The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:48 am**

my mates asked me to replace his front guttering, its a big terrace and the neighbours, 15m wide for the pair and its high about 6-7m id guess.

currently leaking wooden gutters so I've found this twinplas stuff which is same profile as wood but plastic great,

next i really don't want to do this, i did my gutters this year and had lifts front and back and did it properly but i know he's not gonna want to fork out Â£300 for a scaffold.

there are two front block paved drives but sloping so i could bring our tower over but it'd have to be dismantled and moved between drives as flower beds fence in way etc.

if we were on commercial job id get a nifty 120 towable cherry picker in but at Â£320 for the day he isn't gonna like that either.

im thinking side step this one and find him a company who are ok just doing it off ladders, I'm not short of work and this is a hassle

how do ppl normally do high gutters and new fascia just two big ladders and chance it?

we are fully indoctrinated in the you don't work of ladders school of thought now after all these big commercial jobs.

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:13 pm**

Thats expensive for a cherry picker. I use a tracked nifty, Â£90 for the day, but I pick it up myself.
the other option is to get the continually seamless gutters. They are formed on site to measure.

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:30 pm**

Pass the job on to someone with the kit. My (your) life and future wellbeing is priceless.

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 1:45 pm**

If he is not prepared to pay for the correct equipment to do the work in a safe manner then in my opinion you walk away and let someone else do it

they use a lightweight aluminium work platform similar to the image here Giles
work platform

or this one
roofline platform

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 2:56 pm**

I know roofers that would do it off a ladder but if I were you I'd tell him you need a scaffold.

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 4:24 pm**

our roofers do guttering off ladder with a stay all the time
like me Giles you are the wrong shape to be working off ladders
Bin it
LLL

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2015 9:45 pm**

i sent him a text telling him id didn't want to do it and my insurance would only cover a full scaf tagged scaffold or a cherry picker

he's tried to ring me twice haha ducking the call, like tony said at 20 stone I'm better suited to doing down under the ground than up ladders

thats a good price

we used to have a towed cherry picker but sold it to some tree surgeons from cornwall was a beast of a thing but heavy compared to these new ones

The Brew Cabin

Gutter replacement