Tall Victorian frontages on a street that falls away under you, and open high ground above the town that takes the wind first. Both change how a scaffold is built. We work Redruth from our Penzance yard, with the scope and the price in writing before it starts.
Redruth is around half an hour from our yard, a few minutes further along the A30 than Camborne, and it is ground our gangs are on most weeks.
Two things about the town change the job. The first is height. Fore Street and the West End carry three-storey Victorian and late-Georgian frontages, most of them shop or office at street level with flats stacked above, on a street that falls sharply as it runs. A scaffold there is more lifts than a domestic job, it needs a base stepped and levelled to the fall, and it usually needs a pedestrian gantry so the business underneath stays open.
The second is exposure. Carn Brea stands over the town, and the ground climbing towards it through Carnkie, Treleigh and Trewirgie sits high and open. Sheeting up there behaves like a sail, so the tie schedule and whether we sheet at all are decided by the elevation and the season, not by habit.
Below that, Illogan and Pool are steadier ground: terraced cottages, semis and estate housing with somewhere sensible to put a base plate.
Fore Street and West End frontages, with a pedestrian gantry or protective fan so the shop below trades and the flats above stay reachable. RAMS and TG20 documentation supplied, and erection outside trading hours where that suits.
Re-roofs, rendering, chimney work and repointing on the terraces, cottages and semis through Illogan, Pool, Treleigh and Trewirgie. Ground protection agreed before the first plate goes down.
On the high ground above the town an open roof waits on the weather more often than it does in a sheltered valley. A covered deck keeps a re-roof moving.
Supply and erect for builders, roofers and main contractors working the Redruth and Pool corridor, for an agreed hire period with the terms in writing.
Redruth has a great deal of protected building fabric. We take conservation and listed work as a specialist subcontractor to restoration contractors and conservation builders.
Structural experience, not just domesticJordan's experience includes work at South Crofty tin mine, on the Pool side of Redruth, along with the Dawlish rail reconstruction and Hayle viaduct. That is the background that decides how a three-storey frontage on a falling street gets designed, and it is unusual in a firm that will also come and scaffold your chimney.
Built for the exposure, not in spite of itTie schedules and sheeting are specified for the elevation you actually have, which on the ground below Carn Brea is not the same specification as a sheltered street in town.
TG20 and SG4, £10m public liabilityDouble the £5m most contracts ask for, which clears main contractor and managing agent requirements without a conversation.
Written quote before any work startsScope on paper. Any change priced and confirmed in writing before it happens.
Redruth work splits in two. In the town centre it is commercial and mixed-use: multi-lift access to Victorian frontages, gantries to keep shopfronts open, and work programmed around trading hours.
Out towards Illogan, Carnkie and Lanner it is domestic: re-roofs, chimney stacks, render and window jobs on exposed cottages and terraces. The one that spans both is the temporary roof, because on high ground the weather decides the programme unless you take that decision away from it.
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Read more on GoogleRedruth sits in the middle of our patch, so most weeks we are either side of it.
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Penzance, Cornwall
Phone: 07984 611533
Email: jjcornwallscaffolding@gmail.com
Hours: Open 8am to 7pm, seven days