Scaffolding Details

Said I would add in a quick note on scaffolding.
I was decided about a year ago that we would purchase the scaffolding between my mate and myself.
The point to note here is that he actually bought it and I gave him a donation towards it, he saved me a small fortune without a doubt.
I also had to buy extra scaffolding before the TF arrived as we did not have enough handrails to keep the lads safe.
So this will mean that I will have one whole tower for the house left for use when ever I need it.

The erect scaffolding you need a number of things.
Legs or timber to rest the 9 fts on.
A hammer.
A level to level the scaffolding.
A monkey wrench to tighten the bolts on the clets.
A head for heights
Patience!!
3 men, you can work with 2 but it is way slower!

You put the 9fts down either on the timber which is left on the ground or on the legs that fit into the 9fts. The legs are better as you can using a spin lock level the scaffolding better than with pieces of timber!!

When you have 2 9fts you then tie them together using a 4ft on the to tie them on the insides and an 8ft on the outside.

Next step is to make sure the scaffolding is level so you get your level and using the spin locks on the legs of the 9fts you level the whole tower.

Then you get another 2 9fts and you connect these to the 8ft attached to the first & 2nd 9fts you put up so that when you have them all put in place you will have one tower.
You get your 8ft planks and you put them on the edge of the four foots and you can then walk on the scaffolding.


Then to get up another level you put in two more 4fts at the top of the 9fts, then connect another 2 8fts, fire up more boards and then you can walk on the top level.

If you have to go up another level you then repeat what we did about, 9fts go on top on the first set of 9fts, then you tie all the 9fts togeher with 8fts.
If the tower is not going to be connected to another tower you put a four foot at the end of the tower to stop people falling off!!!

When you have achieved your required height all the outside of the scaffolding have to have handrails.
What you need to do here is put the 8fts on the outside of the scaffolding tower and also you need to put handrails on the corners of scaffolding if your towers say on the front and back of your house meet up at the corner.
You can tie 8fts to the two towers using clets, this will also tie the whole scaffolding structure together and make it very secure.

On the higher towers, when it goes about 2 towers you need to secure the towers using 12ft diagonals, these are attached to the bottom and top of the scaffolding, tying together 2 towers.

You also need to get a long pole/prop (22ft I think!) and tie it to the scaffolding tower using a clet and ram it into the ground to prevent the towers from failling outwards.

When you are building a timber frame you need to keep the scaffolding out at a minimum 600mm from the frame to allow for over hangs.

When you are back that far you need to get some 1 or 2 board extenders, these are clipped onto the inside of the 9ft and it allows you to place 1 or 2 scaffolding boards on the inside.

I think that is that, if I think of anything else I will update