A good way to pick up glass splinters is to use a swiffer cloth or a sheet
of cotton batten.
These 2 items will attract and hold the glass splinters.
Then, just to be safe, vacuum well around the area.
CB: The Old Leather Bat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna Globe" <annabarb...@sympatico.ca>
To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CnD] picking up broken glass
Hello thereNancy thank you so much.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Knight" <ngkni...@verizon.net>
To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CnD] picking up broken glass
I am a sighted teacher of students who are visually impaired. I am always
nervous when cleaning up broken glass, even though I can see, because it
is very hard to see all the little pieces in any case. What I do is this:
put on shoes
put on rubber gloves
pick up very large pieces of glass with gloved hands only
vacuum the floor
wipe floor down several times with damp paper towels
clean the counters with damp paper towels (do this a lot if there is
glass on the counter)
put the pieces of glass in a paper bag, and put in the trash (this keeps
the glass from tearing the plastic trash bag)
take out the trash right away
Maybe this is excessive, but I always want to get all the little bits.
Be sure to vacuum and clean in a wide area around where the glass was
broken - the little pieces have an unpleasant way of traveling quite far.
Hope this information is useful.
-Nancy
ps - thanks for all the great recipes and tips - I use them with my
students and for myself!
On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Lois Goodine wrote:
Yes, if you have sighted help available, that is a great help. But
sometimes we don't. One day when I was alone here, I tripped and
dropped something that shattered all over the kitchen floor. I run
about barefoot much of the time. So, the first thing I did was to put
on hard soled slippers. Then I got the vacuum cleaner and picked up
everything I could from the kitchen floor. While vacuuming I found
larger pieces of glass that the machine wouldn't pick up. Those I very
carefully picked up by hand and put in the trash. This worked very
well. But I did some very careful work. It can be done.
Lois Goodine.
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