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Its true that a large portion of our business comes from contractors but did you know we also have scaffold solutions for homeowners who prefer the “do it yourself” (DIY) approach.

Many outdoor and indoor home improvement projects will have what we call an “access issue” and at Seacoast Scaffold we specialize in providing “access solutions.” Home owners often come to us looking for scaffolding for a variety of reasons including:

• Painting the exterior of your house
• Interior painting and fixture repair
• Siding repair or installation
• Roof repairs
• Fascia board, soffit and gutter work
• Chimney or masonry work

The list goes on and on but while scaffolding isn’t new to the market it is something many homeowners may not consider as an option for home projects. Scaffolding has a great upside to not only getting projects done more efficiently but also in a safer manner as well. There are a number of different types of scaffold that can be used, and in different applications.

Frame and Brace Scaffold

These frames come in varying heights from 2′-6’4″ and are great for making runs in 7′ lengths. If you need to paint a house or repair siding, these can make it easy, by starting on one level and building up as needed. We also carry chimney brackets that make it so a chimney can be staged around for masonry work.

Alum-A-Pole Scaffold

Commonly known as Pump Jacks, our Alum-A-Pole scaffold typically come in a 24’x24′ setup. With a plank resting on two brackets, you pump the staging up the poles. Originally designed to help with trim and siding repair and installation this has become a favorite of the home improvement market. Pump Jack scaffold lets the homeowner install the platform quickly and makes getting up and down to different levels a breeze. If you need to paint the side of your house, or you are residing your house, pump jack scaffolding will increase your efficiency and safety by 10 fold.

Baker Staging

Baker staging is a 2′ wide rolling scaffold that typically has a 6′ deck height, but it can be placed at multiple levels on the staging itself. Baker staging is excellent for interior work like drywall, painting hard to reach places on walls, or even changing that pesky lightbulb that’s been out for ages.

These are just a few of the myriad of uses that scaffold has for homeowner applications. The sky really is the limit and Seacoast Scaffold can help you turn your access issue into an access solution. Stop by or give us a call to share your ideas and concepts and we can help you find the correct solution for your home project.

Seacoast Scaffold is excited to now offer the Tractel T-Rail 17 portable guardrails. This system meets OSHA specifications for permanent guardrail, but doesn’t need to be drilled into a structure. It can also easily be transported from one location to another if necessary. A base unit has four ports, allowing the rails to be setup in any sort of configuration. These guardrail panels are currently available in 4’ and 10’ lengths, but other size panels are available for rental upon request.

Our system offers use for a number of different applications from mezzanine and rooftop safety railing, to barricading unsafe elevation changes like manholes or on dig sites. The guardrails are 42” high and are secured to the base with a positive locking system. They are durable, made of hot dip galvanized steel, so they’ll stand up to wear and resist rusting and will do well in all weather conditions.

If you or your company have any interest in renting this product, please call one of our branches or submit a request through this website’s home page and we’d be happy to provide you with more information and pricing for your product.

The winter and spring of 2018 delivered powerful storms across the Maine coast, causing plenty of damage along the way. That’s how this homeowner project began. The customer called our Portland office and told us of waves crashing above the first floor window of her seaside home. Shingles had been stripped away from the home in the storm and needed to be replaced.
Scaffold would need to be setup for workers to reach the areas of the house requiring repair. However, this particular scaffold build would come with a test: the house is literally on the ocean and we would have to erect the staging on rocks at low tide.

The nature of the project dictated that swivel jacks would need to be used as a base to level the staging on the rocks. From there, the build could go up. Because the scaffold was 3’6” wide and more than four times that height (not to mention being situated on rocks in the ocean) the build would need to be tied off to the house. Wall ties were applied to the concrete foundation and just over the windows above the top deck level of the staging. These ties provided extra stability and strength to the structure.

Every decked level of the staging was provided with toe boards and guardrail to comply with OSHA regulations. From that point on, the scaffold was released to the workers for them to do their shingle replacement work and any other touchups they needed to make. Once their work was completed, we were able to safely dismantle the staging and get it off the jobsite.

A job like this is a great reminder that we can take on odd or difficult challenges, and we do work with the homeowner and not just contractors and businesses. Please contact us if you feel we can help with your project.

