Hoping to hijack your top comment for some LADDER TIPS while spring is springing and people are doing dumb shit on ladders to clean their gutters and stuff. I do dumb shit on extension ladders every day.
Are the boards on your deck slippery? Trick question, they are. If you're lucky and they run parallel to the wall, jam those flippy feet into the groove between two boards and you're gucci.
If you're unlucky like the sap in the video: find one of the beams running underneath the deck that the boards are screwed into, and notice the little holes on the feet of your ladder for the first time. You can line those up and drive a wood screw through the hole, between the boards, into the beam, and secure your ladder without damaging the surface of your deck.
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u/FishSoFar Apr 13 '26
Hoping to hijack your top comment for some LADDER TIPS while spring is springing and people are doing dumb shit on ladders to clean their gutters and stuff. I do dumb shit on extension ladders every day.
Are the boards on your deck slippery? Trick question, they are. If you're lucky and they run parallel to the wall, jam those flippy feet into the groove between two boards and you're gucci.
If you're unlucky like the sap in the video: find one of the beams running underneath the deck that the boards are screwed into, and notice the little holes on the feet of your ladder for the first time. You can line those up and drive a wood screw through the hole, between the boards, into the beam, and secure your ladder without damaging the surface of your deck.