On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:39:31 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

housemaids knee was a common problem then

Still is for carpet fitters.

I've had problems with my knees when installing loft flooring on a
couple of occasions recently, I presume that is known as housemaids
knee.

I do find that wearing a pair of knee pads helps enormously. And for
that someone unknown on this forum is due thanks - I had never tried
knee pads prior to someone mentioning them here a while back, a quick
visit to ebay and I had a pair to try.

PoP

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