Back from drilling weep holes in my concrete tile roof. My friend who restores rooves said to use 5mm masonry drill bit with extension if needed. Ended up getting MAKITA 5 x 465mm 4-Cut SDS-Plus Masonry Drill Bit - NEMESIS-2 E-04195 from Total Tools didn't require extension as this drill bit is long enough. Drilled using rotary mode and not the hammer action. House had been repointed over existing pointing thereby blocking the weep holes. Had a small leak that verified when is raining, was able to put my finger up under the ridge tile and was damp and leaking. Once hole is started lay drill bit against the tile to maintain the correct angle. Happy I found the cause of the leak and was able to fix it.

So good. Now... Can anyone help me in Melbourne Vic ? :D.

Great video

I have watched a lot of videos about using protection fall harness, but none of them show how to attach safety rope to a roof anchor yet.

John 17:21-23

Why have they not invented ladders designed to have a 6/1 angle etc with a 4/1 angle it's much more likly for you to fall back. I guess the ladder would have to be stronger but some strong materials are light as a feather so the ladders wouldn't increase in weight that much.

how do you clean water courses in the tile?

The same idiot who badly demonstrated ladder tie off. You Tube ban his vlogs

The most unsafe ladder tip ever

It’s so simple. How come I haven’t heard of this. Just love it. Thanks

Hi Jack whats your current phone number

Solutions: Trimdeck for low angle/skillion roofs. Zincalume/colorbond for all other roofs. Always have eaves, the wider the better. Never design a roof with an internal box gutter. Regularly (once or twice year) use a blower. And hail ? One of the biggest insurance pay-outs occurred when a hail-storm hit Sydney in 1999. A factor was tiled roofs. Corrugated roofing is far more resistant to hail damage. As well as providing a better rain cover for your roof.And it is longer lasting and requires less maintenance. One can only speculate that a preference for tiled roofs is habitual...that is what every one else has. Like the Americans' preference for pitch-based roofs that have a definite life-span. The main purpose of a house is to keep the water off the occupants and its contents. The purpose of a roof is to perform that function - and keep the water off itself. Water is the enemy of all building. This is a very serious problem that is solvable. From a Brisbane householder. For what it is worth.

Chose Woodland grey for fence extension and about to respray the existing fence to woodland grey as well, can't wait to see the finish ;-)

Thank you for your educational videos, thoughts and knowledge sharing ;-) I love driving stick shift (3 pedals), too. Wow, you are so up-to-date, hip, Lex Fridman podcasts are top notch. I remember hearing Trump on his podcast saying: "Life is what you do while you are waiting to die, so you might as well do a good job. " - exactly the same principle as what you mentioned.

I am new to this, and agree the front or side is more convenient. However… I watched something from OSHA that pointed out the reason for attachment in the back. In a fall with back attachment your joints will be jerked forward, which is what they’re evolved to do (except for knees). In a fall with front attachment, your torso with be bent backwards, as will your neck, legs (except knees), and arms - and leave you suspended that way. After being bent backwards I don’t think I’d have much chance of self recovery as I’m not all that flexible even forwards. They didn’t discuss single side attachment, but I would expect that to torque your body halfway around, twisting your torso in alignment with the safety rope, followed eventually by your limbs and head at some point. This would leave you hanging sideways, limbs and head partially downward and not in great shape for self-recovery. With upper back attachment your arms move naturally forward, as do your legs (except knees), your back bends forward easily, and your head bends forward naturally. You end up reasonably upright and likely to be able to use a descender for self-rescue before getting suspension trauma from circulation loss hanging in a harness. The shock absorber stops your fall slower than a restraint strap will - just like seat belts and air bags stop your body more slowly than hitting the windshield of your car. The shock absorber is DESIGNED to fail, dissipating energy by snapping stitches instead of your body doing the same by snapping tendons, muscle, and cartilage. You do you, but it might be worth your while to give it some thought. I’ve collected enough minor injuries over the years that I don’t need any more.

Well done man. Excellent common sense approach to “fall protection” which is actually fall prevention. Lots of OSHA crap doesn’t make sense because once you’ve slipped off the edge and it arrests your fall, you’re still stuck hanging off the building waiting to die once the harness cuts the blood flow off in your legs. Keeping the line taught like in rock climbing or an Arborist application is how to stay ON THE ROOF! Thanks for sharing.

What if there is corrosion appearing on the scratch? How do you treat that?

The colour palette is so limited for steel. I spoke to the Dulux help line, they said it is due to the commercial viability..😢 but however if the colours are so limited people are going to look at other options.. manor red is a really terrible colour imho

Bro You're a racist you need help professional help can't even understand you anyways.

