Cost Effective, Efficient Option to Scaffolding - Industrial Rope Access

Surprisingly still relatively unknown in the onshore and domestic sectors, industrial rope access techniques have been used for decades to supply just work at height solutions, and are now used to cater for domestic building maintenance problems, cleaning painting and maintenance at height, and industrial and construction work. We'll be focusing on the domestic / building maintenance side of industrial rope access (or industrial abseiling) in this posting.

Rope Access Specialists Kensal Rise provides a safe and efficient mode of working at height. It is less obtrusive and in most instances quicker and cheaper than other work at height solutions and traditional height access methods such as scaffolding or a cherry picker. Rope access teams can be in and out with the minimum of disruption, generally for a fraction of the price. Rope access enables work to be carried out effectively in awkward situations and allows usage of difficult areas such as for example rooftops, building facades, gutters and downspouts. This makes it ideal for just work at height on old tenement blocks and other multistory buildings, from cleaning to maintenance.

Examples of the type of work that could be completed on ropes instead of scaffolding are:

Gutter & Downpipe cleaning, repair & maintenance.

Vegetation removal from building facades, rooftops and gutters.

Stonework: pointing, cleaning and repair at height.

Roof repairs and rooftop maintenance.

Cleaning and Painting at height.

Advanced Electrics & Wiring.

Bird and Pest control solutions such as for example prevention netting.

Advanced Glazing Solutions.

Inspection and Testing services.

Actually rope access can be used in any situation where work at height is necessary. Leaking gutters and the consequent vegetation growth on building facades (to mention one of the areas which can be tackled by industrial rope access techniques), can cause huge amounts of damage to a building and its own stonework. The longer the problem is left untended, the worse the water damage and the damage caused by roots will undoubtedly be, and the more repair work and maintenance will undoubtedly be required in the end, including stonework and pointing. The cost and logistics of using of all fa�ade access solutions however, including scaffolding and cherry pickers, often makes it impossible to cope with these fairly minor issues before they turn into a major problem. They are therefore generally, left to continue to damage the building fa�ade until it becomes a problem that can not be ignored, of which point even huger expenses and difficult lengths have to be gone through to fix it.

With rope access however, a team will get to the problem area easily and with minimal disturbance to the building or the public, fixing the maintenance issue cost effectively and efficiently.

As we have seen, an extremely useful and cost effective alternative to scaffolding and other height access methods, industrial rope access may be used in a wide selection of scenarios in domestic settings, from cleaning and maintenance to repairs, allowing work to be completed where other solutions would simply be too expensive or logistically difficult to attain.