Stair Rods??

[Mattf1]

Hi there,

I am hoping someone can help me massively!!

My father in law had some work done in this house upstairs and the builder put down dust sheets on the stairs.. sounds normal right..

then the builder got a bag of sprung loaded rods and placed them on each step, therefore keeping the dust sheets nice and tight against the stairs so that they never fell down and reduced the risk to tripping over.

Does anyone have any idea what these are actually called?? Have searched high and low with no luck!!

Cheers guys!

 

[ntb]

Here you go.

http://www.tradetiler.com/safety-stair-rods.html

 

[^woody^]

It's not often you see contractors using these, and its a sign of a conscientious worker

 

[Threadjacker]

I just buy a roll of self adhesive carpet protector for £8.40 + VAT, saves messing around with dust sheets on stairs and expensive stair rods.

Trade Tiler are great though I use them often.

 

[JohnD]

what a good idea

 

[crank39]

I just buy a roll of self adhesive carpet protector for £8.40 + VAT, saves messing around with dust sheets on stairs and expensive stair rods.

Trade Tiler are great though I use them often.

I assume these are single use though? £10 everytime you work upstairs soon gets expensive

 

[^woody^]

I just buy a roll of self adhesive carpet protector

And do you (or your customers) go sliding down the stairs often?

 

[Threadjacker]

Sorry, I mainly do bathroom refits so stairs will be protected for a couple of weeks. Its not slippy at all.

I used to use dust sheets but everyone kept tripping on them on the landing.
Saw a builder who used the self adhesive roll and the customers loved it so I've used it ever since.

 

[disinfo]

Excellent, I like the stair rods!

Last time I used screwfix own brand stair protector, I left it on the stairs and the route to the front door for two weeks, it left a sticky residue behind.

 

[Threadjacker]

Excellent, I like the stair rods!

Last time I used screwfix own brand stair protector, I left it on the stairs and the route to the front door for two weeks, it left a sticky residue behind.

mmm.....it seems the carpet needs protecting against the carpet protector itself.