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Working Above Parking Garage Decks A parking structure is a stack of low ceilings with open edges. Between the slab above and the deck below there are seven to eight feet of clear height, the lighting and conduit live up there, and the parapet at the edge is the only thing between a tech and a two story drop. Seven Feet of Clearance The clear height between decks is the constraint that decides everything. A frame scaffold will not fit standing up, and most stepladders cannot be opened under a s …

Aircraft Hangar Maintenance at DFW Airports A hangar is a warehouse with a very expensive floor. The ceiling is thirty to forty feet up, the lights and door tracks live there, and directly below sits an airframe that nobody wants a ladder leaning against. Hangar Ceilings Are Warehouse Ceilings The structure is pre-engineered steel with purlins at twenty to thirty feet and a sprinkler grid to match. Access is a rolling tower, not a ladder, because everything that needs fixing is out in the middl …

Working at Height in Self-Storage Buildings Self-storage maintenance is a long list of small jobs at two very different heights: unit ceilings at eight or nine feet, and exterior walls, canopies and signs at twenty feet and up. The building also decides the tools, because a four foot aisle does not accept a frame scaffold. The Aisle Width Problem Interior aisles in a climate controlled building run four to five feet wide, which rules out almost every frame scaffold and most stepladders set side …

Ladder Choices for Sprinkler Fitters Sprinkler work is overhead work, which is the posture a stepladder handles worst. A fitter spends the day with both hands on a wrench above his head, and the ladder has to hold that for hours rather than a minute. Head Height Decides the Tool Most DFW tenant finish-outs put sprinkler heads at ten to twelve feet, and a warehouse at twelve to fourteen. On a job like that an eight foot stepladder puts the hands at the right height but the hips at six, so every …

Guide to Rolling Scaffold Towers for Warehouse and Plant Upkeep Warehouse and plant maintenance is a different job from construction. You are working inside, on a flat floor, moving between many small tasks rather than one long run, and the access has to come to you. A rolling scaffold tower is built for exactly that. Dallas Ladder stocks rolling scaffold and the parts that go with it at our Rowlett warehouse. Why Rolling Beats Fixed Indoors A maintenance shift might cover a light fixture at on …