best place to get supplies for new practice?

Re: best place to get supplies for new practice?

Nick Shackleton — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:46:02 GMT

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i am totally in favour for fabric drapes.I dont have a machine but know a person who does!! ie MUM! lol

If you could send any info/designs to me id be extremely grateful.

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Not the greatest fan of fabric drapes from an infection control point of view. Also for example strike through is more likely to occur due to the wicking effect of fabric. I think when you add on the coast/time spent washing them you might as well buy a roll of disposable drape and autoclave your own this VS can cut a hole to the size they need. then can double as something to wrap your kits in too

Re: best place to get supplies for new practice?

claire duff — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:42:54 GMT

i forgot about centaur!we use NVS or Dunlops so will prob get most things from them its just working out sizes and how many,vet was spoilt at last practice as they just used dissposable drapes(not my fav thing to use as thnk is v expensive)

Re: best place to get supplies for new practice?

claire duff — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:40:11 GMT

i am totally in favour for fabric drapes.I dont have a machine but know a person who does!! ie MUM! lol

If you could send any info/designs to me id be extremely grateful.

Re: best place to get supplies for new practice?

Sal the 1st — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:58:26 GMT

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Hi we had a very good practice manager that was great witha sewing machine. We dicided what style / size drapes we needed then got some good quality material and biased binding and made our own. They wash and wash time and time again. I may have some designs / sizes somewhere if you need them let me know.

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- yep I have bought green drape material before and run up loads of drapes plain and fenestrated, drill covers for hand drills (makita etc), fabric rolls for sterilising pins in safely prior to disposable wrap,leg bags for covering feet in ortho ops - you name I have made it at a fraction of the cost. In fact have sold quite a few drill covers and they are dead easy to make

Re: best place to get supplies for new practice?

Leggy — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:24:48 GMT

Re: best place to get supplies for new practice?

Aimee Barber — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:22:28 GMT

hey, i would use any of the suppliers, either vet direct, JAK, Or your direct supplier, eg, centaur, Dunlops, NVS.

Look at all the prices, you can either get top quality for lots of money or lower quality for less money. Most of these companies have websites if you havent got the catalogues.

hope that helps a bit