Does anyone have a preferred way of achieving this? I have to walk across a (shallow) pitched roof for access to windows. Clearly it would be good to spread the load, but what to use? The reason I ask is that I noticed next doors had their ridge tiles re-pointed recently and the guy was walking freely over the roof with trainers - I could hear the tiles cracking as he walked! Please note that I will have a safety harness on clipped to the eves. Thanks for any guidance.
If you absolutely have to walk on them keep on the bottom of the tiles that lap over the lower course of tile and batten underneath, if you step on the single unsupported portion you'll have more cracks on show than a builders a rse, and when walking up and down angle your feet so you step on the tiles sideways on, rather than pressure on the middle of the tile.
Thanks chippie - this could explain why our window cleaner was reluctant to do this! Thanks Jord 86 - well I thought that spreading the load with a scaffold board or similar might work but there would alwys be a "high pressure" point with anything you lay over the tiles. T