Fragile Roofing

19 Jan

Access Maintenance Solutions offer a complete range of high access roofing and building maintenance services to businesses all over the Yorkshire area. This includes working on, and with, fragile roofs.

Fragile roofs present their own unique problems for steeplejacks to work around. The largest of which is, obviously, the danger that they pose to the engineer working on them. A huge proportion of all accidents that happen when working at height are because of fragile roofs.

There are different areas of roofs that could be classed as fragile. The typical roof that we would class as ‘fragile’ is usually an old warehouse or factory which has a large number of skylights, of which there are many in Yorkshire, and cities like Leeds. But there are many other factors that would make us tread carefully, such as old roof lights, fibre cement sheets that are not reinforced, large areas of slate and tile and general old and rotted roofs.

So how do we go about working on fragile roofs?

Access Maintenance Solutions have over 40 years working as steeplejacks and with fragile roofing in Yorkshire. In this time we have developed and mastered the use of techniques which allow us to work with fragile roofs. We can use elevated platforms to suspend ourselves while we work on the problem area. We can also use purpose built ‘stagings’ on the roof, which work by distributing the load and weight of the engineer, making it safer for them.

By adopting these, and other methods, as well as sound and logical thinking we have managed to work on fragile roofs without ever having an accident. The health and safety record at Access Maintenance Solutions is untarnished in over 40 years.

It is exactly this experience which sets us apart from other steeplejacks. As the industry has evolved so have we, and we are able to draw on over 4 decades of experience and bring it to any job we come across.

If you would like to learn more about our services, whether it is fragile roofing or otherwise, just give us a call on 0113 3075 982 and we would be happy to talk. Alternatively, you could contact us here.