Buy Scaffold?

[Slowrenos]

I'm thinking of buying a scaffold.
In the ongoing saga of repairing my house windows, I'm now up to those on the high side (house is single-storey, but on a slope - garage is under the lounge-room). To deal with the lounge-room windows we'd need to be on a platform seven or eight feet off the ground. That means scaffold.
I know how slow I am, and I know I'd be spending a fortune hiring a Kennards scaffold for each window. So, buy one and sell it on Gumtree when the job's finished?
A firm in Dandenong has quoted me $1367 for a suitable brand-new aluminium scaffold. Salesman assured me that it would "hold its value".
Many questions: eg - Aluminium scaffolds come from China, don't they? Are they all of good quality? Would re-selling be a problem? etc.
I'd be grateful for any info or advice.

[ForeverYoung]

buy 2nd hand, sell 2nd hand.
you'll want adjustable screw jack stands, they can be expensive.
no need for aluminium.

I bought a heap of kwikstage which was perfect for my steeply sloping site.
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[ErrolFlynn]

I’m in a similar situation. I need to get myself 3.5 metres off the ground for a job I need to do. Slightly sloping land too, which doesn’t help.

The solution I’m planning is to use pallet racking. (That’s the shelves you see in Bunnings stores.) From time to time, you see racking come up for sale second-hand. Some of it’s reasonably priced. I don’t mean the cheap shelving you might store a can of paint, but the heavy-duty stuff that can support car engines. I like the idea of using it as scaffolding because it will have a use afterwards as shelving in my shed. It comes in various heights, which is good.

You might consider it as a possible solution.

In my case, because of the uneven ground, and because I want a deck on that side, I’m going to build my deck first. That will provide a level surface for the pallet rack frames. I was planning on having the deck posts carefully positioned so that the frame posts would be directly over the deck posts. The whole thing would still need to be braced and secured (perhaps bolted to the deck posts) before climbing onto it.