So, this is definitely one of those scenarios. You know, if you didn't have a ladder, how would you get up here? When it comes to ladders, I've got quite a few option for ladders. Now, I, you know, personally know a painter. He's a professional painter and he has one ladder and um I've been on multiple job sites of his where, uh, he couldn't do certain things because he didn't have the ladders to do them. And you know, ladders are one of those things as a painter, I don't think you can have too many ladders. Probably if I was, you know, limited to only, you know, maybe three ladders. I don't know how you could possibly, you know, be a painter and only have one ladder. But, um, you know, at minimum, at minimum, you're going to have to have I don't have a 6ft ladder in front of me. A 6ft A-frame ladder is, you know, a very common ladder to have. A 24 ft extension ladder is another uh pretty uh common ladder to have. I mean, I have a ladder right here, a small little kind of like step ladder in between kind of like a 6ft ladder, you know, and an 8ft ladder. It's kind of like a 4ft step ladder. I absolutely love the things cuz they're easy to haul around. They're lightweight. I've got larger um 8ft, you know, step ladders right here. I'm using them and using them to spray, you know, stucco here. I've got an extension ladder right here with self-leveling feet, you know, a 24 ft ladder. I use these ladders for all kinds of different scenarios. On this project we're working on, you know, there was a scenario where I had to straddle a fence to be able to, you know, paint a sophet and paint a gutter and get where I needed to get. There's another an overhang on another one of the buildings. I had no idea how I was actually going to do the sopets and fascia on that overhang. I ended up using a 28 ft ladder uh at a angle. I laid it on the overhanging roof, extended it out, walked up that to actually, you know, paint the sophet. It's a little bit about ladders. Once again, I can't, you know, stress enough, you know, like um you know, having the proper equipment, you know, to do the job. This one painter, I went out to his job site and he had to, you know, paint some windows um some trim around windows on some stucco and it was on a slope, you know, and he's putting rocks and things like that underneath the the ladders. Safety should always come first. And if you've got to do stuff like that, you know, it's not worth risking your health and your life to do stuff. Self-leveling feet. you should always have one, you know, one extension ladder with self-leveling feet at minimum. And um now, you know, Little Giant makes options where A-frame ladders with self-leveling feet. I have those. I've got, you know, all kinds of crazy options when it comes to ladders. But once again, um just a little bit about ladders. You're going to see me on this job site doing some pretty cool stuff with some ladders and painting some pretty cool things. put a spike into the ground. So, keep the ladder from sliding. So, this is definitely one of those scenarios. You know, if you didn't have a ladder, how would you get up here? you know, if you didn't have the proper ladder to get up here, how would you do this? So, you know, you got to be able to paint this. You know, for the customer, you can't say, "Well, you just can't get to it." So, you got to be able to get to it somehow. We've had multiple multiple scenarios you like this that we've dealt with. And um and I've actually done this this ladder trick, leaning a ladder up like this. um [sighs and gasps] you know to climb to get up a roof like this and a 24 ft ladder wouldn't be long enough. So you you definitely have to have you know a long enough ladder. You got to have a 28 or a 30ft ladder to be able to you know get it extended out far enough and to have it at a low enough angle that you don't damage the roof. If you want it to just lay on the roof,
