Where do you draw the line?
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Deep Gloss Auto Salon
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kapinnn said:Thanks for helping me lose weight... I just threw away half of my chorizo and egg burrito.
Yummm Chorizo!!!
imported_ajbarnes
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Jakerooni said:
:shocked Well, I guess it's no lunch for me today. :faint:
You couldnt pay me to work with blood or body fluids. Hepataitis can live in dried blood for up to 21 days according to a nurse at my work where we have PLENTY of people with AIDS, Hep etc. With antibiotic resistant staph nowadays I would NEVER touch anything like a "boil" that had broken, expect a hospital bill for IV antibiotics and to give it to you child if you have one at home. MRSA (antibiotic resistant staph) scares the crap out of me now that workers at my work have brought it home to their loved ones.
Just a warning to those that clean up bodily fluids, you risk your health unless you REALLY know the risks and the correct procedures on how to remove and dispose of this stuff. I can imagine using a vac and contaminating the inside iof your equipment into a nice moist hepataitis vat after extracting this stuff. We have bought very expensive, special equipment and chemicals as well as have had certain people get specialized training just to remove dried blood or feces from non porous surfaces, most of the porous stuff just gets tossed.
I would research MRSA and some biohazard laws for your state before even attempting this stuff.
Good luck and some jobs are just not worth ANY amount of money to me
Just a warning to those that clean up bodily fluids, you risk your health unless you REALLY know the risks and the correct procedures on how to remove and dispose of this stuff. I can imagine using a vac and contaminating the inside iof your equipment into a nice moist hepataitis vat after extracting this stuff. We have bought very expensive, special equipment and chemicals as well as have had certain people get specialized training just to remove dried blood or feces from non porous surfaces, most of the porous stuff just gets tossed.
I would research MRSA and some biohazard laws for your state before even attempting this stuff.
Good luck and some jobs are just not worth ANY amount of money to me
salty
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01SVTvert said:
Good points and everyone should think about this.
Personally i no longer take on jobs, with mice problems (Hanta virus) unless they go through insurance first. Thats $700 for most folks around here.
PROServices
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former paramedic/Navy Corpsman:
Contact your local Center for Diseaes Control (CDC) office and ask an official. Hepatitis and MRSA are bad news and the problem is growing. THere are chemicals which kill everything on contact but im quite certain they are not tested for automotive fabric. Rubbing Alchohaul kills on contact as does Acetone. I personnaly know a paramedic who almost died from hepatitis he contracted from an area which had been improperly cleaned of contaminated blood 2 weeks prior.
If your not scarred you should be.
PS anyone se the mythbusters where they store a dead pig in a corvette for a year and then open it up... ewww
Contact your local Center for Diseaes Control (CDC) office and ask an official. Hepatitis and MRSA are bad news and the problem is growing. THere are chemicals which kill everything on contact but im quite certain they are not tested for automotive fabric. Rubbing Alchohaul kills on contact as does Acetone. I personnaly know a paramedic who almost died from hepatitis he contracted from an area which had been improperly cleaned of contaminated blood 2 weeks prior.
If your not scarred you should be.
PS anyone se the mythbusters where they store a dead pig in a corvette for a year and then open it up... ewww
To me, those are the things that you should tackle just for reference sake. You never know how many guys he or she may have called before talking to you. They may have been turned down a few times already. Given the fact that you say yes to the job, whenever they talk to someone that has a need for any kind of detail service, your name will come up. I guarantee it.
Adam's Polishes
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Actually had a customer drop off a car once, it was an older benz... wasn't in bad shape, started working and knocked out the outside pretty quick... moved to the inside, vacuumed the front and then moved to the back.
When I first opened the back door it looked like someone had spilled something, but upon closer inspection it was most definitely the remnants of some back seat hanky-panky if you know what I mean. There was a used condom and other evidence. Now... I'm by no means a prude, but there really isn't any amount of money you could pay me to scrub man juice out of your interior.
I called him, politely explained that I wasn't going to touch the interior b/c it was not within my scope of work to remove potentially infections bodily fluids. He sounded embarrassed on the phone and would barely look me in the eyes when he came to pick it up.
When I first opened the back door it looked like someone had spilled something, but upon closer inspection it was most definitely the remnants of some back seat hanky-panky if you know what I mean. There was a used condom and other evidence. Now... I'm by no means a prude, but there really isn't any amount of money you could pay me to scrub man juice out of your interior.
I called him, politely explained that I wasn't going to touch the interior b/c it was not within my scope of work to remove potentially infections bodily fluids. He sounded embarrassed on the phone and would barely look me in the eyes when he came to pick it up.
I wasn't told what a stain was once in a Jeep until after I tried to clean it and it wouldn't come out. Apparently this guy had picked up his g/f at the airport and they'd been apart a few weeks. He kind of reach across while driving and made her really happy, if you know what I mean. Left a stain that wouldn't come out. :nervous2:
imported_DieselMDX
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awwwwww cmon that is nasty
booyah
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Hell NO!! on any of that mess!!! Go somewhere else I would tell them
littlemissGTO
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Scottwax said:
Wouldn't having a towel in the car prevent something like this? Just out of curiosity were the seats cloth or leather?:har:
I found it really funny that we have a thread on here where we contemplate even taking the trash out of a vehicle...yet we can still consider cleaning up hazardous bodily fluids. HA HA HA.
I draw the line anywhere near there. There are some things that I am willing to clean up, but that is also dependent on the car and the client. Any of my high end regulars would get a pretty good treatment without question, although lots of blood or fecal matter or anything of that nature would take a lot of consideration.....and extra charges.
I draw the line anywhere near there. There are some things that I am willing to clean up, but that is also dependent on the car and the client. Any of my high end regulars would get a pretty good treatment without question, although lots of blood or fecal matter or anything of that nature would take a lot of consideration.....and extra charges.
imported_dirtydirty
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my wife puke in her car out the window last weekend.... she cant handle her liqour, she got some on the door panel..... i made her clean it , then i went to work on it after she rode around with the smell for 2 days
Junebug
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When I was a teen, I had a friend that was "going" to puke out the window - really should have made sure it was down first! He had to clean it up - wasn't his car, (or mine either!)