Asset-backed Scaffold Rental Business | 40+ Year Brand For Sale

Property Information

Real Estate:

Lease

Location:

Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Premises Details:

Leased 30,000 sq ft industrial yard for fleet storage, load-out, equipment maintenance and crew dispatch, at $3,520 per month. Room to expand on a larger underutilized parcel; a proposed longer-term lease is available for review. No real estate is included in the sale.

Size in square feet:

30,000

Business Operation

Management type:

This business is owner operated.

Expansion Potential:

Concrete levers a new owner can pull: (1) build on the existing Powerbase system with fleet tracking and a CRM to lift utilization, quoting speed and margin; (2) actively market high-margin specialty systems such as shrink wrap, netting and temporary roofs; (3) add a structured outreach program or business development manager targeting envelope, restoration and general contractors; (4) invest in a website, local SEO and reviews, as the brand currently generates inbound work with minimal advertising; (5) for a strategic buyer, capture purchasing, fleet-sharing, cross-selling and back-office synergies; (6) extend into adjacent markets with the owned, mobile fleet. The leased yard can expand to hold more inventory.

Competition / Market:

The Canadian scaffold rental market is estimated at about $240M and growing roughly 8% a year, supported by an aging 1970s to 1990s condominium stock needing envelope remediation, rising insurance costs that drive restoration work, and a construction labour shortage that favours established, crewed providers. Competitors include national access and rental firms with limited local presence and higher mobilization costs, small labour-only scaffold crews with little owned inventory, and general equipment rental houses without erection or specialty capability. The company competes on its owned fleet, engineered and stamped systems, full scope from erection to dismantle, specialty systems and a four-decade reputation.

Reasons for selling:

Lifestyle. In the owner's words: "It's an amazing business from a financial standpoint and I'm proud of what I've built. It's time for me to take a step back and let someone with the expertise and infrastructure to take over and scale it to what I know it's capable of."

Trading hours:

Standard construction hours, with emergency response; operates year round

Employees:

15

Years established:

40+

Other Information

Support & training:

The owner will support a negotiable transition: three months of full-time, hands-on handoff (client relationships, estimating, supplier contacts, crew management and the job cycle), extendable to twelve months part time, with ad hoc advisory support available for up to 24 months. A CPA controller is positioned to step up as General Manager, and the yard manager is on a five-year employment agreement.

Owner financing:

Owner financing is available. Please contact the seller for more information.

Financing available:

The owner is open to a vendor note. At about 50% EBITDA margins the business supports cash-flow-based acquisition financing, with the owned fleet providing additional lender comfort. Offered as an asset sale, cash free and debt free, which also gives a buyer a depreciation step-up on the owned fleet.