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I’ve never really had a problem with kneeling to work on appliances but you can’t ever hope to have clean trousers for more than a few hours before you are on someones mucky kitchen floor. The other day I bought a pair of gel knee pads with velcro straps as they were only £3 in Asda. I thought if nothing else they might keep my trousers clean a bit longer. After about 30 seconds I had to give up on them as the velcro straps were cutting hard into the backs of my legs. I suppose I could try pinning the pads on with safety pins. Alternatively I could carry round a kneeling pad with my tools but the tool bag is heavy enough already.
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They do make trousers with pockets over the knees to accept knee pads. I had some once from a charity shop but put them back in the charity clothes bin after keeping them for a couple of years and hardly ever wearing them because they hang so badly when you’re cycling. (Barrage of witty comments anticipated.) The kneeler pads for gardening are very lightweight but a bit bulky and inconvenient. I have a bit of cheap karrimat cut to fit in one of my toolbags. Not as thick as a kneeler pad but helps.
Mike.Re: Knee Pads
Don’t waste your time buying and/or wearing kneepads. In fact it makes you look a right plonker entering someone’s home as if dressed for an assault course or an entrant in Richard Hammond’s ‘Total Wipeout!’
Just buy yourself one of those kneeling mats from your local garden centre. It keeps you about 1 inch above the floods and shoosh on folks kitchen floors. And once you are done grovelling on your knees in shite simply wash and dry the mat in their sink using their towels so they keep all their muck where it belongs and not strapped to your knees! 😉
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But Martin, I thought you only went to the ‘quality’ customers who can afford your fees? Surely you’re not saying that Lord and lady Muck have dirty floors!! 😯
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My vote’s for the kneeling pad…started using one a couple of months ago and now wonder why on earth i didn’t use one before! It’s as light as a feather, just fits nicely in the top of the tool box and like Martin says it keeps you clean too 😀
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I use Goodyear trousers with pockets for knee pads, they also have more pockets than I have tools to place in them and I use Dickes pads.
You cannot notice the pads, but I usually only place them into the trousers on jobs that require kneeling.
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I always wear knee pads as 3 years ago i must have knelt on somehing i should not have and it swelled up huge and i was rushed into hospital with a temp approaching 40 and my knee and leg swelling by the minute.It took 4 days of a constant drip changed every 6 hours i think.After the 3rd day they where going to cut it open but luckily it started to come down,In total i was in hosp for 9 days.
There was no mark and the docs told me i prob knelt on something know when i kneel down without pads it feels like i am kneeling on stones.
Always wear knee pads now.cheers
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I use the dickies…..trousers with the slot in them to put the knee pads in would not go out to work with out them. best thing that i done 10 yrs ago….
canufixitRe: Knee Pads
Was reminded of this previous thread.
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.p … light=knee
Mike.Re: Knee Pads
Hi Guys, I wear snickers trousers with the removable knee pads. They are very hard wearing. I coudn’t kneel without them, as I have had 2 operations on my left knee over the years. Should have had these trousers with knee pads 30 years ago. 😥
AlanRe: Knee Pads
I think i spend just as much time on my back as on my knees! but that’s another story 😳 Take yesterday, Zan carbons, machine tilted, i’m on my back.. well, on my side really. Late Indesit & Hotpoint machines with pump assemblies full of coins.. lying down again, two of them yesterday.
And why are the lying down jobs often spent trying to fend off an amorous doggie with a slimy tongue? 😯So i think most crap from grotty kitchen floors ends up on my back & sides, but unless you’re a magician like that a*se crack engineer off the ING advert who pulls a shaded pole pump from the top of a machine 😯 then i dunno how to avoid a mucky bum either 😥
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Madmac wrote:I think i spend just as much time on my back as on my knees!
How very true Madmac, muck, fluff, cobwebs and doggie pee all down your shoulders, back and bum. Best to use a mechanics portable floor mat or (as I carry on my van) a rolled-up length of carpet underlay, the modern synthetic stuff not the old rubberised stuff with the chequered pattern on them as they act like a sponge if there’s water on the floor.
bagman wrote:But Martin, I thought you only went to the ‘quality’ customers who can afford your fees? Surely you’re not saying that Lord and lady Muck have dirty floors!!
Oh you are a caution bagman, cheeky boy. 😆
The gentry in my patch have the filthiest floors let me tell you. I fixed a Zanussi washer/dryer at Lord Canarvon’s little retreat (Highclere Castle) recently and with his grubby gundogs running free range all over the place. I processed his Coutts Bank Visa Debit Card as adequate compensation for the trauma suffered but nevertheless had to wipe my boots on the way out!
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