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Glen

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Battery heated glove liners
« on: February 07, 2007, 11:29:55 pm »
I just can't stand the cold any longer. I've been wearing  two pairs of thermal lining gloves underneath Glacier Perfect Curve neoprene gloves and my fingers are contantly freezing. I read somewhere that battery heated glove liners are available - does anyone know where to get these and/or have you used them?

The worst part is when I get back in the car and my hands start to heat up again - the pain in my fingers is excruciating for about ten minutes.

misterrartois

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2007, 11:30:36 pm »
awww diddums!!    ;D

wimbledonhandyman

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CARPE DIEM QUAM MINIMUM CREDULA POSTERO.....

simonwonder

Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2007, 11:51:56 pm »
agree with you misterrat
cant stand the cold get an office job

EasyClean

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2007, 01:16:05 am »
Being an ex-squaddie on exercise in Germany in the winter having to sleep out in extreme cold is hard going. Window cleaning in the cold UK winter is so much more favourable. Keep your gloves off, put up with the cold on your hands for the first hour until your hands have stopped tingling and then you'll be warm for the rest of the day, that's what I always do!
Losing a customer is like waiting for the next bus, another one will come along shortly!

Jeff Brimble

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2007, 07:47:18 am »
The battery heated gloves are rubbish, a dirty great big battery in the pocket on the back of the glove and they only "heat" to abient temprature ie they dont get warm.

Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2007, 09:08:55 am »
If your hands are cold put on another layer of clothing. the extremities are the first to loose blood flow to keep vital organs warm.

ronaldo

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2007, 09:46:52 am »
Being an ex-squaddie on exercise in Germany in the winter having to sleep out in extreme cold is hard going. Window cleaning in the cold UK winter is so much more favourable. Keep your gloves off, put up with the cold on your hands for the first hour until your hands have stopped tingling and then you'll be warm for the rest of the day, that's what I always do!

Have to agree with you there, the latex surgeon gloves are good aswell to stop the cracks on your hands and there only about £2 a box [50 pairs] keep your hands lovely and dry.
A bad days fishing is better than a good days work !

rugby

  • Posts: 360
Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2007, 09:49:57 am »
some people feel the cold worse than others,could be due to age,or any number of medical conditions,so i find a couple of the replys to this post to a fellow window cleaner childish to say the least.

Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2007, 09:55:56 am »
on really cold days i put a pair of normal gloves on thermo ones and then put the latex surgeon gloves over the top to keep them from getting wet. works a treat

rugby

  • Posts: 360
Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2007, 10:02:04 am »
been useing the new unger so called improved gloves this week,one glove starting to fall apart already,they are stronger than the old ones, but still more suited to working trad than wfp

AuRavelling79

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2007, 11:34:19 am »
Ok - my method.

Get a box of those disposable polythene gloves you get at some diesel pumps.
Put on a set first thing and then put on your sealskins over them.

Now, sealskins do fall apart when poling after a while so as soon as you get them re-inforce the wear points with duct tape.

Toasty (And I work with aluminium poles!)


Once a week, take off duct tape and wash gloves and put more tape on when they're dry.
It's a game of three halves!

Ian_Giles

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2007, 05:12:31 pm »
I use the bulky gloves that Omnipole supply, if you are WFP they are first rate, fur lined and water proof, and they do a top class job of keeping your hands warm and dry, and are very hard wearing.

If your hands have got cold, even in gloves they will tend to stay cold, you need to increase the blood supply to them.

you might feel a berk, but hold your arms loose, particularly the hands and fingers and then throw your arms around your body hard.
Keep your hands loose, throw your arms from the shoulders only and let your fingers slap against the back of your shoulder blades.
Providing you keep your hands and arms free and loose then you'll force the blood back into your fingertips and your fingers will glow!

To some of you that may sound like teaching granny to suck eggs, but some people can't do that for love nor money.
but if you can do it then it makes a hell of a difference.

Your fingers will stay warmer for longer in your gloves this way too.

Ian

Ian. ISM CLEANING SERVICES

jeff1

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2007, 06:03:23 pm »
When I was trad, I used to take hot water with me, put on my unger gloves and dip my hands into my bucket, even in cold weather you will be supprised how long it stays wamer than your hands,
so just keep dipping them into the water, when thats cold throw it away and get another one, even most customers don't ming giving you a gallon of hot water.

jouk45

Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2007, 07:27:26 pm »
wonder if this cream stuff would be good for coating the hands before puting on the gloves.
would this not keep the hands from getting wet and cracked,
http://www.autocaredirect.co.uk/index.php?category=1

or this   http://www.giab.co.uk/

EasyClean

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2007, 07:44:44 pm »
some people feel the cold worse than others,could be due to age,or any number of medical conditions,so i find a couple of the replys to this post to a fellow window cleaner childish to say the least.

I'm not trying to be funny and upset people, BUT, when they decided to go window cleaning as a career they knew the consequences of working outdoors in the cold extremes as well as the glorious sunny weather. The trouble nowadays is the oldies are thick skinned and the younger generation (not all, just the minority) are a bunch of wimps who moan about hard work and life being cruel and everything else. Personally some of them need to get off their backsides and stop wingeing as they've never had it so easy!!!  Feel free to reply if you wish as I'm only voicing my opinion.
Losing a customer is like waiting for the next bus, another one will come along shortly!

rugby

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2007, 09:01:04 pm »
yours was not one of the couple of smart remarks i was refering to.one was awwww diddums,and the other was someone telling him to go get an office job, one day maybe these guys will want advice,and i bet they get it,because most of the guys on this forum are willing to help each other out,not just take the pi**

DASERVICES

Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2007, 09:17:03 pm »
For years I have had problems with cold hands due to bad circulation and found that no gloves worked for me. Then last week a customer who does a lot of fishing in the cold recommended cycling gloves. You can get them from any bicycle shop, they cost me £30.

They are the first pair of gloves that have worked for me, I'm a happy man now with nice warm gloves and my rigger boots. ;D

Doug

Jeff Brimble

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Re: Battery heated glove liners
« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2007, 09:57:24 pm »
The cycle gloves my wife tried had the waterproof lining on the inside, outside was a fabric that got soaking wet, she used them just once.

The Omnipole gloves she also tried and didnt fit her (too big) so I try to use them but even with poly lining my fingers got cold yesterday but maybe because the gloves are really tight as I should have a bigger size ?  (they dont seem to give a lot ?) I usually use lined Glacier.