Electric Step Covers

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I'm looking for some non-slip mats for the double electric steps after nearly coming to grief yesterday in Northumberland.

Recommendations anyone ?
 
There is a strip material which is a bit like sandpaper which is used on ramps that you might put up to an external door on a house to enable wheelchair and pedestrian access, it is essentially non slip, not sure if it is self adhesive or has to pinned/screwed in place. I needed some a while back, but ended up using some coarse roofing felt.
 
Artificial grass from diy shop , the dogs not ours but came every day to beg to be let in . IMG_0305.jpg
 
I made my own from rubber car mats, I cut them to size and glued them on then put aluminum angle on the edge to make sure they didn't move, they have been on quite a few years now, I will take a photo tomorrow
 
I made some from artifical grass from B&Q. They cut it off a roll in the larger stores and it is 2 meters wide on the roll so I had 1/2 meter cut off the roll making it a square meter overall. Cost about £9 iirc. I made 5 mats out of the piece and used a tarp eyelet kit from a market (£2).

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They work really well, are non slip and get lots of dirt off your feet. We have a mat in the doorway of the van to take outside shoes off but the grass steps remove lots anyway.


There was a large choice of grass type at B&Q so I picked the kind that I thought would clean shoes the best.
 
POI Admin said:
Hardly non-slip I'm afraid. In fact probably the opposite! Wet shiny plastic ...
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They aren't slippy, we have one. A bare wet Aluminium step is slippy and it's murder walking the dogs with a wet backside. :sad:
 
maingate said:
They aren't slippy, we have one. A bare wet Aluminium step is slippy and it's murder walking the dogs with a wet backside. :sad:
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As I found out to my cost the other day,a wet aluminium step is very slippy. :sad:
 
Tezza33 said:
I made my own from rubber car mats, I cut them to size and glued them on then put aluminum angle on the edge to make sure they didn't move, they have been on quite a few years now, I will take a photo tomorrow
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This is a post I made in 2014 and the rubber mats had been on 5yrs then so now it is 8yrs, have a read through the thread it was on because there is good advice
https://www.wildcamping.co.uk/forum...ubber-aluminium.html?highlight=electric+steps

I removed the two steps and fitted the aluminium angle because I didn't want the rubber mats coming loose, the mat is wearing on the bottom step but it still isn't slippy

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Tezza33 said:
This is a post I made in 1914 and the rubber mats had been on 5yrs then so now it is 8yrs, have a read through the thread it was on because there is good advice
https://www.wildcamping.co.uk/forum...ubber-aluminium.html?highlight=electric+steps

I removed the two steps and fitted the aluminium angle because I didn't want the rubber mats coming loose, the mat is wearing on the bottom step but it still isn't slippy

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That's pretty good performance - they've surviced 8 years' use and World War I into the bargain. :lol-049:
 
TJBi said:
That's pretty good performance - they've surviced 8 years' use and World War I into the bargain. :lol-049:
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Phil told me yesterday that my maths is crap, I think I have just proved it:eek:
 
Update

I decided to go for the Fiamma step covers in the end.After some of the replies on here I wasn't sure if they would be non slip when wet but can confirm after the recent rain they are in fact much less slippy and better than the aluminium steps.I chose the black ones as I think they look a bit better than the green.

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