[johnny bravo]

this year  since using poles for wfp  cleaning ive noticed recently how saw my hands / fingers are getting,   cracked skin etc.     this never happened when trad.      will it be because I use the pole with no gloves hardly.    in winter I had gloves on,  not recently.       I may have to start using gloves for my own hand protection. ive heard your pole can cause this.       I use gardiners clx,  ive just got some nutregina  hand cream,  put on after my hands have been cleaned.       

[PoleKing]

I've been WFP since 2003 and never ever worn gloves.
Someone bought me a pair a few years ago that still live in the back.
Moisturise every day but not too much. If you end up with too soft hands that won't do you any favours either.

[G Griffin]

Put your gloves back on and hope they're not stihl saw.

[SB Cleaning]

It's "sore" not saw  

[SB Cleaning]

Put your gloves back on and hope they're not stihl saw.

[GB Window Cleaning]

edward scissor hands?  

[GB Window Cleaning]

Put your gloves back on and hope they're not stihl saw.

Very good sir!... Very good 

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

Pee on ya hands harden em up
U big girl

[johnny bravo]

I forgot I should push them in and out of a bucket of sand to toughen them up,    martial arts pole cleaning

[SunShineCleaning]

It will more likely be the pure water. Your RAMS should say that gloves will be used and that moisturizer applied daily. Go to any building site or quarry and you will find it is standard procedure.
It should be for window cleaning.   

[CleanClear]

this year  since using poles for wfp  cleaning ive noticed recently how saw my hands / fingers are getting,   cracked skin etc.     this never happened when trad.      will it be because I use the pole with no gloves hardly.    in winter I had gloves on,  not recently.       I may have to start using gloves for my own hand protection. ive heard your pole can cause this.       I use gardiners clx,  ive just got some nutregina  hand cream,  put on after my hands have been cleaned.       

I always wear gloves and i've developed callouses on my hands using WFP. Forgetting how pretty or not your hands look i think you should always wear gloves using wfp as handling hoses which are trapsed across floors leaves you open to allsorts of infections.Weils disease being one of them. Gloves can easily prevent this. Its like an oxymoron..man up and wear gloves !!  

[windiewasher]

My hands are like sandpaper never wear gloves in the winter or summer!

[ben M]

My hands are like sandpaper never wear gloves in the winter or summer!

you mean like a saw....

[rosskesava]

this year  since using poles for wfp  cleaning ive noticed recently how saw my hands / fingers are getting,   cracked skin etc.     this never happened when trad.      will it be because I use the pole with no gloves hardly.    in winter I had gloves on,  not recently.       I may have to start using gloves for my own hand protection. ive heard your pole can cause this.       I use gardiners clx,  ive just got some nutregina  hand cream,  put on after my hands have been cleaned.        

Use a stuff called Derma Shield.

I find it strange that a Gardiners Pole doesn't protect your hands as well because as we all know, Gardiners poles are all things to all men wfp.

[CleanClear]

I find it strange that a Gardiners Pole doesn't protect your hands as well because as we all know, Gardiners poles are all things to all men wfp.

The SLX's emit a black residue on your hands. This protects you from the effects of pure water and dirt ingress. Some people complain about it.

[Avo]

Barrier cream first job of the morning and your hands will stop drying out and cracking the finger tips...

[Dave Willis]

It's because pure water is neat acid. It's probably too late now but you've most likely given yourself cancer.

[Alex Gardiner]

The effect on most window cleaners hands from WFP is very noticeable.

After a working life of putting my hands in buckets of water with 'delicate' softening detergents my hands were lovely and soft and totally unprepared for WFP. The first thing you notice on your skin is the drying effect of pure water, then the rough effect of handling gritty hoses all day. Also most poles are made of hard fibres (glass or carbon) and these can be very abrasive on the skin. Very quickly my hands were wrecked with permanent splits and cracks that would not heal.

I tried barrier creams etc and nothing worked until I started wearing gloves permanently. First of all I would wear lightweight mechanical gloves in the summer and thicker gloves in the winter. Then I progressed to wearing nitrile disposable gloves at all times as the protective effect is much greater, protecting you from the pure water. In the winter I wear them under other warmer gloves.

The effect on my hands was very noticeable, within a few months all of the cracks and splits had disappeared. The other advantage which I had not focused on was that my hands were much cleaner and more hygienic. This is actually very important when running hoses around on the ground with all types of contaminants. The other benefit is that although always having worked with carbon fibre poles, I have never had an issue with black residue.

I would agree with the above comments that if we worked as employees for a large firm we would all be subject to RAMS and H&S policies which would dictate the use of gloves as standard PPE. For all of my contracts my RAMS and H&S policies dictate this as a standard H&S measure for myself and all of my workers.

[Tomboler]

Put your gloves back on and hope they're not stihl saw.

cheeky

[SunShineCleaning]

Does no-one remember what our hands were like in winter, handling dirty cloths and aluminium ladders as well as having soap dribbles on the back of our hands?

My hands were black and constantly had split figures. I started wearing gloves back then.