This is gross but might save somebody some time (sick related!)

[Mandy2003]

I was amazed that the manager and bar staff at work today didn't know the quickest way to clear up "Lake Vomit" in the toilets last night. They said they'd spent 45 minutes and used two entire rolls of blue wipedown paper and several goes with the mop and bucket.

I asked whether they'd put detergent powder on it first, then scraped it up. But no, they'd never heard of that idea! I said that wiping it will just spread it further, and mopping will make sure it spreads! Sawdust will work to absorb it too. The same principles apply to a large amount of spilled cooking oil so I thought I'd post for the festive season

Does anyone else have good remedies for this kind of spillage to pass on?

salt on a broken egg :)

Oh and a slice of bread to pick up small bits of broken glass!

Cat litter on most spills in this house!
Also sprinkle a bit in the botom of the kitchen bin bag so anything wet like egg yolks or cereal dregs will not leak out of the bottom and leave a claggy mess in the bin.

How much vomit was there to take 45 mins?? The mind boggles! Even with just a mop and bucket I can't imagine it should take more than 5 or 10 mins!!

I used to work in a blood bank and we had spillage granules for cleaning up blood spills (they happened occasionally) - makes all the difference. Wouldn't have thought of using detergent powder, but cat litter sounds a good idea!

Oreo - I don't know - my DS hoiked an entire bowlful of soup all over the tiled bathroom floor and it took a good while to shift it all - not 45 mins but definitely about half an hour (not helped by the sodding floor tiler who'd managed to get the floor to slope away from the central drain... )

Cat litter is just the same idea as fullers earth - I think that's what Dad called it.
Lived in the garage and was used to absorb spilt engine oil.

Oh! The wonders of google, it appears you can get cat litter made of fullers earth and that it's an absorbent kind of clay.

I used to work as a cleaner in a naafi pub, there was often copious amounts of vomit to clean up, never took more than 10 minutes, I actually used to wish for vomit, because I got paid extra for cleaning up body fluids . It being a bar I also used to find lots of discarded money, specially round the fruit machines, a few £20 notes too, glued to the front of bar floor with beer.

Good tip Mandy, I'll store that one away.

My tip from when the kids were young and we had occasional chunky vomit (porridge etc) was a paper plate and an old egg flip. Scoop up as much as possible onto the plate and throw away then wash residue off the carpet. Obviously you don't use the egg flip for anything else

We have a wet vac which we use for any vomit. I know it sounds a bit easy, but I was amazed when a friend was recently telling me about cleaning up after her little dd. I asked if she had a wet vac and she had never thought of using it!

The washing powder makes a lot of sense, never heard bout that before. Good tip!