost to oil is another budget item to add to a long list that might not get met. I just want to know how other people deal with the dust issue. I have no running water atm.... so it compounds being able to just rinse it away with a wipe down every day. I have water, I just got tired of hauling it. I also have no sink in yet. What economic or free steps can I take to reduce unreasonable dust particulate in my home other than those I have already mentioned? lol......just had a troop of motor bikes drive past and it is nearly 9pm.... Yay! the dust! lol. The people doing this don't live up here...... Just weekend visitors.   |
Pilgrim001
 User ID: 78018011 United States08/27/2021 11:56 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you have electricity? How about putting a positive pressure on the inside of your house? get a small enclosed fan, vent fan or such, vent air from the attic or outside through a filter and into the vent fan. The filtered air will exit into your living quarters and keep all outside air from coming in. I don't have the time or the crayons to explain this to you. Slake Blake |
| CharlieFoxtrot
User ID: 80706304 United States08/27/2021 11:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1. get your HVAC ducts cleaned. 2. put filters on all your HVAC air returns it will cut down dust in your home big time. Last Edited by CharlieFoxtrot on 08/27/2021 11:58 PM |
| Peach Head
User ID: 78884504 United States08/28/2021 12:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Buy a used air filter from Craigslist or Offerup. Honeywell or IQAir is even better, they can filter gases and are rated "hospital grade" People who invoke "our democracy" really mean "their power." We are not now, nor have we ever been, a democracy. That's deliberate Communist word shifting. We are a constitutional republic. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80731995 United States08/28/2021 12:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Wake up men
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| Glaxnor
User ID: 80801106  China08/28/2021 12:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am one of those sensative to dust. Places without air filtration are almost an instant ear ache/infection. Positive preasure will work, but both the suggestions really on commercial air filters. Most people dont realize that they have a rated volume of filtered material before they crap out. Filtration material is always unwoven cotton. The arrangement and thickness of the material dictates what % of particals are removed. I have seen dusty roads and they can be bad. Standard Commercial Filters will last hours if it is enough dust to cause your grass to turn grey. So you would need to change your filter a lot or use a baghouse (think of what a sawmill would use to filter out saw dust) to keep you houses air pressure positive. It would also be noisy and power intensive depending on how old your home is. I assume it isnt a modern design. A modern design would just need an improved filter. I would recommend, for the long run, trees. As they will block the most dust passively for you. In the short run that wont help. So buy a bunch of unwoven cotten sheets, and hang them up in a sail plan along the road. Visually this will look like those banners that get raised for advertising along a small store front. You dont want to just raise one large sheet. It will be ugly and it wont work well. house _|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| road ============================= where _ is nothing but open space On my crap phone Last Edited by Glaxnor on 08/28/2021 12:58 AM Empty Men offer Empty Words and Empty Hearts. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 10708928 United States08/28/2021 01:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do you have electricity? How about putting a positive pressure on the inside of your house? get a small enclosed fan, vent fan or such, vent air from the attic or outside through a filter and into the vent fan. The filtered air will exit into your living quarters and keep all outside air from coming in. Quoting: Pilgrim001 I would need to build an enclosed porch, bu that could work. Maybe run a few beads of sealant in some places.... |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 10708928 United States08/28/2021 01:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am one of those sensative to dust. Places without air filtration are almost an instant ear ache/infection. Quoting: Glaxnor Positive preasure will work, but both the suggestions really on commercial air filters. Most people dont realize that they have a rated volume of filtered material before they crap out. Filtration material is always unwoven cotton. The arrangement and thickness of the material dictates what % of particals are removed. I have seen dusty roads and they can be bad. Standard Commercial Filters will last hours if it is enough dust to cause your grass to turn grey. So you would need to change your filter a lot or use a baghouse (think of what a sawmill would use to filter out saw dust) to keep you houses air pressure positive. It would also be noisy and power intensive depending on how old your home is. I assume it isnt a modern design. A modern design would just need an improved filter. I would recommend, for the long run, trees. As they will block the most dust passively for you. In the short run that wont help. So buy a bunch of unwoven cotten sheets, and hang them up in a sail plan along the road. Visually this will look like those banners that get raised for advertising along a small store front. You dont want to just raise one large sheet. It will be ugly and it wont work well. house _|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| road ============================= where _ is nothing but open space On my crap phone I thought about getting a privacy fence to catch some of the dust, as the road is fairly close. Enough that the dust settles fast where I am. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 10708928 United States08/28/2021 01:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 10708928 United States08/28/2021 01:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Buy a used air filter from Craigslist or Offerup. Quoting: Peach Head Honeywell or IQAir is even better, they can filter gases and are rated "hospital grade" I had an opportunity at some Alpine Air commercial ionizers, but passed them up. Those will knock particulate out the air. Seen it happen in real time. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 10708928 United States08/28/2021 01:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Buy a used air filter from Craigslist or Offerup. Quoting: Peach Head Honeywell or IQAir is even better, they can filter gases and are rated "hospital grade" I had an opportunity at some Alpine Air commercial ionizers, but passed them up. Those will knock particulate out the air. Seen it happen in real time. Still would need filters, but at what cost? |
