Pointing

[Robin]

Any advice on the best (or least bad) position for doing it on a roof?

I'm pointing at least some of the parapet walls on the main roof ('cos it turns out the roofers who did them 12 years ago were lying bastards). It's a typical small Victorian terrace and I have a roof ladder and fixed belay rope. But I end up either flat on my face because I slip on the artificial slates or contorted because the chimney stack keeps the ladder too far from the wall.

Or is there a further volume of the Kama Sutra that deals with this stuff?

[Tim Lamb]

In message [e-mail], Robin [e-mail] writes

Could you make up a triangular box matching the roof slope? Perhaps attached to your safety rope or with a strut resting on the parapet foot.

Alternatively an 8' x 2' piece of ply with cross battens to lay over the slates.

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[Robin]

D'oh! A crawling board should have been the obvious next step. Thanks.

[Tim Lamb]

Don't know about artificial slate but some foam softening under the board might be wise.

[Robin]

Thanks: I keep an old foam sleeping mat for that