Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg
Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.
I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Ouch - how about putting a ladder up where accessible, and using a
roller on a pole ?

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

work platform on a hoist? Cheaper than a scaffold and available on
day-hire.


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Paul Herber wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

work platform on a hoist? Cheaper than a scaffold and available on
day-hire.

Cherry picker.

Maybe you could use your sales skills and resolve a repeat painting
expense by extending the garage upto the roof.


NT

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?

Is that a triangular garage????

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On 19 Nov 2008 00:18:19 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?

Is that a triangular garage????

For a Reliant Robin?

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:42:54 UTC, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:30:26 +0000, wrote:

On 19 Nov 2008 00:18:19 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.


Is that a triangular garage????

For a Reliant Robin?

I was thinking it would suit one of the Bubblecar Models like a
Heinkel.

Nah, one of these: http://tinyurl.com/5vqz3o

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Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:42:54 UTC, wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:30:26 +0000, wrote:

On 19 Nov 2008 00:18:19 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

Is that a triangular garage????
For a Reliant Robin?
I was thinking it would suit one of the Bubblecar Models like a
Heinkel.

Nah, one of these: http://tinyurl.com/5vqz3o

I always wanted one of those and a lime green Capri and a Daytona yellow
Cortina MK3


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Reply address works

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:18:04 UTC, Kevin
wrote:

Nah, one of these: http://tinyurl.com/5vqz3o

I always wanted one of those and a lime green Capri and a Daytona yellow
Cortina MK3

I wanted a gold 1600E Mark II.

The Bond Bug never did well as a boy racer car for one reason - the
position of the engine. Being a three wheeler, the engine was in a big
'hump' between the seats, forming an effective barrier. And there was no
back seat.

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Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo
apart from the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which
is likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?

Is that a triangular garage????

It is. Goes with the triangular back rooms & the triangular garden.

I get all the easy jobs :-)


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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
om...
Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo
apart from the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which
is likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?

Is that a triangular garage????

It is. Goes with the triangular back rooms & the triangular garden.


OK - ask at www.toblerone.com


seriously though
Is the garage roof a walk-on roof? you may be able to do something with a
roller-on-a-stick

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman"
saying something like:

It is. Goes with the triangular back rooms & the triangular garden.

I get all the easy jobs :-)

Fill balloons with paint. You surely have a ballista?

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman"
saying something like:

It is. Goes with the triangular back rooms & the triangular garden.

I get all the easy jobs :-)

Fill balloons with paint. You surely have a ballista?

Alas, only a scale model trebuchet.


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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
om...
Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart
from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?

Dave - The Medway Handyman


With difficulty? :-)

How about a bosons chair tied off at the chimney stacks? Or a cheap hire
cherry picker?

Three ladders tied off to the walls top and bottom, and batten boards
between them?

What height, even roughly, is the gable? Even a scaffold would be a
difficult job. What a horrible shaped space to get anything in to.

Hang on. I think I have some sky hooks you can borrow, to tie the ladder on
to any passing clouds. :-)

In message , BigWallop
writes
How about a bosons chair tied off at the chimney stacks? Or a cheap hire
cherry picker?
It's gonna be difficult getting a ladder in there let alone a particle
accelerator to create the bosons and I don't think that bosons have
chairs although maybe the LHC will provide proof when it comes back on
line next year? Any excuse to hire a cherry picker.
--
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Cherry picker, if you can get it close enough looks to be quite a
horizontal reach to the corner. You'll need to check the reach/height
combinations carefully. Oh and the firmness of the ground and whats
underneath where it will sit. Very common for a cherry picker to sink a
leg into the ground and topple over...

Is the other gable hers or a neighours? Could the cost of scaffolding be
shared between the two of them? Selling point to neighbour is that the
unpainted wall will look *really* shabby against the nice newly done one.
You may end up doing that house as well.

--
Cheers
Dave.

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which
is likely to blow her budget.

Cherry picker, if you can get it close enough looks to be quite a
horizontal reach to the corner. You'll need to check the reach/height
combinations carefully. Oh and the firmness of the ground and whats
underneath where it will sit. Very common for a cherry picker to sink
a leg into the ground and topple over...

Alas its just earth, it would have to go on scaffold boards or something.


Is the other gable hers or a neighours? Could the cost of scaffolding
be shared between the two of them? Selling point to neighbour is that
the unpainted wall will look *really* shabby against the nice newly
done one. You may end up doing that house as well.

What a good idea! The other gable is a neighbours.


--
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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:


I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

http://www.midlandladders.com/produc...er-273-23.html
and one of those paint rollers with a pressurised paint supply?
http://www.earlex.co.uk/html/cps_html/pr9.htm

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?

=========================================
A modified version of this, built off a basic access tower:

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...s/DSCI0011.jpg

Cic.

