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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: buzzing on December 16, 2014, 05:40:02 pm

Title: Worth getting a ladder with safety feet?
Post by: buzzing on December 16, 2014, 05:40:02 pm

seen a 3 metre closed youngmans ladder in Wicks for £120 (nice and light)  worth getting the titan one with safety feet.  Will use it for window cleaning and gardening, won't safety feet be problem on grass and pebbles etc?

Title: Re: Worth getting a ladder with safety feet?
Post by: capn sparkle on December 16, 2014, 08:57:16 pm

I had one for gardening a few years ago! Lawn could 'ave looked better but me sunflowers came up a treat...

Title: Re: Worth getting a ladder with safety feet?
Post by: Ian101 on December 17, 2014, 08:06:53 am

I recently bought a titan triple 3.0 or 3.5 cant remember but came with safety feet ... defo feel more secure when on it as bigger footprint in contact with floor .... but these ladders are so solid you feel that house will move before they do  :D

Title: Re: Worth getting a ladder with safety feet?
Post by: slap bash on December 18, 2014, 10:14:32 am

I have always used a triple combo ladder which is the one you re talking about. I cannot understand  why more windies don`t use them as they are more stable due to the wider foot base. Some time very little thought goes in these  purchase of these important items. Most just push what ever they use even if it was a bad buy. And that`s  called good advice.

Title: Re: Worth getting a ladder with safety feet?
Post by: Ian Lancaster on December 19, 2014, 03:13:04 pm

We use these:

http://www.midlandladders.com/products/10ft_3m_Double_Extension_Window_Cleaner_s_Ladder-153-49.html

with a pair of these fitted:

http://www.midlandladders.com/products/Articulated_Safety_Feet-283-25.html

All ours are the old pattern oval feet but they don't seem to be available anymore - these look as though they would be just as good.

Pointed ladders - developed by window cleaners for window cleaners.  Schoolboy geometry - "any 3 points will always lie in the same plane"  In other words, a pointed ladder can be set securely even though the ground/wall are not at right angles to each other.  The top won't 'rock' and the splayed bottom gives good stability.