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Our nationwide team specialise in the maintenance, repair and refurbishment of commercial glazed building envelopes for commercial clients.

Expert Team

Our management team brings over 28 years of combined experience delivering specialist glazing solutions in difficult access areas.

Documented Work

Projects are documented photographically to visualise rectification works step by step so clients understand the glazing systems and future servicing needs.

Full Guarantee

We are one of few companies to offer Insurance Backed Guarantees, often requested by developers and large FM companies.

Cost Effective High Level Access Manchester

Rope access is a method of working at height in which trained technicians use ropes and harnesses to reach a facade directly, without scaffolding or a powered platform.

Scaffolding a city-centre elevation often needs local authority permissions and pavement or road restrictions before any repair begins. Rope access avoids most of that, so work can usually start sooner.

At NatWest in Spinningfields, we replaced high level glass using rope access and crane lifts over a 10-week programme. Careful lifting and rope access planning kept the work controlled, and avoiding conventional scaffolding reduced the cost of access. At the Trafford Centre, we replaced dome glass using the same combination during night shifts.

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Manchester IRATA Trained Rope Access Teams

Our technicians are trained and certified through the Industrial Rope Access Trade Association (IRATA), and every operation is overseen by managers holding IRATA Level 3 qualifications. On projects in Manchester, those managers prepare the rope access safety plan, along with the lifting plan where cranes are involved, before the team arrives. Typical tasks include:

Our rope access and industrial abseiling page explains the service in more detail, and our commercial glazing Manchester page covers glazing work in the city.

Rope Access Manchester: Reaching Difficult Areas

Rope access lets our team reach awkward elevations and dome glazing directly, so a defective unit can be inspected and replaced without waiting for a full access structure to be built.

Work is planned around each building’s operating pattern. The NatWest and Trafford Centre projects both ran out of hours, and we take the same approach for offices and retail or leisure venues across the city. The free site survey confirms anchor points and lifting requirements before we issue a risk assessment and method statement.

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Rope Access Manchester FAQs

What is rope access?
Rope access is a method of working at height where IRATA trained technicians use ropes and harnesses to reach a building’s facade directly. It is often used in place of scaffolding for inspections and glass replacement.

Is rope access cheaper than scaffolding?
For localised repairs and inspections, it often is, because there is no structure to erect or dismantle and fewer permissions are needed. At NatWest in Spinningfields, combining rope access with cranes reduced the scaffolding required and lowered the cost of access.

Is rope access safe?
Yes, when carried out to IRATA standards. Our technicians are IRATA certified, and managers holding IRATA Level 3 qualifications plan and oversee every operation, with a risk assessment and method statement issued before work starts.

Can rope access be combined with crane lifts?
Yes. Our NatWest and Trafford Centre projects in Manchester both used rope access alongside crane lifts to replace glass at height.

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