Hi Tim and Jo, Thanks for sharing, even your bodge jobs with us. I'm sure that you inspire many others, including me to 'do it ourselves', so thank you for your generosity and a Happy Christmas to you all. Cheers, Mandy.

I had the same scaffold in Australia... 5m height, works great, I added 4 more leg supports so I could get it firm on uneven ground and on the lawn. I hate heights and this made working on my gutters and roof so much more comfortable and safe.

Merry Christmas 🍍. Love the scaffolding, the floor hatch especially. Moved from a large parcel of land to a 2 bedroom apartment, my tools 🛠 all fit in one drawer of my desk and one shelf of a cabinet lol the days of 2 sheds for work toys 👋 have been waved good bye. Which makes me chuckle 🤭😄 as I watch your storage expand “Its an investment” written all over everything 😆

Love your channel, almost all the DIY projects I’m planning seem to hit on a video you’ve made whether they’re home or van related. Keep it up and thanks for the content.

I have a slate roof in a mid terrace, always keeping an eye on it. I think they look a lot nicer on cottages such as yours rather than them concrete ones.

No way - I can't believe how closely our projects follow one another. I've been looking at towers this week for my own roof and guttering repairs. Keep up the vids. Regards from Southend

My roof was grouted slate. I’d pushed slipped slates back in then used gutter adhesive to keep them in place. Two years ago, after the winter I had it relayed with a breathable membrane underneath. Sometimes conditions force a temporary repair and a proper job later.

Weve just had our 90 year slate roof redone. When they started to take the slates off alot of them where damaged and cracked. We ended up biting the bullet and put redland cambrians on. Expensive job but hopefully we wont have to ever touch it again!!!

I have a similar, although a bit less expensive scaffold, that goes up to 6m in height, with the four supports...it’s been very useful and breaks down into 1.5m sections so storage in the garage is no problem, it’s been a good buy considering the cost of hire...and well done, a good bodge that should get you through the worst the winter has to offer... I refuse to get anyone in for a job I can do myself...and like yourself I can competently do most things...jus5 need to get the professionals for gas work and to sign off on my electrical work...

What do you think of ladder sandoffs? Whenever I have to get up to the gutters, I feel insecure because I have to lean out from the soffits.

So critical on yourself...that was a great video and a great temporary fix until you can get the real job done. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Well done, Tim. I’ve enjoyed watching your informative videos. Every blessing for Christmas and the New Year 👍

great tip about one-hand nailing. that will come in handy. but omg, I was filling my boxers just watching you climb up the ladder and the scaffolding. terrifying. Hope you and Jo have a lovely Christmas with the kids (and family) :-)

Nice temp job, re the new roof you are more then capable, me and my son in law did there house when the full scaffolding is up no problems have have a good one you and yours

Good effort. I bought a few reclaimed slates and the roofers tools when I first bought the 125 year old roof... also bought copper tangs and copper nails just to have to hand. Cheaper than a roofer when needed in a rush and they have and will be used again and again until like you the roof is redone. Slate has a life of 100 to 150 years. When neighbours have slate redone with new slate it really looks good and solid.

Great reminder using the led as a hook. Have a wonderful and Blessed Holiday season.

Needs must, it's only a bodge job if you intend to leave it that way, better description is a patch job. Have a great Christmas and a happy new year 👍

I have roughly 1000 12 x 24 slates from a roof recently stripped, going cheap if you need them. Also, lead tingles work for a while but proper repair needs doing, double fold the lead that you can see to make it tougher should it be knocked somehow

Don’t worry about any bodges. We all do it to get by at the time. I was furious the other day when I asked a roofer to replace three lost slates and bolt back a small section of iron gutter. £430 later, only one slate replaced and they were only here an hour. Thats a weeks wage for me. Criminals. I’m getting a tower next time and repairing and repainting all the iron gutters myself. Great video👍

That bodge job looks suspiciously like one of my best jobs. If imitation is the biggest form of flattery, I'll take the compliment. Thanks for sharing!

Excellent ! Not a bodge. A good temp fix. Love the one hand nailing technique. Thank you!

Brilliant. I'm a super bodger. Anything to save money. Just most of my work goes a bit wonky. Thanks for the vid. My old guttering needs some love.

Sending you and your family a wonderful holiday season

Hello. I'm tempted to do something similar to reach my chimney stack to fix the flashing. Would you use your tower to reach the 'house side' part of the chimney stack or do you think you need more specialist scaffolding for that?

Hi Tim just wanted to say I received my cup the other day and I am very happy with it, cheers for signing it too really appreciate it, had to get the mrs to make me a brew straight away to test it out, Merry Christmas matey to you and the family

Dude I am just about to replace a dormer mid winter on my own....no bodge dude.... You go for it All the best to the family.

