This is a pair of quality work boots. They may not look all that good now because
they are actually a couple of years old. If you look underneath you can actually
see that we have some steel that stuck in them and some damage from when I've
been standing on molten metal when I've been burning with the gas axe etc. So
these have probably been used on site for roughly the last three years I would
imagine and as you can see that one is quite badly worn at the front there you
can see this steel toe cap. So these are still very good boots and they do
not actually leak in at the moment. I haven't actually been in any deep
water though and I would imagine that the water would leak in through that part.
If you have never seen Sugu before it is a mouldable glue. You actually put this in position and
after 24 hours it sets like rubber. So that should be the perfect material for
repairing these boots and then we should get a bit longer out of them.
It's actually about £90 or £100 for a brand new pair of these
boots so if you get a couple of extra months out of them by doing a patch repair like
this it does make it very economical to do so. So I'm just going to start off and
clean the front of the boot there. So I'm just rubbing that with
a rag and you can see that it is quite dirty and like I said I do wear these
every day when I'm on site. Damage like that usually occurs when you're kneeling down
because your steel toe caps press against the hard concrete floor.
You can actually see right on the back of there it is quite detached now from the
steel toe cap. So I'll just make sure that's as clean as I can get it. Then I'm
going to take a pack of Sugu, we'll cut that open, you do normally need very
clean hands when you do this but in this case I'm wearing gloves anyway. So I'm
just going to take that, so I'm just going to mix that up a little, and then
going to try and put some of the Sugu down the back there
and squash that in between the covering on the boot and that should stick that
back in position and then we can simply put some of that on there. You can
just mould that in.
See that I've gone a bit wider than the actual damage but that doesn't matter the
important thing is that we ensure that the boots don't leak. So now that I've done that
I'm going to take the rest of it and I'm going to try to fill this gap
around the front.
So that only took a couple of minutes and as you can see we should now have a
waterproof seal on the end of the boot there. Hopefully that will give us a
couple of extra months life out of these boots like I said they are a couple of
years old and it is expensive to buy a new pair and there is plenty of grip
left on the bottom so it is a shame to bin them just because of a bit of
damage on the front there. I hope this video has been useful if it has and you
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