Both hands free
Tools, buckets and material travel up with the person instead of being passed up piece by piece. Every trip saves more than the tower takes in floor space.
Anton Muckel Gerüstbau, Linnich
Stair towers and site stairs for Waldfeucht
A way up that everyone on the site can use: handrails, solid landings and steps of equal height. We plan the tower, put it up and take it away again.
Based in Linnich, at work in Waldfeucht and across the Heinsberg district.
- Stair tower systems
- Escape stairs
- Scaffold hire
Why a tower
A ladder costs you time on every trip
Nobody on a building site goes up only once. A stair tower turns each of those trips into an ordinary walk.
Visitors can use it too
Clients, architects, inspectors and residents go up a staircase with a handrail, not a ladder lashed to the scaffold.
One route for every trade
A single tower serves every lift of the scaffold. Each trade uses the same way up, and the traffic stays out of the working bays.
Gone again quickly
The tower is hire equipment. Once the site is finished we dismantle it and take it with us. Nothing is left standing on the plot.
Types
Four ways up
The right type is decided on site: how high it has to go, how much room there is in front of the building, and who will be using it.
Stair tower system
The free standing tower with its own base, a landing at every level and a continuous handrail. It stands beside the building and ties into the scaffold or the floor slabs.
Stairs inside the facade scaffold
The flight sits inside one bay of the facade scaffold. That is the space saving answer where there is little room in front of the building, on a narrow street for instance.
Escape stairs
A second, secured way down for as long as the permanent staircase in the building cannot be used or has yet to be built.
A hoist instead of muscle
For heavy material we hire out hoists, with and without passenger carriage, along with telehandlers and the truck with a loading crane. That keeps the tower free for people.
Stair tower systems, escape stairs and hoist hire are all listed in our own schedule of services.
Fittings
What is on a tower we build
A way up only counts as one when somebody who did not build it will use it. So we plan these fittings in from the start.
A flight with a landing and handrails on the facade.
- Handrails on both sides A handrail and a knee rail along the full length of every flight.
- A landing at every level A level exit onto each scaffold lift, with no step in the transition.
- Steps of equal size Every step to the same dimension, so the tread stays predictable.
- Slip resistant surface Open mesh or profiled sheet that lets rain and site dirt fall through.
- Toe boards All the way round, so nothing rolls off the edge of a landing.
- A secured first step The bottom of the flight is anchored and can be secured against unauthorised access.
Enquiry
Tell us three things
How high the way up has to reach, when you need it, and exactly where the site is. We need nothing more for a firm quotation. Everything else we settle on the phone or on site.
- The height, or the number of storeys
- The period you want, from erection to dismantling
- The address and the access in Waldfeucht
Rather speak to someone
Give us a call. If nobody picks up, leave your number and we will ring you back.
How it runs
From the enquiry to the dismantling
Four steps, and the same company at every one of them.
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01
Enquiry
You describe the height, the period and the location. We tell you which type of tower fits.
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02
Measuring up
We look at the standing area, the ground and the access. The quotation follows from that.
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03
Erection
Our team puts the tower up, anchors it and hands it over ready to use. Changes in the build programme we take in our stride.
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04
Dismantling
On the agreed date we take it down and clear the area. The material goes back to Linnich.
Views
What a way up on a scaffold looks like
Six photographs of the parts this page is about: flights, landings, handrails and decks.
Where we work
Waldfeucht and the places around it
Our yard is in Linnich. We drive to Waldfeucht with our own vehicles, so the material and the erection crew arrive together.
Villages and neighbouring towns
- Waldfeucht
- Haaren
- Bocket
- Braunsrath
- Brüggelchen
- Frilinghoven
- Obspringen
- Selsten
- Selfkant
- Gangelt
- Heinsberg
- Geilenkirchen
Your place is not on the list? Ask anyway. We will tell you honestly whether we can serve the site.
Questions
Common questions about stair towers
A way up assembled from scaffold components, with proper flights of stairs, landings and handrails. It stands beside the building or inside a bay of the facade scaffold, and it replaces the ladder as the route up.
Yes. We build the tower free standing or tie the flight into an existing facade scaffold. Which of the two works we see when we measure up, at the standing area and at the anchor points.
As long as the site needs it. Give us the period you have in mind with the enquiry and we will set erection and dismantling around it. If the build programme moves, talk to us.
Yes, escape stairs are part of our schedule of services. They are the second way down while the permanent staircase cannot be used.
That depends on the height, on the standing area and on the hire period. We do not quote a flat price we would have to correct afterwards. Send us those three details and you will get a quotation for them.
Yes. Waldfeucht is in the Heinsberg district and is part of the area we serve. The vehicles and the erection crew set out from Linnich.