An aluminium tower on locking castors, for gutters, fascias, soffits, ceilings, first-floor windows and anything else that takes longer than a couple of minutes. You get a platform with guard rails to stand and work on rather than a ladder to balance on, and it rolls to the next bay when that bit is done.
The reason to hire one is rarely height on its own. It is time. Ten minutes up a ladder is a ladder job. Half a day of cutting in, boarding or fascia work with tools in both hands is a tower job, and the difference shows up in how tired you are by three o clock as much as in how safe it is.
Getting it to the job
It comes apart into frames, braces and boards, so it goes through a standard doorway and up a staircase in pieces. Built up it is wider than that, so if you need to move it assembled through a gate or an entry, measure the gap and tell us when you book.
A van or an estate with the seats down will take it. If you are working inside, take it in as components and build it in the room rather than trying to walk a built tower through the house.
The numbers
Scaffold Tower specification
Platform0.0m or 1.35 m
BuildAluminium
Hire typeDry hire
Getting it to the job
Carried in by hand, so access is not the question it is with the plant.
It still has to get to site: collect it from the yard in Etruria, or we will run it out with the rest of your hire.
The rest of the sheet
Getting it there
Collect or delivered
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Checked over between every hire
The full set: guard rails and toe boards
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
Firm, level ground to stand it on
Two of you to build it, and someone who has done it before
Boots and gloves, and a head for the last lift
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the scaffold tower goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
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Gutters, fascias and soffits
A full run of guttering off a ladder means coming down and moving it every metre. Off a tower you work a bay at a time with both hands free.
02/ 06
Ceilings and plasterboarding
Boarding, taping and skimming overhead all take two hands and a lot of looking up. A platform makes it a job rather than an ordeal.
03/ 06
Painting and rendering
Cutting in at first-floor level, painting render or treating timber, where you want to keep a wet edge along a whole wall rather than in ladder-width sections.
04/ 06
First-floor windows
Repairs, sealing and replacement where you need tools, a sealant gun and somewhere to put them down.
05/ 06
Loft and roof edge access
Getting into a loft hatch from outside, or working at the roof edge where a ladder would be leaning on the very thing you are trying to fix.
06/ 06
Warehouse and unit work
Lighting, ducting and racking inside a unit, where the castors mean you move along the run without dismantling anything.
How it works
Hiring the scaffold tower start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Scaffold Tower, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
Ground first, tower second
It wants firm and level. Soft ground, a slope or a soft spot under one castor is how towers go over. Sort the standing before you start building, not once you are halfway up.
02
Lock the castors every time you stop
All of them, every time, before anybody climbs. The whole point of castors is that it moves easily, which is exactly the problem if you forget.
03
Climb up the inside
Never up the outside of the frame. Pulling on the outside is what tips a tower, and the frames are built to be climbed from within.
04
Nobody rides it
Get off, move it, get back on. Moving a tower with someone or something on the platform is how people end up in an ambulance.
05
Guard rails and toe boards go on
They come with it and they are not optional decoration. Toe boards are what stop a dropped tool becoming somebody else is problem.
06
Know what you are building
Towers are built to a sequence and there is a right way to do it. If you have never put one up, say so when you ring and we will talk you through what you are getting.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
It builds to the height you need rather than to one fixed figure, and the platform comes 0.7m or 1.35m wide. Tell us what you are reaching when you ring and we will tell you honestly whether it gets there.
There is a right sequence to building one and it is worth knowing it. We will build it for you if you would rather, or talk it through if you are putting it up yourself. Either way, say when you book rather than working it out on site.
Not unless you want to. We will build it, or you can, and it is a two person job either way: the frames are light enough on their own, but lifting and locating them at height alone is where people come unstuck.
In pieces, usually, with the seats down. A van or estate is easier. If you would rather not, we will deliver it.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the scaffold tower is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
