I’ll probably take some heat for this but here goes.
I’m re-siding my house with cedar shakes. I have staging to use on the 3 sides of the house where the ground is flat. One side has a slope of 2 feet for every 7 linear feet. This side of the house is 24 feet long. As I’m doing this nights and weekends, so renting pump staging is not cost effective. I was thinking of making some brackets similar to roof jacks to attach to the side of the house. My problem with doing that is that then I’ll be puting holes into my new finished cedar siding. – any ideas or solutions?
-D
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Where do you live? I'm in MA and in the Want-Ad, Craig's List etc, people are just about giving away sets of the old style red Qual-Craft pumpjacks in favor of the new Aluma-pole set ups. Like three sets for $50.
Skip the boogered together staging and at least get something that was designed for the purpose.
You can pick up some 16' staging planks at a lumberyard for about $25 each as well.
In the least, use a couple extension ladders with ladder jacks and staging planks.
You must be pretty light if you think a p.o.s. set up like that will hold you up.
Mike
You mentioned the slope at the 7' mark so are you talking about currently having scaffolding?
On sloped sections we'd simply use regular rental heavy duty scaffolding. Taking the levelers off one end and resting the end section directly on a few pieces of 3/4" ply in shallow holes will get the uphill side as low as it can. The downhill side gets the screw type levelers that will extend approximately 16", so combined with the setup described for the uphill side it will easily handle a 2' in 7' slope.
If the slope is steeper and there is room, we'll buttt the scaffolding into the house so the short dimention is up/down hill and the levelers can more easily keep the unit level. Any slope more than that and we'll frame something for the levelers to sit on.
The make adjustable leveling feet for staging
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