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Has anybody got a suitable working platform to enable work to be carried out on a tiled pitched roof.
We have roof ladders and have trained the operatives to use safely / correctly.
I don't want to go down the route of having a fixed scaffold installed as the work takes about one hour to complete.
This work does not involve working on a chimney stack but involves putting in vertical flues for gas boilers and is usually about half way up the pitch.
Any help gratefully received
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Can the bulk of the job be done from the inside with just a short making good session from the outside?
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No in answer to your query
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I would suggest one of the many edge protection platforms such as easi-dec (others available) will provide you with roof access, a working platform with moderate materials storage capacity and the edge protection provides a means of mitigating the effect of any fall down the roof (compliance with WAH hierarchy).
With this arrangement, your people can then work "hands free" from roof ladders with confidence.
These eai-dec type assemblies take minutes to erect. Do get your people trained though. Speak to your local hire shops or ladder/access equipment suppliers
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ron hunter wrote:I would suggest one of the many edge protection platforms such as easi-dec (others available) will provide you with roof access, a working platform with moderate materials storage capacity and the edge protection provides a means of mitigating the effect of any fall down the roof (compliance with WAH hierarchy).
With this arrangement, your people can then work "hands free" from roof ladders with confidence.
These eai-dec type assemblies take minutes to erect. Do get your people trained though. Speak to your local hire shops or ladder/access equipment suppliers
Ron, would a person falling down the roof would be stopped by the guardrails of the easi dec. I was under the impression they are a work platform at height as opposed to a load bearing guardrail.
I know a company in Birkenhead who do the type of work mentioned off a roof ladder with a short restraint lanyard attched to it.
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The HSE is their working at height video seem to lean towards ladders with fall restraint in use with ladders secured etc. Think their take was lower risk than it would be to build a scaffold.
However the easi-dec system I believe can be used for this purpose as edge protection (although fair point with the impact) and I have in the past used this system on a roof job with the only concern noted by the HSE was to ensure they do not stray from the easi dec's remit of which if you are putting in the flue then the easi dec could be set up straight underneath.
Google Easi Dec and speak to them directly, very helpful and can manufacturer accessories so they may have a solution for you.
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I'm led to believe the impact force from a fall on a domestic pitched roof would be within the load-bearing capacity of easi-dec etc, but do check with them!
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I had a new boiler installed about two years ago by a then CORGI registered gas fitter, the registeration is now with the new system. He put a vent into my roof by completing most of the work from within the loft space and finished it off by using a ladder and a roof ladder. He removed on roof tile and installed the new tile and fitted the new chimney. It took him about twenty minutes. He used fall arrester kit and it was perfectly safe. There was no means of using a scaffold as the side he had to put then new vent was at the back and below was a conservatory which would have needed much more protection the he did.
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bob shillabeer wrote: He used fall arrester kit and it was perfectly safe.
What did he attach his fall arrest to?
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Thank you to every one for comments / help / information
About to order a Light Duty "LSD Roof Access System
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