Tim you could try lashing a horizontal piece of 2x1" to the top of the ladder to minimise further left/right movement....the 2x1rests on the gabel

Nice scaffolding. Much nicer than the steel crap ones we use here in the US where you have to climb up the outside of it. Any time I see construction on a house in europe they always seem to totally surround the house in a cage of scaffolding. We don't do that here and generally scaffolding is only used on commercial buildings. I wouldn't mind having some scaffolding like that but yeah storage is an issue and I already have enough stuff to store. Not a permanent fix on the roof but it's a good enough bandaid until you can do it right and will stop the damage from continuing.

Very smart to bur 2nd hand scaffolding and reclaimed slate. Happy Christmas 🎄and Boxing Day.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Ladders are fine if they are fixed to anchor points and a roofing ladder. You can also use a half harness if you like but this is essentially an hours work for a pro.

I have recently started to use a tool belt, I felt a bit of a knob at first - but so so useful.

Merry Christmas and Great New Year from our family to yours. Ps the Mug is great too

Late to this video as recently found your channel. It might be worth thinking about putting in some eye (hoop with a hole in it) anchor bolts in various locations around the house. You can then run a ratchet strap from them to your ladder. One each side of the ladder 1/2 to a 2/3 of the way up the ladder and the ladder is a lot more secure and means it can't slip either way when up. Also a ladder limb is very useful and clip in a bucket to it so you have somewhere to put your tools etc when up the ladder. Something else I do is working off the roof with a harness and fall arrest lanyard. Use the chimney breast as your anchor point with a strap around it. You can the very first time you go up use some roof ladders, fix a loop of metal rope around the chimney then leave some fishing line or the like looped through it and tie this off at the gutter height. Then in the future you can use this line to pull your lanyard up trough the chimney loop and back to you off the scaffolding and then clip into your harness. Once up on the roof with your harness on you can put a second strap around the chimney breast to clip into. It sounds like a faff but it isn't really once you have done it once or twice.

Great channel,always intresting congrats on your 80k subscribers👍

Not a bodge, a temporary repair..😄, thanks for sharing, good luck with the restoration and the channel in 2020, now subscribed.

I have used those towers. I remember its very important to set the wheel/feet height because otherwise it wobbles and im not good with heights lol

Merry Christmas 🎄 needs are needs especially with this bad weather we have been having in the uk 🇬🇧

Looks like you’re using upvc capital board as a dry verge. It does do the job, I know loads of people that have done that. 👍👍

Good work on sourcing a tower. Guessing you've had some training in the past as most wouldn't put the kickboards on the top landing and also you put your handrails on BEFORE climbing through the hatches!!

I've done the same! good decision!

Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄

Brilliant job.far from a bodge that. Just bought my scaffold tower. Can be used for many projects 👍

If it works fine -Keep that nasty rain out mate Have a good New year😀

Do they feel shaky when youre up there? or do you feel pretty safe? Pretty useful things

Merry Christmas!

Sometimes life needs a bodge to get it through. As long as you plan to sort it properly which no doubt you will it’s fine. 👍

Hi where did you get your scaffolding from? Thanks

That's a good price to be fair. I just forked out 620 for a boss scaffold tower. Much older and much more use than this one. Which was a little over the odds but should save me money in the long run

I suggest getting a second set of scaffolding and attaching it to the one you have. Your scaffold needs to be wide enough that it can’t tip over. (The tipping direction I describe is away from the side of the house.)

Live in a Victorian cottage with slate roof. Took several attempts to get an answer from the roofer - how to fix the small tiles along the edge of the roof which move in high winds. The small tiles swing sideways and then stick out beyond the roof. I think you have some tiles like this. When pushed, he suggested fitting extra wide tiles which he found and fitted. No further problems with the edge of my roof. 2020 plan to have the kitchen roof rebuilt - far too many bodges . . .

I think you could do with longer stabilizers on that tower unless you didnt extend them fully? But you had a lot of overhang being up that high. Also it looks like you had straight joints on the bottom slates near the gutter as if your eve slates were missing or broken.

That one handed nailing trick is pretty good.

Do these scaffolding towers take up a lot of room when dismantled?

Have you thought about using resin/glass reinforced cement products? You get the traditional look and finish, with a lot less weight too. Negotiate a deal on the reclaimed slate against the cost.

I could really do with a tower of a similar height, much safer than working off a ladder. I would imagine that a 2nd hand ex-hire tower will be much stronger than a new consumer version.- could I be cheeky and ask how much it cost 2nd hand? Thanks

You should of put under slates under bottom row as water still get in to stone work and cause damage you don’t see until you get damp in a room.

Thank you!

2 half gates are handy for bit of extra height as you can go much higher without fixing scaffi to building.

I have a youngman tower like you - use one layer (with 3 platfoms) in shed as shelving system - ends up saving space

Is the roof a simple up and over? 10k seems very steep if so, the roof doesnt look that large to me

How tall was the scaffold tower?

