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Posted By Lee Mac
Morning All,
Can anyone shed any light on the recommended distance to site scaffolding from a building? In otherwords what is the recommended gap between scafolding and a building?
Thanks,
Lee
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Posted By Homer
Legally it should be less than width of one scaffold board, practically it's a nightmare to achieve this if yoou want to maintain on-going build.
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Posted By Lee Mac
Cheers Homer,
What would be the normal width of a scaffoling plank?
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Posted By Garry Adams
Standerd Scaffold Board is 9 inches wide.
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Posted By Garry Adams
on reflection there should be no gap between inside Scaffold Board and Facade of building.
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Posted By Lee Mac
Surely that would be impractical to achieve when considering new build projects.
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Posted By john houlihan The Work @ Height regs stipulate no gap should exist where there is a risk of falling objects or material likely to cause injury. The former BS5973 made an allowance of 300mm ( 12 inches ) but contridcts the WAH Regs 2005. BS EN 128-11 makes an allowance of 100mm - 4 inches before you are required to install edge protection. For further control measures look up www.uniq-extrusions.com. I`m sure you will find some solutions here.
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Posted By AHS
Very quick answer claw hammer can squeeze through small gaps and jolly well hurt if they land upon ones pinky.
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Posted By Garry Adams
AHS is quite right Re: Falling objects...To safeguard against falling objects,My in-house policy recommends close boarding + (lashed)with minimal gap at facade(fag paper). this provision eliminates/reduces a tort against either member of work force or member of the general public.
If a system Scaffold is required for a new Project a series of Hope up brackets may be used,3 Board hop-up install timber/steel frame,reduce to ,2 board hop-up bracket for brick work/cladding, reduce to,1 board hop-up for roughcasting,ect.ect.
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Posted By Lee Mac
Cheers Lads,
Some good stuff on this one esp BS contradicting the regs. The 330mm gap, I was told when I was doing a scaffolding inspectors course with the CITBNI earlier this year was seen as acceptable. But I think the move to the 1 & 2 board brackets might do the trick for our works and keeping the gaps to a minimum.
Thanks Again,
Lee
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Posted By mark gough2
It is my understanding that the "allowed gap" was not intended to be permanent but a pragmatic method of allowing scaffolders to erect and dismantle scaffold by passing it through the gap. Which was then replaced after this action.
There should not be a gap.
However as anyone any tips on timber frame buildings. Scaffold is required to erect the timber frame but a minimum of 250mm must be left between the edge of the scaffold and the timber frame to allow for the outer skin of bricks to be laid.
My only solution was to dismantle the scaffold after the first stage and then re erect during the brick laying phase.
Instead i blocked the gaps using bean bags!! and got away with it this time.
Any ideas welcome as i believe this type of construction will become more wide spread.
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Posted By Lee Mac
To be honest with you Mark, although in an ideal world there are no gaps, in reality it doesn't always work out that way.
We also build on the mainland using timber frames and I have to be a realist a gap must remain to allow for brick work. The way we work it is internal and external double handrails and toe-boards until the brickwork starts.
Then we keep raising the platforms along with the level of the block using 2 board hop ups on the internals.
I had a visit from the HSE and they were happy enough with our process. But this was with tube & fitting scaffolding.
Here in Ireland we still use Kwik stage quite a lot which has set points to work to when erecting the scaffold- the only possible solution is the use of one and two board brackets. But again there will be a slight gap when carrying out the building process.
Lee
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