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Where's the best place to buy a ridge ladder? Been looking online but not sure! Or does everyone just hire them as and when?
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Ermintrude
B&q get a collapsible one for £130. It's a youngman one so good enough for the odd flue. We also have a rigid 5.8m one with extension for when it's s biggun
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lame plumber
Lyte TRL150 Single Roof Ladder 4.97m | Roof Ladders | NoLinkingToThis
Do you mean rigid or ridge as in roofing ladder?
That's what I was gonna post
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Ch4 plumbing
Ridge as in roof, for the prices I've seen them it makes sense to buy not hire. Just not sure what is a good buy and what's gonna bend when I step on it.
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Ermintrude
That's loads better than the folding one!
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Ch4 plumbing
Cheers KB I'm looking at the 2 section 5.64m for £154, much cheaper on that site.
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Trumped billy on price!:yes:
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tamz
There is nothing light about Lyte roof ladders.
They are a fkn nightmare to put up on your own.
Better with a youngman.
They are a fkn nightmare to put up on your own.
Better with a youngman.
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Ermintrude
Young men are always stronger leaner and better suited to graft.
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Ermintrude
Did you reinforce the home made ladder with bent over t hinges on joists ?
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tamz
Young and stupid i just ran up them with a roll of copex around my neck and a bucket of compo with a hammer and a cowl in it.
Getting down was usually harder than getting up.
Stupid stuff don't do it you only need to fall once.
Getting down was usually harder than getting up.
Stupid stuff don't do it you only need to fall once.
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Ermintrude
Siding down a rosemary roof on a semi bouncing into ladder must leave brown marks inside your pants.
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That's the one. The rungs were nailed n with galvanised clout nails.
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Ermintrude
Safe as houses 25st when wet tho!
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tamz
I near came off a rosemary roof years ago when one of the tiles came out from under my foot. Luckily i grabbed the ridge.
As i said stupid stuff.
As i said stupid stuff.
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Ermintrude
I was trying to prove a point to subby few years ago..... Fell off bungalow roof.... Into pile of kitchen units winded myself.
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Mike Jackson
I fell through a roof a few years ago. No ridge to hook the ladder over so I lifted tiles (Redland 49s) and walked up the battens. The battens were rot and gave way and I fell onto the roof face first. The tiles were rot as well and I smashed about 100. I repaired the roof by moving tiles up from lower down and used the old boiler case to temporarily weather the bottom.
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lame plumber
when I first got my place, popped up the scaffold ready to reroof old slates, so wanting a gander at how bad it was I took a run up to the ridge, just as I reached the ridge, about 20m2 let go due to nail rot and down I went onto the scaffold. I do believe on the way down again I might have leaked a bit, 4 stories up plus roof!!! Had to go and buy some tarps to fill the gap, no underlay!!! then had a lot of single malt to settle the nerves.
ive got the cat ladder that come is sections that bolt together. The reason i got this one is i can carry it inside the van and store it inside my shed and a single one sit better on the roof compared to an extending one. If i left it im my garden for to long its would get taken down the tat yard by one of the local tracksuit wearing scumbags.
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