Site Setup
A great deal of care is taken to set up a site; the priority being health and safety. Our workers adhere strictly with H.S.E. guidelines throughout all projects. Once a site is ‘safe’ for work to begin, we promote working efficiency on and around the site, ensuring organised and diligent work is taking place in accordance with a pre-specified timetable.
What setting a site up involves
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Access and edge protection
Nearly all roofing is work at height, and the Work at Height Regulations are built around preventing a fall rather than arresting one. In practice that means a scaffold with a boarded working platform, double guard rails and a toe board at every lift, tied into the building, and a proper fixed way of getting up onto it. It goes up before the first tile comes off and it stays until the last one is back on.
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Protecting what is already there
A roof strip produces a great deal of debris and all of it has to land somewhere. Sheeting, netting and a chute are what keep it off the garden, the neighbour’s car and the path someone uses to reach their own front door. Anything that cannot be moved out of the way gets covered before work starts.
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Keeping it tidy while it runs
A tidy site is a safer one, and that is the whole argument rather than a matter of appearance — offcuts, old felt and nails underfoot on a scaffold board are how people come off them. Clearing waste as it is produced, instead of at the end, is what keeps the platform something you can actually walk on.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do you work safely at height?
Nearly all roofing is work at height, and the Work at Height Regulations are built around preventing a fall rather than arresting one. In practice that means a scaffold with a boarded working platform, double guard rails and a toe board at every lift, tied into the building, and a proper fixed way of getting up onto it.
When does the scaffold go up and come down?
It goes up before the first tile comes off and it stays until the last one is back on.
How do you protect my property during a roof strip?
A roof strip produces a great deal of debris and all of it has to land somewhere. Sheeting, netting and a chute keep it off the garden, the neighbour’s car and the path someone uses to reach their own front door. Anything that cannot be moved out of the way gets covered before work starts.
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