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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.

Vermont is sixties and seventies brick veneer on large, leafy blocks, with mature trees through most streets and a lot of original family homes that have only changed hands once or twice.

Long ownership is the local pattern, and it shows in the floor coverings. We see a lot of carpet in Vermont that has been down for decades and never had a professional clean, which is usually good news rather than bad, because older wool and wool-blend carpet responds extremely well to proper extraction.

Ducted heating is close to universal in this era of house, and much of that ductwork is original. If you get a dusty smell in the first cold week of the year, that is the ducts rather than the carpet, and it is worth dealing with before paying to clean the floor underneath.

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.