Head Office
Haigh Avenue, Whitehill Trading Estate, Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire SK4 1NU
Haigh Avenue, Whitehill Trading Estate, Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire SK4 1NU
Wirral Branch
8 Bankfield Court, Ferryview, Commercial Road, Wirral,
CH62 3NN
8 Bankfield Court, Ferryview, Commercial Road, Wirral,
CH62 3NN
Cheshire Scaffolds are the leading Cheshire Scaffolding company.
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2008 Specialist Awards Finalists
Stockport based Cheshire Scaffolds prides itself on being a tightly run, privately owned company with a core nucleus of senior scaffolding operatives in a “notoriously nomadic industry”.
The company promotes an ethos of “growing our own wood”, which has seen it bring 18 apprentices into the industry over the last four years, 16 of whom have progressed to become qualified scaffolders.
In the last 12 months, Cheshire Scaffolds’ commitment to training and development has been rewarded with several high profile contracts, including Sizergh Castle in Cumbria for Cox & Allen and Victoria Buildings in Liverpool for Kier NW, for which it received the Kier Contractor of the Month award in April 2007.
Skills Solutions training consultant Tom Bohan described the company as “one of the most committed and proactive companies I have dealt with” adding they had made a “major contribution towards training the next generation within the industry”.
Cheshire Scaffolds operates a strict schedule of toolbox talks and insists on formal accreditation for all employees - from managers to scaffolding operatives.
In December 2007, the firm opened a new branch in the Wirral.
Biggest Ever Deal for a Scaffolding Firm
Stockport based Cheshire Scaffolds Ltd has signed its biggest ever contract, a £1m deal to provide scaffolding services to a Kier Group residential project in Liverpool.
Contracts Director, Kevin Tottle said that a trial on one of the blocks had gone well and that Kier was now signing up Cheshire Scaffolds to work on the remaining five blocks, with five more in the development pipeline.
Projects in the residential sector, which once accounted for more than 50 per cent of the group’s work, are becoming fewer and further between however, the company said it is focusing on other construction projects such as schools, hospitals and police stations.
It has been named a preferred supplier to several large construction companies, including Carillion, for whom it is working on medical centre projects in Stockport and Heald Green.
In the past four years revenues have almost doubled, reaching £5.3m in the year ended April compared with £4.3m last year, but the current year is likely to be flat.
“It is a period of consolidation” Tottle said, adding that the main aim is to keep the company’s 110 staff occupied and ensure the business is in good shape when the residential sector picks up again.
Tottle, who has a 10 per cent stake in the business alongside Commercial Director, Ken Hannah, and majority shareholder / Managing Director, Paul Davidson, said that while he expects the slowdown to throw up opportunities, Cheshire Scaffolds is concentrating on consolidation rather than acquisitions.
Roofing Safety
Cheshire Scaffolds is providing temporary roof protection for main contractor Cox & Allen on a project at the 14th Century Sizergh Castle, in Cumbria. The ubix roofing system was chosen to minimise the risk of working at height, as the roof is safely sheeted from on an eaves platform, rather than operatives having to climb on the roof.
The one year project is in two phases, providing a weather tight structure for the contractor to carry out restoration and refurbishment work on the castle, which has been home to the Strickland family for more than 750 years.
Stockport based Cheshire Scaffolds prides itself on being a tightly run, privately owned company with a core nucleus of senior scaffolding operatives in a “notoriously nomadic industry”.
The company promotes an ethos of “growing our own wood”, which has seen it bring 18 apprentices into the industry over the last four years, 16 of whom have progressed to become qualified scaffolders.
In the last 12 months, Cheshire Scaffolds’ commitment to training and development has been rewarded with several high profile contracts, including Sizergh Castle in Cumbria for Cox & Allen and Victoria Buildings in Liverpool for Kier NW, for which it received the Kier Contractor of the Month award in April 2007.
Skills Solutions training consultant Tom Bohan described the company as “one of the most committed and proactive companies I have dealt with” adding they had made a “major contribution towards training the next generation within the industry”.
Cheshire Scaffolds operates a strict schedule of toolbox talks and insists on formal accreditation for all employees -
Biggest Ever Deal for a Scaffolding Firm
Stockport based Cheshire Scaffolds Ltd has signed its biggest ever contract, a £1m deal to provide scaffolding services to a Kier Group residential project in Liverpool.
Contracts Director, Kevin Tottle said that a trial on one of the blocks had gone well and that Kier was now signing up Cheshire Scaffolds to work on the remaining five blocks, with five more in the development pipeline.
Projects in the residential sector, which once accounted for more than 50 per cent of the group’s work, are becoming fewer and further between however, the company said it is focusing on other construction projects such as schools, hospitals and police stations.
It has been named a preferred supplier to several large construction companies, including Carillion, for whom it is working on medical centre projects in Stockport and Heald Green.
In the past four years revenues have almost doubled, reaching £5.3m in the year ended April compared with £4.3m last year, but the current year is likely to be flat.
“It is a period of consolidation” Tottle said, adding that the main aim is to keep the company’s 110 staff occupied and ensure the business is in good shape when the residential sector picks up again.
Tottle, who has a 10 per cent stake in the business alongside Commercial Director, Ken Hannah, and majority shareholder / Managing Director, Paul Davidson, said that while he expects the slowdown to throw up opportunities, Cheshire Scaffolds is concentrating on consolidation rather than acquisitions.
Roofing Safety
Cheshire Scaffolds is providing temporary roof protection for main contractor Cox & Allen on a project at the 14th Century Sizergh Castle, in Cumbria. The ubix roofing system was chosen to minimise the risk of working at height, as the roof is safely sheeted from on an eaves platform, rather than operatives having to climb on the roof.
The one year project is in two phases, providing a weather tight structure for the contractor to carry out restoration and refurbishment work on the castle, which has been home to the Strickland family for more than 750 years.