where to buy crappy old scaffold boards around notts

Your local scaffolders out of Yellow Pages?

I went looking when I needed some for my pig run. Cheapest I found was £13 each, but I could buy new ones for £14 from the local builders merchant so no brainer really!

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Fletchers at Spondon? Across the road from Spondon station.

They started off selling mainly reclaimed timber, but while they're more into new timber and "architectural salvage" these days, they may just have something. They sometimes have s/h roofing sheets and ply sheets - a possible alternative?

Can I just ask what sfeguards there are. I'm a total, utter wimp when it comes to heights, and I always terat every scaffold board like it's about to break. Are they, actually, tested in some way? Is there an inspectorate of scaffolders or summat?

apparantly the boards are inspected visually or mechanicaly, and thus have a letter V or M stamped on the ends, with a date or something i presume, they are also graded when in use it seems, A and B grade, but what that means i dunno.... maybe A grade is for the gaffer to use at the top of a church spire, B grade is for the yts kids who are cheaper to replace :)

i've read C grade is not allowed to be used for scaffolding boards, but i guess could be used for kick boards to stop builders feet knocking a tool box off and onto the heads of the old ladies at the bus stop below.

i want the really s***ty ones that no self respecting scaffolder would have on his van, let alone use, as they are not going to be structural at all, just cladding.

i'll try the reclamation yard mentioned above when i'm next over that way,

and i did find the few places selling used boards wanted pennies less than new ones, and were not talking the ones that have been run through a planer, the straight off the site, caked in concrete, dog s*it, snot and hockle.

Boards have to conform to the relevant BS, and must have a label on both ends, to show they haven't been cut shorter after certification.

Failed boards have to have the labels removed, so they can't be used on the scaffolding. Often, they are cut up to make load spreaders for the feet on soil.

I bought some from a builder's merchant and wanted them cut to a specific length. They refused unless they cut the labeled ends off first, to make it clear they were no longer scaffold boards.

I got some last year from Brent Scaffold Boards at Breighton near Selby. OK not handy for Nottingham. These were brand new clean timbers