Thanks for the offer, a bit out of the way though! Any obvious things to look out for when getting quotes? What was the problem with the scaffolding?
Find out exactly what each is quoting to provide, make sure you agree processes for if things don't go to plan or changes are needed so you don't get any nasty surprises.
We had a few issues with the scaffolders. It was a bit complex because it was our side wall that needed repainting (over 100m2 of wall) , the situation is weird because although we are terraced, our house was built in 1904, and the house next door in the late 50s to replace bomb damaged houses, and the house next door only has about 25% of our depth and around half the height, so the scaffold for our house involved four lifts and going over the neighbours roof to gain full access to the side. It turned out the neighbours roof was essentially made of cheese, so what should have been a fairly simple job then turned into structural scaffolding to bridge over their roof. They were rude to our neighbours, damaged their roof causing leaks that couldn't be fixed until the scaffold was down, constructed the scaffold in such a way that it restricted our neighbours access to the front door and generally made it very difficult, especially after the work was finished (which included the unexpected re rendering, but taking the render off identified the root cause of the leaking, which was one of the roof beams for the previous next door had been rendered over after the war and had rotted, causing the wall to flex) it took them another 4 weeks to get the scaffold down and the roofers in to fix the damage, which ultimately only happened when I threatened to raise their multiple breaches of the code of the industry body they were accredited by to them and to the media, as well as threatening them with legal action. They did get it sorted in the end, but it was not a fun time, especially as it coincided with a death in the household just as we started it all.
