I was wondering why I feel like shit all the time, so my doctor referred me to an allergist. After a blood test it's not my dog, it's not pollen, it's 4 counts of different latin names of DUST. Well, specifically it's the mites dust attracts and their fecal matter which causes it.
Changed the air filters, have a home air purification system, laundered all the bedsheets on hot, removed old clothes and random junk, and vacuumed all the carpets.
Is there like a spray I can kill these frickers with?
You can’t get rid of them, practically speaking.
Wrong and stupid-pilled
>Is there like a spray I can kill these frickers with?
Permethrin kills dust mites and also bed bugs. Single treatment lasts at least 2 months. Also kills mosquitoes.
I'm going to do like the other poster said and take the herculean task of cleaning up this hoarder house, but you're saying I should just spray everything down with pic related? It can't just be that easy, right? Can it be used indoors?
>Can it be used indoors?
Sure
Oh wait, you want to continue to live and sleep there?
Well guess that answers that. Wish there was something like febreeze for these things that I could spray on couches and carpet. Obviously I can do my own bedding, and I already got the old-people plastic cover for the mattress.
Is your purifier actually Hepa grade? Many get israelitey about how they label that. And is it whole home, or one in every room? Because the first isn't always as good unless the house was designed to make use of it.
Complicated. Three A/C units, and I think five furnace trunks within a sprawling home/workplace/warehouse. The HVAC guy took a whole day here to get them all in, but I doubt they're Hepa grade. Still feel a shitload better as soon as he did it. Felt better after it broke down in the summer and no air was flowing, filters were nasty.
Wash your bedding regularly and use a vacuum cleaner to vacuum the bare mattress. Look into dust-mite resistant mattress and pillow covers. Run an air purifier in your room.
Honestly, HEPA doesn't matter as much as it used too. Even most cheap retail-grade filters are actually pretty effective now at getting the bulk of the dust, especially when it comes to allergens, which tend to be larger particles.
t. filter nerd
Build a laminar flow hood in your house with hepa filters.
Time to develop some new habits. Gotta clean your living space, dude. Gotta open the windows and let the fresh air in. Gotta let go of old things that attract dust and cause clutter. Nothing less than a full deep clean of every space in the house is what you should do for starters. That means get packing boxes and pack up everything non-essential so you can take your time and go through the house room by room to dust, clean and seal them up. Then when you're done, be mindful of how you refill each room so that routine weekly cleaning is easy and doesn't require much effort. Try to mount what you can to the wall so you don't have to move furniture. Buy a Bona mop and a cordless vacuum for floors. If you're really that sensitive to dust, I would buy an air scrubber that packs some serious power and periodically let it rip in each room of the house. Depending on your situation, you're in for a lot of work. I would know. I basically have had to deal with your same issue, but in an already occupied house that's full of old stuff and really big.
Daaamn, anything not Suzy Homemaker is north of $300, and even those cheapies are over a buck fiddy.
Buy a hotel and live in the hermetically sealed top floor.
Don't forget to collect your piss.
think of how much dust you'll have if you kill them all....
DIY box-fan filter™
If you have old carpet it may be falling apart attractive to the dust mites. They could be breading under the carpet as the glue and backing falls apart.
You could put baking soda on the carpet (you need a big box) wait a few days and vaccum it up. Might help a little.
>carpets
you're fricked
also move to a drier climate