Adventures in scaffolding

Spend 2 hours digging in and bracing a trestle in front of the back gable and strapping the big ladder at 3/4 extension to it so can get up the roof to the gable. The boys giving me shit about engineering tickets and time for construction but I'm the one that has to get up the thing and it isnt moving when I climb or swing on it.

Climb the damn thing and paint the end of the gable (15 mins painting). Should have placed it about 2 feet to the left.

Move the structure sideways and renail/brace and repeat doing the middle part of the gable, eaves and facings. (80 minutes setup, 40 minutes painting).
Climb into the attic and out the gable window and using the end of the ladder do around the window and all its edges and faces. Put some more nails in the gable facing boards and window faces.

Getting a bit late then so decide to leave the rest for Monday.
Move the trestle and dig, nail and brace in place ready for the final section,

Jamie and Kait working on painting front of house and under verandah/deck area as high as they can reach.

End of work day talking to Peter who thinks its a good idea (aesthetically) to do front deck all the way across front of house - agreed.

Shonagh checking view out bathroom and thinks water tank blocks her sightline so Peter suggests we move it down and around edge of garage a little. This has side effect of making water off garage roof available for water tank as well so that works for me...

One third of the back gable to do!!