I.C. Scaffolding
I.C. Scaffolding · Pest control at height
Wasp nests, bees, birds and squirrels, dealt with where they actually are: up the chimney, under the tiles, in the roof.
We build the access and we handle the pest side, so it is one firm and one number to ring.
The nest is never at ground level. That is the whole problem.
Wasps pick chimney stacks and roof voids. Bees get in under the tiles and behind the fascia. Jackdaws drop sticks down a flue until it blocks. Squirrels come in at the eaves and stay in the loft. Every one of them is somewhere you cannot safely stand.
Most pest firms arrive with a ladder and an extension pole, and on a two-storey chimney that means either a bodged job or a phone call telling you they cannot help. We come at it from the other end. The access is the part we already do for a living, so we put a proper boarded platform against the stack, the pest work gets done at close range, and the way back in gets sealed while the scaffold is still standing.
Late summer is when wasp nests are at their biggest and when people finally notice the traffic going in and out of a roof. That is the busy end of the year for this.
The nest is usually in a chimney stack, a roof void or tucked up under the eaves, and by late summer it is big enough that you can stand in the garden and watch the traffic going in and out. We get a boarded platform up to it so the job is done at close range, with both hands free, instead of stretched off the top of a ladder.
Bees are not wasps and they are not treated like wasps. A colony in a chimney or behind the tiles is worth moving rather than destroying wherever that can be done, and moving one properly means getting a person and their kit right up alongside it with room to work calmly. That is exactly what the scaffold is there for.
Jackdaws drop sticks down a flue until it blocks. Pigeons and gulls get in under solar panels and settle. Once the birds have moved on, the real job is stopping them coming back: a cowl on the pot, mesh across the gap they were using, netting or spikes where they land. All of it is roof-level work, which is the point at which a scaffold stops being optional.
You hear them before you see them, usually first thing, running the length of the ceiling. They get in at the eaves, under a lifted tile or through a soffit that has gone soft. Dealing with what is inside the loft is only half of it. The other half is finding the hole and closing it, and that is outside work at gutter height.
If your pest contractor cannot reach the job, we will do just the access and leave the rest to them. Tower or full scaffold, up for the day they need it and struck when they are done. Working alongside other trades is most of what we already do.
Most pest controllers cannot reach it. Most scaffolders cannot deal with it.
On a two-storey chimney that normally means two companies, two lots of arranging and two bills, or somebody balanced up a ladder with a can, which is how people fall off roofs.
We already own the access. The tower in these photographs is ours, put up for that job, and the pest work was carried out from it. One call, one firm on site, and the scaffold stays up long enough to seal the way back in as well.
Suited up on the boarded lift, Kent · both hands free, at the height the job is actually at.
WhatsApp a picture of the chimney, the roof or wherever you are seeing them going in. Nine times out of ten that is enough for us to tell you what the job actually is.
Whether it needs a tower, a full scaffold or nothing at all. If it can be reached safely without one we will say so, because that is cheaper for you and quicker for us.
A boarded lift with guardrails goes up to the nest, and the pest side gets carried out from it at close range rather than at arm's length off a ladder.
The scaffold is still there, so this is the moment to cowl the pot, mesh the gap or close the soffit. Skip it and something else moves in next season.
Two of the reviews on our Google listing are the same work this page is about: a chimney stack and a roof. One of them is from a tradesman who used our scaffold to get to a stack and do his own job from it.
"Carl came up and erected a scaffold exactly as I required to carry out my work on a chimney stack. He was there at an agreed time to erect and was promptly there when I requested for removal. He and his workers where polite to myself and the customer. I look forward to working with him in the future regards Mac"
"We needed scaffolding to replace ridge tiles on our roof. Carl was great, he arrived promptly to assess what was needed, gave us a very fair price and turned up on the day he said he would. He even recommended a roofer to us. When our job was finished again arrived promptly to remove it all, he also swept the areas on the roof the roofer missed!"
Yes, and that is the whole reason this service exists. We are a scaffolding company, so getting a proper boarded platform up to a chimney stack or a roof void is our ordinary day. The nest being awkward to reach is the normal situation here, not a complication.
Either. We can take the whole job from the access through to sealing up the way they got in, or we can put the scaffold up and leave the treatment to a pest contractor you already use. Tell us which you want when you call.
Plenty of jobs do not need one, and we will say so. If it can be reached safely without, that is cheaper for you and quicker for us. Where we will not budge is a nest on a two-storey stack or out in the middle of a roof, because that is where people fall.
It depends on the height, how awkward the access is and how long the scaffold needs to stay up, so there is no honest price to put on a web page. Quotes are free with no obligation, and most come back within 24 hours. The quickest way is to WhatsApp a photo of the roof or the chimney to 07749 957376.
Kent, East Sussex and South London, working to roughly a 40-mile radius from our yard in Yalding. Maidstone, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks and Medway are all comfortably inside it. If you are not sure, ring and ask.
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