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Anyone got any recommendations for a pair of knee pads please. Rather not spend more than £25 if possible and ideally from either toolstation or screwfix so I can easily pick up. There seem to be both hard shell and gel types available is one better than the other? I have the insert type that go in trouser slots but want some to wear with shorts
Many thanks
Mark
 
Much of a muchness at that price and they will tend to cut into your legs. I used to DeWalt foam pads and they were OK ish. For big tiling job I bought some much better pads and they were excellent (as recommended by tilers) but three times your budget. Check out the tiling forums, those guys use them day in day out.
 
Yes my experience in the past is also that they're not always great, hence the request for recommendations, even though what is good for someone else may not work for me its a start.

Won't be paying £75, cant justify that, but are the ones you have gel or hard cup, or something else?

Thanks

Mark
 
I have knackered up by kneeling down a lot without using knee pads I have flats on both knees, now I can’t kneel on hard surfaces for long without knowing about it the next day so don’t scrimp on them.

Pete
 
I have some Stanley Fatmax Gel knee pads which I only use occasionally but always find comfortable. They were £20ish from Toolstation about 18 months ago … hopefully they’ve not gone up as much as Lurpak!
 
I no longer use the strap-on knee pads. I found that they kept on slipping down and to stop that happening, kept tightening them up.

There's a nerve in the leg called the common peroneal and it runs very close to the surface. Just where the straps are. After wearing the pads all day, I suddenly developed foot-drop as the straps had partially crushed the nerve. Fortunately I had excellent medical help and an inspired physio.
 
I have tried a variety of strap on knee pads and have never got on with them. I must admit I have never gone for the really expensive ones. The pads are always moving, falling down my leg and generally being a pain but they do work well on the occasions when they are actually under your knee.

I have the pads in my trousers and use the red honey comb ones which last much longer than the normal pads. In fact I have never replaced mine whereas I would not get more than six to 12 months from the sponge type pads.

If you want to wear shorts I would recommend cutting your trousers off below the pads :)
 
Have you thought of getting trousers with knee pockets like dickies. That way you can use any foam pads when needed and take them out when not
 
Thanks for all the replies. Seems we all braodly agree that they aren't great unless you splash the dosh. I did see someone in a pair that were more of a neoprene sleeve rather than straps but didn't have the foresight to ask what they were at the time ( a couple of years ago). As per the original post I have the trousers with inserts but although I use them I'm personally not a fan of them as I find they side around. Its only a couple of jobs I need them for so might just have to take a punt but I was reminded a couple of months ago when I boarded an eaves cupboard that I probably played too much rugby. My wife is trying to get me to play again, I think she wants me out of the house, but I digress.

Mark
 
If you have the patience to keep shifting it around,you might find that a kneeling pad is more comfortable. It does avoid all the problems of tying something to your legs. Mine is a thick pad of yellow closed cell foam with a handle cutout at one end. You'd probably find one in a garden centre.

Edit: Also at Screwfix and Toolstation, less than £7.
 
Andy I have had that thought also, good for some jobs if your just shuffling slowly along
Mark
 
the bear":363gx7h0 said:
Anyone got any recommendations for a pair of knee pads please. Rather not spend more than £25 if possible and ideally from either toolstation or screwfix so I can easily pick up. There seem to be both hard shell and gel types available is one better than the other? I have the insert type that go in trouser slots but want some to wear with shorts
Many thanks
Mark
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If your kneeling now and then snickers do some good onse I have mascot o we which are fair but if your on your knees a lot there’s these floor layers onse I bought and weren’t cheap but after the first few days I needed somthing as my knees were burning and very swollen but then with the fancey pads ace I sold them after for not far off what I paid so was worth it really
 
The best knee pads are the ones that slip into pockets in the trouser legs of specialist builder's trousers. All of the others are something of a pain, with the straps digging into the back of your leg. Just loosen the straps as far as they'll go without letting the knee pads fall to your ankles.
 
There's a nerve in the leg called the common peroneal
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Yes. mine became very inflamed and, just like Roger, I had an inspired physio 'calm it down'. The problem came when I Whatsapped my three kids "Dad can walk again! Perineal nerve trapped..." :oops: Look it up Folks, whole different place; VERY intimate as you might say...my future daughter-in-law, a dentist, was kind enough to correct me... :D
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q!":3lil0fsf said:
There's a nerve in the leg called the common peroneal
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Yes. mine became very inflamed and, just like Roger, I had an inspired physio 'calm it down'. The problem came when I Whatsapped my three kids "Dad can walk again! Perineal nerve trapped..." :oops: Look it up Folks, whole different place; VERY intimate as you might say...my future daughter-in-law, a dentist, was kind enough to correct me... :D
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You're not supposed to wear them that high, Sam :o
 
I'm surprised you guys like the trouser pocket ones. I've ridden motorbikes for years, and gel pads around the knees (with carbon fibre reinforcement for track work) are usual. Personally I find the removable ones uncomfortable in motorbike jeans or leathers (as opposed to stitched in) and even worse in work trousers as they shift around too much. Horses for courses I guess.
 
My old Dad was an asphalt spreader. (1930s to late '70s) Spent his working days on his knees, float-spreading the black stuff. As far as I know, way back you couldn''t buy knee pads. In common with his peers, he made his own by cutting old car tyres into short lenghs, fixing straps to them and lining them with rolled felt. He never had a whisper of knee trouble. Later, when he could get proper pads, he still put rolled up felt inside them!.

Guess who got the job of converting oak barrel staves into floats? :mrgreen:

Just thought folk might find that of interest.

Cheers John :eusa-think:
 
In common with his peers, he made his own by cutting old car tyres into short lenghs, fixing straps to them and lining them with rolled felt. He never had a whisper of knee trouble. Later, when he could get proper pads, he still put rolled up felt inside them!
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When I was a kid my dads knee pads were piece of old thick rubber conveyor belt, with thick leather straps and buckles, made for him in the workshop at his work. They were terribly uncomfortable from what I remember of them. He's probably still got them somewhere.

Mark
 
You have managed to delete the square bracket at the start of the /quote on the end of the quote. If you edit the post and insert the missing [ it will work.
 
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