RIGHT OF HEIGHT Brut, partner of “20 Minutes”, discovers a professional who is not afraid of heights A day on the rooftops with Alexandre, roofer — 20 Minutes – Brut
Alexandre, roofer, loves his job… even if he recognizes that this one is rather risky: “when you work on old roofs, you don’t know what is underneath. It’s me already. arrived, and at a lot of my colleagues too, to move on to through a roof!”.
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The simple fact of attaching your safety harness is an adventure: “You have to climb on the roof first and you can fall. Well, çit doesn’t happen to us every day, but when it does, çis scary”, laughs the fellow.
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Since he started, Alexandre understood that his job was not to be done. the reach of everyone: “””it abyss, he confirms. We know that we are going to have health concerns; with time. We are going to have pain in our backs and ankles because we are all day long on 4 centimeter pieces of wood on which we carry 20 kg packets of tiles. So good, we do it for a year, two years, five years, but at at some point…”.