Roof scaffolding

[phil1963]

A builder came to look at damp between mine and my neighbour's Victorian houses recently - his pal hastily erected scaffolding to look for the damp. A crack was found in our chimney and he called Building Control in and then gave us a quote for a re-build of the chimney (£2,500). My neighbour has a builder pal who was then invited to do the job as he said that only the rendering needed doing and a few bricks replacing and did the job for half the price and the Building Control gent was happy with his work.
The original builder has failed to reply to texts/phone calls to ask his pal to dismantle the scaffolding so what options have I got open to me to get the scaffolding down if he continues to ignore texts etc? Would another scaffolding company dismantle work put up by another?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

No I doubt any other scaffold company would touch it, they all know each other, probably find you (or your neighbour) are being charged for it too(if that wasn't obvious), sounds like a right dodgy scam. More reading here though: http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1725473#1725473 Often there are tags on the scaffold and do they show the company name?

 

[SASroofer]

Hire a long wheel based truck, take it down and scrap it.

 

[RedHerring2]

Hire a long wheel based truck, take it down and scrap it.

If you're going to take it down yourself, save yourself the cost of the truck hire and put it on fleaBay, buyer to collect.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Out of interest, did the neighbours builder use the scaffolding to access the roof? Your builder might even charge you/neighbour for usage.

Andy

 

[expertgasman]

[quote="phil1963";p="2001931"]A builder came to look at damp between mine and my neighbour's Victorian

Has he invoiced for the investigation?

 

[phil1963]

No, no invoice received yet.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Can we have an update please.

Andy

 

[phil1963]

Under duress and following some rude texts from the builder, he gave me the name of the scaffolders (but not their ph number) and after much detective work, I found them and on payment they took it down this week within two days. Looks like had I not paid them I could have got some travellers to take it down as they'd forgotten they'd erected it!

 

[roofers]

If you thought that scaffolding was used simply in the construction business to allow access to buildings and enable those working on the exterior of a building to complete their jobs then you may need to think again. There are many other uses of this clever system of tubes, including temporary roof scaffolding.