There is a fold-flat scissor-tower - or rather a few of them. One goes to 2m working height, the other 3.2m working height and there is another that goes to 3.6m working height. They are =A31000, =A32400 & =A33500 or something like that. Sweet nothing against Sky's profits. I suspect they will fit into a suitable "big van" without difficulty, require minimal ground access & integral outriggers.
Could be a loony "no-win-no-fee" crowd stuffed Sky on a job or the loony "H&S" crowd did it for them at a cheaper bid!
It has got to the point where the "generic tradesman" need telling how to do the job, if not having the occupier do the job for them.
Got my mother's gas meter moved outside today, for free. All the grid stuff done fine, tiny 20mm supply pipe. All the post- meter work was... gas-tight but freakin-hilarious.
Piping oversized, piping forcibly bent around obstacles making the box cover difficult to fit & distorting piping, piping not vertical or horizonal as all miss-cut lengths, one talon clip not locking due to distorted pipework, unprotected copper but "gas" labelled peeling off, literally buckets of flux left on pipework, solder like ye olde candles on horizontal never mind vertical, gas sleeve through wall too tight around pipe to permit internal seal, gas sleeve too short to reach through wall, hole around gas sleeve unfilled and open enough for a mouse (mice skeletons in garage), scaffolding style pipework inside away from wall rather than flush. Screws zinc plated but will not last by a grid, hose tap water spray inches away, solid wall, wet verge 4ft above, solid double brick with banked ground, black ash dyed mortar creating acidic environment - and once those screws rust they will split a line of mortar it is so weak, if they do not neck-rust & snap (cement bonds to ash before sand IIRC).
I thought they used Tracpipe for this sort of stuff, which would be a tracpipe-to-BSP fitting to the meter and a tracpipe-to-BSP fitting to the internal pipework. No "we can not use compression fittings". I will change the screws to stainless one-by-one when time.
Interestingly the design of the box means the gas ECV is hard to turn
- the ball valve handle is too-close to the side-wall if you have anything but very slim fingers to snag it.
All the H&S nonsense and the workmanship has no hope of getting close. I wonder if that is as much why Sky do what they do - assume lowest common denominator of skills, but some installers can do a proper job. If they drill from the inside, and the mortar is black ash dyed there is no chance of getting it out of carpets be they cream, beige or polka dot?
Think uk.d-i-y need to start their own training programme :-)