Roof loads or ladders?

Sks_Lex

Hey guys, I just ran across this site and wanted to get your feedback.

Do yall use roofloading boom trucks or just carry your bundles up ladders? I ask because I have been doing roofloads in the Austin area for the past year or so and was curious to how people around the country do it.

English Roofer

Hi, when you say bundles im guessing you mean bundles of shingles, we use mainly concrete tiles or slate and depending on how many we need to get on the roof its by mechanical hoist (bumpa),up the ladder on oare shoulders or up on a pulley conected to the scaffold.
Cheers
Dave

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Interloc

On walkable roofs the suppliers Hi-ab loads anything more then 7/12 we use our ladder hoist.

OUTLAW

95% of the time we have the supplier load everything before we even get there.

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Grumpy

I am a strong advocate for having things safely and neatly loaded on the ground and then using ladder-vators to lift the material (on typical single family sloped roofs). On a large roofs or low slope roofs I usually get it loaded.

My complaint on a single family home, for example, is that materials end up getting moved and then moved again. They are in the way for the tear off, and that's alot of extra work moving shingle bundles not once, but no less than twice.

When I am paying by the hour, I do it as described above. If you have a ladder-vator you los no time lifting the bundles to the roof as needed. Humping up the ladder is out of the question to be honest. It's hard to find guys willing to hump 25 squares of shingles up a ladder all day. Having said that if I am paying by the square I'll do it how ever the installers prefer.

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NCroofer

We have always tore off the house(if its less that 25sq) paper it, if more we tare off 6ft down on opposite side paper that enough for shingles so were never handling anything twice then have shingles delevered that evening or next morning, we use boom trucks extends up to 30ft for us to grab and unload on house. Just finished a 10/12 though humped 34sq up 32ft ladders(that was just greeeaat)

Johnk

Same way we do it..

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Johnk

It is against WCB rules to carry anything up a ladder besides your toolbelt....what a joke.Thats here in beautiful B.C

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Grumpy

Pretty much same deal here too John, but that doesn't stop anyone. When I started in this biz we were humping everything. Very few suppliers roof loaded at that time, 13 years ago.

In regards to papering one day and shingling the next. Well that's a whole other discussion, but I wouldn't ever day dream of leaving a roof exposed over night with just felt. We can discuss this again if you guys want, but it's probably not necessary.

We tried at one point to get the roof torn off and scheduling the supplier to meet us at 10 am for the roof load. Problem. it's hard to count on anyone you don't have control over. Suppliers show up an hour early an hour late... Fug it. Invest in a ladder vator and get it up there ourselves. Another bonus is having everything delivered a day early so we know it'lll be there when we need it and we can inspect the delivery before we even start the job to make sure they sent the right color, sent enough, etc... If there are any mistakes we can correct it before it becomes a time sensative problem.

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blageurt

I have 2 ladder hoists and ussually pick up the material.... It all depends on the Job , access etc.