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If I'm doing the rear of a house I can tie off on my trailer. Still trying to figure out how to tie off the other side.. maybe some kind of auger???

Are these roofs too high to reach with a ladder? If you can reach them with a ladder, you don't need to get on them. Get your set up down with the spray nozzles, hoses and pump and you will be able to reach most any point of the roof from your ladder. It is much safer to do it from the ladder than it is to walk on a steep slippery roof.

Brian

theroofcleaners wrote:

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Are these roofs too high to reach with a ladder? If you can reach them with a ladder, you don't need to get on them. Get your set up down with the spray nozzles, hoses and pump and you will be able to reach most any point of the roof from your ladder. It is much safer to do it from the ladder than it is to walk on a steep slippery roof.

Brian

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I prefer to shoot from the edge of the roof but it's not always possibe especially when a roof has a complex build too it i.e lots of hidden eaves etc.

 I would suggest if you can not use a valley to put your ladder at on a two story and it is real high pitch than stand on the ladder, if your worried about over spray make sure you have a ground guy on that side. When I am on the ladder I always make sure my ground guy is on the side of the house I am spraying so he can keep things wet, also use tarps if needed. 

That's cool!! I need a sticker like that for US-Maryland
Got a web link for them??  I would love to check it out and it might help some of the other members here from Australia too.

lets just say my pants would a couple of kilos heavier if my rope snapped, i might even need some SH to clean my undies...plus i could be a dead man

I respect everyones opinion here but I strongly feel that there is a place for safety regarding tie offs and harness in the roof cleaning industry. A rope should not break if you follow correct protocol and inspect safety equipment before each use. That should be standard operating procedure. If we all follow these common sense procedures we will save our own lives every time.
The rope I have is 8.5mm professional climbing rope (other hobby) and I have yet to see SH even touch it and I have spot tested it with 12.5%. The correct equipment is available.
I don't go climbing roofs unless I have too but there are cases where I will have to get up on them and the tile roofs down here are slick as heck. Much more than shingle roofs of equal pitch.
It's not feasable to shoot every job from the ladder and blows the costs sky high in some cases to get a lift.
Just my 2 cents.