Working on Chimney...

[GazSuttonUK]

I need to work on our chimney to do some pointing and repair work..Its a bungalow and I was hoping to use something like this :-
http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p25939?table=no

but don't think it would fit...is there anyway else I can secure a ladder?
Cheers..

 

[^woody^]

Take tiles out and walk up the laths.

 

[Burnerman]

I appreciate that I have a somewhat cavalier approach to my own well being at times but unfortunately those roof hooks are no good for you as they only work over a ridge.
I make my own bespoke roof ladders with 22mm slaters laths, then I wrap pipe insulation where they drop onto the roof tiles just to spread the load.
I use a mobile scaffold, lashed to the building through the windows, often enough, then brace the ladder onto that, with another rope lashing around the chimney.
Crazy maybe but a kosher scaffold is the only alternative, really.
John

 

[Nige F]

Or a pukka one

 

[terrypin]

Put the ladders at such an angle that they are lying flat along the tiles and secure the bottom.
Then take the odd tile out(to the left)for foot holes(as suggested previously). Jobs a guddun.

 

[Burnerman]

Good move - just be careful with the guttering.....maybe better to remove it.
John

 

[wez1981]

old style scaffold towers seem quire cheap on ebay, I bought one for £40 earlier in the year for a similar job. It foes together quite well, it wasn't very stable when hanging over the edge so I ratchet strapped the base to the wheel of my car. Worked a treat

 

[terrypin]

Until your wife went shopping