Start a Rooftop Snow Shoveling Service

The following business is not for everyone. Shoveling snow from the roof of a house is extremely dangerous. Essentially, you’re standing on an icy surface while trying to shovel snow from a sloped roof. I would caution anyone about getting into this business unless you’ve had experience using fall arrest systems and/or you have experience in the roofing industry. You can be injured or killed if you fall off the edge of a roof – and it can all happened in a split second. Once you lose your footing on a snowy/icy roof, you have no chance at all to stop yourself from sliding over the edge. I’ll even go a step further and suggest that you not attempt to walk on any roof at all. There are alternate methods for getting rid of that snow and I’ll talk about some of them in this article.

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