Can anyone help...

If you have a local market try a look around there; our local(ish) one has a guy that sells all manner of Vacuum cleaner spares/bags/attachments. Failing that try and invent something using a bit of pipe and some gaffer tape.

If cant find.....at market, have looked but seen nothing....Beams very high...6metres have made feather brush attatched to bamboo canes but neeed stiffer angled thing or cherry picker to get up there and sort !

Try to see if you can get some 2 metre lengths of plastic waste pipe from the local builders merchant that will fit your hoover pipe + a 90 degree bend. You may have to bodge up the end brush, but anything is possible!!!

I have used lengths of plastic plumbing waste (probably 38mm diam) to reach high beams as Badger suggests. The trick is to buy the brush end bit first, (you should be able to find something with close to a 90deg angle already on it) and then select or arrange your wastepipe to fit. Often a Hoover bit will fit inside the spigot end, sometimes the pipe will fit inside the brush bit. For lightness you might want to use the white cheapo waste pipe, but the heavier red pipe is usefully rigid and comes in longer lengths.

Try this - wont cost you a penny - it's what I do with my beams here in the UK - even though they aren't quite 6 metres high and it works. Get a ball of twine - chuck it over the beam - hold onto the "open" end - tie the end of the twine to one corner of a decent duster or cloth and another to the other corner of the cloth and use one to pull/lift the cloth onto the beam. You can then pull the cloth back and forth along the beam to clean it by using both lengths. Hope that makes sense.

Esme, your method would work and will work downstairs so will give it a go.. Upstairs, beams different, inacessable. and backs not exposed.....will put clever thinking head on....again ! but thanks for that.

I'm not the most practical of people by any stretch of the imagination - however I was once told a great way of getting rid of dust is to blast a hairdryer on a cold setting over the area - might be worth a try?