Post by sherry on Jan 30, 2014 12:49:54 GMT -8
I have a problem that I wonder if others have gone through and found solutions for.
I have winter tires on my wheelchair that have a lot of traction, therefore place where the snow can accumulate. When I come in the house the snow, the dirt and the slush stay on my tires because they are cold and there are ridges . I don't always have the luxury of sitting 15 minutes or more on the carpet while the tires warm-up and the snow melts and falls off.
I have two towels that I leave beside the door to dry off the tires but there's too much grip and the snow stays in between those little bumps in the tires.
I was joking with some colleagues and said that I would need some sort of like a little water bath to roll the wheels in to clean them off, sort of like what we used to do before we would get in the pool,with the plastic thing full of water to rinse off all the grass off of our feet.
Another colleague asked if a hair dryer could speed up the process.
Would love to hear any of your solutions because with me going back to work next week, i will be tracking this stuff in more. It is especially worse after we get snow and there is salt/snow/calcium everywhere in parking lots on the streets. Everything gets dirty, once the calcium dries. You should see the inside of my car door! It is not only black anymore!
Oh and not to mention my boots getting dirty when I lift them into my car, they bang/rub up against the side of the car which accumulates all the guck from the roads. Snow-slush-sand-calcium ...
