Scaffolding costs
nick205 - 27/1/13 at 05:05 PM
Trying to estimate the costs for scaffolding a medium sized detached house to allow roof and chimney repairs and replace all upstairs windows.
Can anyone advise?
(I have tried the web, but I'm not finding anything too useful at the moment!)
Locost_col - 27/1/13 at 05:13 PM
I guess location may affect prices, I'd expect around 5 - £600 up here
tegwin - 27/1/13 at 05:14 PM
Recently had full scaffolding on a 3 story Victorian detached house (granted its a bit bigger than "medium"
... With access to paint all
windows, top half timbered floor and gable ends... cost around £4000. (access is a bit tricky as the house is above the main road so everything had
to be carried in.
Cost of install was pretty high but the ongoing rental, had we wanted another month, wouldn't have been vastly more in comparison.
Took a fair while to get any company to actually give us a reasonable quote (or a quote at all)....
On a side note...never, ever volunteer to paint the windows/woodwork on a house that size.... due to the weather it took me nearly 4
weeks....scraping, sanding, filling, sanding, priming, undercoating, painting... ARGHHHH
owelly - 27/1/13 at 05:20 PM
I re-roofed my garage which was 20'x30' and to scaffold 3 sides with one vevel plus some up the gable end was £1200. Thankfully I managed to
get 'mates rates' and paid cash to get the price down to £700....
Peteff - 27/1/13 at 05:47 PM
If you are replacing the windows with internal glazed uPVC you can do them from inside the house then just use a ladder when you seal round them. I
replaced three on the back of our house and hired an aluminium tower for a week (£50 including delivery) to do the chimney and point the gable end.
nick205 - 27/1/13 at 07:08 PM
Regain....you're scaring me....quite a lot!
I was hoping for less than £1k.
If it was just windows I'd go with a tower, but the roof needs a lot of work (probably strip, refelt and batten) as does the chimney so
scaffolding seems the best option. It also gives a good opportunity to reprint and make the window replacement easier.
rpm - 27/1/13 at 07:49 PM
depending on your house layout you'll need a boarded roofing lift with possibly a hop up for the chimney to do the roof repair and a lift for the
window repairs, alternatively you could do the roof repairs and then get the scaffolding adapted for the windows. either way going by prices down
here i'd be surprised if you get away with less than £1500