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Yup, they're load bearing, I (and workmen) have been out on them loads of times. I'll use a board to spread the load but there are plenty of times when I haven't.
No parapet wall at the front, it's a flat roof on those bays. At the back it's a low parapet wall (2ft high), but it's 20ft up with paving slabs below, but I can do 99% of the work from the inside on those.
Greenbank
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ref. standing on bays of flats below:
1 - are they loadbearing?
2 - low parapet is an inviting trip hazard; falls from about 8-9 feet up invariably end up with a head/ground impact, with associated mortality
so, advice would be to check loadbearing ness of the roof - (send mrs greenbank out to check this...)
and, tie a clothes line round your waist and fasten the other end to something heavy (possibly mrs greenbank...)