Painting boot line, scaffolding £3500 big boat

[Jamesuk]

You haven't said how the painting is to be done. When I had the stripes painted on my old boat, the cost was high because they had to build staging around the boat in order to continuously spray two-pack Awlgrip paint. And, in order to do the spraying effectively, the mast had to be removed and the boat moved in to a paintshop. Although you haven't said, I'd imagine your £3500 includes the painting, preparation, masking, materials, etc.

£3500 for scaffolding. Thanks for the replies, I got a quote from an established company £2000.

Cheers for the HSE links. We have to make sure the HSE is in place.

 

[ghostlymoron]

No harm in referring to the actual legislation:-
Working at Height Regulations 2005 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/735/regulation/2/made)
“work at height” means—
(a) work in any place, including a place at or below ground level;
(b) obtaining access to or egress from such place while at work, except by a staircase in a permanent workplace,
where, if measures required by these Regulations were not taken, a person could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury;

The Regulations tell you what the law is. As you would expect, the Health & Safety Executive then have their own ideas ... including this very useful list of myths: http://www.hse.gov.uk/work-at-height/myths.htm

Hope that's helpful.

The 2m figure still appears to have some relevance according to this extract from a HSE document published in 2014.

"Any working platform used for construction work and from which a person could fall
more than 2 metres must be inspected:
■
after assembly in any position;
■
after any event liable to have affected its stability;
■
at intervals not exceeding seven days. "

 

[Daydream believer]

£3500 for scaffolding. Thanks for the replies, I got a quote from an established company .

Dod we ever establish the size pf the boat. I think it was said working height 5 m but i cannot imagine it was the 110m long one forumite mentioned