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Roof Cleaning Toledo Ohio (419) 265-3306 wrote:

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What if he would of fell?  You have to think about safety.  I know your new but there is always a way to tie off.  He could of tied off from a tree in the back.  Your right it is hard to tell the distance.  I will tell you this we would of shot that house from the gutter line or rigged up a harness. 

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Douglas it is easy to be critical when you are not there in my shoes.  No there was no place too tie off like I would have normaly done.  There was a swimming pool in the back yard without a diving board and no trees to tie off to.  Yes my foot did slip once when I was sitting down traversing between the peeks.  If you look closely I was resting on my left leg and my body never slipped.  My right leg slipped because I was sitting down to keep my center of weight as low as possible to the roof and that put my feet on edge instead of flat giving me less traction to move forward.  I have been doing this for 16 years and am no rookie.  Normally we do tie off.  If you notice, I was wearing safety masks & gloves as I do not take safety lightly, and I do tie off when possible when there is something solid to tie off to.  You sure did not see me standing up and hoping across the hard areas, because if you slip a little doing that you will go down because your center of gravity will be too high.  Chris Chowell may be a rookie to roof cleaning but he probably knows more than most of us as he comes from a roofing background.  We could have shot some of this from the gutter but I was dealing with steady gusts of wind at 15 mph peaking at 30 mph.  We could only shoot about 10 feet up at best before the wind would blow our stream sideways.  The wind was coming from the South which was from the right side of the pics.  That is why I started from the right spraying downwards to the left letting the wind blow it where I wanted the stream to go.  I could have picked another day but I was dealing with a cold front that was coming the next day that dropped the temp 50 degrees and I work better and have more traction when it is warm.