Roof Access Hatches

The roof of your new building looks impressive on handover day. Davit arms, diversion points, anchor points, walkways. Tens of thousands of dollars of equipment sitting up there, signed off and handed to you in a neat document pack. Then a few years pass, a trade needs to get up there, and you find out half of it does not do what you thought it did. Here is what most people are never told. The access system on a new building was put there for the builders. It was designed to get the facade on and the structure finished, then [...]