Bought a collapsible scaffold for a tight stairwell job and it was a game changer

I had this job in an old house in Portland, the stairwell ceiling was maybe 8 feet wide but 15 feet high. My normal baker scaffold wouldn't fit through the door. I bit the bullet and dropped about $800 on a 6-foot tall, narrow, rolling scaffold that folds flat. It felt like a lot at the time, but man, getting that thing set up in five minutes and having a solid platform to tape that ceiling saved me probably two full days of messing with ladders and planks. My back wasn't killing me from looking up all day, and I could move it with one hand to hit different spots. It's paid for itself on that one job alone. Anyone have a go-to piece of gear for weird, cramped spaces like that?

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river1905d ago

Wait, you spent a whole weekend on a ladder that was too short, @the_michael? That's brutal. A collapsible scaffold for eight hundred bucks sounds steep, but hearing how much time it saved makes total sense. Honestly, the real cost is wrecking your body trying to save a few bucks on gear.

the_michael5d ago

Man, why didn't I think of that for my own stairwell? I spent a whole weekend on a ladder that was just a little too short, doing a weird one-legged lean that made me walk like a cowboy for three days after. That scaffold sounds like a dream.