Good man you know your self you could have done with that scaffolding on many jobs you have done in the past iv been following you ,iv commented before using ladders to work at heights if you fall you have a young family ,I’m was in construction for 20 years and 3 guys fell off ladders and died leaving their family’s without a bread winer .Watching from Australia

My next house is going to be a bungalow, I hate heights yet I felt the fear and did it anyway.

It's funny about the "bodge" job. We all have to do them at some point. No matter how much of a perfectionist I (oops, I mean we!) am. So, it's nice to show the reality of living with an old home.

How much roughly was that tower looks brand new good buy ❤

Have a great Xmas boyo

You could of done the same job with 1 of them home master diy scaffold towers are one was 630quid 7m it is I used to to are roof and gutters and gable ends thing was really solid not as good as this 1 but still they do the job for a lot less money

Had to be done,I didn't realise how much roof repairs are,im buying scaffold do it myself

Merry Christmas you and your family ! 🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄👍

Not a bodge job. That’s called using your head and experience to overcome a problem. Nice one 👍🏻.

You forgot to lay the ridge slates they go under the first course of slate . Roofing is so easy , a new roof on your own should only take you two days . Had you of said you needed a tower you could of lent mine its only sitting there now it’s only a few years old just like the one you have just used only it go higher . Don’t let doing a full roof put you off , just try to do it in the warmer weather and use a stapler to fix the felt . It’s much quicker and the batons hold the felt on place it’s just so it doesn’t move while your fitting the batons , also while the roof is stripped insulate between the rafters , your best place for the insulation is a company on EBay who are called insulation seconds you can get a pallet of about 300 for about £230 .

HAPPY cHRISTMAS!!

I thought the ladder was going onto the new porch roof to reach the top but maybe that shows my level of health and safety training 👍

I hate the hassling of hiring, have ended up with a few tools I've only used once though

Looks pro to me😌

1 hand nailing 👌👌

I’m a roofer , been roofing 20 years and that’s not a bodge that’s a repair for a couple of slipped slates, it happens!! I’ve been to a few corker bodge jobs in my time and you’d be surprised 🙈😂 good job 👍

That's not a bodge nailing a tarpaulin up there is a bodge

great video dude sell the old slates that will cover the cost of the new one's i tought i was going to reuse the old one's on my house till half get smashed when you take them off my roof looks to be something like yours scaffolding cost 1000 euro fibercement slates 2by1s felt all bits 1500 2 men for 5days 1500 total 4000 euro

Mate for Xmas new hammer with nail starter !

Omg there was a ghost at the start!!

You did great. Those slates could have killed someone so nice job.

hi friend that mad you will save 5k min better in your pocket . it took 5days we had to knock a gable chimney a nightmare it was mass concrete that took 2 hard day a day scripe it day4 lat and felt day 5 slate it i put 2 vent at the back of the roof it a bit of hard work 4k all done i got 700 back for the old blue bangers the new slates cost 800 euro fibercement 30years guarantee they last a life of you and me together. the old roof it was the 2x1 lats that went the roof was 80 years old so off with the old one hope the new one last as long the slate last a lifetime it the timber that goes

Know the feeling.. ( you forgot the eaves slate lol)

I hope you've done your PASMA training!

Built that tower better than a scaffolder 👍

that looked scary

Health & Safety can be a killer 💷💷💷

Not really a bodge, “needs must as the devil drives” I hate ladders and commend you going that high

Nail the first slate strap the last 😖

Hilarious 😂😂

As a roofer that would have cost £120 tops

Some years ago my parents had their slate roof redone on a house around the same size as yours and it took 3 guys the best part of two weeks. If you've had quotes around the £10K mark then take a 20% profit and the matierals plus scaff off and you will have an indication of the man hours involved. Just thinking you would be adding a lot more value by doing the extension than you will save on the roof by doing it with the roofer. The sheer physicality of it could be pretty draining. I don't mean to sound too negative but when you see roofers in action they work bloody hard and they get very fit through the job. Ofcourse you can do it but it will be slower and you could have a fair bit of work on the chimneys too.

Please don't store this in a 'gap behind your shed' these things are like gold dust, no small construction business owner likes to buy one of these so you would be very surprised how often they dissapear off building sites

Never mind whether it's a bodge or not..... Never ever work on a scaffold tower or ladders or roof on your own! Speaking as a Roofer for over 20 years it's rule number 1.

it was a good job the 'HealthAndSafety Police' weren't touring your area when you put that scaffold up on your own - WITHOUT a Hard-Hat, Hi-Viz, Goggles, gloves and every OTHER 'Danger - To - Life' equipment that they 'dictate' we have to use when plain Common-Sense serves us just fine ......... Long live Common-sense - Happy Xmas :-)

Want to sell it ?

I guess Jo will not be helping you on that roof. You are on your own.

That roof needs repairing and faaaast.....you got your work cut out for 2020.....good luck, looking forward to it !