step ladder support ideas for narrow concrete pathway

[pgtips]

Hi,

for several reasons I've got a narrow pathway down the side of our building. It used to be a bit wider and all one level for a couple of meters. Each year I'd put step ladders on and clean out the guttering but now its only 37cm wife, step ladders are a min 40 to 43 wide so obviously I'm 6cm short.

That 6cm is making a lot of difference as they don't come narrower.

Without over engineering it what might be a idea for how to support the ladder on the outer foot. It will be strapped to the RH wall (chemfix hooks/carabine etc) so it won't go anywhere and that might be enough but I'd like a support on the floor.

Laying some slabs I don't think will work as they may crack, I don't honestly know what to do. Its a once a year job.

Bolting a wooden plank down isn't going to last too long. I'm hoping maybe in someone's years of experience they might have an idea of a way to get it to work.

Many thanks
Kevin

 

[Tigercubrider]

Talk to your neighbours?

 

[Wayners]

Make a gutter vac from a cheap shop vac and waste pipe maybe

 

[aveatry]

I assume that it is a bungalow. Use the ladders folded and lean them onto the wall just try not to lean back.

 

[aveatry]

Make a gutter vac from a cheap shop vac and waste pipe maybe

I have made exactly that but my house is not a bungalow, if it was I would just use a step ladder.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It doesn't look very long. I have a hand sweeping brush, I've jammed its handle into a long TV aerial mast pole, they're lightweight and come in long lengths. You just need it to be long enough to reach half way from each end, pull the muck towards you then remove it.

 

[blup]

Build your own fixed steps from timber, or likewise construct a hop up

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Build your own fixed steps from timber, or likewise construct a hop up

That would be dangerous, as its height would be many times its width.

It looks like the outcome of a bitter neighbour dispute, probably together with the OP building too close to the boundary.

 

[pgtips]

For Gods sake, no neighbour dispute, we get along just fine so why not take a more positive view of life !

I was just asking for ideas that's all..

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

So why can't you put a plank of wood on the ground on your neighbour's side and use your ladder or stepladder?

You made it sound like there was some major issue preventing you from doing the obvious.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

It looks like they've dug out, presumably while they're building, but I assume the soil level will be restored at some point?

 

[aveatry]

Use a short loft ladder size ladder and stick the legs through the wire fence that should give you enough lean.
Make 2 narrow trestles to fit the width or even buy some and cut them down and that way you can easily store somewhere as a brought one comes flat packed. Then you can lay a couple of planks to make a platform, If the planks are tight against the wooden posts it can not tip back.

 

[blup]

That would be dangerous, as its height would be many times its width.

It looks like the outcome of a bitter neighbour dispute, probably together with the OP building too close to the boundary.

He can tie it in as suggested