Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding?

   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding?
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#91  
Today I had to take down a section of scaffolding where I had been repairing a rotten fascia board. It was three frames high with a guardrail. Standing level 16 feet off of the ground. I used a rope for the guardrail and the top frame, then the other two frames I got from the ground. One trip up the scaffold and one trip down.

I timed myself: 22 minutes to get everything on the ground.
This is the kind of info I like - thank you for doing the timing!!! 😁👍
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding? #92  
I'm up 4 sections and will only setup and break down once while I paint the front of my house, my scaffolding is on wheels. Less than 30 minutes of build time, and only 2 minutes to unlock the wheels and move it over 8'. When I get over 3 sections high I tie off an extension ladder to the stack, it's an effective outrigger. The wobble is minimum.
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding?
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#93  
I'm up 4 sections and will only setup and break down once while I paint the front of my house, my scaffolding is on wheels. Less than 30 minutes of build time, and only 2 minutes to unlock the wheels and move it over 8'. When I get over 3 sections high I tie off an extension ladder to the stack, it's an effective outrigger. The wobble is minimum.
Thank you!
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding? #94  
Today I had to take down a section of scaffolding where I had been repairing a rotten fascia board. It was three frames high with a guardrail. Standing level 16 feet off of the ground. I used a rope for the guardrail and the top frame, then the other two frames I got from the ground. One trip up the scaffold and one trip down.

I timed myself: 22 minutes to get everything on the ground.
OK, another update: today I set up the scaffolding to get up on the roof of the barn to fix a loose shingle. I timed myself, it was 34 minutes to set up three sections plus guardrails. Just getting the bottom section level and set was 14 minutes, from there the rest goes faster. This is as tall as I go without using a rope -- 16 foot standing level -- it is slower if you have to use a rope.

So figure on an hour to set it up and tear it down at that height.
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding? #95  
I have a dozen sections of scaffolding, and stain at least one side of my 2 story house every summer. I'd love to rent a lift, but I don't want to paint 8 hours a day, for a week, because the meter is running on the rental. I leave the scaffolding up for 3 - 4 weeks and take my time. Scrape, wire brush, catch the loose nails, set a few screws, recaulk, two coats of stain, then two coats of on the trim and then spot check/stain all my drips......

With the scaffolding I can work for an hour or for a complete day, there's no rush to get the rental out the door. I go through 6 - 24 gallons of stain a year, depending on how much I get done. We have a big house with an attached garage as well as a 3 bay detached shop/garage.
For planks, I use 8' 2x10 with a 2x4 stringer screwed to the underside to stiffen and prevent the plank from sliding off the scaffolding rails. I'll set 4 at different heights so I don't have to move planks while I'm painting.
Sounds like a good job for an airless sprayer
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding?
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#96  
What I am looking at getting, now that I have more info, and this will be x2 so I can set up two towers to straddle our 8x6 entryway vestibule on the other end of the house with a stage between them:

three 5’ walk-through section
one 3’ section
top guardrails
standoff arms to attach to the house
multiple floor panels
two long (12’) stages to put between the towers
leveling feet

what am I forgetting?

thank you!
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding? #97  
What I am looking at getting, now that I have more info, and this will be x2 so I can set up two towers to straddle our 8x6 entryway vestibule on the other end of the house with a stage between them:

three 5’ walk-through section
one 3’ section
top guardrails
standoff arms to attach to the house
multiple floor panels
two long (12’) stages to put between the towers
leveling feet

what am I forgetting?

thank you!
What I found most cost-effective was to start with a tower package and accessorize it. This is the one I started with:
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding?
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#98  
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding? #99  
What I am looking at getting, now that I have more info, and this will be x2 so I can set up two towers to straddle our 8x6 entryway vestibule on the other end of the house with a stage between them:

three 5’ walk-through section
one 3’ section
top guardrails
standoff arms to attach to the house
multiple floor panels
two long (12’) stages to put between the towers
leveling feet

what am I forgetting?

thank you!
Don't forget the pigtails to tie the sections together. The way I read this is that you plan to have an 18' tower with the guard rails at the top. You'll need 16 pig tails for each tower.
 
   / Is anyone here familiar with scaffolding? #100  
Yeah - that is what I was looking at, but adding in the two 3-ft extensions for the very to for the highest part of the house.
The hard part about this is trying to think of every use scenario. That sounds like a good setup, but let me throw out two thoughts:

First, there is a certain usefulness to having all of your frames the same size, that way they're interchangeable. The three-footers aren't that much lighter or cheaper than the five-footers, it might be more useful to get a five foot frame instead of the three-footer. The three-footers also aren't walk-through, so if you're working side-to-side you have to go down a level and go back up to go sideways.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, as the lawyers say, I sometimes wish I had some 6.5 foot frames for the bottom two rows. When you've got your feet on solid ground the bigger frames aren't any harder to handle, and you get up 13 feet without leaving the ground. If your bottom two frames were 6.5 feet you wouldn't need the extra three feet. At ground level the 5' frames are kind of a pain because you have to duck to go through them.
 

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