Here are a few vendors for booties and other safety supply stuff like those 3 mil Nitrile gloves that don't tear and particle masks for not inhaling all those evil known and unknown things inside pianos. All prices stated are from 1994-95 catalogs. Prices are sure to have gone up. IPCO Safety 14395 Industry Circle La Mirada, CA 90638-5810 (800) 827-8036 distribution centers in Philadelphia, Houston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles Tyvek shoe covers 100 pr. per case $66.50 in 1995 catalog Safety Supply America (800) SSA-ORDER distribution centers across the country shoe covers in conductive Poly, Non-conductive Poly, Conductive Dexter, non-conductive Dexter non-skid, non conductive Poly All in universal and extra large sizes (makes sense to me...) I lost their price list Direct Safety Company (800) 760-2975 P.O. box 50050 Phoenix, AZ 85076-0050 Standard shoe cover 400 /Box $125.00 ( I think these are Tyvek, catalog unclear) ComforMax Medical shoe covers $1.00 per pair Lyons Safety (800) 548-0909 7am to 7pm CST. 5 distribution centers across the US. non-skid polypropylene shoe covers 50 per box $14.99 Tyvek shoe covers sold per pair... .85 per pair for 1-99, .77 per pair for 100-199, .70 per pair for 200+. They also have Digital Impulse Sound Meters, Integrating Octave Band Meters, Sound level meters and noise monitors. I just wear my socks in shoes-off houses...... although I have a pair of nice slippers in my van.... I've only rememered to bring them in to a few houses where I know they have cold tile floors. Lisa Weller
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