External cladding top half of house

[Steted21]

So our house has now had a large side and rear double storey extension build in blockwork the roof is on and windows about to go in. The external finish is to be cladding on the top half of the house and render on the bottom half. The renderer has been around and said as its quite a big job and theres some work to finish on the lower part of the house externally to do it next year. But the question is we have the whole house wrapped in scaffold at the min up to roof and gable height we aren't likely to do the outside cladding now until next year also but is it worth putting all the batten on the top part of the house now whilst I have the full scaffold up and leave the battens on through winter? The scaffolder is ready to take the scaffold down from the full wrap. we have a scaffold tower that we will be using next year to install the cladding so would it be much different to install the batten and cladding from tower or are people's opinions to get the battens up now? We are going to be using a cement based cladding board for the house

 

[^woody^]

I'm out of breath.

Is the question battens on house or battens on scaffold?

 

[kp00110]

Why not keep scaffolding up? Cost will pay for itself doing render and cladding much more efficiently and safely in the new year

 

[noseall]

. The external finish is to be cladding on the top half of the house

Cedralcream2

• noseall
• 26 Sep 2019

Cedralcream1

• noseall
• 26 Sep 2019

Cedral

• noseall
• 24 Oct 2019

Cedral2

• noseall
• 24 Oct 2019

Porcha

• noseall
• 26 Oct 2019

 

[^woody^]

Cedralcream2

• noseall
• 26 Sep 2019

Cedralcream1

• noseall
• 26 Sep 2019

Cedral

• noseall
• 24 Oct 2019

Cedral2

• noseall
• 24 Oct 2019

Porcha

• noseall
• 26 Oct 2019

That house will give me nightmares now. It's weird.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

From personal experience it is far easier to install cladding from continuous scaffolding than from towers (and doing it from a cherry picker is my idea of hell). The biggest towers are only 8ft (2.4m) long, but the cladding is often far longer than that, which then means two towers and possibly Youngman boards as well.

 

[noseall]

That house will give me nightmares now. It's weird.

It was even more weird with pockets of crappy white cladding randomly adorning dormers and gables. Not the nicest looking house to begin with.

 

[mrrusty]

You'll have fun with 3.6m lengths of bendy and snappable cement board cladding off towers.....

 

[noseall]

That house will give me nightmares now. It's weird.

Before and after. You'll see what I mean about the white splatter...

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• noseall
• 30 Nov 2022

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• noseall
• 30 Nov 2022

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Its a massive improvement, you guys keep to the building, leave the designing to others eh?

 

[Notch7]

So our house has now had a large side and rear double storey extension build in blockwork the roof is on and windows about to go in. The external finish is to be cladding on the top half of the house and render on the bottom half. The renderer has been around and said as its quite a big job and theres some work to finish on the lower part of the house externally to do it next year. But the question is we have the whole house wrapped in scaffold at the min up to roof and gable height we aren't likely to do the outside cladding now until next year also but is it worth putting all the batten on the top part of the house now whilst I have the full scaffold up and leave the battens on through winter? The scaffolder is ready to take the scaffold down from the full wrap. we have a scaffold tower that we will be using next year to install the cladding so would it be much different to install the batten and cladding from tower or are people's opinions to get the battens up now? We are going to be using a cement based cladding board for the house

cant you use the existing scaffold to do the cladding?
usually poles in the way can be moved