I recently replaced the shingles on my roof with metal panels. It's a gambrel house flanked by porches on each side with a 1-1/2 pitch roof over them. During the installation of the panels it became apparent that a ladder leading from the porch to the upper section would quickly slip with someone on it if someone else didn't hold their feet against the base of the ladder. I will have to get to the peak once in awhile to clean the chimney and want to devise a safe way to do this without someone holding the ladder. I experimented with footing the ladder using a cinder block (easy enough to carry up to the porch roof) and a five gallon bucket of water filled with a hose on the porch roof & dumped out when I'm done, but they still allowed the ladder to slide. It'd be one thing if the ladder slowly slid while I'm on it, but I don't want it to slide while getting onto it when I'd done cleaning the chimney, leaving me stranded up there.I'm going to install clear plastic snow guards along the upper transitions and thought maybe several of them anchored to the porch roof could be used to hold a ladder. I wouldn't trust just one or two against each foot of the ladder so I may end up fastening several guards side-by-side from rib to rib on two or more flat sections and/or use an unanchored 2x4 long enough to span across several flat sections & notched for the ribs in order to distribute the force the my body puts upon the feet of the ladder.Thoughts? via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2xQVcXt
