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Ladders and Scaffold for Apartment Maintenance Crews Apartment maintenance is not construction work with a different address. It is fifty small jobs a day, each one at six to ten feet, in occupied units with furniture on the floor and a resident waiting. The equipment that suits it is different from what a framing crew carries. Small Work, Repeated Fifty Times a Day A typical day is ceiling fans, smoke detectors, light fixtures, HVAC filters, drywall patches and a lock that will not latch. Almo …

Guide to Ladder Buying for a New Crew The first ladder purchase a new crew makes tends to be whatever is on sale at the nearest store, and it tends to get replaced within a year. Buying the right four ladders once costs about the same as buying the wrong ones twice and spending a season working around gaps. The Four Ladders That Cover Most Work A commercial crew needs a short stepladder for low interior work, a taller stepladder for ceilings and racking, an extension ladder for roofline and ext …

Guide to Ladders for Plumbers and Mechanical Trades Plumbing and mechanical work happens in the awkward places on a job - between joists, above a ceiling grid, in a shaft with a wall on one side, or in a mechanical room where the floor is the only flat surface. The ladder that suits that work is not the same one a framing crew carries, and picking wrong shows up as an hour a day lost to repositioning. Rough-In: Extension and Short Stepladders Rough-in work is reach and repositioning. An extensi …