Iv read today that we will have to take the temperature of each client - has anyone bought any thermometers or are there any throw way ones you can get?
Also is anyone putting their prices up to cover any extra costs of ppe etc? Or just in general?
I want to keep everything fair but obviously we need to make money and having less clients in at one time will not help that x
I’m absolutely raising prices to include PPE. I will probably make it into sets, like clean my hands, put gloves on and a mask so I can put them all in a clean bag or to be more eco, make a filing centre of couch roll folded up with a fresh set inside so I just lay it all out ready for them by the door. Always clean and only touched with clean hands.
I happened to also buy thousands for disposable slippers when I got my new carpet so nobody will be walking in here i’m their own shoes but will change them at the door and keep all their belongings in a box
One for client, one for me, no need to faff.
Won’t be giving gloves to clients, just telling them not to touch anything except the couch. I will shut and open all doors. Hand sanitiser on way in and way out and make sure they don’t touch their face.
For me: Gloves, goggles, mask, shield, apron.
Client: Mask, shield.
Simply because time and again over the last 8 years i’ve been able to contain myself sneezing and coughing even with tickly throats and severe hay fever but they cough and slobber all over the place...so I need more protection than they do from me. Their risk is just breathing in, not sneeze or cough and not even from surfaces as they won’t be touching. If I really had to Id be running outside to do it and putting on a fresh mask, I can’t say the same for them.
They just have to sanitise on the way out and take their mask and shield home with them, clean it with their own wipes in the car or whatever. I might put a bin outside the front door. Don’t want them removing masks indoors.
I already have to wash my uniforms between each client as I am a sweaty betty so no change there O just dump them in with towels
Temperature I will be buying a contactless thermometer and do it while they are in the car I guess save them getting out. I haven’t bought one yet but getting there with all my ppe etc.
I don’t really think it will cost that much per person but i’ve spent £90 just on sanitiser and dispensers. Though I’m loving that I don’t have to worry on my way into the house now. More of a joint purchase
I want less clients and that was my plan going into the year, moving further away, putting prices up, so I could have more time as I was shattered. So Id be happy with one a week or a day to start with, it won’t happen overnight. I’m really hoping I don’t get bombarded the day Boris says go back as I will probably give up altogether.
I just tested negative for antibodies but my family member positive. I was very ill for months but they were ill for a short time. I had all the symptoms including breathless..cold, headache, extreme fatigue, dry cough with no droplets when sneezing or coughing..a day of no taste and smell and grew a polyp up my nose that disappeared as quick as it appeared. .but they had a ‘chest infection’ and a migraine and they were then fine. No knowledge of them having temperature. They are on frontline with covid and I also have a friend elsewhere in nhs. They have tried a few things from 7 days on and off so that if you get symptoms on the week off you stay off, and then a 5 days on and off as most symptoms appear on day 5. So I mean...I’m quite tempted to see one client every 5 days.
If my family member got it in head to toe PPE in a hospital setting...I feel like we have no chance and a thermometer and a mask and shield won’t do sh*t. But if I start and am scared I will just stop.
