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Offline Just One More

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Creak, creak, creak
« on: March 13, 2008, 07:13:40 AM »
I got a new pair of safety shoes about two weeks ago. They are work ones, so "cheapest is best"

Two weeks in and it's still creak, creak, creak everywhere I go. Any tips? (looks towards the ex-military types)
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2008, 08:19:44 AM »
I got a new pair of safety shoes about two weeks ago. They are work ones, so "cheapest is best"

Two weeks in and it's still creak, creak, creak everywhere I go. Any tips? (looks towards the ex-military types)
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2008, 08:28:22 AM »
Buy some ear plugs?
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2008, 08:31:57 AM »
Get a bunch of bananas – they don’t make very good shoes but they make fantastic slippers!
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2008, 08:44:35 AM »
Thanks for all your help so far guys  Banghead  lol:
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2008, 09:00:14 AM »
Thanks for all your help so far guys  Banghead  lol:
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2008, 09:09:09 AM »
Check the noise is not from your knees.

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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2008, 12:41:06 PM »
My father sold shoes for most of his life. He was actually apprenticed to a shoe shop at the age of 14. so what follows is the voice of my father giving the benefit of 40 years in the trade (I suffered it, now it is your turn)

 A good application of polish with a cloth to ALL leather surfaces, leave to "soak in" over night and buff up in the morning and your problem may go away. Remember to polish all the bits that one doesn't normally see ~under the laces, the surface of the tongue etc. I still polish the arch under all of my shoes .... such was his training and I am driven mad by people who walk around with the price label still stuck beneath their shoes.

Now shoes and boots come with a support built into the arch of the shoe. This runs from heel to sole and is often, in cheap shoes, of inferior quality metal. If the squeaking is coming from there it is because the support is loose and you will not be able to cure it without deconstructing the shoe/boot.  Best throw them away and start again. You can tell if that is the cause of the squeaking because you will be able to feel it through your foot. You could try returning them as a complaint but most shoe shop assistants nowadays will not know how they are made and will look at you as if you are mad.

Lastly, an old saying whenever anyones footware was heard to be squeaking was "Time you paid for those boots and the bloody squeak will go away"



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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2008, 01:32:05 PM »
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Just to taunt you, I have just checked and have price labels both inside and outside my shoes.  eveilgrin:

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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2008, 01:32:55 PM »
The Mad Hatter had a similar problem, IIRC
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2008, 01:45:38 PM »
eeek:

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Just to taunt you, I have just checked and have price labels both inside and outside my shoes.  eveilgrin:


I am not surprised. Damned slovenly behaviour! Wouldn't have done in my day I can tell you.

Actually apart from "driving me mad" and taking Nicks Mad Hatter point I do often laugh at wimmin mincing along, thinking they look like a million dollars, dressed to the nines and the legend £19.99 Reduced  in sale £9.99 stuck beneath their shoes for all to see.
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2008, 01:47:19 PM »
When my sis got married her new husband to be knelt at the altar to reveal the words "HELP ME" on the soles of his shoes written there by a thoughtful relative! eveilgrin:
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2008, 01:48:25 PM »
eeek:

I - don't - know - what - to - say


















Just to taunt you, I have just checked and have price labels both inside and outside my shoes.  eveilgrin:


I am not surprised. Damned slovenly behaviour! Wouldn't have done in my day I can tell you.

Actually apart from "driving me mad" and taking Nicks Mad Hatter point I do often laugh at wimmin mincing along, thinking they look like a million dollars, dressed to the nines and the legend £19.99 Reduced  in sale £9.99 stuck beneath their shoes for all to see.

Mine say £4 Primark!

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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2008, 01:48:55 PM »
yOU WAS ROBBED!
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Re: Creak, creak, creak
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2008, 01:50:17 PM »
yOU WAS ROBBED!

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