1/19/2024 0 Comments Homemade hanging scaffold![]() The first 9 feet of the house was scraped and primed using a small folding rolling scaffold we picked up at Canadian Tire (see image 1).Īfter a trip to a Home Hardware lumber store (to purchase select #1 structural timber) in town, I got to work putting up the scaffolding. Moreover, I have plans to recycle the wood once the project is complete. The wood can easily be moved to the other side of the house and timing is not an issue. ![]() I was able to cover the entire side of the house for under $300.00. And, if the entire gable end was to be covered, it would be triple that cost. For just a single 7-foot wide section to reach up 15 feet (with casters to move the whole works), it priced out at $1,240.55. You see, this is the point of this article: not everybody is working on their house on a full-time basis we certainly cannot afford the time, and therefore we would need at least a two-month rental (one month on one side and another month on the opposite side).Īnother option is to buy metal scaffolding. The cost was $866.40 (including tax, delivered) for two months of rental. We first called around for the cost of renting metal scaffolding that would run across the gable end of the house (24 feet) to a 15-foot level of grade. During the restoration of our Old Home Living House One project in Brantford, the decision was made to erect scaffolding in order, to use an infrared paint stripper to remove the paint wholesale from the ends of the side gables, with old knock-knees here caulking, priming, painting and installing new rake frieze and trim. The following week I erected wooden scaffolding that towered some 75 feet from the pavement below. ![]() During my 45-minute wait for the fire brigade, I had the chance to contemplate my existence, while rotating on my safety line a slow 360-degree view of downtown Sydney was my sole companion.įrom that day forward, I have never trusted metal scaffolding again. I was left dangling from my safety harness (I have always opted to be attached to the building and not the scaffolding– smart in retrospect) with the line wrapped around my neck and under my armpit with me holding on for dear life so as not to hang myself. In the early 1990’s, I had an incident in Sydney, Australia while working on a large-scale restoration where a huge, high metal scaffold collapsed under me while I was inspecting some column capitals my apprentices and I had restored. Since I have reached the 40- something era in my life, I find my knees knocking together on a six-foot stepladder. When I was young and foolish, I would climb ladders and walk ridgepoles on three-and four-storey houses without a care and without fear. ![]()
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