Breathing hazard

[Old Coastie]

Although not specific to carpet cleaning, this is not to be ignored:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...oking-20-day-scientists-warning-a8214051.html

Smoke a pipe instead.

 

[hogjowl]

It’s interesting that I developed asthma and sensitivity to cleaning product odors at the same time.
After 29 years in the industry

 

[Larry Cobb]

When I did my Green Chemical Great Debate for CleanFax,

I talked to a University professor who studied risks from various activities.

He rated second-hand smoke as a much higher risk,

than the risk from butyl cleaners used widely for degreasing.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

University professor....hmm.

I had the plant manager of Vanderbilt Chemical, Ed Shinner, warn me in 1984 about the health hazards of ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, or "butyl" I was then using.

It took my thick skull another decade to realize how correct he was.


Now I see formulators using weasel words and chemical pseudonyms to minimize the alarm and care that should be exercised.

 

[Desk Jockey]

When I did my Green Chemical Great Debate for CleanFax,

I talked to a University professor who studied risks from various activities.

He rated second-hand smoke as a much higher risk,

than the risk from butyl cleaners used widely for degreasing.

It very well could be true.

However in our case as cleaners we are exposed to far more butyl in the work place daily than secondhand smoke. So for most of us, it is/should be a greater concern.

 

[Mikey P]

coUgh!

 

[Cleanworks]

I remember Tom Hill emphasizing not to smoke in your work van. sucking all those chemical fumes through a heated cigarette, then breathing deep into your lungs.

 

[bob vawter]

those who have met me
know what chemical emphysema can do.....

 

[Hack Attack]

On emptys I'm gonna nuke i like to have windows or doors on opposite sides of the house open for a cross breeze

 

[steve_64]

On emptys I'm gonna nuke i like to have windows or doors on opposite sides of the house open for a cross breeze

So the finer particles stay airborne longer instead of falling into the carpet?

 

[steve_64]

I tend to hold my breath until I step out of the room. Not the best protection but something I've done since I was a kid when i would get a whiff of something that I could feel in my lungs.

 

[hogjowl]

those who have met me
know what chemical emphysema can do.....

So it causes orneriness too?

 

[bob vawter]

Don tell everybody. ......!

 

[bob vawter]

I hired this dipwad once.....on
The very first job I look over and he had his tee shirt pulled up over his nose.....
DON DO THAT!....next job ...same thing......
Ya....he...was fired by the end of the
FIRST DAY!!!

 

[Cleanworks]

They should have studied professional cleaners and compared them to house wives. Which kind of chemistry will get you quicker.

 

[Desk Jockey]

I hear there is a study of Fel's fumes eating a second hole in cleaners asses. But it hasn't been confirmed.

 

[bob vawter]

I hear there is a study of Fel's fumes eating a second hole in cleaners asses. But it hasn't been confirmed.

another visual i coulda done witout......!

 

[Dolly Llama]

I hear there is a study of Fel's fumes eating a second hole in cleaners asses. But it hasn't been confirmed.

don't be a hatter Chavez

if it was good enough for Gramdma, it's good enough for me....

..L.T.A.

 

[Desk Jockey]

don't be a hatter Chavez

if it was good enough for Gramdma, it's good enough for me....

..L.T.A.

Well that splains plenty.

Granny got the winds something terrible. Who knew it was dueling banjos down under.

 

[hogjowl]

don't be a hatter Chavez

if it was good enough for Gramdma, it's good enough for me....

..L.T.A.

It’s hater
Idiot

 

[Desk Jockey]

I don't look good in hats...Ok so maybe it's not the hats fault.

 

[hogjowl]

The mad hatter is some cartoon character
Or Mikey in that cow boy hat

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Mad Hatter, historically proven to be caused by occupational mercury poisoning.

 

[Hack Attack]

So the finer particles stay airborne longer instead of falling into the carpet?

No its the opposite, I've worked 20+ years with chemicals in corporate scale horticulture. Airborne particles (the fines) stay airborne longer in settled conditions, in horticulture most drift happens when wind drops below 2kmhr. Air induction nozzles on your sprayer remove most fines as well

 

[bob vawter]

HEATING the butyl into a smaller size oxygenated molecular is what my problem was as an emulsifier. ....

 

[bob vawter]

AND I can STILL remember the Fells Napa scrubins I got as a toddler .....I sh*t you not !....when the bars got so small my mom would throw em all together and cook them into a new block

 

[Desk Jockey]

AND I can STILL remember the Fells Napa scrubins I got as a toddler .....I sh*t you not !....when the bars got so small my mom would throw em all together and cook them into a new block

See whut fel's does to a person!!!

 

[hogjowl]

If that were true, I’d be old and stupid too

 

[Desk Jockey]

If that were true, I’d be old and stupid too

Uhhhh...

 

[Dolly Llama]

It’s hater
Idiot

dam u


.L.T.A.