I’m looking for some thinking outside the box on this one.
I get more then a couple of big window (glass) replacements every year. It’s always a pain lining up 4 brutes to lift the glass from walk board to walk board up scaffolding. Some times scaffolding is a pita and 4 guys with a $2000.00 pc of glass 14′ off the ground in million $ house can get the blood pressure up.
I’ve thought of perhaps refitting a drywall lift but have reservations.
Anyone have any ideas? any and all welcomed!
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Used this to lift a 9 ft slider up to a deck. Pella refuses to ship knockdown frames anymore. This Genie lift could handle 900 lbs I think. Outriggers available if necessary. We were lucky the location allowed this set up. Also lucky to have the deck to work off of. You'd have to be able to set it up and not move it once the load is in the air. I suppose you could off load onto a completely decked scaffold.
Other replacements I did on this house were done with scaffold and pcs./parts joined up top. You can remove the sash to lighten the load, but that takes time and time is money. You mix bushes and trees and decks and things in there and my excitement for a challenge wanes.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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we usually put them on the pic and jack up our alum-a-poles.....
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Thanks for the responses but this is replacement of glass only. Fogged..stress cracks...leaning grids and the like. Reglazing is done from the interior. Normally the bigger and more expensive the glass is the finished floors are of equal or greater value.
There has too be an easier way!