Did you send the roofer a message thanking him for removing it?A resolution.
On my way out to buy a pint of milk I saw three scaffolders working on a nearby house.
I had a swift word with the foreman who put me on to his gaffer.
He grasped the situation, and said the lads would remove it provided there would be no comeback.
I commented that I didn't have anything other than his first name.
They finished 'throwing off' the scaffold at the job they were on, and were in my back lane within half an hour.
An hour later and the scaffolding was down and loaded on their wagon.
The foreman said it always takes a bit longer to take down somebody else's erection (@Fnaar) because each team erects in their own way.
While they were doing it, I checked when I paid for the roof, which was in early November.
Thus the scaffolding has been left for more than four months.
Time enough for me to fairly judge it's been abandoned.
Too late now anyway, what's gone is gone.
I gave the lads twenty quid because they couldn't have done a better or more timely job for me.
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?
Then when he comes back to you and says that they scaffolders haven't been round yet you can say, 'well it wasn't there when I got home just now.'