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Straight answers to what a scaffolding yard actually asks, with the law or the guidance named and dated underneath.
What actually drives the price of a scaffold?
Five things: how much scaffold it is, how long it stands, the man days to put it up and pull it down, the loads to get it there and back, and the extras that catch people out.
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Do I have to give a handover certificate, and what goes on it?
No law makes you issue one. NASC guidance recommends it once a competent person has inspected the scaffold, and most principal contractors will not let anyone on the boards without it. What the law does require is the inspection, the written report of it, and physical evidence of that inspection going with the scaffold to the client.
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How often does a scaffold have to be inspected, and who by?
Before first use, then the seven day rule, and again after weather or an alteration. Who has to do it, who is competent, and what the record and the report must hold.
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Do I need a design for this, or will a TG20 sheet do?
A TG20 compliance sheet says a tube and fitting scaffold is one of NASC's standard configurations, so it needs no design of its own. What it covers, what does the same for system scaffold, when a bespoke design is needed instead, and what a yard has to keep.
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See a day on it
Cards out to your team, the team signing in on their own phones, the job going up and coming down, the hire, and the invoice.