[Adam Boss]

i use latex gloves and you can get a box of 100 from ebay at around £3.00 + p&p

Adam

[cbcs]

Am I on the right forum? All this talk of cream and rubber gloves? 

[Londoner]

i use latex gloves and you can get a box of 100 from ebay at around £3.00 + p&p

Adam

I always have a box in my van, my wife gets them from work but don't tell anyone, its a secret.

[Moderator David@stives]

I use ecover instead of fairy for cleaning windows, really it is fairy but without the harmful chemicals.

I cant believe the difference in my hands from previous years.

When my hands get a bit roughed up with the fibre glass pole, just a dab of Neutrogena "Norwegian formula" and my hands are back to normal

Another thing i have found is to look at which squeegie handle you use, i find black rubber or metal handles will stain your hands, switch to unger ergotec (The green one) and you will stay cleaner longer.

Dave

[frames to panes]

You can't beat fibreglass shards from an extender pole for slicing the dirt out.

[Adam Boss]

Also avoid using HOT water as this will cause your hands to chap, warm water is fine.

[Nathanael Jones]

Also avoid using HOT water as this will cause your hands to chap, warm water is fine.

Yep,.. beginning to realise this,.. just switched to Hot wfp and my hands are defo worse than with cold!

[NWH]

Why is hot WFP affecting your hands.

[simondavis]

I suffered badly with my hands and even went into hospital to see the dermatologist. They were cracked, dry and bleeding from always having them in water.
He sugested a good barrier cream and cotton gloves. Put a huge amount on your hands and put the gloves on then go to bed with them on. Yes it looks awful but after a few nights my hands self healed and I have had no problems with them since. Always put a cream on before you leave the house, keep some in the van and apply diring the day. After all you hands are your trade so they need looking after. But I have found the cotton gloves before bed the best.

The missus didnt mind either. She said I looked like Michal Jackson...or was she trying to tell me something.....

[Captain Scarlet]

My hands are usually a bit dirty after work but I use a cloth to reel in the  hose, Ive never had dry hands though, Luke

[Moderator David@stives]

ecover 

Try it for a month, you will be suprised

[alanwilson]

we all wear Marigold Nitrotough gloves when working, great especially when you reel the hose in with all that lovely dog dirt on the hose.

wouldn't do this job without gloves.

[birdymiller]

I always thought that this engrained black stuff on my hands was from the aluminium off my ladder as my wet hands slide down the ladder. How come wfp users get it. I cant get on with gloves i just accept that the only time my hands are clean is when i have been on holiday for 2 weeks.

[alanwilson]

if you are trad then I'd suggest a pair of magic gloves (one size fits all things) or a pair of thermal liners.

I think its important to keep your hands clean as you eat at lunchtime with your hands, you write receipts with your hands and people notice whether your hands are clean or not. 

[steve brophy]

i use soap and salt to clean my hands the salt grains are fine so the aggitate the dirt in the crevises of your hands.  face or body exvoliater is good to, i fish off with the nail brush then

[jikwan]

ive found the best way to clean out cracks in the hands is a heavy sauna
cleans em up and real healing can start
its well known bricklayers pss on their hands
pss is no1 moisturiser

[jikwan]

im selling my urine to anyone that needs it for £8.99 half lit (inc VAT)

[birdymiller]

I find pss gives your hands a warm as well as moisturises them

[Jon-scwindows]

flaming dinkum, your all as bad as your wifes with all this stuff. Oil of olay anyone? Long term exposure to water and being outside can give you arthritus in your hands, a bricklayer friend of mine has been doing it for decades and his hands are now suffering from arthritus. I would use some moisturiser and some decent gloves.

[TVCS]

I have a sink in the van with hot and cold so my dannies dont stay dirty for long.