Scaffolding in West Sussex

West Sussex is at the southern end of our coverage and it is a county we plan for rather than drop in on. Work is mobilised from Iver down the M25 and M23 with the delivery scheduled so the team is on site at the start of the day. The reason we cover it at all is that the work here suits what we are good at: exposed coastal conditions, older building stock, and a strong commercial corridor around Crawley and Gatwick where programmes are tight and reliability matters more than a small saving on price.

The northern half of the county — Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath — is commuter and commercial territory, with a lot of new build development, industrial units and refurbishment work. The coastal strip from Chichester through Bognor, Littlehampton, Worthing and Shoreham is a different animal: older seafront properties, exposed elevations, salt-laden air and wind loads that a scaffolder further inland never has to think about.

We build for those conditions rather than against them. Sheeting and debris netting turn a scaffold into a sail, and on a south-facing coastal elevation that changes the tie frequency and bracing requirement significantly. Getting that right is not optional, and it is the sort of judgement that comes from Curtis's 25 years in the trade rather than from a standard drawing.

Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead and the Gatwick corridor are the most straightforward part of the county for us via the M23.

Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill and the mid-Sussex towns are planned mobilisations with an early start.

The coastal towns — Chichester, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Worthing and Shoreham — are covered with realistic lead times built into the schedule so the day is spent working, not travelling.

For any West Sussex enquiry we aim to arrange a free site visit within 48 hours, and the phone is answered 24 hours a day.