More Scaffold Boards For Raised Beds

 

Now that I'm building raised beds and a mini allotment in my back garden, I need additional boards to complete the build. I sent my list over to David at Rugged London and he gave me a good price that I'm happy with. I explained that at the moment I can't walk very well and he offered to walk the boards through the house and stack them in the back garden. 

Once again, I'm very happy with the companies communication and service. The boards are coming Friday and I will blog about the quality of what I receive. I look forward to giving Rugged London another 5 star rating. If you are interested in obtaining scaffold boards for your own projects contact:-

David from Rugged London can be contacted on 0203 1501248 

or mobile 07804 444409 email David@ruggedlondon.co.uk

Web Page ruggedlondon.co.uk

9am to 5pm Monday to Friday

I read the Trustpilot reviews before I contacted David & Rugged London for my original order with them back in November 2025

They were most complementary of the company & of David and his staff.  

The reclaimed un-sanded boards retail at about £2 per foot, but if you provided David with a schedule of numbers and length you required he will give you a price including delivery. You can even get a 10% discount on your first order by signing up for the company newsletter.  

David then sent me a monzo payment link for payment for the boards, and we arranged for the delivery at my home address on Friday, and David will advise me of the ETA in the morning.

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Scaffold Boards & Woodchips

 
A long day and lunch (TESCO meal deal) on the allotment, as I needed to get ready to receive 24 number 1.2m Scaffold Boards, 24 Number 0.9m scaffold boards and 8 number 2.4m scaffold boards in order to create 6 New raised beds on plot 1 and extend two Narrow beds on the boundary of plot 1 and plot 1A.

I cleared the last of the 1.2m (4ft) boards and square flower buckets that were stacked behind the Algold raspberries in the boundary beds and laying out two 0.9m (3ft) boards on bricks for air flow to stack the new boards on when they arrived, My delivery window being between 1pm and 2pm.

The transit van backed into the car park and then through our metal gates right up to the entrance to my plot and Paul the driver, plot neighbour Wally and myself unloaded and stacked the scaffold boards, on the elevated boards just behind the boundary beds in front of the Potting Shed.

I was pleasantly surprised with the quality and cleanness of the boards, as requested the 1.2m (4ft) and 0.9m (3ft) boards were cut square and didn't have metal end bands. There are end bands on one end of the 2.4m (8ft) boards which I will remove with a hammer and chisel as I need to fix the narrow end boards into the 2.4m (8ft) boards.

We laid 4 number 2.4m (8ft) boards across the top of the piles and laid another 4 in front of the Potting shed, these were later carried up to the narrow beds on the boundary between plots 1 & 1A

As can be seem not too many boards with splits and no metal end bands, and they are cut square to the length of the board so I will give them a five star Trustpilot rating and would highly recommend them.

David from Rugged London can be contacted on 0203 1501248 

or mobile 07804 444409 email David@ruggedlondon.co.uk

Web Page ruggedlondon.co.uk

9am to 5pm Monday to Friday

Branchwalkers Tree Surgery from Brighton phoned and asked if we would like some woodchip dumped, as they are only working 5 minutes away from the allotment. I told them yes as long as they could drop off by 3:30 as it's starting to get dark these days and that's my leaving time to go home.

Branchwalkers Tree Surgery from Brighton, came dropped off the load and were gone in a matter of minutes and we have some really good path quality woodchip. All in all a really good day on the plot & allotment today.

Materials For Raised Beds

 

I have enough 4ft (1.2m) and 3ft (900mm) Scaffold board left for one more raised bed. So I have been looking for another supplier for boards as the company I got the last ones from no longer deals in reclaimed un-sanded scaffold boards. 

To be honest their boards were not ideal, many split with bad banding on the ends. I had to remove the banding from the 4 foot boards so I could screw the 3 foot boards into them, and when cut they were not right angles to the length of the boards.  

My web surfing lead me to Rugged London who are based in Kent and sell cut boards in lengths of 13ft, 10ft, 8ft, 7ft, 6ft, 4ft & 3ft.  My replacement raised beds are 4ft x 3ft or 1.2m x 0.9m and I need 4 boards of each length to make one raised bed 

Converting 3 number 2.4m x 1.2m framed beds on plot 1, numbered 12, 13 & 14  with 6 number raised beds means I need 6 x 4 = 24 number 1.2m Boards and 24 number 0.9m boards. 

I also have the narrow 2.4m beds H1 & H1 that are along the boundary line between plots 1 & 1A so I have purchased 8 number 2.4m or 8ft to extend the height of those beds, I have a few small timber roof joists in the pile which will form the narrow width ends and some 1/3 span ties. 

The Asparagus bed is now covered in paving slabs and that may become the new home for the potatoes in buckets. 

David from Rugged London can be contacted on 0203 1501248 

or mobile 07804 444409 email David@ruggedlondon.co.uk

Web Page ruggedlondon.co.uk

9am to 5pm Monday to Friday

I read the Trustpilot reviews before I contacted David & Rugged London 

They were most complementary of the company & of David and his staff.  

The reclaimed un-sanded boards retail at about £2 per foot, but if you provided David with a schedule of numbers and length you required he will give you a price including delivery. You can even get a 10% discount on your first order by signing up for the company newsletter.  

David then sent me a monzo payment link for payment for the boards, and we arranged for the delivery at my allotment to take place tomorrow, and David will advise me of the ETA in the morning. 

Tomorrow is the driest day I can make as I have another nurse appointment on Friday. I will need to get down there and clear an area for stacking the boards anyway. I will report on here the quality of the boards and the service I receive tomorrow.