| Glaxnor
User ID: 80801106 China08/28/2021 01:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I thought about getting a privacy fence to catch some of the dust, as the road is fairly close. Enough that the dust settles fast where I am. Quoting: Osmium76 I was going for cheap and effective 2 dollars per ton of filtration material on alibaba right now. You can also arrange them so they dont block your view past them. Neighbors might complain, but I would be surprised if you have that many neighbors Empty Men offer Empty Words and Empty Hearts. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 10708928 United States08/28/2021 01:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I thought about getting a privacy fence to catch some of the dust, as the road is fairly close. Enough that the dust settles fast where I am. Quoting: Osmium76 I was going for cheap and effective 2 dollars per ton of filtration material on alibaba right now. You can also arrange them so they dont block your view past them. Neighbors might complain, but I would be surprised if you have that many neighbors Wish I could tap into the stream and use it to water the road in the summer..... That would be optimal. |
| Glaxnor
User ID: 80801106 China08/28/2021 01:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | double post Last Edited by Glaxnor on 08/28/2021 01:49 AM Empty Men offer Empty Words and Empty Hearts. |
| Glaxnor
User ID: 80801106 China08/28/2021 01:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I thought about getting a privacy fence to catch some of the dust, as the road is fairly close. Enough that the dust settles fast where I am. Quoting: Osmium76 I was going for cheap and effective 2 dollars per ton of filtration material on alibaba right now. You can also arrange them so they dont block your view past them. Neighbors might complain, but I would be surprised if you have that many neighbors Wish I could tap into the stream and use it to water the road in the summer..... That would be optimal. water rights or drought control? Alternatively you could just tar the road. Not sure what that would cost, but it would stop the dust at the source Empty Men offer Empty Words and Empty Hearts. |
| tonydanzig
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| Glaxnor
User ID: 80801106 China08/28/2021 03:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not OP, but when I went to college I went from a properly maintained house with central air to a dirty dorm with no air. Never had an ear infection in my entire life. Had 7 in the first year of college. Doctors pumped me to the gills with anti-biotics, and kept telling me "We don't know what's wrong." Finally someone suggested mold, and so I said screw it and bought an air filter. Within thirty minutes my nose started popping, like when you are in an elevator or airplane, and in an hour my ear started popping... Then came the boogers. One came out of my ear. A sensation I can assure you, you will recognize if you have ever had it. It was snake thing and three inches long. I wear a mask a lot, and before the pandemic people would look at me like I am afraid of germs. Now they still think that, but its about dust. Clear days I can breath fine without a mask. Smokey days without a mask lead to a ringing sensation. Then an anti-popping sensation, and then pain. Takes about 4 hours in heavy dust/smoke. Infection kicks in after twenty-four hours. Empty Men offer Empty Words and Empty Hearts. |
| GodLikeProduct
User ID: 80778634  United Kingdom08/28/2021 05:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We have a Homedic HEPA air purifier in every room. Spider plants ( and other plants ) also clean the air of toxins supposedly. Basically you can not have enough plants indoors. Make your indoor a forest if you can the healthier you probably will be. Last Edited by GodLikeProduct on 08/28/2021 05:33 AM |
| Peach Head
User ID: 71003287 United States08/28/2021 05:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Buy a used air filter from Craigslist or Offerup. Quoting: Peach Head Honeywell or IQAir is even better, they can filter gases and are rated "hospital grade" I had an opportunity at some Alpine Air commercial ionizers, but passed them up. Those will knock particulate out the air. Seen it happen in real time. Still would need filters, but at what cost? Ionizers will eat everything rubber around it. It will break down the elastic in your clothes and your drawers and socks will start sagging in you. That was the first thing I noticed then many appliances started breaking diwn...rubber band drives on old VCR and grommets on seals dry rotted quickly People who invoke "our democracy" really mean "their power." We are not now, nor have we ever been, a democracy. That's deliberate Communist word shifting. We are a constitutional republic. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 15968236 United States08/29/2021 02:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Buy a used air filter from Craigslist or Offerup. Quoting: Peach Head Honeywell or IQAir is even better, they can filter gases and are rated "hospital grade" I had an opportunity at some Alpine Air commercial ionizers, but passed them up. Those will knock particulate out the air. Seen it happen in real time. Still would need filters, but at what cost? Ionizers will eat everything rubber around it. It will break down the elastic in your clothes and your drawers and socks will start sagging in you. That was the first thing I noticed then many appliances started breaking diwn...rubber band drives on old VCR and grommets on seals dry rotted quickly  |
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