Card Factory, one of the UK's leading greeting cards retailers, has ordered step ladders from Ladders.co.uk for each of its 577 stores. The Lyte Aluminium Platform Step Ladders (ESP4) are tested to Class 1 industrial standard, meaning that they are ideal for regular use in a warehouse or shop environment. These step ladders are used to re-stock shelves, reach for reserve stock from normally out of reach locations and carry out all kinds of jobs around the store.

Step ladders are ideal for a huge range of jobs, from shop and warehouse work as explained above, to jobs around the house. Having racking or shelving and a good set of step ladders vastly increases the storage space in a shop or warehouse. Platform step ladders have a large platform at the top of the ladder, giving a safe and secure location to stand and carry out your work.

To select a step ladder, there are a few things to consider. Working out how many steps or treads you require is important, but more crucial is the height you require the platform to be, as different manufacturers occasionally will manufacture step ladders with different spacing between steps, meaning that two different 6 tread steps ladders may not be the same height. Finally it is important to realise that when describing a step ladder with a platform, the platform counts as the top step, so for example a 5 tread step ladder would consist of 4 steps and a platform.