Asbestos is notoriously dangerous to walk on, is there any way you can do this without going on the roof? Roof ladders are designed for a normally pitched roof, not much use when the roof is this flat. Could you use a cherry picker? Or just spray the ivy from a distance?

see if you can get a staging board long enough.

Brandon tool hire do them

https://www.hirestation.co.uk/tool-hire/Access/Scaffold-Board-Hire/WEB12/

It will be a lot more secure with a metal roof.

Both from what you're saying.

I might do as it happens, pm me a phone number and I'll get him to call you Can't imagine it would be cheap though.

Many years ago a neighbour of mine fell through the asbestos roof of his garage and landed on a lawnmower. Heard the screaming 50 yards away. Good luck.

I know you've all been desperate to know what happened with my workshop roof  

Well just before Christmas i decided to quit my job and set up as self employed, so i'd have more time to stuff that i want to do, rather than living in a truck for 5 1/2 days a week.  That means I need to be able to work in the workshop.  Finally managed to get a local Ivy removal guy to come and clear the roof, so then I could get an asbestos company to come and remove the old sheets.  replaced all the timber frame like for like with tanalised new.  Then chucked some box profile insulated sheets on the top.  Hopefully it's not going to get too warm in the summer now - the one good thing about the ivy was it insulated and shaded the place very well!!





It's not perfect, but it's the first time i've ever done anything like this.  Most importantly, it doesn't appear to leak!  There has been a bit of condensation on the underside of the roof, but i'm hoping this will go away once it starts to dry out in there.  getting the walls painted on the outside will hopefully help with that, and it would be nice to stick some dpc down and drop a few inches of concrete on the floor - partly as the floor doesn't have a dpc at the moment, and partly to give a nice flat floor for working on

so easy!  once the timber was up, it as less than an hour for it to be weather tight