Mobile scaffold hire price per week

What a week of mobile scaffold hire costs

The weekly price follows from a single rule. The first hire day costs the full day rate, which sits between €50 and €325 depending on the model and the working height. Every following day costs 5 percent of that day rate, so €3 per day at the lowest rate. Seven consecutive days therefore come to €65.

There is no separate weekly rate to opt into and no weekly package to pick in advance. The counter simply keeps running for as long as the scaffold is with you, and the seventh day costs exactly what the second one did. For a short job of one to three days the same rule works out very differently; that calculation is on the day price page.

What sets your weekly price is not the duration but the model and the working height. An RS51 at 75 cm wide sits lower in the range than an RS52 at 135 cm, and within each model the price rises with the height, from 4.2 up to 14.2 metres. So pick the height you need first through the working heights, and add the hire period after that.

Seven, fourteen and thirty days side by side

The same rule, worked out for the three periods people ask for most. In all three cases you pay the full day rate once and everything after that is a 5 percent day.

The step from seven to fourteen days is small: you double the time you have the scaffold and pay seven extra days of 5 percent. Between fourteen and thirty days the same principle works even harder in your favour. If you are still weighing a short period against a generous one, the comparison is in hiring per day or per week.

Why a longer hire keeps getting cheaper per day

The first day is the expensive one, every day after it is cheap. Seven days together cost about a third more than a single loose day. Fourteen days come to a little over one and a half day rates, thirty days to almost two and a half. The average price per day therefore drops with every day you add, without any threshold or tier to cross.

That has one practical consequence: planning generously costs little, planning tightly can get expensive. Return the scaffold three days early and hire again a fortnight later, and you pay a second full day rate plus a second trip out and back. Keeping one continuous hire is nearly always cheaper than interrupting it.

To judge how many days a job realistically takes, how many days should I hire a scaffold gives you a first estimate before you commit to a period.

Planning a multi day facade project

The platform on the RS51 and the RS52 is 245 cm long. That is also the unit you divide a facade into: measure the width, split it into bays of 245 cm, and you know how often the scaffold has to be moved. A ten metre facade is four bays, so three moves along that wall.

A layout that works in practice:

• Split every facade into bays of 245 cm and count the total number of bays across the project.
• Estimate the hours of work in each bay and add up how many bays you finish in a day.
• Move the scaffold at the end of the day, so the next morning starts with work instead of shifting.
• Do not leave awkward bays with a bay window, a dormer or an extension until the last day, because that is where the schedule slips.
• Count the build up on the first day and the take down on the last day as working time, not as extra days.
• Add one or two days for overrun; each of them costs only 5 percent of the day rate.

Materials and drying time across several days

On a longer hire there is material sitting on the platform: paint tins, tools, sealant, a box of screws. The equipment is Altrex to EN 1004 in load class 3, which means 200 kg per square metre. That is plenty for a painter working with his kit, but it is not a storage deck for half a pallet of bricks.

Work with layers that need to dry is exactly the work a weekly hire is meant for. Primer, undercoat and topcoat one after another in the same bay means the scaffold stays put for a few days, and at 5 percent per day that is easy to carry. Painting a facade sets out what that order looks like across a whole wall.

Days when the scaffold stands idle

A day without work costs the same as a working day: 5 percent of the day rate. A weekend in the middle of the hire period therefore adds two cheap days, and that is almost always less than the cost of taking the scaffold down, sending it back and starting again later with a full first day.

In rain or frost, carrying on is usually the calmest choice for the same reason: you lose working days, not full rates. What does matter is where the scaffold stands. Put it on your own ground or behind a gate if it will sit unused for a few days, and do not leave it on a public street with nobody keeping an eye on it. For the amount that is held during the hire and returned afterwards there is the deposit page.

Around a holiday period it is wiser to plan the hire straight through than to chop it into pieces. What winter conditions mean for working at height is covered in hiring a scaffold in winter.

Extending while the scaffold is on site

Extending costs exactly what booking longer in advance would have cost: every extra day is 5 percent of the day rate, whether you fix it three weeks ahead or on the final morning. There is no surcharge on an extension, so a first estimate that turns out slightly short is not a problem.

What does matter is letting us know in time, so the collection run can be moved before the van is on the road. A message on WhatsApp is enough for that. Delivery and collection sit together in one fixed amount per province, which an extension does not change; those rates are on delivery costs.

Where the line runs between hiring longer and buying

As long as it is one project, hiring stays the cheaper route, even at thirty days. You pay almost two and a half day rates for a month of use, with no storage space, no transport and no maintenance on a tower that then sits still for a year.

The sum tips once you need a scaffold several times a year. The signals are always the same: three or more projects a year, a unit or a garage where the equipment can stay dry, a trailer to move it, and someone who checks the parts and keeps the set complete. If one of those four is missing, hiring on is usually still cheaper. The full weighing up is in hiring or buying a scaffold.

There is a second line, and it is about the kind of work. If one facade has to stay reachable for months, across its full width and with several people at once, a fixed facade scaffold from a scaffolding contractor is a different product from what you hire here. A mobile scaffold is built to be moved and to be worked bay by bay by one crew.

What has to be arranged before the hire week starts

Order before 15:00 and the scaffold is with you the next working day, anywhere in the Netherlands. Payment has to be in at the latest one day before delivery, so count that in when you pick a start date. Business invoicing with VAT is possible. Collecting it yourself is an option too, free and by appointment, at Zeeburgerpad 89 in Amsterdam.

You build the scaffold yourself, using the manual and the instruction video you get with the reservation. No crew arrives to put it up for you. Allow the first morning for the build up, and remember that working height is always platform height plus 2 metres, so you order the right height instead of discovering halfway through the week that you are too low. Every cost item together is set out on what hiring a mobile scaffold costs.