Left scaffolding!

[NuttyBetty]

A roofer came and did some simple work a month ago but we are still left with scaffolding! He contracted out scaffolding work and seems to be having trouble getting hold of them. Very annoying! Apart from keeping chasing him about it, what else can we do?

Give them x weeks notice and if they don't respond sell it on Ebay?

is there a sign or label hanging or stuck on it, with the scaffolders name?

The materials are quite cheap now, and I find scaffolders seem to charge, for a domestic job, based on the effort of putting it up and taking it down, and not care about any overrun on the planned time. Perhaps they've gone on holiday.

Some scaffolding companies deliberately leave scaffolding up until they need to erect it somewhere else instead. They're basically using your house as a storage facility

As BreakfastAtSquiffanys says this happened to us, it probably won't move until they need it next.

Yes to Breakfast's post. We had scaffolding up for ages, so took the opportunity to paint the rendering. Fortunately we finished painting before they wanted their scaffolding back.

Thanks for all the replies. They finally came today and took it down. What a relief and what an ordeal it was! Our roofer feared that we were going to leave a bad review on him so he in turn threatened the scaffolder with a bad review, which seemed to have worked.

Good to hear that it is gone. I worry about the security aspect of having scaffolding up as I like first floor windows open.

Aaaargh! I searched on 'scaffolding' because I have exactly this problem. I thought I would be the only one; I didn't realise so many do it.

My lovely neighbour (even more lovely because we had a NFH there before her) has had work done & we agreed to have scaffolding supports all down one side of our garden. It's still there & it's becoming a pain as we can't continue renovating the borders on that side, can't use the fire pit, etc, quite apart from the facts that (a) nobody wants to look at scaffolding 24/7 & (b) I feel the scaffolders are taking the piss now, as they've been back twice to take the bits they need for another job but wouldn't give me a date to remove the rest, & they don't tell my neighbour what's going on at all.

WIBU to contact the scaffolders myself, ask them to remove it at once & say if they don't I'm charging them storage fees of £100 a day backdated to when the work finished?

Or can we hire someone else to remove it? What sort of company does that work?

I've pointed out that they need me to unlock the gate so they can access the garden so I need to know when they're coming. I just got a smile & a shrug.

Ring them and tell them it's going on ebay tomorrow

Nice idea, thanks, but I'm mindful of the saying, 'Never make a threat or a promise you don't intend to carry out'.