Is your sweat destroying the furniture?

[Daffy D]

In the hot weather, especially if it's humid, I tend to sweat a lot.

 

My sweat must be extra toxic as it is destroying my plastic garden chair and the plastic on the arm of the computer chair.

 

The garden chair I'm not too worried about but the bubbly arms of the computer chair were starting to annoy me. 

 

I fixed the problem by wrapping the arms in that special gripping tape they use on racket handles. The tape is quite stretchy and melds to the contours of the arm quite well and seems to do the job.

 

Anyway thought I'd pass this on, might be of use to someone as sweaty as me 

 

[nauseus]

An extra shower or two during stinky season works wonders too.

[Daffy D]

5 minutes ago, nauseus said:

An extra shower or two during stinky season works wonders too.

Obviously do that anyway but with the general humidity start to sweat again even before I even leave the sower room  

[ThailandRyan]

Time to have a fan blowing on you at all times, one from the side and one from the top if your not using Air-conditioning.  I have one going at all times when I work on the computer.  I ordered a dehumidifier for the condominium and it works in tandem with my Air purifier.

[nauseus]

12 minutes ago, Daffy D said:

Obviously do that anyway but with the general humidity start to sweat again even before I even leave the sower room  

I know but still worth I think.

[Daffy D]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Time to have a fan blowing on you at all times, one from the side and one from the top if your not using Air-conditioning.  I have one going at all times when I work on the computer.  I ordered a dehumidifier for the condominium and it works in tandem with my Air purifier.

I already have a couple of fans blowing on me. A16in from the wall behind an a 12in on me from the wall directly above where I sit.

 

Guess I'm just a sweaty guy 

 

Could maybe get some tips from Prince Andrew 

[robblok]

39 minutes ago, Daffy D said:

Obviously do that anyway but with the general humidity start to sweat again even before I even leave the sower room  

Aircon ?

[Daffy D]

7 minutes ago, robblok said:

Aircon ?

Money  ?

[robblok]

2 minutes ago, Daffy D said:

Money  ?

I lived in Thailand for 1 year without aircon. That is one thing I will never do again. I usually got my aircon on 27 degrees blowing on me. Not that expensive. (at nights i turn it colder but was just saying that just running an aircon at 27 degrees is not that expensive. I think 2000 max per month.

 

Then again we all got priorities on what we spend money. 

[Kwasaki]

Ever heard of air-con. ????

[Lacessit]

Alcohol is a solvent for many plastics, just a suggestion.

[kingofthemountain]

1 hour ago, Daffy D said:

I already have a couple of fans blowing on me. A16in from the wall behind an a 12in on me from the wall directly above where I sit.

 

Guess I'm just a sweaty guy 

 

Could maybe get some tips from Prince Andrew 

A lot of Thais use talcum powder to stay ''dry'' all day long

a lot of brands available in the supermarkets

i am lucky enough to not be very sensible to the heat

but if needed i use this one, it's cheap and it works for me

 

 

 

 

 

[jak2002003]

Get a fan and / or air con.

 

Wear clothes .... No direct skin contact to furniture

.

 

Air con set at 27 degrees is not expensive to run and takes all the humidity out of the air...which keep you feeling a lot cooler. 

 

Also the talcum powder really works. 

[KC 71]

19 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

A lot of Thais use talcum powder to stay ''dry'' all day long

a lot of brands available in the supermarkets

i am lucky enough to not be very sensible to the heat

but if needed i use this one, it's cheap and it works for me

 

 

 

 

 

 

19 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

A lot of Thais use talcum powder to stay ''dry'' all day long

a lot of brands available in the supermarkets

i am lucky enough to not be very sensible to the heat

but if needed i use this one, it's cheap and it works for me

 

 

 

 

 

Yes,good thinking,i forgot about that

a cheap option too.This 1 certainly cools me down + fan for xtra if needed ????

[tomazbodner]

Saw mouse buttons melted away by some, who also suffered gout... would it be possible that someone who has lots of uric acid in body (or otherwise low pH... or alkaline one on the other end), would it be possible sweat could also be acidic and that could be the reason for destroying furniture? Maybe get a pH meter (or strips) and try to check what the acidity level of your sweat is.

