We have a lease on a crummy old grain leg with a wood grain house. The flooring in the top of the grain house is rotting, old beam joist still good, not worried about structure. Roof leaks and racoons crap all over up there, so it can be slick right into a hole with an 80 foot drop.
We need to traverse this floor in the short term, the other alternative is the old wooden hand propelled manlift (ill use that thing all day). We want to put up some of the expanded metal diamond type pattern metal walkway like elevators have. This is a temporary that will probably be permanent solution to bridge from the outdoor metal walkway to the indoor ladder spanning the rotting floorboards across the beam joists. Im not actually sure what the right product is. I would just lay wood planks if it werent for the fact they get slick as snot if wet and racoon pooped. If i lay just the grate on the floor, I think wed have tread even if the animal crap builds up. but i dont know how slick it will get when its waffle packed. A lifted walkway, like 3 or 4 inches would be great, like maybe on some sleepers. Ive seen things like this, just dont know directly where to get them or where the cost effective source is. Ideally there would be a temporary use solution in the event the owner finally gets the roof fixed and floor repaired. Ita about a 20-25 foot span, and id like to get at least a 4'x4' platform at the ladder base
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