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Roof anchors & static lines · Perth metro

The anchor is the easy part — the room underneath you is the job

Four vans out of Bayswater. Anchor points, horizontal static lines, fixed ladders and guardrail — installed, tested and recertified on Perth's commercial roofs, strata blocks and warehouses.

Since 2014 · four vans · $20m public liability Certificates and a roof register issued the same day

Required below you

8.15 m

2.0 m lanyard · 9 m clear drop

Clears by 0.85 m

$4,960Installed, inc. GST

Standard component figures — the numbers that bind are on your equipment's tags.

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The drop doesn't change what an anchor costs to fit. It changes the system you need above it — which is why the drop stepper below moves the drawing and the verdict, and leaves the price exactly where it was.

The Clearance

Elevation · AS/NZS 1891.4

A building elevation with the anchors on the roof edge and the fall-clearance stack falling to the ground line A certification elevation. A building sits on the right with its roof edge running across the top; hi-vis anchor caps are set along the edge and, where a horizontal static line is specified, a cased hi-vis line is strung between two end assemblies with intermediate brackets at the computed positions. A worker one point eight metres tall stands at the roof edge with a lanyard to the system, holding the vertical scale honest. To the left of the building the fall-clearance stack falls from the roof edge in labelled bands — free fall, deceleration, harness stretch, the worker's own height below the D-ring and the safety margin — each band named in the label column with a leader line. A red dimension line beside the stack gives the available clear drop from the roof edge to the first surface below. Where the stack reaches the ground before it finishes, the overrun is drawn below grade in the shortfall band and the shortfall labelled in metres; where it finishes above the ground the spare air is drawn as a clearance band. On travel restraint no bands are drawn at all.

Setpoint · this roof

$4,960 · clears by 0.85 m

4 anchors · 12 m line · Klip-lok

Standard component figures — the numbers that bind are on your equipment's tags.

What you'd clip to sets the clearance stack — every option stays selectable, because the one that fails is the one you need to see

A roof anchor sits at your feet, so a 2.0 m lanyard gives you 2.0 m of rope plus the 1.5 m from your D-ring down to the anchor before the absorber even starts — 3.50 m of free fall.

Clear drop to the first surface below the frame zooms to fit; the worker stays 1.8 m

9Metres

The drop changes the system you need, not what an anchor costs to fit. Step it and watch the verdict move while the total sits still.

What we're there to do

What it's fixing to

Metal deck takes a seam clamp or a purlin fixing. Concrete wants a drilled anchor and a base plate; tile wants a bracket under the batten and the tiles put back properly.

How many anchor points drawn along the roof edge

4Anchors

First anchor $290 installed and tested; every one after it the same. On a recertification it's $150 for the first and $40 each after.

Horizontal static line two end assemblies, plus a bracket every 8 m

1 intermediate bracketcomputed, not optional — a static line needs one every 8 m

Register, tags & certificate

A horizontal lifeline has to be commissioned, tagged and entered in the register before anyone clips to it.

What the visit costs

    What has to fit under you

    Book this roof in

    Prices include GST. Certificates and the roof register are issued the same day we're on site.

    Six things we get asked to price

    What a roof-safety system actually costs in Perth

    Every figure here is what we'd charge on a normal metro roof with normal access. Bad access, live plant, a crane or a permit changes it, and we say so on the phone rather than in the invoice.

    01

    Roof anchor, supplied, installed & tested

    A single-point anchor to AS/NZS 5532, fixed to Klip-lok or a purlin, load-tested on the day and tagged. The certificate and the register entry come with it.

    from $290 each$890 minimum attendance

    02

    Concrete or tile fixing

    Concrete takes a drilled anchor, a base plate and a torque record. Tile takes a bracket under the batten, flashed, with the tiles cut and put back so the roof still sheds water.

    +$50 / +$100 per anchorConcrete / tile, on top of the anchor

    03

    Horizontal static line, two end assemblies

    A stainless lifeline to AS/NZS 1891.2 with energy absorber, tensioner and two end assemblies, commissioned and tagged. Priced by the metre between the ends.

