Gloves, WHY???

The gloves (with my hands inside) get washed with soap and hot water before the cassette is taken back to the van .

I don't know where you find the hot water.

If you pick the cassette up with the nice clean gloves, you re-contaminate them. Or if you pick the cassette up in bare hands you contaminate your hands which then contaminate the gloves as you store them.

I think disposable gloves is the only way and even then the procedure is everything.
 
Wimps!

Task? Empty Cassette!

Dress? naked!

Decontamination? Dog shower!
 
I don't know where you find the hot water.

If you pick the cassette up with the nice clean gloves, you re-contaminate them. Or if you pick the cassette up in bare hands you contaminate your hands which then contaminate the gloves as you store them.

I think disposable gloves is the only way and even then the procedure is everything.

Hot water found either in the site loo, open doors with elbows and bum or hose from inside the van.

The gloves are cleaned before the cassette is picked up and afterwards - doesn't really matter as it is my hands that need to be kept clean rather than the gloves. The gloves are a barrier between my hands and anything else.

Disposable gloves are okay but tend to be thin and tear easily. I don't tolerate either latex or nitrile gloves and they are the only types readily available, they love me at the health centre and hospital. Polythene tears.
 
I have cryogenic type gloves for filling the gas, when I don't forget to put them on, also black nitrile ones for greasy jobs which I usually forget too. No gloves for emptying the loo though, as someone said you don't wear gloves to wipe your arse.

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I have cryogenic type gloves for filling the gas, when I don't forget to put them on, also black nitrile ones for greasy jobs which I usually forget too. No gloves for emptying the loo though, as someone said you don't wear gloves to wipe your arse.
But you would to wipe someone else's arse
 
or hose from inside the van..

You really take this seriously "

And why not, it's your health. What I am pointing out, to the masses, is just how very difficult it is to achieve what they think they achieve.

Another thought: Have these people ever looked after babies ? Coaxing poo out of all the cracks with the thick gloves on is some feat.
 
I use latex or nitrile disposables but then again I've an onboard tank so have to rummage around underneath to remove cap first & hopefully the slide valve hasn't let by. :LOL: Then I bin them.
 
Another thought: Have these people ever looked after babies ? Coaxing poo out of all the cracks with the thick gloves on is some feat.

My son (cardiac A&E APN) used to wear wellies to work because of all the blood and gore - but used to heave at his own son's dirty nappies. We had a box of Freestyle1104 gloves for use when cleaning him up - plus lots of water then lotion for the cotton wool :) Taking disposable gloves off without cross contaminating anything else is something best demonstrated and then practiced.
 
I never used gloves when we had a caravan. However, on my first winter in Spain and Portugal and on my first campsite, everyone was wearing gloves. I thought it must be the done thing in motorhome circles so hot footed it to the shop to buy some gloves. Been wearing them ever since, not the same pair obviously:D
 
In two words Wimpy snowflakes.

Wonder what they do if a finger accidently slips through the toilet paper while in use......scream.... Run around in circles puking.... cut there finger off?

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I’m wondering what the difference is between accidental brief contact between your own shit and someone else’s shit - assuming you wash your hands afterwards, and don’t lick your fingers in the meantime. I’m hoping there’s a microbiologist here who can give us the facts.
 
I empty ours everyday and don’t bother using gloves, not caught anything yet after many years of doing so.
 
I wear my marigolds. But I have sensitive skin that easily chaps so gloves are a must. I don’t use them to wash up with after though!! (y)

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Well I'd guess like most things it's each to their own. I cannot understand why anyone would want to empty the cassette without gloves, however I'm not critical of those that do. Each to their own.

Mick

Retired nurse here. Disposable gloves would be ok but you would still need to wash your hands. To be honest, using your bare hands and thoroughly washing them afterwards would be the most hygienic way.

Mrs QFour
 
I wonder if those people who say they wear gloves because of contamination on the tap etc put the same gloves on to visit any public loos (or their own if they have guests around at Christmas!!!!) Seems bonkers to me thin end of the Howard Hughes wedge
 
In two words Wimpy snowflakes.

Wonder what they do if a finger accidently slips through the toilet paper while in use......scream.... Run around in circles puking.... cut there finger off?

These the same people that wander out of a public toilet cubicle without washing their hands on the way out?
 
You know that flat piece of plastic
what covers the hole in the cassette


Picture this first timeout in the new to us swift
Theres me holding the cassette

Id taken the yellow cap off
Started to point the cassette down the hole
All of a sudden that piece of plastic
disappears down the hole !!

Me being me thought what do i do
And noticed the top edge just showing
In a greeny brownish watery soup

I had no choice but many reservations
Me right hand went cautiously
to grip the edge that showed

couldn't get a good grip on the little edge
As I had previously cut me pinkie nails
So i had to grasp it firmly to to tug it out

Hand covered in fluid
Rinsed evrything off with the hose
Back to the camper insert cassette


Then off to the shower block
As i had knelt in others spillage

:groan::groan::Eeek::Eeek:

Remeber visiting mother in laws old house
Sceptic tank in rear garden
The council truck in the road on full suction
Geezer sat in the sun at the back of the truck
Eating his sarnies

The smell from the tank was horrendous
Put me off dinner everytime

:blush::blush:

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What can you imagine you use the one on the thumb for?:LOL::LOL:
Hi
Silly you!. Its for keeping your.."Tow Ball" clean while the Toad is unhitched...Did your mother tell you nuffin'?
Tea Bag
 
I've read a report that the bacteria levels on a computer keyboard, yep, just like the one you are staring at now thinking .... no ... please don't say it ... phew you think I have a touch screen ... I'm exempt ... no you bloody aint ... your keyboard or screen has more nasty nasty bugs than your toilet seat ... need rubber gloves to reply now eh?
 
I wonder if those people who say they wear gloves because of contamination on the tap etc put the same gloves on to visit any public loos (or their own if they have guests around at Christmas!!!!) Seems bonkers to me thin end of the Howard Hughes wedge
You are, of course, absolutely right, there is fecal contamination everywhere. However I would rather take my chances wearing my polythene gloves on a campsite than trying that in a Wetherspoons toilet in Dundee.

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