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Snow today

koopmaster

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Well it's finally snowed in london. Not sure if I want to work in it.

I did put the heater in the van last night so it's not frozen but not sure if I want to bother with the pipes on the ground....

 
I've just come into the warm after playing out in the snow with the little one.

 
Thought we might have seen the weather turn for the better now we're into February........but it's not happend....quite thick with snow here, and bloody freezing.....surely we'll manage to get a full weeks work in soon.....won't we...!!!!

 
I've quotes to do later on and the funny thing is you can't see inside the gutters or what state conservatory roofs are in etc as are covered in snow /emoticons/biggrin.png

 
According to most sources, we're in for a pretty snowy Feb! So fingers crossed for you guys they're wrong - as per usual /emoticons/smile.png

 
Snow here again too

Won't stop me as i have some work to catch up on

Going out after another coffee and some toast

Hard to get motivated in this weather

 
I've been there back in the day

Not clever but we were fearless then

When the weather was bad me and a mate who was also subbing work used to work together and work just like that

Stupid isn't the word for us then

 
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These are the townhouses i said about before

Sloped roof on first floor so ladder over angle so mate footing it in snow

Walk along slippery first floor roof to do middle windows

Then go up to ledge you can see under top windows if you zoom in and walk across to to the neighbours without moving ladders

As i said before we were idiots then

 
Especially when i did it on my own once

Parked the car across the drive so i could use my wheel to foot the ladder

 
I was told of a painter who always footed with his car for years, the one time he couldn't, he smashed all his teeth out and blackened his face with bruise. I've bought a second ladderm8 to use on the stabiliser bar... But now my shoes are falling apart with holes, soon they'll look like a pair of crocs

 
You gonna be using ladderm8 and ladderbrace together then??

Overkill methinks

 
Well... I've got some placements where I can't use the brace, such as to clear my own front guttering, the house and small frontage is a foot higher than the narrow pavement, then it's road, so reckon no brace, just two ladderm8's there. Also, round the back, I wouldn't have got the m8's deployed as I had to place the ladder in tight space but just managed to deploy the brace.

If I can get all the features working, why not?

 
I would use one or the other

They are designed to work solo

You need to have some faith in the fact you are using ladders correctly not putting all your faith in safety devices

 
I'm just wondering now if they have the same grip turned sideways and where is the ladder butted up to so you can put the bps stabaliser bar on the bottom of the ladder on each one.

 
Same grip on the ladder m8?

Will experiment and post some pics when the second one arrives.

As you know I'm new to all this, so it's easy concievable I've made an error on the planning front :-(

Are they meant to be used solo cause the ladderm8 raises the ladder above ground level?

 
  • On a side note, I got the gutter inspection cam working... Only to find the g sensor won't turn on. I can either attatach it to an angle adapter instead or send it back and hope the next one works.

Does yours take awhile to set up each time picking up the wifi feed smurf? Sometimes I have to faff around turning stuff on and off again to catch it

 

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