I’m always trying to find the best way to tie off when on a roof. Sometimes there is just no where to tie off and so you walk the roof with no safety line.
Well I was watching this video by AC Lockyer on soft washing which was pretty interesting, well he was tied off and towards the end of the video he needed to re-adjust his safety line !
Well he walked over to a vent pipe for the plumbing and in it he had a roof anchor a long aluminum post that’s put in the pipe with the tie back on the top…I thought that was great, a great looking roof anchor.
I think it will work perfectly and I’m going to buy one…
Here’s the link on where to buy one if yawl are interested !
“Comes with a Unconditional 3-Year Breakage Guarantee. Just ship back the broken one to us and we will ship a new one right back to you. No questions asked!”
If it breaks you probably will not be alive to request a replacement.
Interesting concept for sure. I share the same concern with the warranty. If that thing breaks the least if your problems would be replacing it. Its good to know they stand by their products though…
besides the worries of that piece breaking…Id be more worried about the vent pipes. That peice of roof anchor can be the best built peice of metal on earth…but you are putting more faith in the vent pipe holding secure. With every roof you go on…everyone is going to be in different condition…new, old, poor shape etc. Sure you can pull on the pipe, but you aint putting the force a 200+ man free falling would be putting on it.
No way…no how…its probably just my firefighter instinct…lol
APPROACH WITH CAUTION!!! I will never use this again!
I took this idea and created a concept piece for $10 - a steel pipe and drilled to fit a anchor bolt(?) (a metal loop that has a bolt threaded into it.)
The pipe was 3.5’ long and I had proper safety gear attached. The best vent to insert it down was on the back of the house 5’ down the apex and I descended over the front. I did a lean test to see if I could put weight on it and the stupid pipe LIFTED RIGHT OUT OF THE TUBE! I tested the same on a tube on the front side of the house and the same thing happened!
Now I keep the pipe behind my car seat for self defense
If the jerk homeowner has no safety anchors installed I do this from now on:
Removing the roof vents and strapping to the beams under the roof.
[video]Rooftop Safety - YouTube
