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I am not going to tell you a brand won a glove test. The useful question is pack size versus weekly burn. A solo residential route eats gloves. A 40-count box from the drugstore is a Tuesday problem wearing a Sunday disguise.
Count remaining gloves — the ones still in the box — not how many boxes are on the closet shelf. An opened 200-count that is down to a dusty dozen is empty, even if the cardboard is still there.
What to look for
1. 200-count, 4-mil, powder-free nitrile
This is the default residential box. 4-mil is thick enough for wet bathrooms and daily spray without feeling like a shop glove. Powder-free, because powder ends up on dark paint and on a client’s towel stack. 200-count is the pack that actually lasts a weekly book for one person — often weeks, not days — unless you double-glove or you just did a move-out week.
2. 100-count, 5–6 mil for the wet / chemical-heavy days
Keep this as a second line if your book has a lot of tile, grout work, or a product that eats thin gloves. It is not a replacement for the 200-count 4-mil. It is the box you grab when you already know the day is rough. Do not make it your only box; you will overspend and over-carry.
3. Your actual size (S / M / L / XL)
“One size” is how a cuff rolls and tears at the third house. Buy the size you wear. If you work with someone else, that is a second box with a second size written on the lid in marker — not a mixed pile in one carton.
4. Industrial or medical-exam 200–300 count
Same glove family, better count, usually sold as a dispenser box. Look for nitrile, powder-free, and a mil rating on the listing. “Medical exam” on the box is a spec, not a promise you are running a clinic.
5. A small 50-count in the car — emergency only
Optional. This is not par. This is the glove you forgot to move from the closet. If the 50-count becomes your weekly buy, you are shopping wrong on purpose.
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What to skip
- 40-count drugstore boxes. You will buy them every Sunday and still run out Tuesday.
- Latex, if any house on the book has a latex note. You will not remember which house at 9 a.m. Nitrile avoids that whole conversation.
- Vinyl that splits when wet. Cheap until the third bathroom.
- Colored “fashion” kitchen gloves in 20-counts. Those are for a sink, not a route.
- Four club boxes because the unit price looked friendly. Two boxes at par is plenty: one in the caddy, one sealed in the closet.
Sunday-cap note
Gloves come before polish. If you are over the cap you set, buy the empty glove line and leave the extra pads. Raise par for a known heavy week (deep, move-out, dust-out), then put par back. Do not change the number forever because of one Saturday.
Put “nitrile, 4-mil, 200, size ___” on the supply tab so you do not re-decide the spec in the aisle.
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