/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1091520
Do you have a carpet? I personally don't understand American's fascination with carpets, they seem to make it much harder to clean and maintain an area dust free.

>>1091520
Dust and vacuum more than once every few months.

Buy a dust cleaner

>>1091530
If anyone has a DIY air cleaner lol let me know.

>>1091524
I was actually going to make another thread about that. I do have a carpet, it fucking sucks.
It's so dirty, it smells terrible, and I can never get it clean.

I want to buy a pile rake so I can really get in there and clean it.

Anyway, to save /diy/ another thread
how the fuck do I make a carpet not smell so bad

>>1091532
that's what I'm trying to do with my fan+air filter machination

Someone post that /diy/ brand box fan filter pls

>>1091520
Buy some hepa filters. Lowes and hd both sell inexpensive ones

>>1091520
Kill the dog.

>>1091557
seconded

Treat the problem not the symptoms.

>>1091520
Wash bedsheets/curtains once a month. Vacuum once a week. You can also get a water feature (or diy one) and put it in line with your rooms natural air stream. This will trap the dust in the water and the filter will catch it. This tends to raise the humidity a bit tho.

Buy an ionizer, or an air filter with one built in.

Basically, it leaks negative ions into the air that stick to dust particles, those dust particles are then attracted to surfaces in the room to get rid of the charge. Over time it makes all the dust in a room settle, just wipe it up and remove it from the room.

One issue with this is that the biggest surface in your room will be your carpet, which is basically a massive dust trap preventing you from removing it from the room. You have two choices here, either rip it up and replace it with wooden floor and tasteful rugs like a civilised person, or rent a proper carpet cleaner. One of the ones that jets water and detergent out of a nozzle and simultaneously sucks it up through the other half of the nozzle. I've used a couple and they work really well.

In all seriousness get a roomba, this thing changed my life. My house is so much cleaner now. I figure I don't do my dishes or laundry because my dishwasher, washing machine, and dryer do that for me. I shouldn't have to sweep or vacuum either, something else to do that for me.

>pic related, Rosie doin' work. I bought the 980 model because I'm rich bitch (aka splurged with my tax refund $)

>>1091520
put the dog outside

>>1091592
This, I'm currently living in the city and there's dust everywhere, I wish I had one here. I have one at home and it just sucks all the crap out of the ground, it would save me a lot of time since I would only have to mop the floor once or twice a month.

The best thing you can do is to wash all the bedsheets, curtains, clothes,... any textile that can be removed, and shake them out the window from time to time to get dust out. Also, if you live in a city like me, a lot of dust comes from outside, so try to keep the windows closed (specially the ones facing the street) except when it's raining. I'm a bit paranoid about dust too, and that helps a bit.

say hello to the frankenfilter guys

>>1091520
I use a 20" box fan with a 20x20 airfilter taped to the intake side. Works pretty well and the price is very low. Looks ghetto as fuck though. Use it for window fan setups and just to help circulate room air.

>>1091520
Feed your dog cold pressed coconut oil daily. 1 teaspoon a day, see if it alleviates the skin problem.

>>1091592
I do not recommend robot vacuums if you have pets. The best time for them to run is when you're not home. If your pet leaves a nugget or tosses lunch, the vacuum will smear it across the room. They can not detect wet or semisolid objects as they run into them.

>>1091736
+1 for this but also check with a vet that your dog does not have some sort of dermal fungal infection. If you want to do the filter shit your only true solution is to never let the dog in the room and create a a higher air pressure in the room so that the clean room will never have contaminated air move into it from the room where the dog lives in.

Also bath him more so that the skin flakes are mostly washed away.

>>1091524
Fuckin cold weather, son. Nobody wats a floor that chills their feet when it's cold out.

>>1091524
Used to clean carpets commercially. Some simple green and a good shampoo eric once a month will keep your carpets new. I fucking love carpet. My entire shitty house is wood floors and socks my ass. Always getting shit on my feet and have to dust off to kick back in the living room or in bed.

>NB4 sweep more.

Eat shit. I'm not sweeping 8 times a day
Also feel you bro. I work in a dust manufacturing facility that is a rock quarry. Fml.

>>1091732
Not a bad idea anon.

>>1091739
Hahahahhahahha

>>1091840
This image is internet gold!

>>1091520
How often do you "dust"
How often do you vacuum?
How often do you do your bedsheets?
How often do you clean?

For context my husband has bad allergies. We live in the country by a dirt road, have three Akitas and two cats.
I dust surfaces daily, vacuum twice weekly, launder linens and duvet cover weekly, and clean every 2 days. His allergies are well controlled without medicine and neighbors and friends are jealous of how clean my house is.

>>1091530
This.

I have several of them in this style. I picked them up at local thrift stores, replaced the carbon pre-filters in two and both filters in the one that was used by a smoker, and was good to go.

One of these in a large room will help keep the dust and dander down immensely. When you first set it up, let it run continuously and while it's running you can occasionally blow air into dusty crevices and let it get into the air so the filter picks it up.

Make sure you buy some bulk pre-filter material so you can replace it as it clogs.

>>1091840
Oh shit nigga!

>>1091539
Glad to help.

>>1091888
>dat cleaning
Would you marry me?

