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Insurance For Scaffolding Sales and Hire Providers
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Overview
Scaffolding sales and hire in Australia is a capital-heavy, safety-critical trade. You are quoting, erecting, hiring out and dismantling scaffold for builders, painters, roofers and renovators, holding a large stock of tube, frames, planks and fittings, and running trucks and crews to install and strike it. Your gear earns while it is on hire, so scaffold sitting idle in the yard is dead capital, and a single big project can tie up most of your stock for months.
Alongside many other scaffolding and access-hire operators across the country, the ones who stay profitable keep utilisation high, recover hire on long jobs, and replace ageing stock before it fails compliance. The scaffold itself is the major capital cost, install and dismantle labour is significant, and builder progress claims can run 30 days or more while your scaffold is committed and your crew is paid.
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By tracking utilisation closely and recovering hire on every long job rather than letting scaffold sit idle. A working-capital buffer helps cover the gap when a big project commits your stock for months before the builder pays.
When demand consistently outstrips your current stock and you are turning hires away. Financing the extra stock is common so a single large capital buy does not drain the cash you need for install crews and day-to-day running.
Because your scaffold is committed and your install crew is paid up front, while builder progress claims on a long job can run 30 days or more. That gap between paying to install and being paid for the hire is exactly where working capital gets stretched.
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