Fast Drying Towels

smokymcpot said:

I have a lightweight travel towel which should be fast drying - but
its a nightmare getting dry with it in the first place!

They come in various sizes, and the bigger they are the easier it is.
I've one of the MSR Packtowels, and though it's not as good to get dry
with as a normal loopstitch cotton towel it does work. Two would be
better than 1! Roos uses a Liveventure travel towel, slightly different
material but similar properties AFAICT (i.e., a lot better than nothing
and acceptable performance rather than great).

Pete.
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Quoted message said:

Hi

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I
used to just hang the towel up on my locker to dry each day, but now
the work doesnt want us to do this anymore, and its proving a
nightmare getting the towels to dry :-(

I have a lightweight travel towel which should be fast drying - but
its a nightmare getting dry with it in the first place!

So I am looking for recommendations for fast drying, absorbant towels

Hope you can help

Martin

Speedo swimming towel, compact absorbant and quick drying, otherwise
if you can suffer camping towels they do the job...
Dave

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Quoted message said:

Hi

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I
used to just hang the towel up on my locker to dry each day, but now
the work doesnt want us to do this anymore, and its proving a
nightmare getting the towels to dry :-(

So why aren't they installing a drying room/cupboard?

Quoted message said:

smokymcpot said:

Hi

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I

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Quoted message said:

So I am looking for recommendations for fast drying, absorbant towels

I used to have this problem. My towel wouldn't dry inside my locker in
our shower room. First solution was to hang it up in our small server
lab (plenty of spare heat). They key is hav it hanging in free space
for the day then on a hook in the locker overnight. Since the server
room was declared off limits to laundry I have taken to draping the
towel over an old bicycle wheel that lives under my desk because I have
never got around to taking it home. I guess a more conventional pygmy
laundry airer would do the same job. The towel almost dries during the
working day and finishes off in my locker overnight. I use a large
hand towel which is just absorbent enough to deal with one wet adult.
I guess the small size makes it easier to find hanging space
best wishes
james

smokymcpot said:

Hi

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I
used to just hang the towel up on my locker to dry each day, but now
the work doesnt want us to do this anymore, and its proving a
nightmare getting the towels to dry :-(

I have a lightweight travel towel which should be fast drying - but
its a nightmare getting dry with it in the first place!

So I am looking for recommendations for fast drying, absorbant towels

Where are all these workplaces where they have showers and all that
business? Everywhere I've worked so far, you'd be pleased if there were
actually something for you to chain your bike to...

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Quoted message said:

Hi

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I
used to just hang the towel up on my locker to dry each day, but now
the work doesnt want us to do this anymore, and its proving a
nightmare getting the towels to dry :-(

I have a lightweight travel towel which should be fast drying - but
its a nightmare getting dry with it in the first place!

So I am looking for recommendations for fast drying, absorbant towels

Hope you can help

Martin

I used to use jay cloths, which have the advantage of being cheap
enough to be disposable, before I found the type of towel you
describe. Yes, the coefficient of friction between wet skin and towel
is rather high, but it does a fantastic job.

Clear skies
Sarennah

(smokymcpot) said:

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I
used to just hang the towel up on my locker to dry each day, but now
the work doesnt want us to do this anymore, and its proving a
nightmare getting the towels to dry :-(

<smug>
I work in a hospital where a clean towel is available every day for
free.
</smug>

--
If, as Einstein said, space is curved and occupies ten
dimensions including time; How can you be certain which
is the underneath of a ladder? And how can you be certain
you haven't already walked under one next week?

Richard Bates said:

(smokymcpot) said:

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I
used to just hang the towel up on my locker to dry each day, but now
the work doesnt want us to do this anymore, and its proving a
nightmare getting the towels to dry :-(

Quoted message said:

I work in a hospital where a clean towel is available every day for
free.

Shame that most people don't use them then, so that you don't go in
for a minor OP and come out with MRSA :=|

Jack Ouzzi said:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:43:03 +0000, Richard Bates
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I work in a hospital where a clean towel is available every day for
free.

Quoted message said:

Shame that most people don't use them then, so that you don't go in
for a minor OP and come out with MRSA :=|

When it comes to basic hygeine such as washing hands, and adhering to
simple requests for the sake of infection control (such as using
alcohol gel provided), I find the visitors are worse offenders than
the staff, but neither group are perfect.

--
If, as Einstein said, space is curved and occupies ten
dimensions including time; How can you be certain which
is the underneath of a ladder? And how can you be certain
you haven't already walked under one next week?

Richard Bates said:

Jack Ouzzi said:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:43:03 +0000, Richard Bates
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I work in a hospital where a clean towel is available every day for
free.

Quoted message said:

Shame that most people don't use them then, so that you don't go in
for a minor OP and come out with MRSA :=|

When it comes to basic hygeine such as washing hands, and adhering to
simple requests for the sake of infection control (such as using
alcohol gel provided), I find the visitors are worse offenders than
the staff, but neither group are perfect.

I am sure you are right Richard, a sign of the 'who gives a toss and
anyway I can sue' culture today. A real shame. :-|

smokymcpot said:

Hi

I cycle about 10 miles to work each day, and have a shower at work. I
used to just hang the towel up on my locker to dry each day, but now
the work doesnt want us to do this anymore, and its proving a
nightmare getting the towels to dry :-(

Hang it on your computer monitor instead.