Or use a cotton q tip to apply the paint directly to the scratch to minimise back spray splatter, multiple coats makes it better also 👍👍

Install temp ladder bracket and then tie off. Plenty around for screw down roof, If not you can fix to truss.

Great tip!

Forgive me for my dumb question. Are you supposed to drill weep holes on both sides of the ridge?

Hi Jack, at 2:40 the tiles have a small crown in the middle of the valleys: I guees that's why the weep hole goes to one side. But with the tiles you are drilling at 2:55 it lookes like the tile valleys (is that the right term) are flat. Does that mean the weepholes can go in the centre of the depression instead of off to one side? I hope so cause that's what I've done! Any advice gladly received thanks Tim

Thanks alot. Very helpful vedio❤

This is a great video, I learnt a lot.

Hi Jack, I like your attitude. I am 69. I spent a year renovating a 1951 house into an acupuncture clinic. I have never done any tradie job this size as I was an IT guy in an office tapping keyboards. I was mostly placed in my uncomfortable zones especially with unfamiliar tasks and insufficient tools. The body ached a lot and one has to know when to take breaks. Some jobs like felling trees right next to the house were dangerous if one did not risk manage each step. Recently, I had the roof repairs guys from the insurer coming to replace storm damage cap tiles. They are the better quality professionals to the substandard ones that you mentioned in another video. The living moves so keep moving. Cheers

Hallow

4 years later - I'm just seeing this, because suddenly today, drops of water in the kitchen, in the middle! Either the roof itself, or the gutters overflowing. Oh wonderful....

"Today we are going to talk about ladder safety" - immediately takes both hands off the ladder breaching the 3 points of contact best practice rule.

Typical Australian building and construction. Some of the worst on earth.

Thanks Jack. Really appreciate expert can explain something seems so common in such a great details for me to understand the complexities.

Ok if you have sturdy metal gutters….You know in England almost all guttering is plastic!

for 20 foot high roof, does the latter have to be 5 feet out or can it be 3.5 feet out because of the space?

thanks

What’s with the classical music ?

THANKS

Been fixing leaks for over 20 years and notice the problem is the flashing is too close to the upturn which give the upturn less tolerance. Flashing should be wider extra 200mm to allow rain water to fall further away from the upturn and lessen the overflow and to increase tolerance. Don't forget that rain water also splash as it hit the corroagation and narrow flashing allow the splashing to happen right where the opening at the upturn. Increase the tolerance by using wider flashing reduce any chance of capillary action too

Sorry mate, to where is the harness connected on the roof?

Can you recommend anyone in Melbourne ?

good tips

G'day G'day, my names daneil and i just moved into a new house, well new to us as it was built in the 6ps or 70s and within a month of moving in we started to get water stains on our ceiling so i went up and had a look see and there was the 3 or 4 minor cracks in the bottom of severl tiles which was mentioned in the inspection report but what was mentioned was in the report was that all of the ridge lines both horizontal and diagonally were either crack or chipped and in multiple places missing and being on the pension and having spent our last cent on buying it i had to redon all of the ridge line cementing myself reoving ot all cleaning and then cementing it back in and am quater way thru flexible pointing so i can guarantee for certain that there are no weep tiles at all as none of the roofing videos mentioned them and i only watched the ones made by professional roofers showing how to do it. All water leaks have stopped and as soon as i get the money together I'll be buying more flexible pointing stuff to finish it off so my question is should i drill the weeps now or wait until i finish repointing then drill the weel holes and what size drill bit should i use, 4mm 5mm 8mm?

Do you need weep holes in the hips? The ridge caps that run down the roof?

I agree with using the front clip... CONTROL and ease of use and seeing what 9shappening is everything, and you don't get the lanyard snaked around your leg (NZ lig)

The ladder should stick up three feet higher than the mounting point, and Not (I would think) be at a Ninety degree angle.

That's so informative clearing many of my guessing. Thank you!

Are you able to post a video showing how you set up the rope?

Don't try this, you will die.

You didn't maintain 3 points of contact within the first 10 seconds of the video! I'm reporting this to KZbin authorities!

I've never hear of "weep holes" in the ridge caps. Is this a comon design, globally? P.S. I'm a homeowner in S. Africa, and have been experiencing weeping during heavy rain. I've lived in the house since 1976, the roof has been professionally painted every +- 10 years and thought that this fairly recent issue was due to high winds pushing the rain up,under the concrete tiles.