Anytime, my son.
One of my coworkers has a case for some poor roofer's laborer who was carrying a 5 gal pail full of hot tar across 100' of roof before, on his 7th trip of the day, slipped and spilled said liquid (at 400 deg. F) on himself. Our guy's having a hard time finding anything that says employers should NOT require their t-shirt wearing laborers to do such things.
Ralph
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Ah! That sounds like it has the ring of truth, stripped bare of the idealism of specification writers. Roofer remains best candidate because he knows where to get the new ballast, will be appropriately insured if he damages the roof and foreperson will adequately describe the unspeakable horrors that will befall the poor unfortunate laborer who penetrates the membrane!.
Thanks Ralph!
-jc
John,
I would think that the way this will actually be done is for a roofer to remove the ballast and shit, throw it all away, clean remaining shit from the roof, and put down new ballast. I can't imagine that it would be economically effective to pay somebody to sort the rocks from the sticks and pigeon carcasses.
Ralph
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I've recommended that a roof be cleaned. Its a stone ballast membrane roof, but the ballast has acquired massive amounts of organic material, mud, dirt, etc. Any idea HOW such work is actually done, or what kind of a trade or contractor would do it? If it were my house, I suppose I'd get up there with a plastic snow shovel and screen all the stone, and then hose the debris into the gutters. But, this is not my house. This is one of them modern buildings with the roof drains that go down into the building, collecting under the main slab. If something clogs up in there (and it may have already done that on one occasion) its going to be an awful mess. So I suppose one shovels the debris over the side where it can be collected, moved by wheel barrow to someplace where it can dry and then disposed of. Does that sound reasonable? -jc -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>