Safe Step Stool for Fast Lubes

Fast lubes have several choices when it comes to purchasing a safe step stool for their shops. Let’s look at a couple of the step stools to see which will work best for your fast lube shop. It doesn’t matter if your fast lube is a Jiffy Lube, Kwik Kar Lube or a Valvoline Instant Oil Change facility, the problem is the same, “How can you get the safest step stool for your shop?”

Would you like legs with that?

Look at the step stool that you have now, does it have legs? If it does you are looking at the weakest part of your fast lube step stool. The most popular step stool for fast lubes is an aluminum step stool with round rubber pads on the bottom of the legs. I’ve seen one of these step stools when the welds crack. It pretty much renders the step stool useless and the owner wasn’t happy because the aluminum step stool was less than one year old.

Will your technicians be able to service 4x4 trucks?

Do you ever have different size trucks come into your service bays? Do you have different employees servicing these trucks? There is one step stool built for fast lubes that addresses both of these problems. It’s called the Shure-Step® step stool. If a 4x4 truck shows up at your fast lube and your shortest employee is servicing it, no problem…just stack 2 Shure-Steps® up and your working height just increased from 10 inches high to 16 inches high. Pretty cool, huh?

Safety First

Before you purchase a safe step stool for your fast lube, ask yourself what’s important. Do you want a lightweight easy to move step stool? Do you want a safe step stool that will last? Is having a warranty important? Do you want your safe step stool to have a load rating? These are qualities you will have to decide for yourself, but be sure to ask questions when purchasing your safe step stool for your fast lube.

David C. DuPont has been finding solutions to step stool problems for 9 years. He has helped people solve their problems by helping them find bathroom step stools, kitchen step stools, wooden step stools, kids step stools, plastic step stools and step stools for senior citizens. To see his step stools or to contact him to find a stepstool for you, go to www.Shure-Step.com

CLICK HERE to order Shure-Steps

Safe Step Stools for kids

Safe Step Stools For Kids

In order to make sure that the step stool for your kids is safe to use, first you must consider what your child will be using the step stool for. Since it is getting close to summer a lot of kids will be drinking out of a water fountain. Most water fountains in public places are installed for an adult to use, so they are too high for a child reach safely. You don’t want your child standing on a step stool that could tip over while they’re getting a drink from a water fountain, do you? Kids don’t think about safety when they want a drink of water; they just want to quench their thirst. So make sure that the step stool is very, very sturdy, because when kids get near a water fountain they horse around and play, a lot!

Safe Step Stool for Outside Water Fountains

Also consider if the step stool for kids to drink from a water fountain is going to be outside, if it is then get a kids step stool that will stand up to the weather and last. Metal step stools tend to rust and become unsafe after being in the rain & sun for more than a year. Wooden step stools simply fall apart after being in the weather for any length of time. Plastic is good as long as the children’s step stool is rated for enough weight to handle several kids at one time. Remember, kids horse around a lot and this isn’t the time to cheap out on the equipment. Kids don’t know if the step stool is safe or not, so you’ll have to pick a step stool for them.

Legs Are Unsafe for Step Stools

Remember, legs are unsafe for an outdoor step stool. If the ground gets soft, like after a rain, one or more of the legs will sink into the ground making your child’s step stool unstable and un-level.

David C. DuPont has been finding solutions to step stool problems for 9 years. He has helped people solve their problems by helping them find bathroom step stools, kitchen step stools, wooden step stools, kids step stools, plastic step stools and step stools for senior citizens. To see his step stools or to contact him to find a stepstool for you, go to www.Shure-Step.com

CLICK HERE to order Shure-Steps

Can a Folding Step Stool be a Safe Kitchen Step Stool?

Folding step stools are popular for use as a kitchen step stool because they store very easily. The folding step stool makes sense to use in your kitchen because the number one problem inside homes today is storage space. The problem with folding step stools is that they usually don’t hold very much weight and they tend to slide easily on slick floors. It’s as if the folding step stools are designed as a children’s step stool not for an adult to use in a kitchen.

What makes a folding step stool safe?

