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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.

Westmeadows is an older pocket in the north, built largely through the sixties and seventies around the Moonee Ponds Creek valley, with established trees and a good deal of original housing stock.

Homes of this era almost universally have ducted heating and original underlay, and both are worth knowing about. Perished underlay is the usual reason a carpet keeps rippling back after being stretched, and original ductwork is the usual reason a house smells dusty on the first cold morning.

The creek valley also means some properties sit lower and hold damp through winter, which slows drying and occasionally brings a musty smell that cleaning alone will not solve.

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.

Open out a pleat and look at the fabric inside the fold. It has been shielded, and the colour difference against the exposed face is usually more than people expect. That difference is exactly what comes out, and cleaning on the rail means the hang and the hem line stay precisely where they are.