Every once in awhile I come across a difficult area to paint or get access too. Generally, it is a small area of a couple of feet of soffit, or the very top of an overhang above an impossibly sloped roof. Or in this case..... 4 feet of fascia 36 feet above a garage roof. Not that difficult really, but we just couldn't get at it without doing something REALLY stupid with the ladders. So, we called 5 or 6 scaffolding companys and got the run around from all of them because the job was too small or they were too busy etc. I couldn't even get someone to come out a simply give me some advice about how to get at it......Frustrated, I ended up calling one more out of the way company with not much hope. The guy said that they don't really deal with residential stuff, and that he handles more of the large scale condo sites, etc. Ready to hang up and go home to ponder such a stupidly simple problem, he saved the day. He had his flatbed loaded up and was passing through the area in about an hour. An hour later, a large burly Harley Davidson tattooed Gorilla of a man unloaded three levels of industrial scaffolding and set it up BY HIMSELF in less than 20 minutes. For $Free$. He then informed me that he'd be back in 3 hours to pick it up, apparently he needed lunch.........I realize it may be overkill....but ya should have seen the customers face when he came home and saw this setup, all to paint 4 feet of fascia.....brilliant. Oh, and I tracked down the scaffolding guys office, and dropped off 2 bottles of wine for the help......
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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