Excessive lint and dust
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Comments (6)The problem is not the machine, it how you are sorting what goes into the machine. Fleece should be washed inside out with other fleece garments that has the same or similar fiber construction, and the Delicate cycle should be used to preserve the texture with the use of fabric softener to help restore the nap. Machine dry low. I have a fleece sweater that is about 7 years old and it still look great as if I just brought it yesterday and my partner has the same sweater and it been dogged since he used the normal (Heavy duty) cycle without sorting and fabric softener, matted and old looking........See MoreDark Granite Counters - Do They Show Excessive Dust?
Comments (20)A Microfiber cloth is what you need. If I clean and then polish/buff with it and Method Daily Granite, our counters shine like a mirror. No dust ever shows. But I wipe our counters daily because we use them daily. We have polished Antique Brown (a premium granite) which is a lot like polished Absolute Black in terms of darkness and the lack of movement (the movement..even though there's very little and what there is is tone-on-tone is under the surface). DH *swears* our counters are black when in fact they're really a deep brown. You can tell if you look at them next to our black rangetop. Anyway, we are getting ready to build a new house and I do not plan on doing dark solid-ish polished granite counters again even though our counters are gorgeous. I'm just tired of having to buff/shine them after I wipe them clean. I'd love to have a counter I can spray and wipe with a regular towel and cleaner and be done. I put a lot of elbow grease into these counters. What has me tired isn't dust (that would never even occur to me). It's the drips, the water marks, the fingerprints, the soup drips...everything looks smudgy and crusty. Then if you just wipe it with a paper towel (even a damp one) then dry it with one, it leaves a big dried smudge across the counter so you then have to buff the counter with the microfiber towel and buff. My nickname should be Buffy. LOL!...See MoreDryer lint screen not catching lint
Comments (4)No dryer's lint filter will catch all of the lint, it's not possible to design them to do that. Vertical / roof venting is also one of the most problematic routes. That being said ... and although probably it should fit only one way ... are you perhaps inserting your filter wrong such that it isn't seating properly in the tray? The filter frame also usually has felt around the edges to seal in the tray and minimize airflow from bypassing it....See MoreDryer lint dust in my home.
Comments (5)I finally found the source of a lot of the lint in my laundry room after years of frustration. The vent pipe wasn't connected to the tail piece that goes thru the wall to the exterior. Basement laundry with the vent going through the rim joist close to the floor above with the connection back on top of the foundation wall. All of which was behind a HVAC duct in front of it. I found it by feeling around up there and confirmed by using a flashlight & mirror. Very difficult spot. Also found gaping holes where the outdoor faucet, electrical entry and cable penetrated. Which explained why the laundry room was icy cold in the winter and Spider Central. Got all of that foamed shut, replaced the vent cover with a Lambro ball vent, all the joints taped with the proper foil tape, not the duct tape that dh used. Laundry is much, much warmer, spider traffic way down and lots less lint....See Moreci_lantro
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