Fair Oak and the lanes around it bring in a good share of our barn and outbuilding work, which is where solar arrays are getting common. TG20 compliant scaffolds erected, inspected and struck across Fair Oak and the SO50 7 postcodes around it, from a single access tower to a full commercial elevation.
Fair Oak is a village with a mix of older cottages, farm buildings and newer housing on the edges, and the barns and outbuildings there are where a lot of the solar array work is now happening. In practice most of what we are called out for around Fair Oak is village property re-roofs, with everything else on the list available alongside it.
Extensions, re-roofs, render, fascias, chimney repairs and everything else that needs safe access around a home.
Units, offices, schools, shopfronts and blocks, programmed around the trades that have to follow us on.
Solar work lives or dies on access.
New build access is a sequence, not a single visit.
Chimney rebuilds, repointing, flashings, ridge and verge repairs, aerial and flue work: all of them need a proper platform at the top rather than somebody on a ladder.
Once the tiles come off, the weather decides how the job goes unless you cover it.
Not everything needs a full elevation of scaffold.
Every scaffold we erect is handed over with a certificate that says what it is, what it is designed to carry and who put it up.
Across Fair Oak (SO50 7) it is mostly village property re-roofs, barn and outbuilding solar arrays and extension scaffolds. Fair Oak is a village with a mix of older cottages, farm buildings and newer housing on the edges, and the barns and outbuildings there are where a lot of the solar array work is now happening. Every job starts with a look at the property or a set of clear photos, because a scaffold price given blind is a guess.
No. Travel is included in the price. Fair Oak is about 9 km from our Southampton base, well inside the patch we cover day to day, so you are paying for the scaffold and the labour rather than for the van.
Yes. Fair Oak and the lanes around it bring in a good share of our barn and outbuilding work, which is where solar arrays are getting common. We are happy to talk through the kind of jobs we have done near village green when you call, and to explain how we would approach yours.
It is more about ground and approach than about the building. Around Fair Oak the plots are bigger and the buildings are often lower, but the ground is soft, the drives are gravel and the last stretch is sometimes carried by hand. Sole boards and spread bases deal with the ground; the approach just needs knowing about, because it is labour rather than materials.
Every enquiry gets a response and a date in the diary within 7 days. Most domestic jobs in Fair Oak go up within a fortnight of the quote being accepted, and short work like a chimney tower or a solar access lift can often be fitted in sooner. If you have a fixed date with a roofer or a solar installer, give it to us and we will work back from it.
If any part of the scaffold stands on the pavement or the road, yes. That is a highway licence, applied for from the local authority covering Fair Oak, and it has a lead time. We deal with the application and build the cost into the quote. Scaffold sitting entirely within your own boundary does not need one.
Regularly. A solar install in Fair Oak normally needs a boarded working lift at gutter height with edge protection along the roofline, up before the panels arrive and struck once the array is signed off. If you are an installer working around Fair Oak, or a homeowner who has been asked to arrange access, we can work to the install date.
A handover certificate when it is finished, stating the configuration and what it is rated to carry, and inspection records at the intervals the regulations require while it is standing. Your roofer, your insurer and, on a commercial job, the principal contractor will all want to see it.
Call, WhatsApp or send the form and we will come back to you with a straight answer.
Send photos of the property and we can price most jobs from them.
Every enquiry gets an answer and a date in the diary within 7 days.
Southampton and surrounding areas, domestic and commercial.