Really no Safety Gear, walking on the top of a roof Pitched like that. Is this how you guys all do this?
Please lets talk about this.
Riley I like you choice of Text in Sig, hyper link it.ewww no way thats stupid! What kind of fall protection are the non dummies using around here? i just got a miller 5 pt harness with the bungee whip...havent bought line yet nor a vent pipe or pitch style anchor. some roofs dont have vent pipes high enough so is it unprofessional to nail a roof pitch style anchor into a customers roof???
Heck that's how I use to do it. have a ground man watering and get er done
I would stand on the very low pitched part over the front deck and shoot up towards the peak. Should never walk on the top ridge like that. That is a ridge vent he is walking on and those should not be walked on. If you HAVE to walk that you should straddle the vent so one foot is on either side of the vent, but my choice would be to spray from the area just above the porch area and spray up. That roof could be sprayed easily form one or two spots. He looks very comfortable up there though. I think his plan was to spray the whole roof without having to come down.
That is exactly how we do it. Walk what you feel comfortable doing. We don't need industry or gov't regulations telling us what is safe anymore than we need them forcing bmp's on us. If it is steep or high, we wear a harness and tie off. I can assure you that we do not drop a piece or rebar down a vent pipe with a rope tied to it. That is bordering on the insane.
I would stand on the very low pitched part over the front deck and shoot up towards the peak. Should never walk on the top ridge like that. That is a ridge vent he is walking on and those should not be walked on. If you HAVE to walk that you should straddle the vent so one foot is on either side of the vent, but my choice would be to spray from the area just above the porch area and spray up. That roof could be sprayed easily form one or two spots. He looks very comfortable up there though. I think his plan was to spray the whole roof without having to come down.
Only after you have tried to convince them not to clean, right???
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At least I can handle them and never while workingLOL, yeah after you drank Royal Flushes
Ditto, never walk on ridge vent, straddle itI would stand on the very low pitched part over the front deck and shoot up towards the peak. Should never walk on the top ridge like that. That is a ridge vent he is walking on and those should not be walked on. If you HAVE to walk that you should straddle the vent so one foot is on either side of the vent, but my choice would be to spray from the area just above the porch area and spray up. That roof could be sprayed easily form one or two spots. He looks very comfortable up there though. I think his plan was to spray the whole roof without having to come down.
Very true Doug. The better I get at convincing people to not clean their roofs, the fewer I have to do. We are on thousands of roofs a year cleaning gutters though.
William, since you do a lot of gutters yearly, what are some of your selling points on cleaning them?
Here, less than 1/2 of houses have rain gutters and I would like to clean more of them as it is not a bad job but so many don't have gutters and most of the reasons I have heard is that they are a maintenance issue and have to clean them out several times a year.
For those that have rain gutters, I would like to market to them but not sure what to say as I don't get a lot of calls for rain gutter cleaning.
Thanks.