How To Paint Above A Sloped Roof

I think the roof is too sloped to stand on.

How to paint above a sloped roof.

So far we have figured out how to paint most of the house safely. Do you have ideas on how to safely paint such a high area. The roof is sloped on both sides and the exterior that i need to paint is too high to reach without a ladder. We are looking for a lift or something to paint this last gable.

The plywood distributes the weight and the carpet protects and grips onto the garage roof. Standoffs are u shaped pipes that fit into the two top rungs of the ladder on each side and keep the top end of the ladder away from the wall. Cut your 2 by 4 inch board in half with the circular saw. The center of an 8 foot long board is 48 inches.

It extends about 10ft above the garage and i came up with this. One of the windows i need to paint is directly above a little sloped roof. Depending on your pitch of the roof you can use a 40 ladder and lean it over your porch pulling the feet of the ladder far enough away from the home that it will reach the roof line. So every 4 years i have to paint over my attached garage.

Clamp your two 4 foot sections together in the. The house is on a hillside and the driveway slopes downward. I do not paint many exteriors so i am kind of green when it comes to rigging up ladders scaffold etc. I have even put the ladder in the back of my pick up truck for extra height acts as a brace.

Former dairy farmer in the past. Probably 36 40 feet high. To paint the siding above the sloped roof you can use a ladder with standoffs installed. Bidding on a two story colonial style house that will require me to stand on roof over the garage.

I m painting some of the trim on my house over the weekend. Maybe i should be using some other approach to get to this window. I have a long ladder but i m not sure how to set it up in a situation like this. Plywood with vertical and horizontal cleats indoor carpet on the bottom and ladder stabilizers attached to a 16ft extension ladder.