Southampton is home, so a look at a job here is usually a day or two away and coming back to alter something is never an issue. TG20 compliant scaffolds erected, inspected and struck across Southampton and the SO14 postcodes around it, from a single access tower to a full commercial elevation.
Southampton is dense city housing, street after street of Victorian and Edwardian terraces with narrow frontages, shared alleys and parked cars, so how a scaffold gets in and where the lorry stands is worked out before the design is. In practice most of what we are called out for around Southampton is terraced and semi-detached 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 Southampton (SO14) it is mostly terraced and semi-detached re-roofs, extension scaffolds and chimney access in tight city streets. Southampton is dense city housing, street after street of Victorian and Edwardian terraces with narrow frontages, shared alleys and parked cars, so how a scaffold gets in and where the lorry stands is worked out before the design is. 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. Southampton is where we are based, so there is no travel charge and a look at the job can usually be arranged within a day or two of you calling.
Yes. Southampton is home, so a look at a job here is usually a day or two away and coming back to alter something is never an issue. We are happy to talk through the kind of jobs we have done near Common when you call, and to explain how we would approach yours.
It is the main thing we look at. Terraced property in Southampton usually means no vehicle access to the rear, so tube, fittings and boards are carried through a side return or an alley, and the rear scaffold takes longer to erect than the front for that reason alone. It also means the neighbours need to know what is happening and, where the scaffold oversails a boundary, to have agreed to it. None of that is a problem when it is sorted in advance, and all of it is a problem on the morning.
Every enquiry gets a response and a date in the diary within 7 days. Most domestic jobs in Southampton 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 Southampton, 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 Southampton 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 Southampton, 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.