Scaffolding
Domestic scaffolding
Most of our domestic jobs are roof replacements, loft conversions, extensions and chimney repairs. We survey the street, the garden and the neighbours before a single tube goes up, then leave a tidy, boarded working platform that trades can actually use.
Commercial scaffolding
Commercial work needs programme, not guesswork. We design around loading, public interface, craneage and the principal contractor’s sequence so the scaffold is an asset on the critical path rather than a delay.
Industrial access
Industrial sites ask more of the kit and the people. We plan around live plant, restricted access, and the need for stair towers, loading and edge protection that stands up to a working week, not a photo.
Roofing & chimney access
Roof work fails when the scaffold is an afterthought. We set lift heights for the covering, protect the eaves, and give chimney stacks a proper working platform instead of a ladder and hope.
Temporary roofs
A temporary roof keeps the building dry, the street protected, and the programme moving. We design the span, sheeting and loading so it is a working enclosure, not a tarpaulin on sticks.
Towers & birdcage
Internal access is a different craft: floor loadings, finished surfaces, and enough clear space for the trade that follows. Birdcages and towers are designed for the room, not copied from the last job.
Roofing
Re-roofs, repairs, flat roofs, chimneys and leadwork. If we put the scaffold up as well, that is a second line on the quote.
Re-roofs
A re-roof is the covering, the weatherline and the time the house sits open. We quote the roof as one job and the scaffold as another — erect, hire and strike on their own lines — so a delayed covering does not hide inside a lump sum. Strip, batten, felt, tile or slate, ridges and the junctions that actually leak.
Roof repairs
Most leaks are a tile, a flashing or a valley that has had enough. We repair what has failed and tell you if the rest of the pitch is on borrowed time. Access is still a separate line: a chimney leak is not an excuse to bury a full roof scaffold in the repair price.
Flat roofs
Flat roofs fail at the upstands, the drip and the ponding, not in the middle of a brochure photo. We replace or overlay to a spec that sheds water, then quote any tower or scaffold as its own line. Rear extensions, bays and garage roofs are the usual brief.
Chimneys and leadwork
A chimney is a weather junction. Pots, flaunching, soakers and stepped lead are the job; the scaffold to reach them is a different line. If the stack needs rebuilding we say so before anyone buys lead. If it only needs the flashing, we will not sell you a re-roof.