Any ideas for my sore hands ?

[marke]

sorry for sounding girly lol. My hands are really sore at the mo anyone use a good barrier cream or hand cream etc,, find it really hard working with gloves on , cheers

[poynton phil]

You should use a barrier cream, i use one called liquid gloves, but when you are grouting you should wear gloves, all the time.

[pete f]

marke sudocrem is the best but if you give the gloves a try youll find you get used to them i use the rubber ones from tradetiler

[Ajax123]

Are they sore because they are worn or is it cement burns. If it is cement you need to deffo start wearing gloves - You don't want to start suffering from Chronic Eczema which cement can cause if you become sensitized. I always wear heavy duty latex gloves for relatively light work - They are like Surgeons gloves so they take quite a bit of hammer. Tiling my hall way I only went through 2 pairs and I get them from work FOC by the box so not really that costly. Most of our concrete depots have Derma Sheild dispensers but all our operatives must wear gloves.

[marke]

thanks guys i know i should wear gloves really my hands get in a right mess sometimes cuts, blisters, segs, burns just another day seems to go by and i get busy with other stuff.. must try harder

[Ajax123]

Yes you must or we'll have to call the H&S police...... Seriously though if you don't you are heading for lots of problems later on

[Ajax123]

Check out this guys fingers ......... yuk!!! wear gloves when working with cement!

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[marke]

cheers ajax thats put me rite off me pork scratchins worked with a guy who couldnt even wash his own hair coz of dermititis (if thats how ya spell it) that was though tiling ! just dont think it will happen to you

[Ajax123]

cheers ajax thats put me rite off me pork scratchins worked with a guy who couldnt even wash his own hair coz of dermititis (if thats how ya spell it) that was though tiling ! just dont think it will happen to you

To put it right into context I have a freind who used to be a ground worker. I say used to be cos he cannot work at the moment. He got some concrete inside his welly whilst pouring a concrete floor slab about 12 months ago. Instead of stopping and sorting it out he just carried on cos he thought he was "tough" and as you say " it won't happen to me will it" and of course he had a job to get done and finished. He ended up with third degree burns over his entire foot ankle and part of his calf. He ended up in hospital. He caught a dose of MRSA whilst there but that got sorted in the most drastic way. They took months to sort it and in the end it went sceptic and he had to have his foot amputated just above the ankle..........extreme case I know but cement burns can be extremely nasty - not trying to scare monger but I feel extremely strongly about this as you can probably understand. No job of work is worth serious health issues for the simple expedient of wearing the right PPE. Could you earn a living tiling if you lost a few fingers let alone a hand.......Wear gloves buddy!

Sorry - end of rant

Oh if you don't want them scratchings give em here - I love em......

[doug boardley]

I use a hemp based one from body shop, my finger ends were kinned to hell a couple of years ago, after 2 days of using it, my fingers were healed up. Marvellous stuff

[marke]

To put it right into context I have a freind who used to be a ground worker. I say used to be cos he cannot work at the moment. He got some concrete inside his welly whilst pouring a concrete floor slab about 12 months ago. Instead of stopping and sorting it out he just carried on cos he thought he was "tough" and as you say " it won't happen to me will it" and of course he had a job to get done and finished. He ended up with third degree burns over his entire foot ankle and part of his calf. He ended up in hospital. He caught a dose of MRSA whilst there but that got sorted in the most drastic way. They took months to sort it and in the end it went sceptic and he had to have his foot amputated just above the ankle..........extreme case I know but cement burns can be extremely nasty - not trying to scare monger but I feel extremely strongly about this as you can probably understand. No job of work is worth serious health issues for the simple expedient of wearing the right PPE. Could you earn a living tiling if you lost a few fingers let alone a hand.......Wear gloves buddy!

Sorry - end of rant

Oh if you don't want them scratchings give em here - I love em......

OMG , really cheerin me friday night up ta big weekend of work ahead time to take ya advise me thinks

[Ajax123]

I use a hemp based one from body shop, my finger ends were kinned to hell a couple of years ago, after 2 days of using it, my fingers were healed up. Marvellous stuff

Hemp Yeeeeaay not only a healing balm but smoking it will probably take your mind off things.. Cooool Maaaaan!

Hemp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Ajax123]

OMG , really cheerin me friday night up ta big weekend of work ahead time to take ya advise me thinks

Just fulfilling my duty of care - "your safety is my responsibility" ..... OMG I gone into company H&S mode..........Aaaarghhh! we're all doomed!

[doug boardley]

no "duty of care" or "misrepresentation" Alan ( got a distinction in contract law modulus when I did my HNC)

[Ajax123]

[timeless john]

From the sounds of things marke your NOT married and must be single!
Because if you have a lady she wont let you near her with 'work' hands.
There is a thread on the forum ref - what gloves do you use - and no one said none.
Ajax hit it on the head - its not a tough thing - use gloves!

I've been married a long time and my wife often says to me ......................Got to go I forgot its friday!

[marke]

thats when i do wear gloves TJ im careless not stoopid

[doug boardley]

I'm sure I've put a thread up on this before, but can't remember the title

[whitebeam]

I use a hemp based one from body shop, my finger ends were kinned to hell a couple of years ago, after 2 days of using it, my fingers were healed up. Marvellous stuff

Use the same Doug

[Dave]

I don't use gloves.......BUT and i mean but..,.on the odd occasion i have wore them when sponge washing large area's as wringing the sponge wears holes in my fingers...apart from that..Nope...

[Ajax123]

All that typing in the forums must have left your fingers like leather...

[Dave]

I get no bother with them....just you lot are softies....

[Prem Tiler]

I pop a pair of surgens gloves on for grouting but thats more to save me washing and drying them if I want to touch door handles etc. just whip them off and bang on fresh ones when back on the grout.

[whitebeam]

you don't use a washboy then Dave

[marbleman]

only ever use gloves with rapid set grouts, slower setting grouts dont bother me. but then i use barrier creams most days to stop hands drying out,
BUT I WOULD AGREE IT IS BETTER TO WEAR GLOVES WITH CEMENT BASED PRODUCTS

[doug boardley]

hacks, kins, splits!!
found my thread!

[Dave]

you don't use a washboy then Dave

Floors...of course...but not on walls much now.....

[marbleman]

arhhh is that why i dont have many problems then hemp oil , as i go fishing and use hemp alot hmmmmm

[doug boardley]

lol, just read through my previous thread, as soon as Marcus (sWe) said his piece, the thread stopped, a very very knowledgable man, ( and if you read this mate, hope your studies are going well)

[whitebeam]

To put it right into context I have a freind who used to be a ground worker. I say used to be cos he cannot work at the moment. He got some concrete inside his welly whilst pouring a concrete floor slab about 12 months ago. Instead of stopping and sorting it out he just carried on cos he thought he was "tough" and as you say " it won't happen to me will it" and of course he had a job to get done and finished. He ended up with third degree burns over his entire foot ankle and part of his calf. He ended up in hospital. He caught a dose of MRSA whilst there but that got sorted in the most drastic way. They took months to sort it and in the end it went sceptic and he had to have his foot amputated just above the ankle..........extreme case I know but cement burns can be extremely nasty - not trying to scare monger but I feel extremely strongly about this as you can probably understand. No job of work is worth serious health issues for the simple expedient of wearing the right PPE. Could you earn a living tiling if you lost a few fingers let alone a hand.......Wear gloves buddy!

Sorry - end of rant

Oh if you don't want them scratchings give em here - I love em......

Had concrete burns when doing printed concrete, they are savage. That includes in the boots, god knows how and they were small but it would burn into raw skin. Tender for weeks and extremly painfull.