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Heh, fair enough, though if that’s enough to make you feel backwards, you don’t have enough angle on your ladder.

Right, this is the correct answer. Even with a very tall ladder, the force is relatively small. If the ladder is well anchored, you can demonstrate this by standing at the top, holding on tightly, and pushing on the wall to see how hard you have to push to move the top of the ladder away from the wall a little.

Also worth mentioning that they sell covers/pads for the top of the ladders to prevent denting the drywall, but you can also make them from a piece of foam pool noodle.

Maybe this is timely. We’re having all our bathrooms gutted and redone. Just today our contractor asked what colors we wanted them painted, so I asked which company’s color samples we did get. He said if I’m going to a place like home Depot, Behr or Dunn Edwards.