[micsampip]

  Hi everyone,

This relates to an earlier thread in Eco Friendly Cleaning Products but I thought I'd put it to a wider audience.

I've just finished my first cleaning job which was a huge 4 bed farmhouse builders/sparkle clean.

The work was great and I really enjoyed it but what I didn't enjoy was ingesting tonnes of dust!!

I tried 2 types of dust mask - 1 with a filter and 1 without. The first was better but both were too big.

My questions are:

1) Does anyone have anything they can recommend for alleviating this problem?

2) Is dust such a problem with other cleaning jobs or is it mainly a builders clean problem?

Thank for any help

Lisa 

[pjulk]

Used to do a lot of full builders cleans for several builders and if it was dusty we used to open the windows and vacum as much as we could first.
Don't do them any more fed up having to wait so long for your money and they used to ring us at short notice expecting us to drop everything to do there builders clean ...

[micsampip]

  Thanks Paul,

I tried that in the end and it was much better. Unfortunately many of the windows in this old place were bolted shut and for half the day I didn't have electric.

I will certainly be aware of these points for future jobs.

Luckily it was a friend of mine and she paid me before I'd finished as she was jetting off up to Scotland for a friends wedding.

Regards Lisa 

[keith b]

A professional quality dust extractor might be what your looking for,
Best thing is to go to your local hire shop and see what specific equipment they hire out to builders & cleaning contractors etc, and then take a look on ebay.
You can get them with a seperate hose stand that you position near to where your working, use this as well as face masks and you should be ok.

Regards

Keith

P.S. let us know how you got on!

[micsampip]

  Thanks Keith, I will bear that in mind if I have another builders clean.

I spent 25 man hours on the place, I think with the right equipment the work could be done in half the time, which in turn would increase my profit.

This was my first job to see if I could hack the work and to be honest I'm raring to go - I loved it!!

I would like to do builders/sparkle cleans, end of tenancy, house moving, guest houses, B & B's, schools etc - Does anyone have any pros and cons about these types of jobs?

Lisa 

[windows_chepstow]

A good few years ago I was volunteered to help put up the jumps at the Olympia Horse Jumping Show in London. 

There was dust everywhere from stadium.  Being a squaddie, we mucked in with some of the cleaners who used to splash the ground with bottles of water before brushing. 

It was about 80% effective at reducing the dust kicked up into the air.

No-one wore masks, but this was about 20 years ago mind!

[micsampip]

  Thanks for that but I find that damp dusting often leaves streaks once the area has dried.

Lisa 

[Tim Downer]

Lisa, a couple of months ago there was a lot on the forum about Builders / Sparkle cleans, so if you do a search on the subject i am sure that you will find a lot of answers to your questions and if you still have questions we would like to hear from you...

Regards

Tim

[micsampip]

  Will do Tim, thanks for your help,

Lisa