authenticentrepreneur
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Are there any diseases (such as ALS) that carpet cleaners are at an increased risk of getting?
Carpet cleaning and increased risk of disease
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The Great Oz
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Respiratory problems caused by inhaling any number of possible irritants.
Vacuuming without a HEPA filter can throw a lot of dust in the air, some powders are irritants, high residue cleaning can leave a lot of irritants, even going in and out of cold/warm, high/low humidity can cause breathing problems.
Otherwise, just watch the Baconaters.
Walrus Gumboot
Member
Is board sarcasm a disease, or just an irritant?
Walrus Gumboot
Member
Wear gloves when mixing chemicals and applying solvent spotters.
Respirator and gloves if acid tile cleaners are necessary.
Apply Common Sense as needed.
Respirator and gloves if acid tile cleaners are necessary.
Apply Common Sense as needed.
hogjowl
Idiot™
Kenny Hayes
Member
Brain damage from being on boards! Especially this one
encapman
Member
Too many years pushing a non-glided wand...
Desk Jockey
Member
and?
Hack Attack
Member
most of us have lichenification
Maybe splashing some waste water in your eye while rinsing out your recovery tank getting some sort of herpes etc? That was always my fear
hogjowl
Idiot™
Do you think he’ll want to end up like us?
Dolly Llama
Number 5
I didn't think hanging around Lou Gehrig will give you ALS
BUTT...a coinkydink you mentioned it
the exec director of my company had to retire three years ago due to ALS .
He passed away today
..L.T.A.
roro
Member
ADD especially those on the boreds
Dolly Llama
Number 5
overthinking or just mental masturbation from someone that's unlikely to ever commit to be a new start up
My spidy senses suggests a little of both
.L.T.A.
Walrus Gumboot
Member
OMG! Too Funny!
Desk Jockey
Member
Sorry to hear that man.
Dolly Llama
Number 5
eye or a cut/lesion on body or under bandaid
that might be a genuine concern for a bacterial infection.
'specially when not maintained/rinsed regular and gets ripe in summer with that lovely effluent smell....
..L.T.A.
Hack Attack
Member
gives me something to do while prespray is percolating
As we sit in our side by side recliners watching anything I want on TV (I'm a man damn it!) she comments about this and.............that.
Then for some reason the volume on the TV goes up..........pretty soon it is blaring. And she yells...............WHY IS THE TV SO LOUD?
And I yell back...................BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAR IT WITH YOU TALKING!
Sadly it's years of that sumbitch LOUD TM.
And years of listening to HEAVY METAL MUSIC!
And now it's my LOUD MOFO MOTORSICKLE!
BITCHES!
Then for some reason the volume on the TV goes up..........pretty soon it is blaring. And she yells...............WHY IS THE TV SO LOUD?
And I yell back...................BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAR IT WITH YOU TALKING!
Sadly it's years of that sumbitch LOUD TM.
And years of listening to HEAVY METAL MUSIC!
And now it's my LOUD MOFO MOTORSICKLE!
BITCHES!
Lee Stockwell
FOJL
get earbuds
Cleanworks
Moderator
I'm lucky, my wife is dead in one ear and can't hear out of the other, unless I'm talking to a woman, then her hearing is razor sharp.
And when I am in the old folks home I will just yell.
I SAID TO WIPE MY ASS!
Old and deaf I will be : )
SHAD UP LEE!
I SAID TO WIPE MY ASS!
Old and deaf I will be : )
SHAD UP LEE!
Lee Stockwell
FOJL
I've got to clean in one of my assisted living facilities tomorrow, I'll check it out for you Jimmy, I know they already play OUR music...
Desk Jockey
Member
I plan to drip dry.
Cleanworks
Moderator
With an attitude to like that, they'll probably blow your nose for you too. Right after they wiped your ass.
Old Coastie
Supportive Member
Yeah, well it is real music, not the atonal, monotonous pap being excreted these days.
hogjowl
Idiot™
Cervical?
Jim Pemberton
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I've gotten to know carpet cleaners since 1975. The ones I knew then have mostly passed away, or are in advanced years.
I don't have any scientific data to give you, but I haven't noticed any more of them dying of cancer or any number of other diseases that might be connected with chemical exposure than people I know outside of the industry.
The deadlier stuff that my father worked with in the 1960's and 70's are unavailable to you now.
Considering that he worked extensively with carbon tetrachloride and perchlorethylene and survived amazes me still.
Why HE is alive at 88 is beyond me.
