Building the scaffold to access the high roof.

Two days worth of work into this, plus my son was moving up the equipment with the lift. It looks like we will have to redo some of the decking on the roof too. Not good! We will see.

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/May11?authkey=Gv1sRgCJWKv43Cp8qpag#5741387723773621730

Here is what we accomplished the last few days.

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/May1617?authkey=Gv1sRgCO7_4qS4yZL9mAE#5743679036034146850

Old School Said: Thanks Max. How much do you have? Shoot me a price if you like, but I would prefer something from Michigan. It looks better to not have to ship everyting so far. It makes sense too. Hey, here are some more pictuers of us working on that tower.

Speaking of the towers, the question came up as to what was the purpose of them? Beside making an architectural statement, I believe they were a turn of the century natural Air Conditioning system. The way they were constructed on the inside they acted like dual chimneys, pulling air from the inside of the building to keep it cool in the summer. The double thick brick walls would also stabilize the temprature in the building as long as the air was constantly moving. The towers did that. Neat.

The building has been insulated and weather proofed over the years and the ventilation system we are installing will re-balance it and make it work like it used to. Even neater!

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/May14And15?authkey=Gv1sRgCLnwzaSmyJDA5AE#5742896190615045170

13" Ludowici by the pallet/3.15sq@452/sq. Can be picked up in New Lexington, Ohio.

Thanks Max. How much do you have? Shoot me a price if you like, but I would prefer something from Michigan. It looks better to not have to ship everyting so far. It makes sense too. Hey, here are some more pictuers of us working on that tower.

Speaking of the towers, the question came up as to what was the purpose of them? Beside making an architectural statement, I believe they were a turn of the century natural Air Conditioning system. The way they were constructed on the inside they acted like dual chimneys, pulling air from the inside of the building to keep it cool in the summer. The double thick brick walls would also stabilize the temprature in the building as long as the air was constantly moving. The towers "did" that. Neat.

The building has been insulated and weather proofed over the years and the ventilation system we are installing will re-balance it and make it work like it used to. Even neater!

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/May14And15?authkey=Gv1sRgCLnwzaSmyJDA5AE#5742896190615045170

Thanks Max. How much do you have? Shoot me a price if you like, but I would prefer something from Michigan. It looks better to not have to ship everyting so far. It makes sense too. Hey, here are some more pictuers of us working on that tower.

Speaking of the towers, the question came up as to what was the purpose of them? Beside making an architectural statement, I believe they were a turn of the century natural Air Conditioning system. The way they were constructed on the inside they acted like dual chimneys, pulling air from the inside of the building to keep it cool in the summer. The double thick brick walls would also stabilize the temprature in the building as long as the air was constantly moving. The towers "did" that. Neat.

The building has been insulated and weather proofed over the years and the ventilation system we are installing will re-balance it and make it work like it used to. Even neater!

https://picasaweb.google.com/crookston.john4/May14And15?authkey=Gv1sRgCLnwzaSmyJDA5AE#5742896190615045170

Yes indeed it is. Know it well, wifey's from Midland. But if all else fails..................

That is a long way from Michigan though.

There is plenty in hotlanta

"Hey, On another note, does anyone have any of the Ludowici Spanich Red tile for sale? I need about 20 squares for this job and I would prefer to get it from a point closer rather than farther away." Sorry, none here.

Woody, we set the scaffold up on two sides on the interior section of the building. The outer two sides we can access with the 85' man lift; on the bottom anyway. I will be working on the top tied off at the peak to get the stuff we can't reach with the lift. The reason we only scaffolded two sides is that the other two sides extend out over the overhang and there is nothing to support that much weight. We would have had to install shoring beneath it all and it would not have worked very well.

You are required to tie back to the building every three tiers of scaffold. We install a wood block piece anchored to the wall with tapcon anchors and then screw a 2 x lumber to that and anchor it to the scaffold at two points so that is cannot move either in or out. when I am finished, you can jump back and forth on the scaffold and it doesn't move at all. We will not be using the platform for storing material, just an access area and work station. It certainly is a challenge. We train for that in the Union though and it is part of what we do.

Hey, On another note, does anyone have any of the Ludowici Spanich Red tile for sale? I need about 20 squares for this job and I would prefer to get it from a point closer rather than farther away.

How many sides of the tower are scaffolded? Doyou have to anchor into the brick when you take it that high?

sounds fun.steep and high is the best.gets your adrenaline pumpin.be safe. s

Erecting scaffolding like that is definitely out of my comfort zone. My hat is off to you, both for the skills employed and the commitment shown in the acquisition and maintenance of the equipment.

I'm with Darryl. I get specialists to set that stuff up. But you are the specialist. I'm all for controlling everything I can in-house, just not personally comfortable with that level of risk. I probably would if I could. If you have the stuff and the skill, then it is just as productive work as the tiling. Use it or sell it, you know.

Good show. I'm sure you are proud of the project and you definitely have a right to be.

Scaffolding and bukilding is what we do. I had the OSHA inspector out on the job and went over the scaffold plan last year and have had two inspections so far. It is "complicated" but basically like a set of tinker toys when you look at it. You really have to plan it and it helps that I have been doing this for about 30 years.

We have a lot of scaffolding too, so I don't have to buy or rent much. We did bring in $4,000.00 worth of new planking for this job. It was time.

Almost on every scaffold job that we do we sub out the scaffolding work to a scaffold rigging company, we get a certification for OSHA and the building depaartment when we finish the job and get it signed off we call the scaffold company and have them tear it downm while we spend out time finding other productive work. B)

Egg, the higher you go, the more work it becomes. Like you say though, "you can't quit now!" There just isn't a lot of room on that roof and there will be 4 of us up there. Well, one in the lift, two on the scaffold and me on the roof. I don't ask anyone to get on something like that if I won't do it myself. I will just take off the 4 way ridge and install an anchor point, tie off to that and start to work it down. My son will probably be in the basket moving stuff up and down and the other guys will be stacking and cutting. It should take 3 to 4 days to get it done, but then again it depends on the extent of the bad decking.

Beneath the tile is a layer of shingles and there is a section that has 3/4 inch plywood over the shingles too. I will find out next week. This has been a challenge for sure.The biggest thing is that you have to go slow enough to constantly think of your next three steps because too many things can go wrong and one bad "thing" can be fatal.