Scaffold Hire Guide: Five Tips When Buying Scaffolding in the UK
Deciding to invest in buying scaffolding, is an investment on equipment that does require costs up-front – however will provide long-term savings.
Scaffolding to many, is just a mass of metal used when construction or repair work is required.
Scaffolding is in fact one of the most utilized and one of the most valuable assets to almost all types of construction. Given that being the case, you’d imagine finding decent scaffolding to buy at a decent price wouldn’t be such a hard task.
In most cases it’s not, it’s a lot easier to buy scaffolding that it is to hire it; no hire terms and no return timeline for a start.
What to Look for When Buying Scaffolding
The modern day world we live thrives on an online world that never stops, filled with scaffolding for sale from every corner of the world.
Some sources are of sound supply, reputable and legitimate. With other sources simply selling cheap, untested, unsafe scaffolding – unable to support its history or provide any essential details.
There are countless, reputable scaffolding manufacturers and scaffolding suppliers offering structurally sound scaffolding for sale, new, secondhand and refurbished. The way the world is, it has became extremely hard to identify purely through a website, whether a source is reputable or better avoided.
The only fail safe to ensure the source of your scaffolding investment is reputable is by doing your homework and asking the essential following five questions.
Top Five Tips When Buying Scaffolding
When seeking scaffolding to buy, generally customers have the mindset of seeing their scaffolding purchase as a long term business investment.
- What scaffolding safety standards does the system conform to?
- Are there any records of repairs or refurbishment to the system for sale, if used or secondhand?
- What date was the scaffolding system for sale manufactured and by whom?
- Where was the scaffolding system for sale manufactured?
- When was the advertised scaffolding for sale last tested and by whom?
Make sure you take time to search through online listings, take advice from others on reputable scaffolding manufacturers and suppliers they know of. Also make sure, it’s not just the sale of scaffolding the supplier is interested in, ensure you have future support, should you need it.
In Summary
Make sure the top five essential buyer’s questions have been asked and answered – before purchasing scaffolding intended for others to work on and be in proximity to.
If you’d like more details on the wide range of scaffolding supplies and scaffolding systems available for hire and sale, or to discuss new scaffolding for sale, used or refurbished scaffolding for sale, contact Scaffold Services Scotland on – 0141 779 2861 or email us at – info@scaffoldservices.scot