Scaffolding - render residue

[Lincolnshire Ian]

Hi 

We are dismantling the scaffolding next week and are a little worried that we will be charged a "cleaning free". This hasn't been mentioned anywhere in our agreement with the scaffolding company, but our renderers have left a residue on many of the boards. We will do our best to clean the boards ourselves, but we don't want to get too vigorous and splash our lovely new render. 

If I get a fee, fair everything, but just wondering whether anyone else has encountered this. 

Thanks 

[Mr Punter]

No.  Unless there is an inch of render on the boards.  A lot of stuff comes off when they are flipped over.

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, Lincolnshire Ian said:

Hi 

We are dismantling the scaffolding next week and are a little worried that we will be charged a "cleaning free". This hasn't been mentioned anywhere in our agreement with the scaffolding company, but our renderers have left a residue on many of the boards. We will do our best to clean the boards ourselves, but we don't want to get too vigorous and splash our lovely new render. 

If I get a fee, fair everything, but just wondering whether anyone else has encountered this. 

Thanks 

Do NOT clean the boards off near your new render!!

 

Leave the Scaff guys take them down and they’ll just bang off the excess as they go. It’s another day in the office for them, so chill out   

[Lincolnshire Ian]

1 hour ago, Nickfromwales said:

Do NOT clean the boards off near your new render!!

 

Leave the Scaff guys take them down and they’ll just bang off the excess as they go. It’s another day in the office for them, so chill out   

I love the capital NOT 😊. 

We'll just leave it. 

[Nickfromwales]

12 minutes ago, Lincolnshire Ian said:

I love the capital NOT 😊. 

We'll just leave it. 

It’s how us Welsh folk emphasise.   

 

I see lots of kind people feck a good job up by doing something daft. 
 

So please DON’T feck anything up  

[marshian]

As the scaffold boys drop the boards down you can take the worst off easily with one of these

 

https://www.screwfix.com/p/magnusson-floor-scraper-8-/110PR?tc=JB4

[Post and beam]

I was worried about exactly the same issue last year when our scaffold was ready to come down. The brickies particularly had left loads of red dust and crap all over the boards. other stuff as well.

The boards looked horrendous.

As Nick says, the scaffolders just expect it and knock the worst off anyway.

[Nickfromwales]

1 hour ago, marshian said:

As the scaffold boys drop the boards down you can take the worst off easily with one of these

 

https://www.screwfix.com/p/magnusson-floor-scraper-8-/110PR?tc=JB4

You’d get get beaten up by the scaffolders, if you asked them to wait whilst you scraped off each board! 🤣

[Lincolnshire Ian]

Update on the render mess all over the scaffolding. As suggested, the scaffolders were pretty chilled.

I helped things along with a pack of beer each and everyone was happy 😊