Laddersmart

[The Medway Handyman]

Spotted this

'm all for safety, but this seems like a good way to trash guttering to me.

[<me9]

No worse than the usual method of propping the ladder on the guttering.

[mike]

Take a look at this page:

seems like it transfers the weight from the front to the back of the guttering, and since there guttering appears to be a different shape to ours and flat againt the fascia, it seems like it would work.

[The Medway Handyman]

One of the reasons I use a ladder stay.

[George]

Which is what you have to do 25' up and more...have you noticed they are only demonstrating it on bungalow type roof guttering. :-)

[Roger Mills]

Yes indeed! The demo begs the question as to how to get the thing up onto a higher gutter to start with! Chicken and egg, and all that!

[Doki]

I would suspect that's because it's an Australian company, and the vast majority of Australian houses are bungalows.

[George]

Pointless excercise in posting it in UK d-i-y then ain't it. ;-)

[Pete Verdon]

Player is version 9. Click here to upgrade now."

Um, no thanks.

Pete

[Andy Burns]

Worked for me with 9.0r115, I had a few sites moaning about needing to upgrade to 9.0 when I "only" had 9.0r25

[Andy Champ]

Many older houses out there are built on stilts to allow the air to blow underneath for cooling. Whether you call it a bungalow or not is an interesting question - but the gutter is still 20ft up in the air.

Here's one:

even call this design a "Queenslander".

Andy

[CJF]

The other reason for the design in Queensland is that they are far enough north to be involved with the annual "wet", which is actually the edge of the Asian monsoon. Combined with building on valley bottoms and flood plains means that regular floods are usual - hence the stilts. The shaded space gained is also used for storage and garage space - you just have to move the cars to higher ground when the rains are coming.

Charles F

[Andy Champ]

I've only seen them in Brisbane, which is too far south for the monsoon. The design there is perfect for any of us - you get a house-sized workshop with nice warm breezes blowing through, out of the sun... and it doesn't flood!

Andy