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.
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.
How many risers, just one to enable comfortable work at gutter level or ones every 2.1 m? How long is the total run?
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.
yep cost of scaffolding doubling the cost is pretty normal
doesn't make it right, of course
tim
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 covere d the scaffolding for a month.
Richard
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.
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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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
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.
In message , ARW writes
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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