Have you ever wondered how roofers do it? How do they manage their typical day involving carrying heavy loads, enduring high temperatures, and climbing steep roofs on dangerous heights and elevations above ground? When working on the rooftop, safety is a vital thing to consider. With the roof’s gradient as the main factor, it is easy to either lose your tools or skid off the top.

Additionally, comfort is the other important thing. The position acquired by roof workers should be comfortable enough such that they can work for minutes at a time without pulling a muscle or getting fatigued. Therefore, roof jacks provide a stable platform for roofers to work on while at the same time offering them the necessary protection from the risk of falling.

Although the conventional brackets and roof jacks are helpful, they lack one crucial attribute. They are not usable in the corners of roofs, where roof sections come together at an angle, or rather in any angular formations on the roof. Therefore, they can only be used in straight lines, leaving the corners as hazardous areas for roofers. Thus, to help achieve the needed safety for roofers, especially on the corners of roofs, Richard Waldron invented the Valley Roof Bracket, an adjustable roof jack device. Although the Valley Roof Bracket may seem like a small advancement, it carries impactful components for every roofer.

What is Valley Roof Bracket?

As highlighted earlier, the magnificence of Richard Waldron’s invention is its ability to be used in the valley areas of roofs. The Valley Roof Bracket is a V-shaped adjustable roof jack bracket with an upper cross-member where a pie-shaped platform is positioned. In other terms, the Valley Roof Bracket ideally fits at an intersection of the roof, and it is adjustable to match the angling of the roof cover. Additionally, it has a pie-shaped platform that supports the roofer when working. Therefore, when working on an angled or sloped roof, roofers will be comfortable and safe.

Features and Benefits

Although there are other roof jacks in the market, they are not as helpful in valleys where sloped roofs come together at any angle. They leave roofers open at these dangerous intersections to fall or lose their tools. However, Richard Waldron’s Valley Roof Bracket offers roofers a V-shaped Bracket with an upper cross-member where a pie-shaped adjustable platform is positioned.

Due to its flexible status, roofers can use this pie-shaped platform at any roof angle. Therefore, whether the angle is too wide apart or constricted together, it is usable by the roofer. This great invention has a frame temporarily attached to an angular side of a pitched roof through screws or nails. This feature stabilizes and, more importantly, secures the platform, which avails the roofer a handy platform even when working on a sloped roof.

The other significant benefit of the Valley Roof Bracket is that it gives the roofer more footing area due to the pie-shaped platform. Therefore, the roofer will work more efficiently and faster with more room to negotiate the roof. Additionally, the footing area is more stable than other roof jacks because of the screws support. Roofers will thus end up saving time since they are on a safer platform with more working areas.