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tjteed · Approved Exterior Cleaner

RE: Roof Cleaning Safety

John Aloisio · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Ed,

the NRCA (National Roofing Contractors Association) and GAF talkEd about doing something similar to this back in the late 1990's. Mainly because a lot of flat roof manufactueres actually have special details and premade flashings for tie off points, when installing new flat roof. GAF was going to market an anchor that was installed to ridge. After a couple years of deliberation they pretty much chit canned the idea, as there were too many variables and like mike stated earlier, only new roof would have them. I think one of the main arguments was that it needed a year inspection to be safe in OSHA's eyes, and who was paying for it.....we know not the homeowner. They typically wait until the gutters are overflowing and the of roof is covered with moss before they start calling seven of us to come out and beat us up.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Good thread

-- Edited by Art O on Sunday 18th of September 2016 06:42:03 AM

SprayWash · Approved Exterior Cleaner

The UAMCC safety committee has built a trailer specifically to address roof cleaning safety and installation of tie-offs.Brandon Vaughn will be teaching this class and manning the booth at our convention September 21-23.

Bryan P · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Ray. I wish Brandon was teaching that class twice. It's doubled up with some others that are good too!

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Throw a rope over the roof and tie off to a tree lol.
Can't be blamed for a leaking roof afterwards.
Then again, you could be blamed for anything. 😶

Bryan P · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Maverick Contracting wrote:
Throw a rope over the roof and tie off to a tree lol.
Can't be blamed for a leaking roof afterwards.
Then again, you could be blamed for anything. 😶

Oh man...in my years of roofing I've got some stories. One guy tried to tie off to a cinder block on the other side of the house. I asked him "Do you know how much a cinder block weighs?" "How much do you weigh?". Another guy tied off to the bumper of the truck. I let him keep working but I took the keys out of the ignition.

John Aloisio · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Ray,

You are not tied off in the one pic....that will be a $7000.00 fine!! biggrin

tjteed · Approved Exterior Cleaner

We cleaned a stucco house this week. I asked the guy about gutter cleaning. He says two guys comes around twice a year. Its probably 9/12 pitch. One guy in harness and rope over the roof with the other guy holding the rope. I educated homeowner and we will see.

Art O · Approved Exterior Cleaner

tjteed wrote:
We cleaned a stucco house this week. I asked the guy about gutter cleaning. He says two guys comes around twice a year. Its probably 9/12 pitch. One guy in harness and rope over the roof with the other guy holding the rope. I educated homeowner and we will see.

Sounds like Ned S.

Maverick Contracting · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Yeah, the ground guy anchors the rope around his neck so he has one hand free for rinsing and the other hand to talk on his cell phone. 🤕

Brandon Vaughn · Approved Exterior Cleaner

Bryan - there will be a booth setup the entire show with roof anchors so you can check it out during the show. Any who attend my class get a full written safety program, safety meeting topics and employee handbook.

Rick · Newbie

Always use a roof safety harness while working on a roof.I am mostly a DIYer and I do minor repair single leak repairs.When it comes to the steep and the high roof work I always get professional help.I once had multiple leaks and I got the services of a roofing professionals called royal york roofing (http://www.royalyorkroofing.ca/) to fix the leaks.