re-point the 8m gable on DIY scaffolding

[zaphod247]

thought I would introduce my self here, as I could do with some advice.
Anyway in this picture + some more in my album, I'm re-point my gable end because it was falling down due to bad water penetration then freezing.
I didn't have the cash to hire scaffolding. So it was me, my trowel and a bucket of muck.

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• zaphod247
• 15 Oct 2012
• 1

 

[hansthebear]

Fidiot

 

[wotan]

My advice is don't step backwards, or step into a gap.

Wotan

 

[fidom]

Seeing this photo makes me think the work I started on my barn roof yesterday was relatively safe!
One end of my barn has had the roof extended at some point so that the overhang would cover a basket weave structure for storing stripped corn cobs. Here in Hungary these cobs are stored in a ventilated structure to dry out for animal feed. The whole thing was in poor condition and I started breaking up the basket part for kindling some time ago. A few weeks ago one of the roof timbers broke, a couple of tiles fell and about 10 or so tiles looked ready to fall at any minute. I have now removed the basket woven structure but still have the very rotten wooden framework which surrounded it. I started stripping tiles ready to repair the damaged area and remove the extended part yesterday. Initially I had the ladder leaned against the strongest looking parts of the wood framework, which turned out to be much firmer than it looked. Even if I had been using scaffolding the risk of falling tiles would have been unavoidable.

 

[HERTS P&D]

I asked a roofer (many years ago) why it was so expensive to change 1 roof tile near the ridge on a house.

His reply was 'If I fall from that height, I will never get up again'

I then shut up.

Andy

 

[Ricardus]

Well, it's how they used to build castle walls.

 

[mattylad]

Looking at the pic, is that purple robe perhaps tied off down below, passing over the top of the ladder and then round him?

just in case

 

[SimonH2]

There's a gas fitter locally who has a large cherry picker on the back of a lorry. We used him to get access to our office roof a couple of times, and I got talking to him. His story of why he got it went ...

He used to fit chimney liners using ladders - ladder up to the roof, cat ladder up the roof, stood on the ridge hauling up the liner with a rope and feeding it down the chimney.

One day, he was on the cat ladder when it slipped off the ridge - I think he said the ridge gave way. Luckily he was close enough, and fast enough, to get a hand on the ridge - and was left there on the roof while the ladders clattered to the ground two floors below. After that, he bought the cheery picker which is large enough to reach a typical chimney on a two storey house.
I suspect he probably bought new underwear first

 

[conny]

Fidiot

He certainly is!
That ladder should extend at least three rungs past the platform!

 

[HalifaxRoofer]

..... Would probably be safer just to do it off the ladder? Just saying.

Wouldn't catch me up there that's for sure!

 

[maltaron]

Zaphod, Did you finish it without ending up in Hospital?

 

[villageclown]

No, he did not.

She is still in Intensive Care.