Great for dusting/painting the ceiling near the walls but useless once away from the wall for support. So then its back to a hop up to complete the job so why get one in the first place when one has a hop up? Could be used as a wishbone for tug of war teams Christmas outings. Might be useful as library steps but doesn't look that stable, health & safety wouldn't like it, especially if you have an armful of books to shelve but then libraries have purpose built stable moveable steps already.

Window cleaners often use short triangular shaped ladders, to access higher windows, with a few steps. This just looks like a cut down fancy version of one of these, no doubt with a very fancy price tag. So in no way something new but just a copy of an existing piece of equipment.

Cynical rant over.

Martin W

Edited By Martin W on 18/08/2021 00:57:34

Nice to see Britain leading the world with cutting edge innovation

The runner up was a round piece of wood with a hole in the middle called a wheel

Second place went to the chocolate teapot

Good idea in principle, but very frequently when using steps there isn't a handy vertical surface to prop this against – for example reaching a high shelf in a floor to ceiling cupboard.

Was this delayed from 1st April as a result of C19 ?

Why do so many model engineers knock anything that does not conform to the norm? I think it is a nice elegant piece of design, that has a practical use and if that is the value of the prize good on him, because it will pay off a huge amount of his university debt. Remember we are talking here about product design (he will probably go onto to design white goods) not mechanical design which is a whole different ballpark.

Me too! The ladder has a huge advantage – unlike any of my Aluminium monstrosities it doesn't look out of place propped up against the wall in an average room. It will sell like hot-cakes…

Dave

I use a one step ladder often.It can be used in the middle of a room as well. It has another name though. Chair.

regards