glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Done it before
With a 9m telehandler and a 30ft pole
Method statements werent thought of then
cutting roofing nails
- Thread starter aidan
- Start date
With a 9m telehandler and a 30ft pole
Method statements werent thought of then
Funny Farmer
Member
A good pair of bolt cutters makes short work of those nails / bolts and if its asbestos sheets you wont have to worry about raising dust with a cutting wheel or some of the more brutal suggestions on here.
spanners and hammers
Member
- Location
- cambridgeshire
have arms like garth after a day on croppers
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
If you can get there with a disc cutter could you not use a good pry bar and use the sheet to pull the nails. If the rip thru even better.
I did a few of these for a local estate years ago, I bought 2 of those ladders that fold up on themselves and laid them over the arc of the roof and worked off them, felt suprisingly safe at the time.
ganderman
Member
- Location
- South lincs
We have done it from the underside using a longish bar with a bit of a point on , gone in beside the nail and lever it up . Sometimes it goes easy and just pops the nail out with no damage to the sheet another time it will pull the nail through the sheet as you lever it up .The pop rivets will the tricky bit , grinder from below as well possibly .
Another vote for the reciprocating saw, I used one of these doing a similar job, the blades are quite flexible so you should be able to get most of the nails.
This is powered, a battery job would be ten times better. Just make sure you get a few spare blades though.
Alchad
This is powered, a battery job would be ten times better. Just make sure you get a few spare blades though.
Alchad
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Get one of these with a load of blades.
Ryobi ONE+ R18MT-0 18V Cordless Multi tool (Zero tool) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01B6ED...i_i_SWD7MXWTHKQD1064VA4T?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Other brands are available but I just love the adjustability of the head.
Ryobi ONE+ R18MT-0 18V Cordless Multi tool (Zero tool) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01B6ED...i_i_SWD7MXWTHKQD1064VA4T?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Other brands are available but I just love the adjustability of the head.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Are the nails through the ridges or troughs? If the later the tin will be tight against the purlin with no real space to get in to cut the nail
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who puts the nails in the trough?
- Location
- Yorkshire
Sure I've seen it done like that before on tin sheets, I know on cement fibre the nail goes through the ridge
- Location
- Yorkshire
The man that did this
Cement fibres more ridged
gas axe
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
All box profile is screwed into the troughs.
Round corrugated is always the ridges.
- Location
- sw scotland
Take off the ones you can reach then burst the sheets off from below with the handler
- Location
- Yorkshire
I believe he is not wanting to work above the roof but below from the inside
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
european profile it goes in the trough
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
be interesting to see a photo of the roof
- Tags
- asbestos chainsaw disc gas telehandler