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Nobody Cleans Their Curtains, and the Reason Is Always the Same

Taking curtains down is a two-person job with a ladder, and rehanging them straight afterwards is worse. So they hang there quietly filtering every bit of airborne dust in the house, year after year.

Highett is post-war brick veneer being steadily replaced by townhouses. A lot of the suburb is now newer double-storey developments sharing streets with the original fifties and sixties homes.

New townhouses almost always arrive with pale carpet upstairs, which looks excellent for about two years and then shows every traffic lane on the stairs and landing. That specific job, stairs and landing on a newer townhouse, is one of the most common bookings we take in Highett.

The original post-war homes are the opposite problem: older carpet that has often never had a professional clean, where the honest question is whether it is worth cleaning or whether it has simply reached the end. We will tell you which before you spend money.

Weight is the reason curtains hold so much. A single full-length lined drop can weigh several kilograms, and the fabric is effectively a vertical filter sitting in the path of every air current in the room. Dust does not fall off it, it works into the weave and stays there.

The heading tape at the top collects the worst of it, because that is where the fabric bunches into permanent folds. It is also the part nobody can see from inside the room, which is why curtains that look acceptable from the sofa are still releasing dust every time they are drawn.