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  • Ploug Dreier posted an update 2 years, 1 month ago

    Surprisingly still relatively unknown in the onshore and domestic sectors, industrial rope access techniques have already been used for decades to provide just work at height solutions, and so are now used to cater for domestic building maintenance problems, cleaning painting and maintenance at height, and industrial and construction work. We’ll be focusing on the domestic / building maintenance side of industrial rope access (or industrial abseiling) in the following paragraphs.

    Rope access provides a safe and efficient mode of working at height. It really is less obtrusive and more often than not quicker and cheaper than other just work at height solutions and traditional height access methods such as for example scaffolding or perhaps a cherry picker. Rope access teams could be in and out with the the least disruption, generally for a fraction of the price. Rope access enables work to be carried out effectively in awkward situations and allows access to difficult areas such as for example rooftops, building facades, gutters and downspouts. More help makes it ideal for work at height on old tenement blocks and other multistory buildings, from cleaning to maintenance.

    Examples of the sort of work that can be carried out on ropes instead of scaffolding are:

    Gutter & Downpipe cleaning, repair & maintenance.

    Vegetation removal from building facades, rooftops and gutters.

    Stonework: pointing, cleaning and repair at height.

    Roof repairs and rooftop maintenance.

    Cleaning and Painting at height.

    Higher level Electrics & Wiring.

    Bird and Pest control solutions such as for example prevention netting.

    Higher level Glazing Solutions.

    Inspection and Testing services.

    Actually rope access can be used in just about any situation where just work at height is necessary. Leaking gutters and the consequent vegetation growth on building facades (to mention among the areas that can be tackled by industrial rope access techniques), could cause huge amounts of damage to a building and its own stonework. The longer the problem is left untended, the worse the water damage and mold and the damage caused by roots will be, and the more repair work and maintenance will be required over time, including stonework and pointing. The price and logistics of using of most fa�ade access solutions however, including scaffolding and cherry pickers, often helps it be impossible to deal with these fairly minor issues before they become a major problem. They are therefore generally, left to continue to damage the building fa�ade until it becomes an issue that can’t be ignored, at which point even huger expenses and difficult lengths have to be gone through to fix it.

    With rope access however, a team can get to the issue area easily and with minimal disturbance to the building or the public, fixing the maintenance issue cost effectively and efficiently.

    As Rope Access Facade Specialists Beam Reach have observed, an extremely useful and affordable alternative to scaffolding and other height access methods, industrial rope access can be utilized in a wide variety of scenarios in domestic settings, from cleaning and maintenance to repairs, allowing work to be completed where other solutions would simply be too expensive or logistically difficult to attain.

    Joe is an experienced rope access technician with a long time in the work at heig