Scaffolders turned up today to put up scaffolding for my loft conversion. As my flat is on the first floor, I had to make arrangements with the owners of the ground floor flat to erect scaffolding. To be honest, it was a bit of a nightmare.
According to the lease terms, I had to give them four weeks’ notice to request access to their property. I had my builders booked in for October, so I contacted the guys downstairs at the beginning of September. However, I found that they were going on holiday for two weeks in early October so the earliest day for scaffolding would be 16th October.
My builders then suggested erecting scaffolding at the front beforehand and then at the back on 16th so they could start work without waiting until 16th. A few weeks later, the owners of the ground floor flat told me that they postponed their holiday so the scaffolding could be erected on 2nd October if the scaffolders could finish by 2pm.
Scaffolders are usually unreliable and might not even turn up on the day, so my builders decided to have scaffolders erect the scaffolding without access to the ground floor flat. I was unsure how they were going to do it…
Anyway, scaffolding was finally arranged for 5th October but at the last minute was postponed until 8th, so today was the day.
Scaffolders turned up at 11.30 am.
Scaffolders were really quick and after 90 mins my flat looked like this. They did a good job!
They are coming back next week to install scaffolding at the rear of the property. I still don’t know how they are going to do it but we’ll see…