{"id":113,"date":"2026-07-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wildfire-smoke-dust-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:00:00","slug":"wildfire-smoke-dust-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wildfire-smoke-dust-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up after a wildfire smoke day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On heavy smoke days we see the same thing in every house: a fine grey film on window sills, screens and the tops of picture frames, even with the windows closed. It looks like ordinary dust until you wipe it and get a dark smear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vacuum first, wipe second<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ash is finer than household dust. A dry cloth pushes it around and a wet cloth turns it into a paste. We vacuum sills, screens and ledges with a HEPA vacuum and a brush attachment first, then wipe with a damp microfiber cloth folded so each pass uses a clean face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Screens and window tracks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Screens hold a surprising amount. If you can pop them out, rinse them with a hose and let them dry in the sun. Window tracks get vacuumed, then wiped with a cloth wrapped over a flat tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change the furnace filter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your system ran during the smoke, the filter caught a lot of it. Changing it before a cleaning means the house doesn\u2019t get a fresh layer the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When to call us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the air quality is back in the green. Cleaning while smoke is still coming in means doing it twice. A standard clean handles a light film; a heavy layer on every surface is a deep-clean job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke days leave fine grey ash on sills, screens and every flat surface. How we clean it without smearing it around, and what to do before you call anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/sashby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}