When a job requires getting to extreme heights and system or frame scaffold isn’t practical or cost effective, suspended scaffold (also known as swing stage) may be the equipment for your job. There’s no doubt you’ve seen swing stage before, usually on high-rise buildings for maintenance, painting or window washing.

What exactly is suspended scaffold though? As it sounds, suspended scaffold is suspended, using an anchor generally secured to the roof of the structure being worked on. The scaffold system is then hooked up to suspension cables at each end of the platform. These cables allow the platform to ascend and descend as needed while the work is performed, even as people are working on it and using the platform. This allows for excellent vertical mobility, as workers can get themselves where they need quite easily.

Working at heights, and especially on swing staging, brings along safety concerns as well. It is recommended and encouraged that workers enter and exit for platform only from the ground or roof levels and not at any intermediate levels. Suspended platforms are equipped with sturdy guardrail systems, but along with that personal fall arrest systems are recommended for further safety precautions.

Seacoast Scaffold carries a wide range of suspended scaffold products, including motors, hoists, wire rope, suspended scaffold platforms and ‘knock-down’ panels, as well as a Bosun chair. We rent and erect swing stage and would be happy to help you design and erect your next project that requires suspended scaffold

Masonry scaffold or bricklayer scaffolding are common industry terms that refer to our popular Frame and Brace scaffolding.   This the most common type of scaffold used by contractors of all types, from carpenters and masons to the homeowner on his weekend project. It’s easy to set up and dismantle and allows you to get to the height you need fairly quickly.

The focus for today is on 6’4” step frames, also known as mason frames. They are 6’4” tall and 5’ wide. A set can be braced from a 4’ all the way out to a 10’ bay with a 7’ bay being the most common length. The step frame has what looks like two ladder rungs on one side of it, however those are NOT for climbing. Those rungs are actually meant to be used to rest a plank on to function as a makeshift work bench if you’re working in the middle of a multiple tier set up.

Those rungs are the main difference from the 6’4” walk-thru frames, which are just like they sound, with the entire inside of the frame open to walk through. The step, or mason frames are slightly more versatile in that they offer the rungs to create a work bench. The frames are stackable and are compatible with any of our 5’ wide staging.

As with all of our frame and brace products, we do rent the frames at weekly and monthly rates, as well as sell them out of our rental inventory. If you have a project that scaffold could help with, please get in touch and request a quotation with us.

When the doldrums of winter start to lift, the last gritty piles of snow melting away and the cacophony of birds return early in the mornings, you know spring is finally on the way. Along with warmer temperatures, longer days and green grass, one of the more popular refrains of the season is spring cleaning! Spring is the perfect time to start new projects around the house. Whether it’s a deep clean, or a renovation project, odds are that you may have a lot junk to remove or dispose of. If it’s a renovation that includes demolition, there aren’t a lot of simple ways to move that debris, especially when there may be multiple floors involved. That’s where debris chutes come in.

Debris chutes are a product able to be hung from windows, parapets or scaffold. They are segmented tubes that connect together to create a run that creates the chute. The chute sections are 4’ in length each with a 27” diameter. Three 4’ sections can be hooked together to create a 10’ run. What’s known as a load-spreader frame can be used in most windows, allowing the chute to safely hang out the window and run down the side of a building. We also offer a fish pole style winch that can allow the assembled chutes to be hoisted into place.

The time that can be saved from simply throwing debris such as drywall down a trash chute, rather than lugging it downstairs can be huge!  This can free you up to do more around the house, finish your project faster and become more efficient all-around. Debris chutes are an outstanding solution to the problem of safely and economically removing refuse from a second floor or higher. If a debris chute is something that would help you on your next cleaning / demolition project, please call one of our four locations, or use the request a quote feature on our website. We’d be more than happy to provide a quotation to see if using debris chutes would be right for you.

When: Monday, January 15th, 2018
Where: 600 Riverside St, Portland, ME
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Over the past couple of months our walk-in customers have all been asking the same question when arriving at our South Portland location: “When are you moving?” We’ve finally got an answer etched in stone and are very excited to announce that Seacoast Scaffold will be closing the location on Thadeus St in South Portland and moving our operations to 600 Riverside St in Portland as of Monday, January 15th.

