Buy or build a Home First Aid Kit

[Jerseyspud]

Steri strips I've found dirt cheap on ebay as well as normal saline.

If you have any Chemicals around its a very good idea to have a chemical spills kit ready and know how to clean up safely. I can give a rough outline of an all purpose spills kit if anyone wants it (science technician with lots of lovely chemicals)

[hanhan]

Steri strips I've found dirt cheap on ebay as well as normal saline.

If you have any Chemicals around its a very good idea to have a chemical spills kit ready and know how to clean up safely. I can give a rough outline of an all purpose spills kit if anyone wants it (science technician with lots of lovely chemicals)

Yes please. I'd like to know more about a spills kit.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Steri strips I've found dirt cheap on ebay as well as normal saline.

If you have any Chemicals around its a very good idea to have a chemical spills kit ready and know how to clean up safely. I can give a rough outline of an all purpose spills kit if anyone wants it (science technician with lots of lovely chemicals)

Yes please. I'd like to know more about a spills kit.

Depends on what you plan on spilling but generally super absorbent pads / socks / clay drain Mats and a container to put it in once soaked up

Usually containing a treated wood dust / fiber (fire retardant additive)

https://www.absorbentsonline.com/spill- ... t-contain/

[Jerseyspud]

Actually the best absorbant material we use for all chemical spills is plain cheap cat litter.

Make sure you have a bag of cat litter, gloves, a mask, dustpan and brush.

Depending what chemicals you have this covers pretty much all of them.

For flammable I would use sand as well.

[hanhan]

Steri strips I've found dirt cheap on ebay as well as normal saline.

If you have any Chemicals around its a very good idea to have a chemical spills kit ready and know how to clean up safely. I can give a rough outline of an all purpose spills kit if anyone wants it (science technician with lots of lovely chemicals)

Yes please. I'd like to know more about a spills kit.

Depends on what you plan on spilling but generally super absorbent pads / socks / clay drain Mats and a container to put it in once soaked up

Usually containing a treated wood dust / fiber (fire retardant additive)

https://www.absorbentsonline.com/spill- ... t-contain/

Yes, was thinking of getting some sawdust as this could also come in handy for a compost style loo if it came to the worst

[hanhan]

Actually the best absorbant material we use for all chemical spills is plain cheap cat litter.

Make sure you have a bag of cat litter, gloves, a mask, dustpan and brush.

Depending what chemicals you have this covers pretty much all of them.

For flammable I would use sand as well.

Thanks, I never would have thought of getting cat litter, as I don't have a cat. Sounds useful to have on hand.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Actually the best absorbant material we use for all chemical spills is plain cheap cat litter.

Make sure you have a bag of cat litter, gloves, a mask, dustpan and brush.

Depending what chemicals you have this covers pretty much all of them.

For flammable I would use sand as well.

Fuller's earth?


Remember for mercury spillages we used to use sulpher then Wipe it up


We supply a wood waste firm with our waste timber the really mucky crap stuff goes for spill kits eg:

https://www.darcy.co.uk/product/granule ... safe-soak/


Cat litter pellets work ok but don't do as well as loose dust ..but they make good fuel for the wood gas stove

[ForgeCorvus]

The cat litter we buy is made by a company who mostly make oil spill gear...... Its probably the same stuff in different packaging

[Yorkshire Andy]

The cat litter we buy is made by a company who mostly make oil spill gear...... Its probably the same stuff in different packaging

Perfect for the Morning after the cats licked up all the fat from the roasting tin after the roast pork dinner and got the Ronnie Rits

[Rusty74]

super glue is another one for a 1st aid kit,though invented accidentally in 1942 by harry coover,it was widely used during the vietnam war to patch up wounded gi's,so something else to maybe think about