Roof ladders

Cursitor Doom · 2015-08-14T10:50:29+00:00

I see a lot of tradespeople using roof ladders these days (the ones with little wheels where you hook that end over the roof's ridge). What is the point of these? Is it some healfnsafety requirement now, or is it merely to protect the tiles? I'm going to have to get up on the roof shortly to sort out some issues and do have one of these ladders which the previous owners left behind, but unless I'm likely to damage the tiles in some way, I'd sooner just scramble about on the roof without it for the extra freedom. My roof is tiled with Rosemarys at an angle of a about 35 degress, so not too steep, fortunately. What do you think? cheers.

Aug 14, 2015 22 Replies

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harry 10 years ago

It's called a "sprocketed roof".

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harry 10 years ago

No.

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Chris French 10 years ago

Yes, really I just bought them to do these couple of small roof repair jobs. Fortunately for the jobs I've used it for were on a couple of small single storey roofs where a single section of my double ladder was long enough.

I'll worry about that when I need to work on the main roof of the house :-)

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