Reaching From Roof

Isn’t this cheating, going off the ladder and onto the roof so you can push the roller down then up instead of up then down? Looks like a simple building exterior job but it may be trickier than it appears – notice the electrical wires – our fair city still has that 1919 feel of draped cables reminiscent of when we first turned on that new fangled Edison doohickey. Negotiating the wires is probably easier from the vantage point of the roof. The first step for humanity when they reached for the sky was reaching the roof, and now painters can reach the façade from a whole new direction.