What scaffolding costs in Greater Sydney, from edge protection at $900 to multi-storey work in five figures. An honest quote shows a fixed erect price plus a weekly hire rate, not one day rate. We show what moves your job up the range.
The same access job can be quoted thousands apart, and most of the time that is not dishonesty. It is crews pricing different scopes. The cheap one skipped the engineered design, the certificate and the inspections. The dearer one priced all of it, plus a firm dismantle date so the hire does not creep. Here is roughly where the numbers sit, and what moves them.
| Edge protection (short roof / solar, install + strike) | From $900 |
| Single-storey access (paint job, re-roof, reno) | $1,800 – $3,500 |
| Double-storey access (full perimeter) | $3,500 – $6,500 |
| Mobile tower hire (delivered, certified, tagged) | From $180/wk |
| Multi-storey / commercial (engineered, staged to program) | $8k – $60k+ |
| Cheap “she’ll be right” quote (no design, no cert, untagged) | Walk away |
See what moves the number
The six levers behind your range.
The pricing page breaks down the six things that decide where your quote lands, plus the scope options. A higher number stops looking like a rip-off when the job actually needs it.
See the pricing breakdown →A cheap quote is not cheaper labour for the same job, it is less job. The saving comes out of the engineered design, the certificate, the SWMS and the weekly inspections, and out of a firm dismantle date. Each of those is invisible the day the scaffold goes up and decisive the day it is audited, altered or hit by weather. That is why a quote you can read line by line matters more than the headline number: it tells you whether you are comparing like with like.
A “she’ll be right” day rate saves you money. The day SafeWork walks on, or the scaffold has to be re-tagged after an alteration nobody documented, you find out exactly how much.
Ask this, exactly
“What does your quote assume for the design, the certificate and the included hire weeks, and what would move it to the top or bottom of the range?”
The detail behind the number is the number. A range with the scope attached is worth more than a precise figure with nothing behind it.
Steelline quotes against the same seven lines every time. The figure you see is tied to a scope you can read, a fixed erect price plus a clear weekly hire rate. If your job only needs edge protection or a mobile tower, we will tell you. The honest number is the one that matches the work, not the biggest scaffold we could stand up.
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