Chimney scaffolding in Teesside

Teesside's most-needed small scaffold

The patch's terraces and semis carry chimneys by the thousand, and a century of weather works on them: eroded pointing, failed flashings, leaning stacks, pots that need cowls against the gulls and the driven rain. Every one of those repairs needs the worker level with the stack, hands free, both feet on a platform. That is what a chimney scaffold provides: a tower or a platform off the main roof slope, built to put the stack at chest height.

What the price covers

• The right configuration: a scaffold tower beside the stack, or a platform bridged across the roof slope, whichever the roof's pitch and the stack's position demand.
• Erection and dismantling: in the fixed price, by CISRS-card scaffolders, with roof protection where the structure bears on tiles or slates.
• Handover certificate and weekly inspections: standard on every structure, however small.
• Hire matched to the job: a repoint is days; a stack removal or a shared-stack rebuild runs longer, and the quote matches it.

What moves the price

Position is everything. A stack on a gable end beside flat ground is the £400 end: a tower goes straight up. A mid-roof stack on a mid-terrace, reached down a shared alley and bridged across a pitched roof, is the £600 to £700 end. Height and roof pitch add material and care. And on Teesside's terraces, access down the alley is priced honestly into the quote rather than discovered on the day.

Why not a ladder or a roof ladder?

Because the work takes hours or days, not minutes. Regulations aside, the practical truth is that chimney work done from a ladder is rushed work done badly: you cannot rake out and repoint a stack properly with one hand holding on. The do-I-need-scaffolding guide walks through where the line sits, and the cost guide puts the platform price next to the repair price, where it usually adds a modest fraction to the job.