Fortunately, for me these days I use building access to Roofs on most all of my claims, however I do like to run a few storm's a year to make that annual hit in the wallet. in 2011 I was on a small event and ran across a Roofer who had a telestep Ladder, All setup and nice. I shimmied up his ladder and liked it.
I got back in and finished writing what I scoped for the day, and went to Telespets website, and decided to order me a 300 lb 14' telesteps ladder. (I mean I aint fat or nothing, just a big ol boy). Soon after I received it, I got a call to go do SAP in NC claims, So I rolled out the RV Loaded up and rolled into NC.
I received 150 Claims to my inbox, scheduled them all and proceeded to bang them out, when after 4 days of using the telesteps on about 35 or so roofs, the piece of junk got stuck in the up position, not to mention the Plastic feet kept coming loose, So i tried to screw around with it for about 20 minutes and failed to get it to collapse, the guts were falling out piece by piece, so when all else fails, use force. I wasn't in my truck, and was in my Car so It had to collapse ro I could not tote it.
Oh..... I got it to collapse alright, I slammed it to make it go down, and the guts come flying out of it. JUNK, JUNK, JUNK, JUNK, JUNK SCRAP ALUMINUM. I called Telesteps and the well this and well that started So I told them OK Well bad news travels fast.
Since then I have spoken to several Adjusters who have experienced the same things.
WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THIS LADDER?
"Each of us as human beings has a responsibility to reach out to help our brothers and sisters affected by disasters. One day it may be us or our loved ones needing someone to reach out and help."
RC ESTES