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Health and Safety - French style

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Our daughter and son-in-law in France needed the chimneys swept and there was a problem in that rooks had built nests in the top of a couple of them. So my son-in-law noticed that here were some chaps cleaning chimneys at the top of their village and asked if they could help. Bien sur (for cash in hand!). They were sure that they could use their cherry picker to reach the chimney pots – no hope. So a solution was found. Tie a ladder to the cradle of the cherry picker. When that still wasn’t long enough, the guy took out a roof tile for a foothold, climbed up to the ridge and then walked along the top to reach the chimney stack.

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He's now 'hors de combat' and sucking and sucking hospital food through a straw ! :lol:
 
Je ne comprends pas. Quel est le probleme avec ca?

Voulez-vous des noix de Saint-Jacques? Nous avons une cargaison entiere à un très bon prix.
 
I had a flue that was blocked with crow nest. It had been used for nesting for a few years. My chimney sweep guy had a special cork screw attachment that he used to drive into the nesting material and then pull down. He used a cordless drill on the end of his rods. The amount of stuff that cam down was unreal. He showed me lumps of horse manure the crows collected to warm the nest up. The price was double the normal sweep rate.
 
MartinF":2tqaid46 said:
Our daughter and son-in-law in France needed the chimneys swept and there was a problem in that rooks had built nests in the top of a couple of them. So my son-in-law noticed that here were some chaps cleaning chimneys at the top of their village and asked if they could help. Bien sur (for cash in hand!). They were sure that they could use their cherry picker to reach the chimney pots – no hope. So a solution was found. Tie a ladder to the cradle of the cherry picker. When that still wasn’t long enough, the guy took out a roof tile for a foothold, climbed up to the ridge and then walked along the top to reach the chimney stack.

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Isn't that how everyone does it? When our chimney last needed painting, I climbed up the roof slope of the attached garage to where the ridge meets the eaves of the house. Then up the roof slope to the ridge of the house and walk along the top to the chimney. Then I lowered a rope to SWMBO who tied on the paint pot and brush and up it comes. Job's a good'un!

We lined the flue with a stainless steel liner the same way. I made a wire harness for the end of the liner and tied a rope to it which I dropped down the chimney, and then SWMBO pulled on the rope while I fed the liner down the chimney, although managing 30ft of liner over my shoulder whilst I fed it down the first part made me concentrate a bit.
 
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