The very first thing to look for on any step stool, whether it is a folding step stool or not, is a load rating. The industry standard for an adult step stool load rating is 500 pounds. Big companies will not allow their employees to use a step stool without the 500 pound load rating because they are trying to reduce injuries and promote a safe work place. You should consider this when shopping for a safe step stool to use in your home. The next thing you want to look for is non-slip pads on the legs or the bottom of the folding step stool. Make sure that the rubber non-slip pads are large enough to keep the step stool from sliding. If the step stool has legs make sure the rubber pads won’t get holes worn in them from the legs. Some step stool manufacturers only put a thin rubber pad that won’t do anything to keep the step stool from sliding on a slick floor so make sure the pads are thick.

Before you buy a folding step stool for your kitchen do this one thing to make sure it is a safe step stool. Take it out of it’s box or package, place it on the floor of the store (preferably a smooth concrete floor or linoleum) and with one foot on the step stool and one foot on the floor, push the step stool on the top corner. If the step stool slides easily in the store, the step stool will slide on your kitchen floor. This should be a clear signal to NOT buy this kitchen step stool.

David C. DuPont has been finding solutions to step stool problems for 9 years. He has helped people solve their problems by helping them find bathroom step stools, kitchen step stools, wooden step stools, kids step stools, plastic step stools and step stools for senior citizens. To see his step stools or to contact him to find a stepstool for you, go to www.Shure-Step.com

CLICK HERE to order Shure-Steps

How to Find a Safe Bus Step Stool?

When you see a step stool sitting in front of a bus do you wonder if it’s a safe step stool? Let’s take a look at the step stools buses use and why. Some of the step stools the buses are using are metal step stools. These step stools are made of square metal tubes welded to a metal frame with legs that have rubber pads on the bottom. At first glance these step stools look sturdy, but upon closer inspection you may find that these bus step stools are not as safe as they look.

For a step stool to be safe, legs are not recommended. Why, Bus drivers have repeatedly told me horror stories as they watched visually impaired seniors who couldn’t clearly see the top of the bus step stool and put their foot under the bus step stool instead of on top. They looked somewhat confused as they tried to lift their foot and the bus step stool moving with their foot.

Also, if a bus step stool has legs, the legs are the weakest point of the step stool because eventually the legs will either bend making the step stool unstable or the welds that hold the step stool together will crack, allowing the step stool to wobble.

Look at the bus step stool. Ask yourself “Will this bus step stool hold a very, very large person?” If the step stool is a wooden step stool made for a child, maybe not. Look for a load rating on the step stool. If it doesn’t have one how do you know how much weight the step stool will carry? You Don’t!! So be careful.

David C. DuPont has been finding solutions to step stool problems for 9 years. He has helped people solve their problems by helping them find kitchen step stools, wooden step stools, kids step stools, plastic step stools and step stools for senior citizens. To see his step stools or to contact him to find a stepstool for you, go to www.Shure-Step.com

CLICK HERE to order Shure-Steps

How to Choose a Safe Library Step Stool?

Have you ever been at the library and tried to find a safe step stool to reach a book on the top shelf? You’re not alone! Most library step stools aren’t very safe to reach high shelves because the step stools used are too small or aren’t rated for enough weight. Some of these include the round step stool with spring-loaded wheels on it in used in many libraries. Other libraries use a small ladder instead of a step stool for you reach high shelves. There are many step stool out in the market today. But do you know which among those works for you in the library safely? They have there promises of quality but you cannot tell unless you see it for yourself. The Shurestep’s library step stool could be the answer to your problem.

Look for These Safe Step Stool Features

Before you step on your next library step stool, look for these features:

• Step stool load rating should be a minimum of 500 pounds

• Step stool base should be larger than top surface to allow for reaching

• No wheels or folding step stools, too dangerous

So the next time you reach for a book on the top shelf at a library, be sure to look for a safe sturdy step stool using the guides above and you’ll be happy you did!!

