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Keep up to dateAll appropriate access equipment is in place – so why is this chap perched on a ladder atop the glass conservatory roof?
Thanks to Alan Fry for this image of a builder in Walton on Thames who's decided to ditch that inconvenient access equipment and just sling a ladder over a glass roof.
Using a single long ladder to reach the roof of a four-storey building – don't try this on a windy day (or ever)
Despite the nearby drainpipe handy to shin down, this is not a prison break-out but some kind of maintenance operation
If they only had that ladder to reach the first level, how did they get up to the top? A leg-up? Or an upward swing in the fashion of an ape?
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