lizzypopbottle
CariadAgain I've got scaffolding right around my bungalow. They couldn't do it without. It's blocking the side path that I use to put the bins out. Luckily, being detached, I can just about squeeze them past the scaffolding on the other side. Also, they put a pole right outside my garage so I can't get my lawn mower out 🤔
The only roof attention I've had on current house to date was the first year I moved in here and thought that the stain I could see on sitting room ceiling was old - and then it started getting bigger and I realised that was another bit of necessary work on the house that the previous owner had neglected to have done. Fortunately there were a few spare of those concrete tiles lurking around in the garden and I'd not yet got round to chucking them out and cue for a roofer shinning up onto the roof and swopping the relevant tiles over - but he only had a ladder too. Thankfully that episode happened before I'd had false ceilings put up all round - as the house had been neglected so badly that it was only about two months after I moved in.
I've had a couple of other roof level jobs done on this bungalow since getting it - 1. a chimney pot swopped 2. the fascia boards and gutters swopped all round (and that included putting up fascia boards in the first place on the two pointy/higher bits of roof) and no scaffolding was used for that. They just used a ladder both times and the chimneysweep that did the chimneypot had shinned up onto my roof and done the job before I'd even realised he'd arrived and I wasn't aware of his presence until he walked into my kitchen to announce he'd just done it (cue for quick looksee - and he had).
Though it is the case I've been shocked at just what unsafe practices I've seen workmen do in this area sometimes.....so the fact they didn't use scaffolding can't necessarily be taken to mean that they wouldnt have done so either on a similar house back in my home area....
Hope they finish the work on your place soon.
