where to buy crappy old scaffold boards around notts
Gazz
anyone know where i can buy them really really cheaply? preferably ones that
can no longer be used for scaffolding, i.e. failed/rejected boards, grade C
boards or what ever,
around nottingham/derby way is ideal, 6 foot boards are fine, tho 9 footers
would be ideal.
John Williamson
Your local scaffolders out of Yellow Pages?
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Andrew Mawson
"Gazz" <n...@spam.ta> wrote in message news:j0uap8$9jn$1...@dont-email.me...
I went looking when I needed some for my pig run. Cheapest I found was
�13 each, but I could buy new ones for �14 from the local builders
merchant so no brainer really!
AWEM
Kevin Poole
> need to make a quick simple shed, and best thing would be scaffold boards,
>
> anyone know where i can buy them really really cheaply?
Fletchers at Spondon? Across the road from Spondon station.
They started off selling mainly reclaimed timber, but while they're more
into new timber and "architectural salvage" these days, they may just
have something. They sometimes have s/h roofing sheets and ply sheets -
a possible alternative?
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Kevin Poole
GB
> ones that can no longer be used for scaffolding, i.e. failed/rejected
> boards
Can I just ask what sfeguards there are. I'm a total, utter wimp when it
comes to heights, and I always terat every scaffold board like it's about to
break. Are they, actually, tested in some way? Is there an inspectorate of
scaffolders or summat?
Gazz
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apparantly the boards are inspected visually or mechanicaly, and thus have a
letter V or M stamped on the ends, with a date or something i presume,
they are also graded when in use it seems, A and B grade, but what that
means i dunno.... maybe A grade is for the gaffer to use at the top of a
church spire, B grade is for the yts kids who are cheaper to replace :)
i've read C grade is not allowed to be used for scaffolding boards, but i
guess could be used for kick boards to stop builders feet knocking a tool
box off and onto the heads of the old ladies at the bus stop below.
i want the really shitty ones that no self respecting scaffolder would have
on his van, let alone use, as they are not going to be structural at all,
just cladding.
i'll try the reclamation yard mentioned above when i'm next over that way,
and i did find the few places selling used boards wanted pennies less than
new ones, and were not talking the ones that have been run through a planer,
the straight off the site, caked in concrete, dog shit, snot and hockle.
Andrew Gabriel
Boards have to conform to the relevant BS, and must have a label on
both ends, to show they haven't been cut shorter after certification.
Failed boards have to have the labels removed, so they can't be used
on the scaffolding. Often, they are cut up to make load spreaders for
the feet on soil.
I bought some from a builder's merchant and wanted them cut to a
specific length. They refused unless they cut the labeled ends off
first, to make it clear they were no longer scaffold boards.
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andyv
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I got some last year from Brent Scaffold Boards at Breighton near
Selby. OK not handy for Nottingham. These were brand new clean timbers
13ft long but unsuitable for scaffolding and they had lots. Only £6
each. I got 20 and made some raised beds for the garden with them.