[billygoat]

Hi,
 anyone with any good tips for either keeping your hands clean or cleaning them.

Don't mind wearing gloves in the cold but not in the warmer weather,so any ideas would be much appreciated because I'm starting to feel like a grease monkey not a wc

[ronaldo]

Billy i get this real bad aswell, my mrs bought me a pummy stone i think thats how its spelt! and every night when i,m in the bath i just scrub my hands with it and all the sh##e comes off easy.

[billygoat]

the stone dosen't make your hands saw?

ironic really, stop doing as much ladder work and now my hands are alot worse than when I was using the alu ladder,but I do like me pole better

[ronaldo]

No it doesnt make your hands sore and it cleans em up a treat.

[abacus]

hi billygoat

have you tried the thin latex or latex free gloves you can get them cheek from car shops £3 - 4 per hundred 

if not swarfega and a scrubbing brush

I use black rubber glove folded don to the wrist £1. 45 I find they give good grip on the pole too marigolds are heath and safty yellow but just not my colour
regards grant

ps thanks for the email

[geefree]

i get blue hands with blue pole and yellow with yellow pole........ so whats it doing when it touches an odd sill?

 

[Moderator David@stives]

I would make sure you are not absorbing too much Aluminium through your skin, it will send you looooooooooopy if your not careful

[craig jwc]

When i was engineering my hands got covered in oil etc from the metals i was using.

Using a Barrier cream makes it alot easier to get all the muck off.

Craig

[dai]

Get over your dislike for gloves and wear them all the time. Your Mrs will appreciate you having nice soft hands too.

Just think what you drag your hose through. Dai

[wazzz]

i have handle bar grip tape wrapped around the parts of the pole where i most hold it . its self stick . lasts ok but i replace it now and then so it does not get too tatty looking .

apart from stopping the ally getting on your hands , the pole is not so cold in winter ( dont like gloves at all)

[billygoat]

thanks for the tips lads.

Dai,hate gloves,got a backpack so no draging hoses, anyway the mrs likes a bit of rough

[Alex Gardiner]

We can supply some heat shrink tubing to fit the base section, this would protect your hands, warm the pole up and protect from electrical shock.

Alex

[Spruce]

We can supply some heat shrink tubing to fit the base section, this would protect your hands, warm the pole up and protect from electrical shock.

Alex

[wimbledonhandyman]

hi,

When my hands were filthy, an old trick tought to me in my engineering days was to use neat fairy liquid and sugar. Just work it around your hands for a bit then rinse - sounds crazy but the grits from the sugar work wonders combined with the fairy - try it some time

Steve

[Paul Coleman]

You will aleady be carrying the water with you.  I have used a small container of washing powder and a nailbrush before.  Having something gritty helps to shift the dirt.  Another post suggest fairy + sugar.  I've never tried it but it wouldn't surprise me if that works well - especially due to sugar being gritty.

[Ian Lancaster]

There is some evidence to link aluminium with Alzheimers disease.

I would advise everyone who uses an aluminium pole to wear gloves, you may not notice anything now, but what about when you've been cleaning windows for 35 -40 years or so?...Like me?  Come to think of it, I've always used aluminium ladders, and my hands always used to be black at the end of the day.

Now I use an aluminium pole, and a glass fibre one, and at last I've seen the light and I wear gloves.

Sorry, what light was that?....Erm....what was I saying?...Oh yes, there is some evidence to link aluminium with Alzheimers........

Did I already say that?

Be warned - don't finish up like that loony Ian Lancaster.....whoever he is.......

Cheers,

Erm....

[Moderator David@stives]

Am I going up my ladder or down I cant remember ?

[Ian Lancaster]

Which way is your head pointing?

[Moderator David@stives]

facing the ladder

[Ian Lancaster]

That explains it, then

Seen from that close up, a ladder looks pretty much the same whether you're going up or coming down.

Turn around, if the world seems upside down, you're coming down

You weren't a Monty Python fan, were you? :

Cheers

Ian