Residential tie off

Those kits are designed for not letting you fall over the edge.
Restraint 1
Restraint at its simplest. The Lanyard length will not allow the user to reach a position where free fall could occur.
Normally you would install a custom system to each roof and have a rope that has a limit, these kits do not have that feature with an adjustable rope grab, so you always need to ensure that the rope is taught and there is no possibility you could go over the edge.

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Well you wouldn’t use the rope in that way, you should use a strap or a sling to go around the chimney and use rags on the corners.
Anywhere the rope has a potential to rub should have a rope protector.

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do u actually use the roof anchor?

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We walk those roofs in our sleep and if the customer is that worried about it, just may be better to pass on the job if you are not prepared to meet the demands.
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Finally! Someone with common sense spoke up! Even Homer Simpson wouldn’t be able to fall off that roof. Geez

At all?
Sorry but I disagree completely.
Most of us have more than our share of common sense.

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I wouldn’t. I would pass on the job. In the time it has taken you to research this and post a request - you could have had half of the outside completed.

I hate when a customer request my professional services and then tries to dictate how I do it.

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I need a harness for some of the steep hillside properties in my area. I am not worried about falling or sliding down the slope but I do need to be able to set my feet firmly while working the pole. To make it more challenging, most of these properties just have tall weeds on the slopes and the soil is usually slippery clayish stuff.

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I agree with Mike, it’s not that we aren’t safety oriented we are just able to know when we need to tie off or not. If we get to a job that we feel at all necessary to tie off we certainly do. Heck if it’s really bad we will even pass on the job or have to add the price of a bucket lift in. Always safety oriented we just know when we can handle a climb.

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This is actually an important topic. When to tie off and when to run the roof. For this particular job I would not tie off to hand-wash the windows above the metal roof unless it was raining and the roof was wet.
If client requested tie-off, I would run two ropes from immovable object on other side of house up and over the house to the ground beneath the metal roof. Two ropes limit pendulum swing in case of fall.
Actually, on this job I would simply insist to wfp the windows there. Customer who is safety conscious like this guy seems to be will understand such a strategy even if he didn’t want the rest of the windows wfp’d.
BTW: guys on this forum who don’t have wfp have to go out and get one asap.

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