James
(no smiley)

((actually I rotate 2 towels for this purpose, they get used on
alternate days and hang over a spare chair in my office in between))
--
If I have seen further than others, it is
by treading on the toes of giants.
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Jack Ouzzi <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I work in a hospital where a clean towel is available every day for
free.

Quoted message said:

Shame that most people don't use them then, so that you don't go in
for a minor OP and come out with MRSA :=|

Veering OT (but serious)

I wonder if all these 'easy care' fabrics, washed at low temperatures
are part of the MRSA problem. In the Good Old Days™, uniforms were
boilwashed, starched and ironed by the hospital laundry. The first and
last killed most known germs dead.

Now uniforms are mostly washed at 40°C at home and ironing is avoided...

Veering back on-topic...

Thin, cheap cotton towels dry you effectively (rather than smearing
water about you, like these synthetic things) and dry quite fast. Tea
towels are a tad small but...

The cheapest, nastiest, thin towels from the bargain shops are your
friends. Could you use the top tube of your bike as a clothes airer?

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Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
Edgware.

On 17/11/04 2:09 pm, in article [email hidden],

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

Jack Ouzzi <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I work in a hospital where a clean towel is available every day for
free.

Quoted message said:

Shame that most people don't use them then, so that you don't go in
for a minor OP and come out with MRSA :=|

Veering OT (but serious)

I wonder if all these 'easy care' fabrics, washed at low temperatures
are part of the MRSA problem. In the Good Old Days™, uniforms were
boilwashed, starched and ironed by the hospital laundry. The first and
last killed most known germs dead.

Now uniforms are mostly washed at 40°C at home and ironing is avoided...

Also related to that is the wearing of uniforms outside of the hospital. It
used to be the case (a long time ago when I worked in a hospital) that you
were not allowed to wear uniforms outside of work.

Two simple things that would probably help immensely (as well as dipping all
visitors in alcohol and flaming them)..

...d

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

Now uniforms are mostly washed at 40°C at home and ironing is avoided...

I made a promise to the taxman that I would wash my uniforms at
60degC, separately from my own clothes. In return he gives me tax
relief which adds up to about 3 pints of beer a year. Or something
like that.

--
If, as Einstein said, space is curved and occupies ten
dimensions including time; How can you be certain which
is the underneath of a ladder? And how can you be certain
you haven't already walked under one next week?

David Martin said:

Also related to that is the wearing of uniforms outside of the hospital. It
used to be the case (a long time ago when I worked in a hospital) that you
were not allowed to wear uniforms outside of work.

It still is the rule....

Most of my nursing friends drive to work (and of course whine about
the lack of parking space and/or high cost of on-street parking and/or
the fact that the local traffic wardens ticket them at 1 minute past
8am [1]). These are the people who wear their uniforms outside of
work.

My friends who cycle (few) and those who use public transport (more
but still few) mostly do change their clothes.

There is nothing more refreshing than cycling to work, having a shower
and then donning a uniform which has been chilled by being in a bag in
a cold outdoors...

[1] my desperate attempt to keep on topic.

--
If, as Einstein said, space is curved and occupies ten
dimensions including time; How can you be certain which
is the underneath of a ladder? And how can you be certain
you haven't already walked under one next week?

David Martin said:

Also related to that is the wearing of uniforms outside of the
hospital. It used to be the case (a long time ago when I worked in a
hospital) that you were not allowed to wear uniforms outside of work.

Hold on a minute, so the choice is between MRSA and nurses walking about
in uniform? No contest, surely? ;-)

~PB

Pete Biggs said:

Hold on a minute, so the choice is between MRSA and nurses walking about
in uniform? No contest, surely? ;-)

Sorry, mate, I have already stated that I DON'T wear mine outside the
workplace ;-)

--
If, as Einstein said, space is curved and occupies ten
dimensions including time; How can you be certain which
is the underneath of a ladder? And how can you be certain
you haven't already walked under one next week?

Pete Biggs said:

David Martin said:

Also related to that is the wearing of uniforms outside of the
hospital. It used to be the case (a long time ago when I worked in a
hospital) that you were not allowed to wear uniforms outside of work.

Hold on a minute, so the choice is between MRSA and nurses walking about
in uniform? No contest, surely? ;-)

No, the choice is between MRSA and nurses taking their uniforms off..

...before travelling home.

...d

Richard Bates <[email hidden]>typed

Quoted message said:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:09:48 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Now uniforms are mostly washed at 40°C at home and ironing is avoided...

Quoted message said:

I made a promise to the taxman that I would wash my uniforms at
60degC, separately from my own clothes. In return he gives me tax
relief which adds up to about 3 pints of beer a year. Or something
like that.

Is the effectiveness of your clothing laundry in terms of bug reduction
being audited?
Does anyone check you or your colleagues *are* washing your uniforms at 60°C?
Is 60°C, with cold/tepid rinsing sufficient to kill bugs?
How are synthetic hospital blankets washed?
Why aren't *all* hospital vistors - doctors, friends, clergy, nurses,
other staff required to leave all their normal clothes at the door and
change into clean 'scrub suit' type pyjamas?

I know there are more questions than answers, but when I am in charge of
Global Infection Control...

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Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
Edgware.