Thanks for the insight into a scaffolders mind, and MANY thanks for the ones who took it seriously!
Firstly its the finished job you're looking at. The back and sides are terrible, only the part you have seen faces the road. I came here to get a second opinion only, as I was already sure he'd cut corners, literally. Theres no toe boards or top rails, and we were told that board is staying on the outhouse roof. You've only seen the end, where I had the concern over the board.
As I stated in the orignal post, I'm NOT paying for it, the landlord is and doing the whole job on the cheap. Our place plus next doors whole roof stripepd re-tiled, felt, battens, ridge + pointing all for just £4,000! yeah right. Tiles for our roof alone will cost most of that.
Now I have all the info I need, tommorrow is D-Day as its going to be put right or I'll get our old friends HSE on the case, then see who's laughing.
As for safety is obvious the ones who've made the flippant comments havn't worked at it for long or have been extremely lucky. I'm 49 and been a tree surgeon most of my life. Just hung my hat up this year to take things easy. We dont ever grumble about wearing ppe or harnesses hot or cold, only a fool takes risks. You lives must be cheap or you don't care to provide for wives or kids as any accident where you didnt comply with safety regs usually mean a forfeit of an insurance claim lieu of your sposes or next of kin.
Finally any harness that would kill you in 20 mins cant be much good. Only idiots would work at height alone. Also you're scaffolders i.e. strong lads so how come you would be able to haul yourselves back up to safety?