{"id":5470,"date":"2025-05-19T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:46:48","slug":"soaring-costs-and-work-drought-sunk-historic-scaffolding-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/soaring-costs-and-work-drought-sunk-historic-scaffolding-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring costs and work drought sunk historic scaffolding firm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soaring costs and a lack of work have been blamed for sending under a scaffolding contractor that has been in business for more than 125 years.<\/p>\n

Hertfordshire based Rodells has been trading since 1898 when it was founded by Leonard Rodell as a steeple-jacking company.<\/p>\n

But the business fell into administration in March when all 37 staff were made redundant.<\/p>\n

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Administrators from FRP Advisory said “the pipeline had dramatically reduced on the scaffolding side of the business while the cost of materials had increased leading to severe cash flow pressures.”<\/p>\n

Directors took out loans and stopped drawing wages in a bid to keep the business going but it was forced to cease trading while working on 15 live sites.<\/p>\n

An update lodged at Companies House showed creditors were owed nearly \u00a3500,000 with former employees also owed \u00a3478,000.<\/p>\n

The company operated a large scaffolding operation from its yard in London Colney offering scaffolding services for large commercial and industrial jobs across the country.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/q0jQLad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soaring costs and a lack of work have been blamed for sending under a scaffolding contractor that has been in business for more than 125 years. Hertfordshire based Rodells has been trading since 1898 when it was founded by Leonard Rodell as a steeple-jacking company. But the business fell into administration in March when all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}