Just got a good quote for some guttering and soffit and flat roof work
but the scaffolder the roofer uses wants about £2.5k which is half the
quote - this seems rather over the top.

House is 3 storey and scaffold needed at front and back - and a bit on
flat roof on flank wall - what would be a reasonable cost for say 2
weeks and does anyone know a reasonable London firm.

Thanks

E.

On 01/12/2013 15:14, eastender wrote:
Just got a good quote for some guttering and soffit and flat roof work
but the scaffolder the roofer uses wants about £2.5k which is half the
quote - this seems rather over the top.

House is 3 storey and scaffold needed at front and back - and a bit on
flat roof on flank wall - what would be a reasonable cost for say 2
weeks and does anyone know a reasonable London firm.



For info: When my 2 storey mid terraced house had a new roof it tool 3
men a day to erect the scaffolding and two men for a day to take it
down. That's a long man week in labour alone, more if you factor
travelling and loading the scaffold in the yard.






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On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:14:04 +0000, eastender wrote:

House is 3 storey and scaffold needed at front and back - and a bit on
flat roof on flank wall -

How many risers, just one to enable comfortable work at gutter level
or ones every 2.1 m? How long is the total run?

what would be a reasonable cost for say 2 weeks

Up here the scaffolders "throw in" 6 weeks hire after that it's only
a few tens of pounds a week. All the cost to the scaffolder is the
transport and bods to errect and remove.

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Just got a good quote for some guttering and soffit and flat roof work
but the scaffolder the roofer uses wants about £2.5k which is half the
quote

yep cost of scaffolding doubling the cost is pretty normal

doesn't make it right, of course

tim

On 01/12/2013 15:14, eastender wrote:
Just got a good quote for some guttering and soffit and flat roof work
but the scaffolder the roofer uses wants about £2.5k which is half the
quote - this seems rather over the top.

House is 3 storey and scaffold needed at front and back - and a bit on
flat roof on flank wall - what would be a reasonable cost for say 2
weeks and does anyone know a reasonable London firm.

Thanks

E.
Very hard to compare without looking at the layout of the house but in
my 'new roof' quote, the scaffolding (3 storey house like yours but a
bit 'sprawly') is £2.5k, so probably ball-park similar.
No time limit quoted on that, but they only worry about getting it down
when they need it for another job usually, which saves storing too much
of it.

When our previous house, a 3 bed semi 2 storeys high, had the roof replaced the scaffolding cost £680. Three guys put it up in less than half a day and removed it two weeks later in even less time. I believe the cost covered the scaffolding for a month.

Richard

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"Dave Liquorice" writes:
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:14:04 +0000, eastender wrote:

House is 3 storey and scaffold needed at front and back - and a bit on
flat roof on flank wall -

It's normally significantly cheaper for your roofer to arrange
the scaffolding with his regular contact, than for you to book
it as a one-off.

How many risers, just one to enable comfortable work at gutter level
or ones every 2.1 m? How long is the total run?

what would be a reasonable cost for say 2 weeks

Up here the scaffolders "throw in" 6 weeks hire after that it's only
a few tens of pounds a week. All the cost to the scaffolder is the
transport and bods to errect and remove.

4 weeks is the normal inclusive price IME, but I've not been
charged extra for just running over by a week or two. It can be
a week or more after you've asked them to remove it before it actually
gets taken down. So there's a race between the scaffolders, and
the local lead theives, if you just had a roof redone. A roofer will
have it erected with no access from the ground (he'll use his own
long ladders, which he'll take away when he isn't there), but if they
erect it for you, they may well bolt a steel access ladder unless you
specifically say you don't want one. You could ask for a platform lift
(planked area) such that you climb out of an upstairs window onto the
scaffolding.

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On 01/12/2013 20:23, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article o.uk,
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:14:04 +0000, eastender wrote:

House is 3 storey and scaffold needed at front and back - and a bit on
flat roof on flank wall -

It's normally significantly cheaper for your roofer to arrange
the scaffolding with his regular contact, than for you to book
it as a one-off.
....

When I had a roof done, many years ago, not only was it cheaper to get
the scaffolding done separately, the roofers asked me for the contact
details, as they had never worked on such well-built scaffolding before.

Colin Bignell

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In article o.uk,
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 15:14:04 +0000, eastender wrote:

House is 3 storey and scaffold needed at front and back - and a bit on
flat roof on flank wall -

It's normally significantly cheaper for your roofer to arrange
the scaffolding with his regular contact, than for you to book
it as a one-off.

How many risers, just one to enable comfortable work at gutter level
or ones every 2.1 m? How long is the total run?

what would be a reasonable cost for say 2 weeks

Up here the scaffolders "throw in" 6 weeks hire after that it's only
a few tens of pounds a week. All the cost to the scaffolder is the
transport and bods to errect and remove.

4 weeks is the normal inclusive price IME, but I've not been
charged extra for just running over by a week or two.


It can be
a week or more after you've asked them to remove it before it actually
gets taken down.

There is a reason for that:-)

You provided the free storage for the scaffold before for the next scaffold
job one mile away from your house in a week or more time.

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In message , ARW
writes

It can be
a week or more after you've asked them to remove it before it actually
gets taken down.

There is a reason for that:-)

You provided the free storage for the scaffold before for the next
scaffold job one mile away from your house in a week or more time.

You are so cynical, would they really do that? :-)

My last scaffold was left up for about 4 weeks after the job was
finished. Work must have been slack for them!
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In article ,
Bill writes:
In message , ARW
writes

It can be
a week or more after you've asked them to remove it before it actually
gets taken down.

There is a reason for that:-)

You provided the free storage for the scaffold before for the next
scaffold job one mile away from your house in a week or more time.

You are so cynical, would they really do that? :-)

Absolutely.
My brother had his roof redone in the summer (I helped a bit but
a roofer did most of it). As a result, the roofer got another job
two houses down. We told the company they could leave the scaffold
up until they needed to move it, which they did. We used it to
replace the mock tudor timbers and repaint the render finish at
high level.

My last scaffold was left up for about 4 weeks after the job was
finished. Work must have been slack for them!

The first lot of scaffold I had put up, when I called to have it
taken down, they had no record of it. If I hadn't called, I could
have kept it all!

This last time, they counted all the pieces as they took it down,
and there was a piece missing - they went through it all on the truck
counting it again. I presumed this was because they'd had to come
back and add some when it started sagging under the weight of the
rooftiles, and probably miscounted what they added. However, we
found a piece afterwards that they'd dropped into an overgrown
flowerbed.

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The first lot of scaffold I had put up, when I called to have it
taken down, they had no record of it. If I hadn't called, I could
have kept it all!


My mate has enough scaffold to cover a typical 3 bed semi. He phoned the
company that installed it and they never collected it. He waited 6 months
and then made it his.


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Adam

I reckon that by having decks around most of the house, I've saved a fortune by not needing scaffolding. I can stand on a six foot ladder for most work. Let's not talk about the rest, except to say that I am an excellent abseiler!