An ever increasing amount of people living in tenement buildings in cities like Edinburgh, are having serious problem with their gutters and downpipes. Generally the problems are caused by a simple blockage / vegetation growing in the gutters or minor maintenance problems such as for example seam lining, which were allowed to go on untended for too long without gutter cleaning or gutter maintenance.

The reason that these guttering problems haven’t been simply looked after long ago is obvious; there aren’t many affordable, quick and easy answers to cleaning gutters or gutter maintenance on tenement blocks / at height. Folks are understandably extremely cautious with spending out huge sums for scaffolding to permit workers to access the problem area. What’s more the various red tape associated with erecting scaffolding on public streets causes delays and complications. Similarly, the cost of a cherry picker and operative, which is another potential solution (where a cherry picker can actually gain access to the street) is much too much for what is essentially at its basic level, just the minor task of maintenance, clearing unblocking or gutter cleaning.

That’s where rope access will come in. Rope access technicians can carry out work effectively in awkward situations and will easily access tricky areas such as for example roof tops, gutters, building facades along with other areas at height, either by rigging from the rooftop or by finding another access point. Rope access is less obtrusive and almost always quicker and cheaper compared to the alternatives such as for example scaffolding or a cherry picker, and a rope access team could be in and out with the the least disruption for a fraction of the cost.

The problem is that insufficient people know about rope access as a viable solution to maintenance problems such as for example gutter cleaning. Either they don’t really find out about rope access at all, or think about it as something that can be used only in construction or offshore settings. The simple truth is that despite still being rare, there are a growing number of rope access technicians and companies who work onshore and can happily provide domestic services. In addition to rope access skills they bring with them combinations of other valuable skills such as for example roofing, maintenance, stonework, civil engineering and much more, making rope access the perfect solution for some maintenance issues at height, from small issues such as gutter cleaning to larger maintenance and repair jobs.

The reasons to use rope access for these types of jobs is obvious. Unlike other answers to gutter cleaning in tenement buildings and other maintenance problems at heght, the time taken to install access systems is minimal with minimal impact on structure and surroundings including traffic flow and pedestrian access. Rope Access Specialists Park Lane has extremely safe codes of practice (the best record in neuro-scientific difficult access), and work can safely be carried out safely, quickly and cost effectively at any height in almost any situation, saving time, money and preventing the complications that other gutter cleaning solutions might present.