Half the dust just goes into the air and resettles elsewhere. It seems like I am making the situation worse.
How can I wipe the dust in a way so as to avoid just pushing it around so much?
I did some web searches but none of them seem to have much helpful advice on this.
We have an old central air system that includes an electrostatic filter. So the air gets sucked thru a plastic grid filter, then thru several vertical wires at high voltage, then it passes thru several wide metal ground plates and finally thru the air-conditioning system. Every 3 months or so I check it and remove a thick layer of dust like you would on a dryer machine filter. The unit is old and antiquated but seems to do the job.