Stilts and laminate flooring..what can i do in future to protect the floor, i dint use dust sheets as i fort i would slip everywere! but i made a rite mess of some1s floor and it took some cleanin and they were not happy!
There is also a clear roll for flooring but the adhesive is a lot stronger and is a right pain to get it off the laminate floor.
I use the clear roll for carpets. I use it all the time on stairs and i sometimes use it to make a walkway through rooms im not working in.
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and wear one of those giant clown type baggy bib things to catch all the slops!
actually i hate lami floors.. always gotta tarp em out..
but one of the reasons i dont use stilts is cos of the safety aspect on domestic..
i mix up in the room im working in usually and it'd be way to easy to get the cable round the stilts..
or the bucket..
or the edge of a folded tarp..
or their cat...
Because i see people using stilts and doing a ceiling when im using hop ups and doing a ceiling and a few walls, and wondering about beading etc where as they just wade about in the same room.
I just think they are crap unless you have a really high ceiling, so probably in all my years i could have made good use of them once .... other then that ill do everything faster without.
I also think they are dangerous, saw a lad take a right spill once cause he slipped on some s**t on the floor.
with ric on this one takes us about 5 mins put tarp down trestles and bats ,fookin accident waiting to happen,know a lad that had about 4weeks off work due to a stilt accident ,dont say i didnt tell im,
ive used stilts for aboput 6 years and can honestly say ive fell once but had a few near misses but have got down off a hop up and stood on something and tristed my ankle tooooooooo many times so i would say they are safer.
I have said this time and again every time it comes up, those who say stilts are no good simply are the ones who cant use them but if you have never tried them you cant really have an opinion on them.
stilts are the way forward just dont try a job on them untill you mastered them.as for covering floors get old carpet is perfect costs nowt flat and you can drop what you like
i borrowed a mates pair just the once for a 2.8 ceiling...
great for the height, better than steps...
it was just the getting up and down thing for one poxy ceiling that did my head in.. i found i was sittin on the hop up (which wasnt really tall enuff to stand up off) and cos i mix twice per set it was a right pain...
walkin wasnt too bad, if youve got half a sense of balance your alright but i really wouldnt wanna come down without meaning to.. nearly caught the lead a couple of times cos im always looking up..
i reckon if they made em more get off and onnable bit like them ski boots with the quick release thing they'd be safer and easier..
I think the ski boot idea is a good one ! Patent it quick.
Im not over impressed wit stilts either,i gotta a set and use them occasionally but feel safer on planks,was taught to plaster on planks will die on planks,althoug i still use them on high ceilings as i aint got that many trestle tables i also use them when i cant get planks round tight starcases and limited access areas etc etc...
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