    $1,900 + $120 per metre8 m = $2,860 · 24 m = $5,460

    04

    Intermediate bracket

    A line longer than 8 m needs intermediate support so the sag stays inside the system designer's numbers. We compute them, we don't sell them as an extra you can decline.

    $340 eachOne every 8 m of line

    05

    Annual recertification & tagging

    Every anchorage gets a visual, a torque check and a proof load to the standard, a new tag and a dated register entry. Equipment inspections fall due at least six-monthly; anchorages annually.

    from $290$150 first anchor, $40 each after

    06

    Anchor replacement

    When a point fails the test, or has taken a fall, it comes out. We make the roof good, fit a new anchor, test it and tag it, and the old one goes in the register as removed.

    $240 each + $150 attendance$490 minimum

    2014

    Operating out of Bayswater since. Four vans, seven people, no subbies on the roof.

    1891.4

    Systems installed and tested to AS/NZS 1891.4, anchors to AS/NZS 5532, under the WHS (General) Regulations 2022 (WA).

    $20m

    Public liability, plus workers' comp for everyone who goes up. Certificates of currency on request.

    Same day

    Test certificates, tags and a roof register you can hand a contractor — issued the day we're on site, not a fortnight later.

    ABN 00 000 000 396 · Lic. HS0000 (placeholder) · WorkSafe WA administers the Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WA) and the WHS (General) Regulations 2022 (WA); we work to them, we don't speak for them. Anchorage recertification is annual and after any fall; height-safety equipment is inspected at least six-monthly under AS/NZS 1891.4.

    Get on the list

    Tell us what's on the roof and we'll get a van to it

    Set the job on the Clearance first and it fills the anchor count and the service in for you — you only have to tell us who you are and where the building is.

    We'd call you back the same working day with a date, what access we need, and whether what's up there can be recertified or has to come off. This is a demonstration page — nothing is sent anywhere.

    From the Clearance: 4 anchors · 12 m static line · Klip-lok · new install

    Who should we ask for — letters, spaces, apostrophes and hyphens.

    A number we can ring back — digits, spaces and + only.

    Pick the closest — it sets which van.

    A rough count is fine — we'll confirm it on the roof.

    If the register's empty, pick "come and look".

    Optional — tells us which week to aim for.

    A line or two is plenty.

    We need a tick here before we'd ring you.

    Or call (08) 9000 0396

    Demonstration reviews

    Three roofs, three registers that were empty in the morning

    Eleven points that expired in March, and an air-con contractor who wouldn't go up until they were done. Setpoint had the lot retested and tagged before lunch, two of them failed and got replaced on the spot, and I had the register in my inbox by three. The contractor was on the roof the next morning.

    Rhiannon T.Strata manager · Como · 24-lot block, annual recertification

    The solar mob asked what the roof had and the honest answer was nothing. Six anchors down the northern gutter line, tested and tagged, and they explained why the two-metre lanyard my sparky owns was no good over a 6 m gutter. Bought the retractables instead. That conversation was worth more than the anchors.

    Dev A.Warehouse owner · Canning Vale · six anchors, new install

    Needed 24 metres of line over the gutter run before the roof plumbers landed on the Monday. Rang Thursday, they were on it Friday, two end assemblies and the intermediate brackets in and commissioned, certificate on the day. No drama about the tile section at the return either.

    Marcus V.Builder · Osborne Park · 24 m static line

    Setpoint's Perth service area, Joondalup to Rockingham A simplified Perth metropolitan map. The coast runs down the left with the ocean beyond it and the Swan River cutting inland. Eight suburbs are marked from Joondalup in the north to Rockingham in the south, with the industrial spine from Osborne Park through Malaga, Bayswater, Welshpool and Canning Vale drawn as a band running east and south. Bayswater, where the yard is, carries a larger marker. THE SPINE Joondalup Malaga Osborne Park Welshpool Como Canning Vale Rockingham Bayswater THE YARD INDIAN OCEAN

    Where the vans go

    Joondalup to Rockingham, and the industrial spine east

    Four vans, all metro. We're on a roof in the spine most days, so a Malaga or Welshpool job usually gets picked up faster than a coastal one.

