I think I’ve already got my suspicions….. But hear me out and give me some ideas on how to protect myself…..
In the next few weeks I’m going to want to scaffold half the rear of my house in preparation for me to loft convert. Being a miser, I don’t want to pay for hire, so like I often do, I buy 2nd hand, use, then sell for what I bought it for - free hire in my book.
Can’t be doing with a crappy tower. Need proper scaffold to work off. Hard to find on fleabay and scumtree, but some has come up on scumtree. Exactly what I need. Not too big, perfect height and width.
The photo is of the scaffold in place on a house in Stoke, an hour from me. The chap wants £500 for it. Buyer to dismantle. So, I’m ok with that. Will do me a favour as I have to put it back up and never done it before.
So my predicament is this. What’s to stop some scum bag just taking a photo of some scaffold at an empty house, meeting me there, taking my money, then leaving me to steal the scaffold and possibly get the sh1t kicked out of me by an angry mob of scaffolders? How would you verify this is legit? In an ideal world the homeowner will greet me at the door and all will feel legit. Got a feeling this isn’t going to happen.
Scaffold is hard to come by. That’s why I’m entertaining this. Thoughts?
In the next few weeks I’m going to want to scaffold half the rear of my house in preparation for me to loft convert. Being a miser, I don’t want to pay for hire, so like I often do, I buy 2nd hand, use, then sell for what I bought it for - free hire in my book.
Can’t be doing with a crappy tower. Need proper scaffold to work off. Hard to find on fleabay and scumtree, but some has come up on scumtree. Exactly what I need. Not too big, perfect height and width.
The photo is of the scaffold in place on a house in Stoke, an hour from me. The chap wants £500 for it. Buyer to dismantle. So, I’m ok with that. Will do me a favour as I have to put it back up and never done it before.
So my predicament is this. What’s to stop some scum bag just taking a photo of some scaffold at an empty house, meeting me there, taking my money, then leaving me to steal the scaffold and possibly get the sh1t kicked out of me by an angry mob of scaffolders? How would you verify this is legit? In an ideal world the homeowner will greet me at the door and all will feel legit. Got a feeling this isn’t going to happen.
Scaffold is hard to come by. That’s why I’m entertaining this. Thoughts?