SGB reaches to heaven

The oldest and most restored Anglican Cathedral in the world is being given yet another facelift with the help of a dramatic SGB scaffold system.

Stokes Decorators is cleaning years of grime from the decorated roof of Cardiff's Llandaff Cathedral but needed a leg up to do the work. The job is complicated by the need to continue church services and the obligation that scaffolding should be unobtrusive.

The scaffold comprises two 12.5 m high SGB Youngman BOSS tower units supporting a cantilevered structure designed to follow the shape of the pitched roof and reaching a height of 17m.