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Considering cladding the front of a two storey house.
Not a massive area (7m wide x 4.5m high to the guttering) but I think we may need scaffolding. Is there an alternative?
Very good access to the house and tarmac surface but there is a slight right to left slope.
Zip Up tower scaffolding would be cheaper than a traditional tube and clip built job. Hire shops have them, make sure you receive good instructions on safe use.
zip up type towers come in two lengths of deck, and in two widths (a single deck width and a double deck width)
They're much easier to put up and take down in the short deck / narrow narrow width configuration. But unless you specify that a hire co will usually give you the longest and widest set up
At 7m wide you will spend loads of time moving the tower left and right if you are working bottom to top. Recent quotes from Scaffolders seemed pretty reasonable to me and I have my own Alu. Tower
The good thing about scaffold is that you can load it out with a fair amount of materials - less cocking about.
A good, safe, stable working platform.
Scaffolding is the proper way but you can cut corners if you don't mind heights. I built my garage up to 3.5m from trestles. Was a little wobbly when getting to the top but not that bad once levelled. Easy enough to lay blocks at that height, could easily go another metre for cladding. Benefit for me over a tower, which was my other option, was that it was easy to build a long run and not keep going up and down. Wouldn't meet hse guidelines I'm sure
Worth considering a Cherry picker or boom lift hire, can be approx £100 a day.
We'll be fitting 3m long planks so width is a definite consideration and I'm tending to agree with TheDTs that we'd be moving it from side to side a lot which doesn't really make sense unless the scaffolding is going to be spendy.
I'll get some prices.
It could be done with two alu. towers .
Disadvantage with this is that you will be climbing over or ducking under the tower at the work platform height. You will always leave the tool you need just out of reach, so will have to climb over / duck through to get it...
Also by the time you have hired & erected this you probably could have finished the job if you had got the pro's in..
Two towers with a 7 meter staging + handrails. Easier than scaffolding as you can lower it across the full width that your working with.