Genius!

[The Medway Handyman]

I've got one of these multipurpose ladders

which I use all the time inside & out, exactly like the picture but with a stabiliser each end - makes for a very solid ladder.

Problem is using it indoors the black feet on the stabiliser can mark walls and if used at a fairly sharp angle the top of the box section can scratch.

Been trying to think of a solution for ages - it finally came to me - a double oven glove! Fits neatly over each end of the stabiliser providing a soft non marking surface!

I was so pleased when it fitted like a (oven) glove.

[Andrew Gabriel]

I've got several layers of bubble wrap taped round, doing the same thing. I've also seen pipe insulation used for this.

[Huge]

I use socks...

[The Medway Handyman]

My mark one anti damage ladder device (MOALD) for short can be fitted or removed in seconds, ideal for inside or outside use! I may patent it!

[The Medway Handyman]

Around here socks are what you put coal in. Socks wouldn't help with this ladder, although they protect the wall from the black plastic end caps, they don't stop damage from the box section & bolts when the ladder is used at a steep angle.

[TMC]

Some one has beaten you to it

ladder mitts

Tony

[Chris Hodges]

The legs of an old pair of jeans here (held on with (of course) gaffa tape.

[The Medway Handyman]

£18? My oven glove was £1:99 :-)

[ARWadsworth]

£1:99 is overpriced. Do you know how much they are at the pound shop?

Adam

[Lurch]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:29:11 GMT, "ARWadsworth" mused:

[The Medway Handyman]

No idea? How much?

:-)

[ARWadsworth]

Price=MC^2 when M=1 and C=1. Even Albert knows.

Adam

[The Medway Handyman]

I was in Erith a while ago, not a terribly prestigious area - when the pikeys moved in the council put the rates up because they improved the area :-)

I saw an 89p shop! Thats when you know its time to move out!

[ARWadsworth]

You should have bought some oven gloves and saved £1.10 whilst you were there :-)

Adam

[Andy Hall]

No that's the bath.....

[Frank Erskine]

I'd rather spend that bit extra, at the pound shop - it's a quality thing, you know...

:-)

[Owain]

But that would have involved leaving the van unattended while he went in the shop.

No point gaining an oven glove and losing a set of wheels.

Owain

[Adrian C]

Surely you mean 85p

-- Adrian C