Kevlar Sleeves When Crawling Under a House?

 We recently had one of our Airbnbs leveled after the extreme heat in our area knocked it significantly out of alignment. It's a 100-year-old house on a pier-and-beam foundation, supported by blocks on the ground.

It has a large crawlspace, and while exploring it between visits from the foundation crew, I discovered there are quite a few uninsulated pipes and hanging wires under there. This is a problem, because in addition to blazing summers in our part of Texas, we have sustained hard freezes as well. Uninsulated pipes are asking for unpleasantness next winter, and the hanging wires make trips into the crawlspace both more inconvenient and less safe than they strictly should be. 

I figured it'd be as good a time as any to handle that stuff, especially since the large work crew is likely to have scared away any snakes, rodents, and other fun critters who might otherwise live under there. So I've spent a couple days under the house, tying up wires and insulating pipes. 

I have a great set of work pants for this purpose, 5.11 Tactical Men's Taclite Pro, which I love because they're rip-stop and have pockets on the knees for sliding in foam kneepads, preventing you from having to wear them separately.

 
But man, my forearms are getting really torn up crawling around on the hard-baked, cracked earth under the house. So for my next trip down under, I'm going to experiment with wearing Kevlar arm guards, like the ideapro Arm Protection Sleeves. 


They're recommended to protect against scratchy/slashy things like kitchen knives while cooking, and thorny branches while gardening. I even saw a thread on Reddit recently where a special ed teacher said he wears sleeves like this in class to prevent injury when kids bite, pinch, and scratch him. So there's that.


They're made of rubberized strings mixed with stainless steel wires. I'm excited for these to arrive so I can give them a try. I'll report back with what I find ...

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