On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 03:16:02 -0700 (PDT), Clive wrote:

how about hiring a scaffolding tower if you are determined to do it
yourself?

Or getting proper scaffold put up. Mine gets delivered and erected
next Wednesday so I can finish painting the house now that summer
appears to have finally arrived. Two risers along about 20m of wall
and a single riser about 6m long £840 + VAT for four weeks. £34 + VAT
per week afterwards. Proper, safe access to all areas, all the time,
unlike a ladder which you will be up and down like a yoyo or a small
tower that will be a pain to keep moving especially if it doesn't
have wheels or the ground isn't suitable for rolling.

get a harness - but that will restrict movement, you need to make sure
the fixing is *really* secure.

And think how you are going to get down once you are dangling in the
harness. You don't have long dangling before blood starts to pool in
your legs and nasty physilogical things start to happen, including
death.

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Cheers
Dave.