• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    After doing DIY on my old dusty victorian house, I am convinced that the greatest invention mankind has ever made is plasterboard.

    This is what old houses were made of before plasterboard: these are the wall beams decorated with thousands of wooden slats that you’d then apply a thick render on to make a wall (we’re looking from the otherside)

    I’ve had to rip these little bastards out and their shitting nails one by one, coating myself and the entire house with dust just to get access to the damn beams.

    Once exposed, I bought some fucking plasterboard like a normal human being, cut it to size using nothing but a pen knife, and then fixed it to the beams like I was hanging up a painting.

    Easiest thing in the world, looks great, easy to remove later for repairs, piece of piss:

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      Walls get dusty only to a very minimal degree because they’re vertical. Walls in the houses of people who smoke get smoky and also more dusty because smoke residue is sticky. If you want to spend time dusting, go wipe down horizontal things where the dust is actually visible and annoying, and don’t worry about your walls. Once the second dust particle lands on the first, they’ll both fall to the floor on their own.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    Right?! Also I have 2 air purifiers and they don’t seem to be doing shit. Dust everywhere. Always.

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    Right so we need slippery anti static paint for walls so they don’t get dusty

    Is that a thing already? Surely