Feather Dusters

I have an Ostrich feather duster which was ridiculously expensive from John Lewis. I like it to do my blinds and shutters. It’s also good for light fittings and fiddly things. I shake it outside after each use although one of the feathers dropped out!

I bought myself an excellent 6'5 man to foungbround my ornaments. He uses a microfibre cloth and the OXO good grip microfibre duster from John Lewis. Perfect for hard to reach foungbrounding and the man is self-cleaning. My real feather duster moulted more than my cats so I wouldn't recommend it.

Half a dozen of those in a vase could look quite smart TillyTrotter. Do they come in bright colours?

This thread has had me laughing what with the cleaning language all-it’s-own, and using husbands instead of dusters ?
I use these things from Dunelm. They are not feather but they are cheap and effective.
Use, slide the mop head off and wash them once a week. They dry quickly.

Lakeland sell those woolly things on a stick grandetante. I have a short one and one that extends almost to the top of our 'cathedral' ceiling. The heads are removable and washable. I use my feather duster for house plants

I gave up real feather dusters years ago, when I found a kitten enthusiastically killing one!

I use dusters with extendable handles and fake fur dusters that can be taken off and washed, but I don't know if you can get them in the UK as I buy mine in Germany.

As I age I’m finding it increasingly difficult to lift DH to foungbround and prefer a lambs wool or an ostrich feather duster, neither of which is becoming threadbare on top! ?

PollyTickle

Do you have a very thin husband with a big mop of feathery hair grannyactivist.

Now there's a thought! My idol would have been ideal.

I think we’ve nailed it Blossoming.

Do you have a very thin husband with a big mop of feathery hair grannyactivist.

midgey

I just googled foungbround and Kittylester’s post came up!

I sadly don’t have an embank and I’m afraid I never got the hang of foungbrounding, so I shall continue to use my husband to get at hard to reach cobwebs and dust. ?

I foungbround my ornaments with an embank. It’s much the best way.

Ewbank

I foungbround my ornaments weekly ish with an ancient washable nylon thing on a long pole, given to me by my mother-in-law along with a embank.
What was she trying to say.

I use the kitchen broom to dust away cobwebs on walls and ceilings and the vac's extension wand with brush attachments for ornaments, picture rails, skirting , pictures frames, mirrors and furniture. I seldom use a duster.

Kitty there obviously aren’t many foungbround-ers on GN!
We may need to start a specialist foungbround-ing thread for support.

DiscoGran

Don't leave your fluffy duster where your naughty pup can find it though, that's all I'm saying! Naughty boy! ?

Snap!

Swiffer are hard to beat, they pick up everything and keep hold of it until you dispose of the mop part. I dust through the house using just the one, then bin it. If you do it once a week that doesn't work out too expensive.

I have a telescopic handle for it, so I can do cobwebs on the ceiling and get underneath everything.

I have sheepskin wool ones on a stick & man made fibre ones too. I wash mine regularly and line dry. That keeps them nice. They pick up dust & webs very well. I imagine a feather duster would just move the dust whereas my dusters actually pick it up. Works well for me especially in those hard to reach places like the top of a free standing wardrobe.

foungbround is obviously flicking around!!!!! Honestly!! I thought everyone knew that!

I had an ostrich feather duster and after a while it just moulted, which was to say the least annoying, as it had been expensive.

Correct me if I am wrong but I thought feather dusters just flicked dust from one area to another. You need to use something on a pole to which the cobwebs and dust can stick and you can either wash and/or empty.

I just googled foungbround and Kittylester’s post came up!

kittylester

What is foungbround, please?