I know I am going to get the usual but I am struggling to get my head around the way designs have changed!!
I have been putting temporary roofs up for over 20 years.
The requirement has grown so out of context with the ability to do the job.
I am doing one at the moment & getting the designer to adapt as we go due to it being a church & the CDM wants to measure & weigh everything!
I have had roofs up when the winds of 86 hit & in the last few months when we had 100mph winds. Standard scaffold with a kicker & rakers at the low side or raker tower no problems!.
Now I am supposed to have rakers full length on all four sides with 30 tonne of kentledge on the bottom in case the inside standards move out!!! The scaffold weighs over 22 tonne alone without kentledge!!! With this extra weight it will sink! We have graves all over the site & cannot put the amount of rakers required or the amount of kentledge that is being stated.
Thought the raker tower was to stop side ways movement not standard dancing!! Thats what the kickers for.
Sorry now lost for words, now the experienced guys can tell me what a **** I am & the scaffold could blow away!!!
Stewart
I have been putting temporary roofs up for over 20 years.
The requirement has grown so out of context with the ability to do the job.
I am doing one at the moment & getting the designer to adapt as we go due to it being a church & the CDM wants to measure & weigh everything!
I have had roofs up when the winds of 86 hit & in the last few months when we had 100mph winds. Standard scaffold with a kicker & rakers at the low side or raker tower no problems!.
Now I am supposed to have rakers full length on all four sides with 30 tonne of kentledge on the bottom in case the inside standards move out!!! The scaffold weighs over 22 tonne alone without kentledge!!! With this extra weight it will sink! We have graves all over the site & cannot put the amount of rakers required or the amount of kentledge that is being stated.
Thought the raker tower was to stop side ways movement not standard dancing!! Thats what the kickers for.
Sorry now lost for words, now the experienced guys can tell me what a **** I am & the scaffold could blow away!!!
Stewart