I want to paint a piece of wall that is about 30 feet up over a walkway using a roller. I could hire a cherry picker but that is expensive. Does anybody know if such a pole is available or suggestions for how to do this. It is a piece of graffiti that is too dangerous to do from above which is how it was put there. Thanks
Peter
Presumably if that bit needs painting the rest will as it will not 'blend in'!
Is an insurance claim possible?
I do not know of such an 'implement' but even if there was one I think at a length of 30' it would be too heavy to handle.
Find out who did the graffiti and pay them to repaint it!!
HTH
JOhn
Why is it too gangerous from above? you scared of heights?
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Scaffold tower?
Should get you half the way up at least, and reduce the amount of pole required.
you wouldn't get high enough with an elephant would you? Otherwise ask the local zoo.
Owain
Yes, you can get telescopic poles for painting but they don't reach 30 feet.
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there's obviously some reason why you can't use a ladder ?
Rope access.
Is that the same as abseiling?
Ever been Paintballing???
Sometimes. Could be by ascent or descent. It's the use of climbing equipment to enable safe access (as potholers do), rather than climbing as a challenge using the least assistance (as rock climbers do).
I'm not suggesting the OP knot some old shoelaces together, but maybe recruit competant amateur climbers/potholers.
It is on a railway bridge over a High Street. Its painted steel plates and so blending in is not much of a problem as the graffiti is.
No.
The reason I ask about a pole is that I have seen a film about graffiti in San Francisco and it shows a man doing graffiti with a very long pole.
I wish.
The graffiti is done by somebody walking down the track and leaning over. To paint over using this method involves Health & Safety assessment, method statement, train lookouts, safety harnesses - huge cost and a week later we start over again. We want to quickly and cheaply paint over it so they give up eventually.
Complain to the authority that owns the area affected and get them to sort it
Chimney sweep rods and gaffer tape to hold the roller on with? You will, of course, need to stand a long way away from the roller tray.
As an alternative, tie a small bore hose to whatever rod you come up with, leading to a spray nozzle and pump the paint up under pressure. If it is a smallish area, gaffer tape a can of spray paint onto the end of the rod and devise something that will operate the spray when you pull a string.
Colin Bignell
This could become a long running saga as the 'artist' might see it as a continual challenge. At least if you leave the graffiti, they/it might just forget it.
Dave
Rope access sounds a maybe to me - but I'm not so sure about the H&S & liability issues of employing a non qualified amateur to do what is clearly not the safest of jobs. And I think by definition you'd be employing someone professionally.
Another maybe is a structure on the back of a truck, perhaps just a skeletal scaffold with ladder access on there. Whoever goes up there could of course use paint on a pole to complete the height requirement, and the job could be done at 4am. If it were possible to get down and move the truck out the way quickly that might enable a cut down on work & paperwork.
If you paint a big challenge to the grafiti artist, such as 'graffiti free zone' up there, then maybe they'll get caught on your camera. All depends what you want to achieve.
The other perhaps but probably not option is non drying paint, not on the side of the bridge but maybe on the top edge or very close to it, where it wont stand out too much visibly but will mark and put off the graffitist. Thats if its a no pedestrian zone up there. Screwfix sell it.
One final option is wax. Wax the paint when done - you'd need instant drying paint - and next time round you can just pressure wash it off and rewax.
NT
Worthing found that a few months of clearing graffiti within 24 hours stopped almost all graffiti within the town. If the signatures don't stay around long enough to be seen, they lose any value to the graffiti artists.
Colin Bignell
A cherry picker does not cost that much to hire.
At 100GBP a day I'd say that was bloody dear.
Take off actuator and file a groove in the topTwo biro outers gaffered to either side sticking up just short of actuator. Loop of string up one biro, across the actuator groove and down the other biro. Knot below can and extend to operator. Stick a bit of gaffer over string on actuator.
-- Mike W
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