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This two-lift scaffold was erected by our Hampshire scaffolders, who installed the structure on the front of a two-storey terraced house in Selbourne Villas, Aldershot, to provide safe access for guttering works. It measured approximately 6.4 metres long and 4 metres high, with a working platform five boards deep. The front door and a small porch roof sat beneath the scaffold, and each directly affected how this structure was built.
The base lift was set at approximately 2.2 metres high. Setting it at that height kept the transoms and boards clear of the doorway, so the front door could still be used normally while the scaffold was standing.
The second lift was erected approximately 1.8 metres above the base lift, giving an overall height of around 4 metres. That placed the top platform roughly 1 metre below gutter level, which was the right working height for the guttering works. At that level, the gutter sat within comfortable reach of someone standing on the boards, so the work could be done facing it rather than reaching up overhead.
A small porch roof projected from the front of the house, and it sat right where one of the inside standards would normally have been placed. Because we couldn’t erect that standard, the inside ledger on the top lift was left without direct support from below at that point.
The solution was to install a spur support using an 8 ft scaffold tube, running diagonally from the outside ledger on the base lift to the inside ledger on the top lift. The tube was secured at both ends with double couplers, providing the support normally supplied by the missing standard without loading the porch roof.
In total, approximately 46 tubes were used across five lengths, each one put to a specific job on this scaffold.
Eight 21 ft tubes were used, matching the scaffold’s 6.4 metre length. Four formed the ledgers across the first and second lifts, two served as outside standards, and the remaining two formed the stop-end standards.
Two of the four 16 ft tubes were used as inside standards, while the remaining two formed the handrails, with each extended using a butt joint to achieve the required length.
Nine 10 ft tubes were used. Three were outside standards, with another three fixed on top of those standards to take them up to full height. Two were set as sway bracing across the face of the scaffold, and the last was fitted as the top stop-end handrail, to which the ladder was attached.
Two of the four 8 ft tubes were used to brace the ledgers on the second lift. A third formed the spur providing support above the porch roof, while the fourth served as the lower stop-end handrail at the ladder end.
The remaining 21 tubes were 5 ft lengths. Around seventeen were used as transoms spanning between the inside and outside ledgers to carry the boards. Two were droppers, one holding the ladder gate and one holding a toe board, and the last two were stop end guardrails.
Access to the working platform was by ladder at the left-hand end of the scaffold. The ladder was attached to the top stop end handrail, and a ladder gate closed off the opening where it met the platform.
A gin wheel was rigged at the top of the scaffold with a rope, so tools and materials could be hauled up to the platform rather than carried up the ladder by hand.
Debris netting was fitted along the top lift, and toe boards ran along the platform edge. All standards and lower level braces were fitted with protective foam padding, as the garden path leading to the front door passed directly through the scaffold. Each standard was also placed on a timber sole board.
The £550 scaffold hire price covered the access scaffolding required for gutter maintenance, including the working platform, ladder access, foam protection, debris netting, and gin wheel and rope.
Location: Selbourne Villas, Aldershot, Hampshire
Property: Two-storey terraced house
Project: Access scaffold for guttering works
Dimensions: 6.4m long x 4.0m high
Lifts: 2 (base lift approx. 2.2m high, top lift approx. 4.0m high)
Platform width: 5 boards
Included: Foam to all standards, debris netting, gin wheel and rope
Hire period: 6 weeks
Cost: £550
We have erected scaffolds for roofline work before. Using tube and fittings with bridging beams, our gutter replacement scaffold in Worthing carried a boarded platform over the conservatory.