The new shop will be highly visible, convenient and easy to find at just over a mile off of Exit 48 on the Maine turnpike. This gives us an excellent opportunity to expand our services to new customers who might not have heard of us and alleviates one of the biggest questions customers call in with: “How do I get to you South Portland shop?”.

Beyond the visibility Seacoast’s new location provides, we now have vastly increased office, warehouse and yard space. This will allow us to stock more product for both sales and rentals, as well as house our newest product lines – mast climbers and temporary fencing. The added yard space in our new location dwarfs what we had in South Portland. In fact the yard space in Portland is larger than the entire lot on Thadeus St!

These are exciting times as we continue to grow as a company, and our new location on Riverside St will allow us to increase our product offerings while continuing to offer great service. If you haven’t rented from us in a while, come and check the new place out! If you’ve never rented with us before, but think you might have a need for scaffold or staging in the future, give us a visit and see what we’re about!

Something that should never be overlooked on any jobsite or construction project is security. Especially with large scale projects that may require a contractor to leave tools or expensive equipment on location at all times. Seacoast Scaffold is now offering a great solution to these potential issues by adding temporary fencing to our product lineup.

Our fencing panels are 11’6 long by 6’ high and make use of the OxBlock, rather than using sand or concrete to weight the panels into place. The panels are welded wire mesh and have been hot dipped galvanized, as well as having a mid-rail which makes them extremely durable. They are the perfect option if you need to enclose a jobsite for any reason.

Not only are these panels great for jobsite security, but they have a multitude of uses. Perhaps you have an event that needs to be cordoned off because it requires admission, temporary fencing would be the best solution to that problem. The same goes for blocking off parade routes, or sporting events, a fair or festival, the situations in which temporary fencing can be used are limited only by the imagination.

If you’re looking to a cost effective way to secure a job site, concert, fair, parade or any type of event you may have, temporary fencing from Seacoast Scaffold could be the right option for you.

Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) is one of the most common scaffold plank styles used on a jobsite requiring stagging. These laminated planks meet all conformance standards for OSHA and are tested rigorously by their manufacturers. They are very versatile walk boards and are usable in all conditions and are able to handle the stress of heat, cold, snow and rain. Not to mention the heavy loads and constant cycling of being put onto a job, being taken back down and repeating that process again and again.

The lamination of the plank provide excellent strength and consistency, they also have water-resistant adhesives and the ends are sealed to help slow moisture uptake. All planks have a stamp showing that it confirms to OSHA’s standards, the manufacturing date, the mill it was made in and a proof-test confirming it has been load tested.

Even after their life as a laminated plank has come to an end and it’s been determined that a plank can no longer be used as decking, it gets converted to a sill plank. A sill plank sits underneath the staging and provides support and helps disperse weight and aids in preventing jacks from sinking into the ground.

Seacoast carries scaffold planks in 8 and 16 foot lengths, with sizes available in shorter and intermediate lengths. Planks are available for sale and rental at all four Seacoast Scaffold locations.

When colder weather begins arriving, scaffold enclosure systems become the focus as keeping work areas shielded from snow and low temperatures becomes a priority. Some exterior scaffolding jobs require that the work being done is completed at particular temperatures that the cold of winter can drop below. What is the solution to get through the issue of cold and adverse winter weather? The answer is tarp or scaffold sheeting systems.

Seacoast Scaffold is a proud distributor of Monarflex Flamesafe sheeting and accessories to help with site covering, containment and weather protection. Tarps help protect not only the jobsite from potential weather delays, but also the surrounding area and public from any debris. These tarps are extremely durable, easy to install and reusable, meaning you could bring them from job to job. We also use these systems on our winter erection jobs, when contractors need to put heat to the work they’re doing, keep their employees warm or just to protect against wind and snow.

The tarp is secured to the scaffold with anchors and straps that fit through plastic grommets that are already embedded to the tarp. These anchors and straps are strong enough to withstand winds up to 72mph, meaning that except for a generational nor’easter, they can handle the harsh New England winters.

There is even the ability to put a door panel directly into the tarping to make access to a stairway or ladder easier and without leaving an opening or gap in the structure’s tarp, making the product extremely versatile for construction needs.

We carry anything a contractor could possibly need for a tarping job. This includes rolls that are 7’4” x 137’ or 13’ x 157, anchors and straps and more. If you think you’ll need tarp for an upcoming project, don’t hesitate to give us a call and request a quote.