Guides
Costs, licences, hire length, and the access solar, render and painting actually need. Then a written price.
Ranges, not a napkin number. Essex sits in the South East, so it is not a national average copied from a forum.
If any part of the scaffold sits on the public highway, the council usually wants a licence. Private drives and gardens typically do not.
The erect is a day. The hire is the job. Roofers always take longer than the first conversation.
A roof scaffold is for the covering, not for getting someone onto the eaves with a ladder and hope.
The scaffold is up for the build, not for the weekend the dormers arrive.
A chimney is a workplace at height. A ladder against the stack is not a workplace.
Solar is roof work with extra kit. The scaffold has to carry panels, inverters and people — not just get someone onto the tiles.
Render is the whole wall, not a patch at head height. The scaffold has to let the renderer work the elevation, not hop a lift.
If the painter cannot reach it safely for the whole elevation, it is a scaffold job. A ladder is for a downpipe, not a 2-storey front.