    • BayswaterThe yard · same day
    • Osborne Park · Malaga · WelshpoolUsually 1–2 days
    • Canning Vale · ComoUsually 2–3 days
    • Joondalup · RockinghamUsually 3–5 days

    Outside the metro we still come — Bunbury, Geraldton and the wheatbelt get done as a run rather than a single call, so ring and we'll tell you when we're next that way.

    Asked on every roof

    The six questions we get before we quote

    What is an anchor point, and who actually needs one?
    An anchor point is a certified fixing on your roof that a person can attach a lanyard or a retractable to, designed and tested to AS/NZS 5532 as a single-point anchor device. You need them the moment somebody has to work where they could fall — cleaning gutters, servicing air-conditioning, installing solar, doing roof plumbing, or just retrieving a ball off a warehouse roof. Under the WHS (General) Regulations 2022 (WA) the duty sits with whoever manages or controls the workplace, which on a strata block is the strata company and on a warehouse is usually the owner. In practice the trigger is a contractor standing in your carpark saying they can't go up.
    How often do anchors have to be recertified?
    Anchorages get inspected and recertified annually, and immediately after any fall — an anchor that has arrested a fall is done, it comes out and a new one goes in. Personal equipment (harnesses, lanyards, retractables) is a different clock: AS/NZS 1891.4 puts those on at least a six-monthly inspection by a competent person, and the manufacturer's own service intervals sit on top. We do the anchorages and the system; we don't hire out or service your harnesses. If your register has no date in it, treat the whole roof as due.
    Why does a 2 m lanyard need more than eight metres under you?
    Because a roof anchor sits at your feet, not above your head. Stand up: your D-ring is about 1.5 m above the anchor, so before the rope even goes tight you fall that 1.5 m plus the 2.0 m of lanyard — 3.5 m of free fall. Then the energy absorber tears out to slow you, and the standard's design figure for that extension is 1.75 m. Then the harness stretches about 0.4 m, then there's the 1.5 m of you hanging below the D-ring, then a 1.0 m safety margin so your boots don't touch. That's 8.15 m. On a 6 m gutter you are on the ground with 2.15 m of the fall still to go, which is why the drawing above puts the shortfall under the grass. The fix isn't a longer lanyard — it's a leading-edge retractable, or restraint so you never reach the edge at all.
    Restraint or fall arrest — what's the difference in plain words?
    Travel restraint is a line set short enough that you physically cannot reach the edge. Nothing arrests, because nothing falls — that's why the drawing shows no stack at all when you pick it, and why it's the answer we push for on any low roof. Fall arrest accepts that you will go over and catches you, which means everything in that stack has to fit between you and the ground. Restraint is safer, cheaper and less gear. The catch is that restraint only works if the work can actually be done without leaning past the line, which on a gutter or a leading edge it usually can't.
    What happens if an anchor fails the test?
    It gets tagged out on the spot, entered in the register as failed, and we tell you and whoever manages the building the same day — we don't quietly leave a red tag on a roof nobody visits. Most failures are the fixing rather than the anchor: corroded screws, a purlin that's gone, a base plate on a slab that's spalled, or a tile bracket somebody's stood on. Replacement is $240 each plus $150 attendance, and if we're already up there for the recertification we don't charge the attendance twice. If a whole row fails we'll say plainly whether it's cheaper to replace the points or put a static line in instead.
    What don't you do?
    We install, test and tag the system on your roof, and we issue the certificates and the register. We don't write your safe work method statement — that's the contractor's document about the contractor's work, and we'd be marking someone else's homework. We don't hire out harnesses or lanyards, and we don't inspect gear we didn't supply. We don't design your building's fall-protection strategy from a desk; a system designer does that, and on anything complicated we'll tell you to get one. And we don't do rope access or abseil work — different ticket, different insurance, and we'll give you the name of someone who does.
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