Category Archives: Scaffold Towers

Guides and advice on hiring and using scaffold towers.

Stairwell scaffold tower set up over a domestic staircase, adjustable legs and base plates on the treads with a stabiliser fitted
How to Set Up a Scaffold Tower on Stairs

How to build a stairwell tower over a staircase: measuring, levelling the legs, the 3T [...]

Aluminium scaffold tower set up at gutter height on a two-storey house with an operative working from the platform
What Size Scaffold Tower Do I Need for a Two-Storey House?

For gutters and fascias on a typical two-storey house you need a 4.2m platform — [...]

Erected scaffold tower outside a London townhouse beside a garage of stacked tower sections being loaded into a van
Scaffold Tower Hire vs Buying: The Honest Comparison

We hire towers, so you know our angle upfront. Here is the comparison anyway — [...]

Operative fitting stabilisers to an aluminium scaffold tower on a commercial fit-out floor, wearing a helmet and hi-vis
Scaffold Tower Safety & Compliance: What Hirers Need to Know

Safe is not a feeling — it is a standard, a law, an inspection routine [...]

Depot staff member in a helmet and hi-vis showing a customer three scaffold towers of different heights set up outside a brick house
Which Scaffold Tower Do I Need?

Picking a scaffold tower is usually framed as a height question — "how high do [...]

Decorator painting a fascia board from the platform of an aluminium scaffold tower set up on the driveway of a bay fronted house, stabilisers out
Working Height vs Platform Height Explained

Every scaffold tower spec sheet lists two heights. On the Hireload range they look like [...]

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