Type 1, aluminum, offers a comfortable safe experience and is the best choice for general purpose use. The most common types used for house painting is the extension and the step. You will probably need more than one size of each type.

Painters Shutter Trestle

Type 1, aluminum, offers a comfortable safe experience and is the best choice for general purpose use.…

A movable frame or support for anything, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top-piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse.

Trestle

A movable frame or support for anything, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top-piece, and…

These are two-sided ladders used mostly for interior work, though they are handy too for certain exterior painting tasks. A plank placed on any rung of one and extended to that of another makes a splendid scaffold from which to paint a side wall. Four or six trestles with planks between them make up a scaffold from which a ceiling can be easily reached. Trestles are made substantially like long ladders. Two are hinged and permanently fastened together at the top. Made in lengths of 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 feet long.

Trestle

These are two-sided ladders used mostly for interior work, though they are handy too for certain exterior…