Controlled Scaffolding Ltd

Controlled Scaffolding Ltd is a scaffolder established in 2002, with over 15 years' experience. The company is based in the West Midlands and employs over forty full time staff. All operatives are CITB/CISRS registered. It serves most of the UK, providing access scaffolding for the construction industry.

Services include protection screens, temporary roof systems, monarflex sheeting, scaffolding for building refurbishments, facade retention, scaffolding for demolition projects, and public access stair towers. The company has worked with some of the biggest names in the construction industry, and DSM Demolition uses Controlled Scaffolding as one of a limited number of approved scaffolding firms.

Repeated accounts from customers and former trainees raise serious concerns about how this Birmingham scaffolder conducts itself, with driving conduct emerging as the theme that comes up most often. Several reviewers describe incidents involving a company vehicle and criticise the standard of driving shown on public roads, a matter that recurs across accounts rather than appearing in a single entry. Another point raised frequently concerns the treatment of apprentices, with one former trainee describing being spoken to as though worthless and expected to already possess the knowledge of a fully qualified scaffolder, while receiving little support and, in that account, inadequate pay.

Those who have dealt with the firm as customers report a similar impression of employees behaving poorly and of management failing to address it. A single positive note refers to the work being well controlled, but it stands largely alone against a pattern of dissatisfaction. Complaints centre on conduct and on how people are treated rather than on the scaffolding itself, with the recurring subject of dangerous driving on public roads being the matter that appears to drive most of the negative feedback and to shape the firm's reputation among those who have dealt with it.