Good afternoon!
I am working out a plan to set up frame scaffold at the front of my house but have a challenge that I haven’t run into on the other sides. I’m using Bil-Jax frame scaffold.
The front of my house has a concrete deck which is not wide enough to support two legs of the scaffold. The drop is about 4 feet – longer than the screw adjustable leveling legs. I cannot go right against the face of the house, either (which would give me enough room on the deck) because I need to bypass an overhanging bay window to get up to the eaves.
I have seen a setup before where someone set one level of scaffold up on the ground outside of the work area and then stepped the next level of scaffold to the work face. It seems to me that this might create a stress on the one side of the base scaffold.
I attached a photo of the house face and “step” off of the deck. (Well, I’m having trouble loading the photo… I’ll shrink it and follow up)
I’m aware of the power drop in the upper corner and will have it booted before installation.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks!
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Photo attached!
I found the photo I’m referring to of a stepped scaffold - where they have one set of legs bearing on the roof (or deck in my case) and one set on another frame on the ground. Though, they are bearing on a plank (!) which seems not safe. Let’s consider that they are connected right to the frame for my case!
Those scaffold frames come in heights from 2 ft to 6'6"
You should have no issues with a lower frame for the outside legs, and variable legs on your porch. (without the cobble of balancing on resting the upper on boards.
A local rental place should be able to help you out.
Thanks!
I already own 6’6” frames, 3 foot frames, and 4’6” frames. The 3’ frames with the adjustable legs would do the trick of getting me up to the porch level to step off and start up with the bigger 6’6” frames… I was unsure about making that jump up using short frames offset from the bigger frames. Though, it would make sense that as long as everything is level and plumb, there wouldn’t be any trouble.
I’ll reach out to the salesman tomorrow, too. I’ve set up frames going straight up, but never with an offset like this.
I appreciate the input! Thanks!
As long as each leg is supported, you should be fine.
For the legs setting on ground level, you probably want to spread the load under each leg with a board or similar to make sure it does not sink into the ground and send you for a ride.