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The Medway Handyman wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Not like this, I hope

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6837

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6499

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6363

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Chris J Dixon
saying something like:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Not like this, I hope

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6837

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6499

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6363

Pah. Amateurs...

http://www.systems4business.co.nz/sa...ingcowboys.htm

http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/pho...0/photo243.jpg

http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/pho...0/photo261.jpg

"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Chris J Dixon
saying something like:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart
from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Not like this, I hope

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6837

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6499

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6363

Pah. Amateurs...

http://www.systems4business.co.nz/sa...ingcowboys.htm

http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/pho...0/photo243.jpg

http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/pho...0/photo261.jpg


http://www.theclaimsconnection.co.uk...affolding.html

"Chris J Dixon" wrote in message
...
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart
from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Not like this, I hope

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6837

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6499

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6363

Why is the author going on about cantilevers?
That platform is supported at both ends and is not cantilevered AFAICS.
Without knowing what it is supported on it is not possible to say if its
safe.

Chris J Dixon wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Not like this, I hope

http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=6837

Not sure what the fuss is on that one. The end of the platform looks to
be supported. The planks supporting it are tied together.


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Did you know that there is a place called Lower Kinnell near Ontario,
Canada. A Kinnell village in Angus, Scotland. There's a Kinnell township
in Rhodesia. But I can't, for the life of me, find a place called "Far
Kinnell"........

If anyone can help on this, it would be much appreciated. :-)

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:36:11 GMT, "BigWallop"
wrote:

Did you know that there is a place called Lower Kinnell near Ontario,
Canada. A Kinnell village in Angus, Scotland. There's a Kinnell township
in Rhodesia. But I can't, for the life of me, find a place called "Far
Kinnell"........


That would be Faslane, where I spent about 7yrs. If you can't see
across the Gareloch it's raining, if you can, it's about to. :-)


If anyone can help on this, it would be much appreciated. :-)

BigWallop wrote:
Did you know that there is a place called Lower Kinnell near Ontario,
Canada. A Kinnell village in Angus, Scotland. There's a Kinnell township
in Rhodesia. But I can't, for the life of me, find a place called "Far
Kinnell"........

I think you are missing a Kinnell, since I was lead to believe there
were four of them... ;-)

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John Rumm wrote:
BigWallop wrote:
Did you know that there is a place called Lower Kinnell near Ontario,
Canada. A Kinnell village in Angus, Scotland. There's a Kinnell
township
in Rhodesia. But I can't, for the life of me, find a place called "Far
Kinnell"........

I think you are missing a Kinnell, since I was lead to believe there
were four of them... ;-)

Kinnel, Mill Ln, Alfington, Ottery St Mary, Devon EX11, UK :-)

or the one the dog isn't sleeping in...

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Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
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In message , BigWallop
writes
Did you know that there is a place called Lower Kinnell near Ontario,
Canada. A Kinnell village in Angus, Scotland. There's a Kinnell township
in Rhodesia. But I can't, for the life of me, find a place called "Far
Kinnell"........

If anyone can help on this, it would be much appreciated. :-)



Bizarrely, there's Lower Ramsbottom but the people up the hill objected.
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"Clint Sharp" wrote in message
...
In message , BigWallop
writes
Did you know that there is a place called Lower Kinnell near Ontario,
Canada. A Kinnell village in Angus, Scotland. There's a Kinnell
township
in Rhodesia. But I can't, for the life of me, find a place called "Far
Kinnell"........

If anyone can help on this, it would be much appreciated. :-)



Bizarrely, there's Lower Ramsbottom but the people up the hill objected.

Clint Sharp


Hee Hee !!!

I've visited a village in Peru called kahki Pantis. Came face to face with
a huge wild boar in the jungle, and found out how it got its name. :-)

..

In message , BigWallop
writes

"Clint Sharp" wrote in message
...
In message , BigWallop
writes
Did you know that there is a place called Lower Kinnell near Ontario,
Canada. A Kinnell village in Angus, Scotland. There's a Kinnell
township
in Rhodesia. But I can't, for the life of me, find a place called "Far
Kinnell"........

If anyone can help on this, it would be much appreciated. :-)



Bizarrely, there's Lower Ramsbottom but the people up the hill objected.

Clint Sharp


Hee Hee !!!

I've visited a village in Peru called kahki Pantis. Came face to face with
a huge wild boar in the jungle, and found out how it got its name. :-)

#
Don't get me started - There's a town in West Java called Sukabumi, I
have no idea whether there are more than average ladyboys there or not

then there's ****t in the Orkneys (the name derives form the gaelic word
for a clearing apparently - strange, I thought that was mexican)

There's a town in Austria called Wank IIRC

I could go on
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The Medway Handyman wrote:

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Does the garage have roof tiles that can be removed to allow a ladder to
be put through?

--
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Adrian C wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which
is likely to blow her budget.

Does the garage have roof tiles that can be removed to allow a ladder
to be put through?

It does. I'll give that some thought. Cheers.



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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:56:06 +0000, wrote:

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:46:15 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Customer wants me to paint the outside of her house. No problemo apart from
the wall above the garage.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...izpainting.jpg

Its the area (badly) outlined in yellow.

I can't see any safe method of access other than scaffolding, which is
likely to blow her budget.

Anyone got Spiderman's phone number?

Didn't you used to deal with pressure washers? Surely you got an old
one lying about. Just wait for a windless day.

Messy.
As an 18 yr old I got the job of snowcemming our workshop using a
stirrup pump and bins of snowcem. It *does* go on the walls. Also the
roof, the floor and on anyone passing.