The big freeze grips the scaffolding industry

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As the recent snow and ice effects many parts of the UK today, we wanted to find out how it was effecting our scaffolding industry and how it’s making a hard job.. even harder.

We reached out to our twitter followers to send us your snow pics from around the UK under the hashtag # Snowyscaffs. You did not disappoint here is just a few of our favorites:

@mickywatt Tweeted:  “This was the view of ISL’s yard this morning at Consett, northwest of County Durham”:-

scaffolding snow

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@JasonGibbsScaff let us know how cold it was in London on Cannon Street, McAlpine site :-

snow scaffolding london

 Meanwhile some scaffs are making light of the snow and ice with a bit of snowman buliding @GazGdavies tweeted us this scaff snowman:-

scaffolding snowman

Have you been affected by the snow ? let us know in the comments below.

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