Scaffold Tower Uses: Access the Conservatory Roof

So often I’m asked the same question: how do I get over my conservatory to get to the roof or gutters? Although I’ve been asked this several times, the answer is incredibly easy.

When the walls above your conservatory need to be painted, or the gutters cleaned, or you simply want to wash the conservatory roof, the easiest thing to do is build two scaffold towers: one on each side of the conservatory, and connect the hired scaffold towers with staging boards that stretch across the top of the conservatory. Essentially, you make a little bridge.

If you don’t have very much room surrounding your conservatory, you can hire narrow scaffold towers of a metre wide. If your conservatory spans the back of your house, then you may find that your neighbours are very accommodating when offered use of the scaffold towers, for letting you set up over the boundary fence. A little gentle negotiation and everyone will win; maybe they need to do some work at height: sort out their gutters, or neaten up a few loose tiles.

Putting up a scaffold tower is pretty easy work, some may even say fun! Unlike the scaffolding that hangs off city buildings, scaffold towers come with colour-coded components, presented with clear construction guidelines. Ladders and trapdoors are incorporated in the tower, so it’s just a matter of following the guidelines. Scaffold towers were designed with DIYers and individual contractors in mind; people who need to work at height quickly and easily – as well as safely.

Hiring two single-width 4.2 metre scaffold towers with staging boards would be plenty to get you securely and almost effortlessly above your conservatory in very little time.

Staging boards come in lengths up to 7.2 metres, so you can figure out the length staging board you require, simply measure the width of the conservatory and add 800mm each side, which will give you plenty of staging board to complete a safe bridge.

Each staging board is 600mm wide, so you’ll have enough room to move and have your tools to hand. To be extra safe, especially if you’re not wholly comfortable with heights, you can hire handrails to complement the staging boards. The handrails on both sides of the boards will make falls much more unlikely, and give you the confidence to work safely.

As I said, accessing your conservatory really is quite simple! Your best approach is to work with a contract hire business that will be able to provide you with good quality equipment and advise you on your own particular project.

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