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What are the laws out there about safety for workers on rooftops?
I'm lucky, our place is a one story bungalow with a shallow slope, so twice a year I just climb onto the step ladder at the back porch, hop on the roof and clean the gutters from on top by hand - takes about 20 minutes. -
We live in East London and were told by neighbours not to let any of these guys in. A few of our neighbours got tricked over the years. Very similar scenario. Find an excuse or charge very little to do something small and easy on your roof. While up there they remove and break tiles in purpose and raise this as an issue to you. You get worried and think this needs to be fix asap and next thing you know they charge you £300 to replace a couple of tiles...
withered_preacher
Aldersbrook
@CYOA
How much would someone charge to clear gutters. Could do it myself with a long ladder but mine doesn't quite reach and reckless as I am I'm not sure I want to be at the far end of a ladder stretching beyond it's reach.
Mrs CYOA had a knock on the door yesterday by some guy who said he cleared next doors and would do ours for half price (30 quid from 60). I'd been talking about sorting it for a while so she just agreed - the gutters are indeed clean but we now have a neat stack of about 6 broken tiles sitting on our wall. She was looking after Baby CYOA but said she saw one guy go up the ladder and a guy at the bottom who, when he'd finished snooping round our garden, grab the ladder and slide it along the roof without the other guy coming down. So I assume he was crawling across the roof while this happened, knocking tiles loose.
So I guess the question is - how much to get a legitimate roofer to replace half a dozen tiles.