RE: THERMOMETER BROKEN - Need advice about Mercury please !!!

[Guest guest]

UG! I'm sorry that happened! I did a quick search for you and found

this:

http://www.purdue.edu/envirosoft/mercbuild/src/cleanup.htm

I'm sorry to tell you that one thing it says is that you should never

use a regular vacuum because it can become mercury vapor.

I hope this link helps.

>

> Hi everybody,

>  

> Its Goran from Macedonia writting.....

> I need your advice ASAP....

>  

> This afternoon I broke the thermometer...

> I use to read before that many mothers ask in panic for help-what

to do, so the same thing happend to me....

> It just slip out of my hands and bang on the floor - parquet...

> Thermometer broke in many peaces, some on the parquet some on the

carpet I believe...

>  

> The Mercury was all aroung the parquet, in very very small bolls...

> I start my operation to collect all these balls in one or two biger

and to trow out somehow...

> It takes me all afternoon, I merge all these small peaces in to 1

biger, very slowly, but, I merge them all..

>  

> At the end of this the bigest bal of Mercury slip in to the empty

place between the parquet peaces on the floor..

> Can you immagine the situation....

>  

> I take a big hammer, some more remedies and broke the place where

the Mercury slip and I found it again...

> Mercury was in many peaces again, so I merge them again but in very

bad conditions...

> Anyhow I collect, I beleive all the Mercury and take out...

> I make the damage on the floor but........

>  

> I clean all the place with vacuum cleaner too....

>  

> Is this enough???

> Are there any other activities to be done to clean out the

Mercury???

> Any experience, advice, ASAP please???

>  

> Regards

> Goran, Macedonia

>

[Guest guest]

I would get a new vacuum cleaner. Do no use that one again. Here is

what the US EPA suggests...

http://www.epa.gov/hg/spills/index.htm

>

> Hi everybody,

>  

> Its Goran from Macedonia writting.....

> I need your advice ASAP....

>  

> This afternoon I broke the thermometer...

> I use to read before that many mothers ask in panic for help-what

to do, so the same thing happend to me....

> It just slip out of my hands and bang on the floor - parquet...

> Thermometer broke in many peaces, some on the parquet some on the

carpet I believe...

>  

> The Mercury was all aroung the parquet, in very very small bolls...

> I start my operation to collect all these balls in one or two biger

and to trow out somehow...

> It takes me all afternoon, I merge all these small peaces in to 1

biger, very slowly, but, I merge them all..

>  

> At the end of this the bigest bal of Mercury slip in to the empty

place between the parquet peaces on the floor..

> Can you immagine the situation....

>  

> I take a big hammer, some more remedies and broke the place where

the Mercury slip and I found it again...

> Mercury was in many peaces again, so I merge them again but in very

bad conditions...

> Anyhow I collect, I beleive all the Mercury and take out...

> I make the damage on the floor but........

>  

> I clean all the place with vacuum cleaner too....

>  

> Is this enough???

> Are there any other activities to be done to clean out the

Mercury???

> Any experience, advice, ASAP please???

>  

> Regards

> Goran, Macedonia

>