The Safe Step Stool Guy, David C. DuPont has been helping people find solutions to their step stool problems for 13 years. He can help you solve your step stool problems too. To contact him go to www.Shure-Step.com

CLICK HERE to order Shure-Steps

Safe Step Stools for Seniors

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Do you know a senior citizen that’s having trouble getting into a bus or SUV? Finding a safe step stool for your aging adult or physically challenged loved one can be difficult. Many of us have parents, grandparents or aunts & uncles that are either aging or physically challenged and have problems getting into a bus or SUV. Possibly, they have just had surgery, making it almost impossible for them to lift their leg more than 5 or 6 inches off the ground. This really poses a serious risk of injury when you try to take them out to grab a meal or go to a doctor’s appointment. Getting your loved one into your vehicle or doing anything that requires transporting them can be a real hassle.

Independent retirement homes and other adult communities have the exact same problem and they have tried to solve the problem by building their own wooden step stools out of plywood. Other communities have tried to use old Coca-Cola bottle crates as wooden step stools to help their residents overcome this problem. Some have even resorted to using a heavy block of wood as a wooden step stool so their senior passengers could get up to that first step on the bus they were traveling on. Directors for adult living facilities as well as the directors of nursing for these facilities are faced with finding a safe step stool for their seniors that is light, durable and easy to see. Finding a safe step stool to solve this national problem shouldn’t have to be this hard! Hasn’t anyone come up with a 6 inch step stool for seniors to solve this problem?

Look no more!! There is one safe step stool designed with the senior citizen specifically in mind. This step stool is called the Senior Step stool and it’s made by a company called Shure-Step®. You can find the Senior Step stool at Shure-Step.com. This safe step stool is 6 inches high, it has a large top surface area, it has a rough sandpaper pad on the top so your seniors’ feet will not slide or slip while stepping on it and the color is bright yellow so it’s easy to see. If you’re need includes using a safe step stool in very cold climates where there is ice on the ground, the Shure-Step® company offers ice cleats for its step stools.

The Senior Citizen population in the US is growing quickly. This segment of our population has special needs regarding mobility. In order for this segment of our population to be mobile they require the assistance of a safe step stool. Most step stools are not user friendly for physically challenged older adults, but the Senior Step is. In fact this safe step stool was designed with information from 3 different directors of adult living communities and one director of nursing. If your looking for a safe step stool to help an older adult get into a bus or SUV, be sure to go to www.Shure-Step.com.

David C. DuPont has been finding solutions to step stool problems for 9 years. He has helped people solve their problems by helping them find kitchen step stools, wooden step stools, kids step stools, plastic step stools and step stools for senior citizens. To see his step stools or to contact him to find a stepstool for you, go to www.Shure-Step.com.

CLICK HERE to order Shure-Steps

The Untold Dangers of Folding Step Stools

Folding step stools are very handy to have around your home because they take up so little space when storing them. But easy storage is about the only thing that folding step stools are good for. Why? These step stools tend be very dangerous when standing on them and reaching to lift an object. Bottom line is that the folding step stools are not very stable or sturdy. Especially the step stools sold at hardware stores like Home Depot and Lowes or department stores like Target.

These inexpensive folding step stools are made cheaply and can’t hold very much weight. Next time you see one of these step stools, do yourself a favor and look for the load rating. Some are rated for 225 pounds or less. That’s just not enough to hold a big person carrying an object and leaning over to the side of the folding step stool. Not to mention that the folding step stool has moving parts that can and will wear over time lowering the load rating every time you use it. So here are a couple of things to look for before buying a folding step stool. Load rating: 500 pounds minimum! That is if you don’t want your step stool to collapse or tip over when you’re on it.

Design: Does your folding step stool have a larger base than the top? This is easy to do, just look at the picture on the outside of the box or ask if you can open the box and take the shurestep's safe stool out.

David C. DuPont has been finding solutions to step stool problems and designing safe step stools for 9 years. He has helped people and businesses solve their problems by helping them find kitchen step stools, wooden step stools, kids step stools, folding step stools, plastic step stools and step stools for senior citizens. To see his step stools or to contact him to find a stepstool for you, go to www.Shure-Step.com

CLICK HERE to order Shure-Steps