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Ladder and Tower Programs for School Maintenance A school district maintenance crew does not work in one building. The same two people cover a gymnasium with a 28 foot ceiling in the morning and a portable building with an 8 foot ceiling after lunch, and the equipment has to make that jump without a trailer full of one-purpose ladders. One Crew, Every Ceiling Height Classrooms and offices sit at 9 to 10 feet, cafeterias and libraries at 12 to 14, and gymnasiums and auditoriums run 24 to 30 feet …

Guide to Erecting a Scaffold Tower Safely A scaffold tower arrives as a stack of frames, braces and planks, and the order they go together is what decides whether it stands. Crews that build towers every week do it the same way every time for a reason: the sequence is the safety system, and skipping a step is how a tower that looks right comes down. Start at the Base and Stay on It The base is built flat and level before anything goes up. Base plates on every leg, sills under the plates on anyt …

Guide to Scaffold Frame Sets vs Individual Frames A scaffold frame set is a tower in a box. Individual frames are the pieces you buy when you already own some and need more. The difference matters because a set costs more up front and saves you a second and third trip once the job starts. Dallas Ladder stocks both at our Rowlett warehouse, and the right answer usually comes down to whether you are starting from nothing. What a Set Actually Includes A frame set arrives as a complete working towe …

Scaling Up: Choosing the Right Scaffold Frame Sets for DFW Construction When a project moves beyond the reach of a standard extension ladder, professional contractors in Dallas-Fort Worth turn to industrial scaffold frame sets. Whether you are managing a large-scale masonry build in Frisco or a commercial facade renovation in Dallas, your staging needs to be fast to assemble and rock-solid under load. At Dallas Ladder, we stock the heavy-duty components that power the region's biggest jobsites. …