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| Thread ID: 108059 | 2010-03-12 06:35:00 | House painting question.... | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 866353 | 2010-03-12 07:09:00 | Doesn't do the cat much good either. All you have to do is spread the weight - put cross bars on the ladder to cover three times the normal width of the ladder, let it hang from the ridge and your weight is spread across at least 4 tiles instead of a quarter tile. With one of those you can roam around a glasshouse roof happily. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 866354 | 2010-03-12 07:11:00 | Cat ladder sounds intriguing. Problem being what do I put it on - it would still crush the tiles.... Cat ladder is made of 3 or 4x1,which spreads load and will not crush tiles. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 866355 | 2010-03-12 07:24:00 | Cheers guys - looks like a visit to Mitre10 tomorrow to get a decent chunk of plank (now where did I put that roof rack?). Got lots of old battens I can attach to spread the load on the roof. Good suggestion. | johcar (6283) | ||
| 866356 | 2010-03-12 07:48:00 | My ladder is made of 2 4x1's,with rungs of 4x1 nailed on. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 866357 | 2010-03-12 08:08:00 | Old sacks filled with straw work brilliantly to cushion the ladder, I know as I used to tile roofs in the UK before getting my current trade | gary67 (56) | ||
| 866358 | 2010-03-12 08:18:00 | Hmm. Might even have some pea straw left overr from the strawberries.... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 866359 | 2010-03-12 08:52:00 | Hi johcar - Re: a decent chunk of plank - that's the last thing you want. Read Cicero's note again. Two lengths of 100 x 25 (4 x 1") lying flat with simliar 100 x 25 bars or rungs across. Plenty heavy enough and very stable. Nail a piece of 100 x 50 across the underside near the top so that it hooks over the ridge. Keep the lot off the new roofwork with a few bits of old carpet pinned to the underside. The new roof looks good. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 866360 | 2010-03-12 09:39:00 | Cheers Scouse - I seem to recall someone I know has a couple of 10 or 12 x 2 planks of cedar that might do the trick. May not have to dip info the wallet after all. I wasn't going out to buy 12x2 pine - wouldn't be able to lift it in the length required anyway. If I can't get the cedar planks, I'll look for some 1 inch thick stuff with plenty of weight spreading supports underneath.... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 866361 | 2010-03-12 17:15:00 | Hi johcar - Re: a decent chunk of plank - that's the last thing you want. Read Cicero's note again. Two lengths of 100 x 25 (4 x 1") lying flat with simliar 100 x 25 bars or rungs across. Plenty heavy enough and very stable. Nail a piece of 100 x 50 across the underside near the top so that it hooks over the ridge. Keep the lot off the new roofwork with a few bits of old carpet pinned to the underside. The new roof looks good. Nicely put S. I used this method in the 50's with rest of the roofing fraternity in England,only a few of us were killed.:horrified |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 866362 | 2010-03-12 20:25:00 | johcar..... no, no, no. 10 or 12 x 2 planks are again the very thing you don't want. They will be five or six times heavier than Cicero's suggested 4 x 1 and bloody difficult to position and move about on any roof. R2x1's comments apply. | Scouse (83) | ||
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