About as stable as a Reliant Robin (update) I didn't break myself

"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
06/23/2019 at 17:10 • Filed to: None

New PVC trim. The left window I did last summer, the right was done today. At some piont I need to paint the rest of the good trim white and eventually the entire house

DISCUSSION (24)

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 13:49

At least the bush will break your fall.

AestheticsInMotion > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 14:31

Yikes. Flip the feet to prevent sliding back, and put on some of those cheap rubber covers to increase the contact patch and p revent lateral movement.

Chariotoflove > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 14:39

Name the ladder Dick Turpin.

sn4cktimes > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 14:42

I have no issue with heights at all but I would work off a single ladder before that.

SiennaMan > sn4cktimes
06/23/2019 at 14:47

It'd be so much safer than trusting that setup not to give out on you..

OPPOsaurus WRX > AestheticsInMotion
06/23/2019 at 17:08

The feet are dug in a nd definately not moving but the rubber covers are something I should pick up

OPPOsaurus WRX > sn4cktimes
06/23/2019 at 17:08

Th e bunch is too far to get the ladder to touch the house.

ranwhenparked > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 17:19

Came out looking great. The previous owners of my place capped all the trim with aluminum, and the finish is peeling off in places, leaving white flakes all over the yard. PVC is the way to go, color all the way through.

M.T. Blake > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 17:30

This picture is making an OSHA manager hit their head on their desk right now.

AestheticsInMotion > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 17:50

They’re handy, and you don’t really have any trade-offs for the extra grip they supply. My go-to for 95 % of ladder work, with occasional standoff use if needed.

Looks like fun!

Svend > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 18:06

That’d be illegal here.

We’d have to either hire a company to do it or rent the scaffolding and erect it ourselves once we’ve been trained to erect it and signed off, then have the scaffolding inspected and signed off before we could use it or have a company to come and erect the scaffolding for us, get it signed off as being safe and then we c ould go about using it.

Hell. All our window cleaners use telescopic poles as you either have to have someone at the base of the ladder if someone is up it or time consuming devices to secure the ladder.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 19:14

You post to talk about your windows and the Oppos all think they work at OSHA.

What part of the country? Or, should I ask, what part of which country?

OPPOsaurus WRX > AestheticsInMotion
06/23/2019 at 19:17

And they protect the house. I have to paint soon so I’m not too worried but it wouldn’t be too happy with the marks it left if it was f resh paint

OPPOsaurus WRX > Svend
06/23/2019 at 19:18

Every for personal work? I can understand that as a company but that seems nuts for home owners

OPPOsaurus WRX > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/23/2019 at 19:20

1/2 hour south of Boston. I'm not 100% sure but I don't think OSHA regulates work done by the home owner

OPPOsaurus WRX > This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
06/23/2019 at 19:21

Right? With the impalement of 200 branches.

Svend > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 19:37

Yep. Colleague needed some brickwork repointing on the front of his house due to some ‘settling’ (cracking in the brickwork).

Also the work was over five feet from the ground, he needed to get someone in, but to save money he did it himself, but that meant he had to get scaffolding erected. His options were to rent scaffolding, take a course on how to erect scaffolding safely and securely, then pay to have it signed off or pay someone to install the scaffolding with the rent of the scaffold ing in with the price, then have it signed off for him to use.

He chose to rent the scaffolding for a few weeks , do a course, erect the scaffolding. Have it signed off and do the repointing at his leisure.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Svend
06/23/2019 at 20:22

how close do they watch? I feel like I could get away with that even if i needed a permit.

Svend > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 20:33

Council workers, etc... could see. It’s like getting a skip now. If you want to hire a skip and the skip is to be on the road or road side, you need to get planning consent to have it and it’s no be put within a reasonable area of where it’s needed, not cause obstruction, etc...

There are many ways they could check. If you hire the scaffolding, the scaffolding company could say where they were delivering to,

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 21:19

Oh, I’m sure you’re right about that. It’s always interesting to me when you post one thing, and all the Oppos fixate on something else. When I looked at your photo I looked at your scaffold right off the bat, but I also looked at the siding shingles and wondered about how you’d be flashing the new window. I’ve replaced many of the windows in my own home and most of them have failed and need to be replaced by the manufacturer and probably will be done by some jackass halfwit contractor who will be about 0.02% as conscientious as I was when I installed them originally.

shop-teacher > Svend
06/23/2019 at 23:44

It never ceases to amaze me how many rules you have over there. So many rules!!!

shop-teacher > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/23/2019 at 23:45

Great work!

Svend > shop-teacher
06/24/2019 at 03:24

There is a British comedian called Al Murray aka The Pub Landlord a done of his catchphrases is,

Pub Landlord shouts : where would we be if we had too many rules?

Audience shouts: Germany!

Pub Landlord shouts: and where would we be if we didn’t have any ?

Audience sh outs: France!

The thing is the rules and laws while may sound impeding and are to a degree, are there for everyone’s protection.

It means everyone is singing from the same songsheet, people know what is expected of them and they know what they can expect from others.

I highly suppose there are people who don't put up scaffolding, but it's their risk and highly doubt any insurance would pay out if anything happened.

pip bip - choose Corrour > OPPOsaurus WRX
06/24/2019 at 03:57

Kinja'd!!!