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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
Just keep sweeping the remaining line into the dustpan. It'll shrink more and more each time you sweep it, until in the end there's nothing left of it.
It also helps to change the angle of sweeping ...
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
Just blow it back around the floor and pretend it never happened.
If a rug is available, traditionally you would sweep it under the rug.
Explanation: if it's not enough dust to sweep up it's not ...
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
This is a widely known lifehack. Use masking tape - just tape the front of the dustpan to the floor. It should cover the gap between the floor and your dustpan.
(Image taken from this Reddit thread.)
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
I use a hand held vac on the small particles of dust that won't sweep up.
My mother always dampened a paper towel and wiped up the dust that way.
Either is logical and works perfectly.
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How to clean the inside of a desktop computer without a vacuum
Blow the dust out with compressed air OUTSIDE the building.
Word for the wise: place a soda straw or similar object between the cooling fan blades in a manner to prevent them turning, as blowing the ...
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
move the dustpan backwards when sweeping the last few bits into it. I've done this for years and it helps greatly. 2-3 of those usually gets it all.
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
Modern dustpans have evolved a compliant rubber lip that already assists with this task.
Using a feathered bristle brush with light downward pressure also moves the dust sideways over the lip instead ...
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
As a computer guy, I realized that the remaining dust is an exponential problem. This realization would have been bad for a mathematician: It means that true cleanliness can only ever be approached, ...
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What is the best way to clean up the spider webs?
I use the vacuum cleaner, with the long tube but without a brush.
When most of the spiderweb has been removed you can use the duster or the item in your picture to remove the leftover bits, keep your ...
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How to clean the inside of a desktop computer without a vacuum
When sitting at my desk today I emptied an 1.5l plastic bottle, and by accident squeezed it a little and let go. This created a small, but efficient vacuum, which can be used to suck up dust and small ...
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How do I avoid the huge amounts of dust that collect around my computer?
Dust collects not due to static, but due to the computer fans drawing in air. The only way to avoid this, is to buy a computer that doesn't need fans (passive cooling).
For now: don't place your ...
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How to reduce Dust in an appartment - use sticky tape?
Where is your dust coming from? If it is coming from open windows, or outside, you might be out of luck. But if it is coming from normal household sources, then your best way to remove dust might just ...
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How to remove dust particles when it accidentally goes into our eyes?
Hold your head on its side and wash with water.
Your tear ducts are at the side of the eye, by your nose. With your head tilted the tears flow across the eye taking the dust to the corner. ...
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How to remove dust from tiny holes in mobile device?
Use a soft toothbrush thin enough to get inside the holes marked followed by a vacuum pipe sucking all the dust out of those tiny holes.
Soft toothbrush will disturb the dust and break the binding or ...
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
Sand the edge of the dustpan down to a knife's edge. Reason the the bigger stuff gets swept up and the fine dust doesn't, is the edge of the dustpan is dull and rounded. You need to sand it down to ...
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Clothes are still dusty after full cycle
First you should activate the "thorough rinsing" option on your machine (if it has one). Modern washing machines seem to be manufactured mostly for the ads and less for the actual washing ...
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How to remove dust from clothing without washing?
In days of yore people would hang garments, curtains, rugs and other fabric items up and beat them. Beating loosened the dust which would fall or be blown away on the breeze.
This method is rather ...
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Inhaling less chalk dust while erasing blackboard during teaching
Assuming you are not forced to use a duster, I'd suggest cleaning the boards with water in the following way:
There are special tools designed to clean windows one is called t-bar and squeegee.
You ...
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How do I get the last lines of dust into the dustpan?
A sheet of paper can serve as a makeshift dustpan. Hold it in the middle on one of the long sides, giving it a slight crease with your thumb. When applied with gentle pressure, and at a rather steep ...
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Reducing carpet dust without removing the carpet
If the carpet isn't really soft and squishy you can lay hard flooring over it with some underlayment. Otherwise, vacuum and vacuum often. Roomba perhaps?
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How to reduce Dust in an appartment - use sticky tape?
I have made a research about dust at home, because it is a reason for alergic reactions. And here is what I've found:
Common sources of dust:
clothes, blankets, and other fabric which releases tiny ...
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How to reduce Dust in an appartment - use sticky tape?
Keep the windows closed, don't own any animals, leave your shoes outside the front door, live alone, don't eat anywhere but at a table, get dressed and undressed outside the house. Most of that is not ...
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How to clean the inside of a desktop computer without a vacuum
Compressed air is perfect, but I have spent one can just cleaning one PC thoroughly. Now I use a dust remover for SLR cameras (you can buy one cheaply in any store that sells such cameras), and it ...
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How to clean the inside of a desktop computer without a vacuum
Another good method is to use various sizes of soft bristle paintbrushes, dependent on where you want to clean. Once the case is opened, tilt the computer at an angle holding securely in one hand, ...
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How to remove dust from fridge coils?
Do you have a hair blow dryer? That would definitely help. An inexpensive can of compressed air could work too. (Both of those would be extremely messy; it might help to be running one or more ...
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How to dust a TV screen?
For things within arms reach I use a swifter duster. It's cheap, disposable, and works as advertised.
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How to control my sinuses when I lose my handkerchief
Find an empty open space (preferably with no one looking)
Close one nostril with your finger, inhale deeply and then shoot the snot out of the other nostril. Make sure you shoot it out with as much ...
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How to clean crevices of electronics without compressed air?
Depending on how the crevice to clean is shaped, an old (but reasonably clean) toothbrush can work quite well.
This seems to work well on the narrow spaces where plastic pieces come together, or ...
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Reducing carpet dust without removing the carpet
I have had good luck with professional services for cleaning carpets. The processes and tools they use are far strong than the mighty Dyson (which I also use). Having them come every year or so ...
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How can I clean under a treadmill belt?
Lay the treadmill sideways. Start it. Use some compressed air (flowing downwards) to "motivate" the dust go out.
Since you might not have the compressed air, you might try, sticks, wands, ...
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