Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from the wall above the garage.
I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is likely to blow her budget.
Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?
Ouch - how about putting a ladder up where accessible, and using a roller on a pole ?
work platform on a hoist? Cheaper than a scaffold and available on day-hire.
Is that a triangular garage????
For a Reliant Robin?
Cherry picker.
Maybe you could use your sales skills and resolve a repeat painting expense by extending the garage upto the roof. :)
NT
It is. Goes with the triangular back rooms & the triangular garden.
I get all the easy jobs :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Wilson" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:05 AM Subject: Re: How the kinell do I paint this?
Yep...them Poles 'll do it, but get one with long arms ;-)
Don.
OK - ask at
seriously though Is the garage roof a walk-on roof? you may be able to do something with a roller-on-a-stick
With difficulty? :-)
How about a bosons chair tied off at the chimney stacks? Or a cheap hire cherry picker?
Three ladders tied off to the walls top and bottom, and batten boards between them?
What height, even roughly, is the gable? Even a scaffold would be a difficult job. What a horrible shaped space to get anything in to.
Hang on. I think I have some sky hooks you can borrow, to tie the ladder on to any passing clouds. :-)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:
Fill balloons with paint. You surely have a ballista?
Alas, only a scale model trebuchet.
Cherry picker, if you can get it close enough looks to be quite a horizontal reach to the corner. You'll need to check the reach/height combinations carefully. Oh and the firmness of the ground and whats underneath where it will sit. Very common for a cherry picker to sink a leg into the ground and topple over...
Is the other gable hers or a neighours? Could the cost of scaffolding be shared between the two of them? Selling point to neighbour is that the unpainted wall will look *really* shabby against the nice newly done one. You may end up doing that house as well.
In message , BigWallop writes
It's gonna be difficult getting a ladder in there let alone a particle accelerator to create the bosons and I don't think that bosons have chairs although maybe the LHC will provide proof when it comes back on line next year? Any excuse to hire a cherry picker.
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She'll be so impressed by the paintwork she'll ask you to do some ceramic tiling next :-)
Owain
Cherry picker,about a £100 hire a day...well by me it is.
Keep watchin
mind you it would cost a fortune in fuel, 30 sec flight times on those you need one of these 19 mins flight times
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