[Dumbastheycome]

The OP is quite correct that  sweat will cause the deterioration of many "plastics" and especially those used in furniture. There are many more chemical components in sweat than just  water and "salts". Some of them are quite capable of breaking down the chemical structure of the plasticizors  in common  flexible furniture coverings that are exposed to direct  skin contact or high sweat contact areas resulting in cracking ,hardening and shrinking.

Grannies used to use washable protective bits and bobs to absorb sweat on pre-plastic furnishings but such are just as practical now for a slightly  different reason than to prevent the grubby oily arm rests and head rests.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Damrongsak]

I had a cheap Casio wrist watch with a rubbery plastic band.  Over time, it started to dissolve and fell apart. 

[tgw]

hydrolysis

[impulse]

2 hours ago, KC 71 said:

 

Yes,good thinking,i forgot about that

a cheap option too.This 1 certainly cools me down + fan for xtra if needed ????

 

Just don't get it in your hoo ha.  Though I doubt Thailand will ever have class action lawsuits like they do in the USA.

 

 

[impulse]

1 hour ago, Damrongsak said:

I had a cheap Casio wrist watch with a rubbery plastic band.  Over time, it started to dissolve and fell apart. 

 

Most of the Casio watches I bought in Asia (China and Thailand) weren't really Casio's.  The clarity of the pad printing on their face just wasn't up to snuff.    And the bands and the bezels gave up the ghost much faster than the Casio's I've bought in the states- some of which went over 10 years on the original batteries.  Still, lasted for years and kept great time.

 

[Damrongsak]

My Casio was a cheap, all plastic digital that I bought in the U.S.  The battery lasted 5 years or more.

[scammed]

a fan and without shirt makes it impossible to sweat,

if i remove either of these conditions i will sweat

[Oldie]

I sweat a lot too if it is hot and muggy. I let my aircons run at full power until I have only 40 to 50% humidity. Then I switch them off until it goes up to 70 again. This takes a while because my windows and doors don't allow much exchange of the air. The low humidity combined with fans is perfect for me. It does not even cost much power. To reduce the temperature doesn't work for me. When the compressor of the aircon pauses humid air is blown back into the room. I could use dry mode but this takes longer than the aircons at full power for a while. 

 

[schondie]

I'm feeling much better after reading the comments here, I'm not a fan of air con so I use two fans, cooling powder and plenty of water. My sweaty bum problem definitely improved by using the cooling powder.

 

One of my garden rocking chairs is rusting from sweaty arms though. It looks nice but next time I'll be buying plastic chairs next time.

[DefaultName]

I keep a cover on the arm chair I use most, it was cheap - OK, free, it's an airline blanket the fell into my carry-on by accident - and goes through the washing machine regularly.  Not the prettiest thing, but does the job.

[Brayka]

I use the prickly heat powder all the time after shower, works for me!

[Dario]

Yes, I have the same problem. I have an expensive desk, bought it for 14-15'000 Baht 10 years ago, but the sweat of my arm is killing it, see picture.

I wonder if this could be refurbished.

 

 

[smutcakes]

What the hell is wrong with people on here??? cannot even sit at home with sweating.....

[SePl]

On 10/25/2020 at 5:25 PM, Daffy D said:

In the hot weather, especially if it's humid, I tend to sweat a lot.

 

My sweat must be extra toxic as it is destroying my plastic garden chair and the plastic on the arm of the computer chair.

 

The garden chair I'm not too worried about but the bubbly arms of the computer chair were starting to annoy me. 

 

I fixed the problem by wrapping the arms in that special gripping tape they use on racket handles. The tape is quite stretchy and melds to the contours of the arm quite well and seems to do the job.

 

Anyway thought I'd pass this on, might be of use to someone as sweaty as me 

 

 

 

so you had the bright idea to put a towel under you ass but couldn't think about any small fabric to put under your arms ?

you are 50% smart, it's good already !

 

[SePl]

On 10/25/2020 at 7:36 PM, jak2002003 said:

Get a fan and / or air con.

 

Wear clothes .... No direct skin contact to furniture

.

 

Air con set at 27 degrees is not expensive to run and takes all the humidity out of the air...which keep you feeling a lot cooler. 

 

Also the talcum powder really works. 

 

 

Even 28 is enough, but most people still do not understand this. They are so used to think that then it becomes difficult to have any correct idea.