>>1091530
How are those actually called?
Nothing comes up when I search dust cleaner

>>1092293
thanks senpai

i was also one of the contributors who made my own box fan, but to expand on that

i remember there was a consensus that box fans are not ideal for the job because of the fans is not built to operate under air pressure, and a inline fan filter (pic related) is a much better solution that will last longer and more effective, although more expensive

mattias made lots of fan filters and one of the experiments he did was just blowing a box fan into a filter a few inches away without even attaching the two together, but it is still effective at reducing dust

>>1091520
you need to treat the root of the problem
skin your dog
pic related

>>1091592
Are you me? I just got an 880 and the thing blows my fucking mind. Everyday coming home to fresh clean carpets is like a gift from God. You just empty it every day or two and help if it gets stuck. I couldn't even count the vacuuming hours this thing saved me. Also holy fuck it cleans under beds and couches and shit if it gets under there. You could even take off your kitchen toekicks one day and it would clean under all your units.

>>1092322
does it clean corners well? or hard to reach places?

>>1092324
It doesn't quite get the corners, but it only misses like a square inch, fuck all really. It does do tight spots pretty well so long as it's not like a bunch of chair legs, that fucks it up if it gets between them.

It also gets you into the habit of not leaving shit on the floor because you don't want the roomba to eat it.

>>1091592

Q. I want one but I have huskies.
On a scale of one to ten, how badly will pet hair fuck this thing up. I'm not just talking "aw fluffy had a little shed" I'm talking about shaving 100 exotic long haired cats amount of fur.

>clean more often
I sweep EVERY single day for a half hour after dinner and dust all surfaces.
>brush the dogs.
In blowing season that only goes so far.

>>1091810

>>1092468
>Having to wear footwear in your house because your floor is so cold

Burgerland everyone.

>>1092470
>what is reading comprehension.

>>1091532
>box or large tube
>put fan on one end
>fill with AC filters

>>1092369
You have Huskies m8, you've seen how much hair you pick up every day, you know that little Roomba isn't gonna cut it

Even my single golden retriever whom I brush three times a week produces too much hair for that little thing

>>1091520
Hire one of those truck mounted cleaning companies, their system does the best job... better than any diy rental would ever do.

dust is fucked i clean every week now, but still like 2-3 days after cleaning it starts building up all over, today is the day before i clean and there's visible dust aglomerations on the floor.

>>1092296
>Would you marry me?
Will you suck my dick every morning 5 minutes before the alarm goes off?

Thats what im getting right now, any offer better than that and Ill consider it.

>>1091538
Use polished cement as your floor and burn the carpet. Carpets are so stupid.
>but my feet get cold in winter
Wear some socks you tribesman

>>1091585

Made one of these out of an old air ionizer with a busted fan. Salvaged the HV system. Soldered four pins to the end of a short bit of 12ga wire left over from running AC. That made the emitter.

Next you need to set up a grounded metal plate or object.

I used my 4-drawer filing cabinet. Grounded it and after a few hours it was covered with dust.

Worked like a charm for a couple of years till I had to replace the furnace and put in a better air filter.

>>1091840
kek

Internet gold M8

>>1091739
Nah I have pets, you just do a once-over before it starts. You can just run it when your home, like how you do laundry when your at home not at work. If your pet leaves a nugget it needs to be potty trained better. I have caught throwup one time, but that's why you check the floor before it starts.

>>1092322
lol right these things are the tits
>dat clean carpet feel on your bare feet

>>1092324
It does suprisingly well in the corners. Although it's circular there's a rotating brush that sticks out and spins in a circle to pull stuff in. The 960 and 980 models can do an "edge clean" where it sweeps/vaccums the whole floor, then does one more vaccum of the full perimeter as a finisher.

>>1092369
Solid ten. You'll just have to empty the bin more often but it picks up hair extreamly well. I started with a good house cleaning, and now it runs twice a week to maintain. I have a dog and a cat btw. They're built for cleaning up pet hair, that's why the use the HEPA filter. A pet that sheds a lot is no issue, it's literally designed to sweep and vacuum lol. It even does a great job of removing those pet hair dust bunnies that always end up in the corners. Bottom line I can speak from experience as a roomba owner (980 model) and not just someone guessing without ever having used one - those things are a beast and it'll clean up your shit load of pet hair no problem. Take my advise, buy one. Gift yourself one less chore in life.

>>1092941
980 owner here

I got one as a gift and bought three more just because. Two for each of the other two floors and another for my work shop

>>1091810
>what are socks
>what are wall heaters
>what is underfloor heating

>>1092862
>not installing underfloor heating

>>1091840

>>1093250

If money is not a problem, this is the way to go.

Recirculated hot water under concrete is god tier.

Doubt anyone on this board can afford it.

>>1093024
Unlike the rest of the world, some folks live where the cold weather only lasts for a couple of months.

i.e. it's not worth the investment.

Besides, I live in "burgerland" and just now turned the furnace on.

>>1091538
sprinkle Bicarbonate of Soda all the fuck over that carpet. rub it in well with your feet, prefferably with sneakers on.

leave if an hour or two or longer, the longer the better, in fact do this before work/school, you'll already notice a difference if you've spent that time elsewhere.

now vacuum the shit out of that carpet, not only has it deodorized , its lifted all the crap from the fibres, carpet looks new again.

>>1091585
Do not buy an ionizer. When those machines produce ion, it bonds to anything it touches, not just dust. Like the inside of your lungs. Look up some studies on it, they are not supposed to be used in indoor occupied spaces, and for the love of God, not where you sleep. Buy an air filtration system, I would recommend a filter queen defender. They also make a vacuum. Both machines filter to .01 microns with 99.98% accuracy. Plus, the way the machines are designed keeps the filters from clogging as fast as say, a HEPA filter which only filters to .03 microns.

>>1091520
>bedroom has:
>a desktop
>monitor
>two laptops
>TV
>server
>rack-mount routers and switches
>What can I do about it?

Move out of the server closet?