A new impossible problem

[Bill Wright]

And if you do add some upstands designed to take a removable platform.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

It happens all the time. And you be surprised how many people build conservatories below aerials and dishes. Then they get a big bill when the aerial or dish needs attention.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

If you could get some more sheets of plastic exactly the same you could put them down over areas of the existing ones as reinforcement. Then put some 8x4s down. It would all need to be securely tied.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Seconded. Although we always pass the cost on to the customer!

Bill

[SteveW]

This is one of the reasons that when I built our conservatory, I built around 900mm of brick wall and a "flat" roof on the back of the house, with the conservatory on the back of that. A perfect work platform and also useable as an escape route from the first floor windows.

SteveW

[GB]

At a family wedding recently, I was talking to a gentleman who broke his back falling off a ladder whilst helping to paint the local scout hut. He didn't even fall very far, yet his life is completely changed.

[Gazz]

Get someone with one of those remote controlled quadrocopters, attach a long handled paint brush to the bottom of it, and get the 'operator' to fly it from the paint can, to the wall, then fly up and down the wall between each trip back to the paint can :)

[Matty F]

There was some rot to cut out and fix new timber. Can't do that from a distance. I have just waterblasted one half using my scaffolding that I made out of ladders:

Ready to sand and paint tomorrow if it's fine! I did use plywood over the plastic roof. That is excellent and could easily stand having ladders on it.

[Onetap]

That picture brings to my mind the following words; award, darwin, organ and donor.

[meow2222]

I trust that lot's tethered somewhere. Otherwise if you push on the wall, over the scaffolding goes.

NT

[Matty F]

As I said before, the ladders are bolted to the house framing with 120mm bolts.

[tony sayer]

Fine then;)...

Surely they'd be a few bits of Tram line in it somewhere, doesn't quite seem a "Matty" project otherwise;)...

[Andy Burns]

You could have put a few "comedy" milk crates and paint tins around the base for the neighbour's benefit ...

[The Other Mike]

But he doesn't say what thread they are ...16BA?

[Bob Eager]

Knowing Matty, they could be M120 :-)

[Matty F]

OK, here's the finished job:

Plywood on the plastic roof made the job easy, but I did bolt ladders to the house. I have left the bolts there for next time, in 15 years!

[MattyF]

replying to Tim+, MattyF wrote: This is how I painted the back of the house. Just testing images. Do they work? Why are the sides cropped?