I need quite a lot of work doing on the first storey of the house (fascias & soffits, render repair, painting) and it seems few if any tradespeople have their own working platform and need to buy-in scaffolding.
I don't know if this is a "nice little earner" or not, but it struck me that for around £300 I could buy an adequate working platform/tower and save on costs AND also have it available for the jobs I'd prefer not to do dangling from a ladder.
I won't post a link to the tower I was looking at on ebay as I guess that's not allowed, but it's less than £275 for a 4' x 2'6 x 22' galvanised steel tower. 2'6 is the absolute maximum width I have at one side of the house (a 10m stretch).
Is there any reason to think a tradesman wouldn't work from something like that? He'd probably weigh a bit less than my 27st, too!
I don't know if this is a "nice little earner" or not, but it struck me that for around £300 I could buy an adequate working platform/tower and save on costs AND also have it available for the jobs I'd prefer not to do dangling from a ladder.
I won't post a link to the tower I was looking at on ebay as I guess that's not allowed, but it's less than £275 for a 4' x 2'6 x 22' galvanised steel tower. 2'6 is the absolute maximum width I have at one side of the house (a 10m stretch).
Is there any reason to think a tradesman wouldn't work from something like that? He'd probably weigh a bit less than my 27st, too!