Have just had some bad news.

Rob, my partner, has talked to the tool hire guy at his work and he reckons that doing the stairwell will be practically impossible, and certainly dangerous, without professionally-fitted scaffolding. This, obviously, is way out of my price range, not to mention really inconvenient.

Feel a bit crushed. It's the weekend so I'm going to have a think about what I can do, and start sourcing alternatives on Monday morning :(

At least I can stop bugging everyone about risk assessments for a couple of days though!