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  • I've just had some work on the outside of my house done, and it needed a scaffold tower put up. No hassle in the project beyond a couple of short delays due to frost and safety on the roof.

    The builder is finished (this afternoon), I'm happy with his work but I want the scaffolding down. I've no reason to believe it won't be removed by the scaffolders in the timeframe he described (later this week) but was thinking of withholding 25% of the invoice amount until it's gone and the project is complete.

    Is this a reasonable thing to do?

  • Scaffolders are the bottom of the trade food chain and likely loaded up with substances most of the time. It'll probably be there till they need it for the next job.

  • Right - they had an incredibly chaotic energy. Stank of weed at 9am and managed to piss off my neighbour with 20 minutes.

    That's the main thing that makes me want to wait till it's gone!

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