If you are in the painting and decorating trade and regularly paint the exterior of houses and wooden eaves for example, then buying a scaffold tower may well save you a lot of money in the long run – particularly if it is a mobile one.
Until now, you would have had to have hired out a team people to erect a scaffold tower that spanned the entire length of the building you were working – and that doesn’t come cheap. Now that mobile scaffold tower kits have been created, you can actually buy one of these and do the job yourself, saving you a lot of money and time whilst at the same time being much safer.. Available in kit form the scaffolding towers are more often than not made from aluminum, the aluminum is light enough for you to be able to transport the sections on your own. It is even light enough for you to assemble the tower on your own.
Being light is one thing but actually been able to assemble a scaffolding structure on your own was once only doable by a team of specialized people. It is no longer the case as aluminium scaffold towers have been well thought out so they can be assembled by just one person quickly and efficiently. They are almost foolproof to assemble so there is no danger you getting it wrong and working at height on incorrectly put together tower.
The feature that make the scaffold towers mobile it that on the base of their legs they have large casters, so although the tower may only be 2m wide if you’re working on a 10 m building or longer you will only need to descend from the tower 3 or 4 times at the most and wheel it along and then get back up it. It’s not like working on a ladder because you are able to leave all of your tools at the top of the tower what you move it. The time it takes you to assemble the tower will be got back by the fact you will only have to go up and down it a couple of times.
www.aluminium-scaffoldtower.com has much more information about using a scaffold tower safely outdoors, as there are some additional considerations to think about when working outside.
