Falmouth gives you three different scaffolding jobs inside one town. A trading street with no ground of your own to stand on, hill terraces where the levels decide the build, and anything facing the water taking salt off the estuary. We settle which one yours is before we price it.
Falmouth is about 28 miles from our yard in Penzance, the best part of an hour with a loaded wagon, so we run it as planned work rather than a call-out.
The whole town tips towards the estuary. The main street runs the length of the waterfront and changes name as it goes, High Street into Market Street, then Church Street and Arwenack Street. Buildings sit hard on the pavement with the opes dropping away to the water behind them, so there is rarely ground of your own to build off, and a trading shopfront sits under nearly every elevation worth reaching.
Behind it the ground climbs steeply. The terraces on Killigrew Street and Wodehouse Terrace stand on a slope where levels matter more than lift heights, and much of that stock is let or converted.
Then the exposure. Anything facing the estuary or the seafront at Gyllyngvase takes salt-laden wind off the water all year, and that decides ties and sheeting before we get near the height.
Re-roofs, rendering, window and roofline work on the hill terraces off Killigrew Street and Wodehouse Terrace, levelled off the slope rather than packed up on the day.
Shops, cafes, hotels and managed premises along Church Street, Market Street and Arwenack Street, with gantries and fans where the public keeps walking underneath. Premises at the port end run their own inductions and permits, and we work to whatever the site requires.
A fully covered deck so a strip on an estuary-facing roof carries on instead of waiting for a dry week.
Supplied, erected, maintained and struck by us, for builders and maintenance contractors working the rented stock.
Stack access on terraces with no ground to build off.
Subcontract access for conservation builders on the listed waterfront.
We quote the strike date, not just the startFalmouth work sits mostly in let and converted property, so the week the scaffold comes off matters as much as the week it goes up. Both are in the quote.
£10m public liabilityTwice the £5m a managing agent or a hotel group normally asks to see.
Ties specified for estuary airSalt reaches render, pointing and timber long before it reaches the roof, so what we fix into gets checked before the tie plan is drawn.
The way in is walked firstWhere a frontage gives nothing, access comes off the ope or the back, and that route is priced rather than discovered.
Down on the main street it is a frontage job, where the licence and the walkway underneath take more planning than the lifts. Up the hill it is a converted or rented terrace, levelled off a slope and struck the week the tenancy turns. On the seafront it is an elevation eaten by salt, sheeted for wind rather than tidiness.
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Honestly couldn't recommend JJ Cornwall Scaffolding enough. I’ve used these guys since they first started and have never had a single problem. They tackle everything from awkward little jobs to bigger projects with the same high standard of work. Great prices and a top notch crew. If you need scaffolding, give them a call. A few examples of the work for me.
Read more on GoogleAbsolutely fabulous company. Very trustworthy and hardworking. Can highly recommend. Jordan James the owner is 5*
Read more on GoogleUsed JJ scaffolding a load of times. Always put up exactly what I need for the job, exactly when he said it would go up and informs me of whats happening and when its done. Very friendly bunch of guys
Read more on GoogleAbsolutely amazing service, these guys are the height of professional and we could not recommend them enough. They arrived on time, got straight onto the job and have been utterly understanding of time limits. These guys go above and beyond to help. It's hugely appreciated, thank you.
Read more on GoogleFalmouth sits at the end of a run we make every week.
Tell us the address, the elevation you need reached and the date your other trades are working to. You get a written quote with the scope on it, both ends of the job dated, and the highway licence applied for by us.
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Penzance, Cornwall
Phone: 07984 611533
Email: jjcornwallscaffolding@gmail.com
Hours: Open 8am to 7pm, seven days