Over the last 3/4 weeks our house has suddenly gotten very dusty...and I mean VERY dusty. We've done nothing but take a carpet up in the living room (which admittedly has been there since before we moved in ages ago) - but the house and EVERYTHING in it gets Very dusty on a daily basis.

We got out a saucepan from the kitchen which we used last night and you could write your name in the dust on it (I'm not exaggerating - a week or 2 weeks of dust settles in just one day). The other day I got out one of my basses to play and left it on the stand - I can now write my name under the strings on the body coz its so thick!

We're wondering WHAT THE HELL?! Could there be something wrong with the house? ...WHAT could be wrong with the house? I mean, it'd make sense if it was confined to one room or just downstairs - but my bedroom as well? We've not been into the loft since christmas and we've had no installations of kitchens or bathrooms or anything - it just suddenly started getting iexplicably dusty on a DAILY basiis.

Has anyone else had any problems similar to this? and if so who did you get in to sort it out? - I'm just at an absolute loss here...WHAT COULD WE DO?

House dust is mostly human skin flakes, so i doubt if its normal dust if its that bad, are there any quarries near to you?

No...I really just don't understand - surely the carpet wasn't THAT bad? (having said that we've been there 20 years...)

You might be losing skin cells more than normally or something...this is a mystery isnt it?

Hmm...it is really - the house hasn't been any busier than usual - I just don't want the foundations to suddenly give way (we've got bare wooden floors in the living/dining room which is most of the ground floor until we get the new laminate stuff put down - maybe we shouldn't panic till a few weeks after its down...)

Well if its uniform all over the house then i doubt if its structural. Does the dust look like the usual kind of house dust?

It's probably just come up with the carpet, floated about for a bit, and is still settling. That and things don't look dusty 'til you get your fingers all over them, so it probably did happen when you pulled the carpet up ;)

If you're in an older house, they were designed to breathe, so the walls are full of dust that's as old as the house... modern wall to wall carpeting acting as a trap to stop the air flowing as it once did. If you've yanked the carpet up, the airflow is re-established, and all that cack will be free to move again :(

It'll improve when you get the laminate down, but don't forget, carpets trap dirt, but it skates about on laminate and gathers into balls, so be prepared for more cleaning rather than less :D

The obvious thing is to ask your neighbours if their houses are the same; if so you'll know it's something external and you can't do much about it.

Have you got a cellar underneath the area where you took the carpet up?

maybe try this

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=133856

If you're in an older house, they were designed to breathe, so the walls are full of dust that's as old as the house... modern wall to wall carpeting acting as a trap to stop the air flowing as it once did. If you've yanked the carpet up, the airflow is re-established, and all that cack will be free to move again :(


I think this is the most plausible explanation so far; I've just been working in an attic room where we've taken the carpet up. There are some really quiite powerful draughts thas that come up through the gaps between the boards. There's about 100 years worth of crud down there so, yes, plenty of scope for dust. If the OP's home is an older one, I'd put money on this being the cause.

I think its obvious that your being haunted by the previous tenant that originally bought the carpet. You will have to put the carpet back or prepare yourself for worse things to come. Don't be suprised if someone starts spitting out mushy peas. You better get an exorcist in. :suspect: :hihi: :thumbsup:

It can be the weather. The winds are normally from the west and so the air is relatively free of dust. If we get weather systems of winds from the south then they can have picked up dust from the Sahara. When this is really bad you get rain that leaves sand on cars parked outside.

There will be dust between your floor boards, this will be liberated now &, over the past few days the weather has been blustery.

It'll simply be your house breathing - as suggested. :thumbsup: DK

Furnace filters clean ?

We don't have furnaces in this country poppins ;) (well not unless you've been self-building)

It's usual to have gas fired central heating

We don't have furnaces in this country poppins ;) (well not unless you've been self-building)

It's usual to have gas fired central heating

OOOPs! sorry I forgot you were a 3rd world county :hihi:

waits for big stick!

:roll: how does having your fuel piped directly to your house from the north sea qualify anybody as 'third world'? :confused:

Anyway - given the choice, I'd have one of those ceramic solid fuel heater thingies :)

:roll: how does having your fuel piped directly to your house from the north sea qualify anybody as 'third world'? :confused:

Anyway - given the choice, I'd have one of those ceramic solid fuel heater thingies :)

Errr..Joke, get it ? Nah, didn't think you would.

Errr..Joke, get it ? Nah, didn't think you would.

I thought it was funny:hihi::thumbsup: