Not wearing gloves while dumping tanks?

[Jim]

All good points to consider. @Neal said that he almost always puts his sandwich down first. . .

 

[AbdRahim]

No gloves here anymore. I have disinfectant spray, and wipes in wet bay. When I arrive I spray everything, spigot, sewer cap, spigot handle, even inside the spigot, etc. with disinfectant. Mine is a no poop tank, so no worries there. I pull the sewer cap with a disinfectant wipe. All of my hardware has been disinfected before leaving the last destination. When I pack up, I repeat the process. I also have disposable washclothes in the wet bay, so my hands are cleansed and bay door, and washed with soap and running water when I get inside.

What I don't do anymore is shake hands. After over half a century on the road, I am shocked at how many people leave the stall, after #2, and never wash their hands.

 

[J&JD]

I was in the industrial food plant sanitation business for 40+ years selling food grade detergents and sanitizers. Many of the plants stopped requiring their workers to wear gloves when they found cross contamination was not stopped by the gloves but by proper training of the personnel. Gloves, no gloves, proper hygiene by the personnel when moving from one task to the other (using the restroom or picking up items from the floor for instance) was the best way to prevent contamination. I do not wear gloves for tasks around the wet bay or for water/sewer hookups but I follow a strict sanitizing and washing procedure from which I never deviate.

 

[mjeds]

um all I can say is ewe..


I use a rake and scooper for my dog feces, and I won't even do that without gloves (and sometime a mask cause DAMN, my doggos poop can stink at times).

 

[Rollin Ollen]

Pleading no contest...

Not wearing gloves while dumping? Big mistake!

In this day of fastidiousness and the injection of antibacterial chemicals in nearly every product, there's a strange movement out there: Dumping holding tanks

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I rarely wear gloves but I am one of those people that DOES wash my hands often. I am also the guy that uses the paper towel that I used to dry my hands with that also is used to open a public washroom door (and if there is no trash receptacle near by the paper hits the floor).

I have a spray bottle with diluted bleach that I use on anything I have to touch at the dump station. I take my time to make sure my hose fittings are secure before I pull the valves so there is no leakage. When I am done, my equipment is thoroughly rinsed and given a quick spray with my bleach solution. I have a hand wash in the wet bay that I use when finished. Gloves just get in my way.

Darrell

 

[Rich W.]

. The tricky part is getting the cap off the camper's sewer outlet and catching the inevitable "dribble" that always seems to be there before it drips out.

I used to have this problem and thought I’d have to replace the black tank valve, but I started backwashing the black valve surfaces by leaving the black valve open for a few seconds after opening the grey valve. This may or may not work for you depending on your valve configuration, but I haven't encountered a drop of yuck in the sewer hose connection (manifold?) since I started this practice. I could speculate on the types of stuff that could lodge in the valve mechanism preventing a seal, but suffice it to say, flushing the valve backwards with a good slug of soapy water from a full grey tank cleans the valve seating surfaces enough to allow it seal when closed.

 

[MemoriesByTheMile]

in our rig, the end of the sewer pipe that the hose attaches to is inside the waste tank bay (separate from the water bay). As a result, we do not disconnect the hose, but just cap it and coil it in the waste tank bay above the sewer pipe connection. As a result, never have any drips. Only time we have drips is when a seal needs to be replaced or hose nears end of life.
Hence, I am part of the no glove ranks.

 

[Joe Hogan]

I am one of those people that has a container of wipes in the wet bay, use multiple gloves, and still wash hands when I get back into coach. Just feel better that way.

 

[Rollin Ollen]

I used to have this problem and thought I’d have to replace the black tank valve, but I started backwashing the black valve surfaces by leaving the black valve open for a few seconds after opening the grey valve. This may or may not work for you depending on your valve configuration, but I haven't encountered a drop of yuck in the sewer hose connection (manifold?) since I started this practice. I could speculate on the types of stuff that could lodge in the valve mechanism preventing a seal, but suffice it to say, flushing the valve backwards with a good slug of soapy water from a full grey tank cleans the valve seating surfaces enough to allow it seal when closed.

I use the same technique!

Darrell

 

[Boat Bum]

I have a better chance of contamination wiping my ass and I don't wear gloves doing that. I started off wearing gloves but my hands sweat in them and they would usually tear at some point. My hands never get wet doing this and I scrub them after.