Re: Eating Sand: -Being a janitor. working w/ toxic chemicals

fascinating

Being a cleaner is a very toxic job. A cleaner works with industrial chemicals daily. He's always spraying them, & breathing in the fumes. What I find worked best, when I was an industrial cleaner is to quit using all the chemical detergents & cleaners & only use water, or a water-bleach-mix solution & never breath in the fumes of the bleach. I would spray the toilets & urinals down quickly while holding my breath w/ the "do not enter sign" displayed & leave for 10 minutes. Then, when the bleach smell was gone, I would wipe it all up. Piece of cake. When I did this, the place got completely disinfected & I did not absorb any toxins. I'm extremely sensitive & can tell if I'm absorbing toxins. The bonus was that any fool who disobeyed the sign & walked all over the freshly mopped floor & tracked it up w/ muddy foot-prints, also got a good whiff of toxic bleach to remind him to be obedient to the sign. That's another thing, I would mop right after spraying, while holding my breath.

It's the one thing that kept the jerks from tracking up the floor & it worked every time! It took a lot of trial & error to find this cleaning method. I used to get very sick at work, using the toxic chemicals. My fellow-cleaner had a kidney transplant. It used to give me bad headaches, especially when I used to breath in the bleach fumes. It only takes about 10 mins for the fumes to evaporate. There's nothing wrong w/ holding the breath while using the toxic cleaners. Sometimes I would have to run out the door & breath deeply to catch my breath & hope no one saw me & thought I was crazy! "Why is he out of breath!? He must be working very hard in there" Once I had this part down, cleaning was a breeze, a joy. Ever notice how janitors are always whistling. I was whistling too, cause there's very little pressure being at the bottom.