Mezzanine Platforms

All storage or mezzanine platforms, walkways and steelwork are designed and installed to comply with building control regulations and to relevant codes of practice.

Installations are designed and erected at all times bearing in mind quality and service.

Installations are tailor-made to the customer's requirements, using only qualified structural design practice.

Materials used are determined by design criteria:

• Columns are in 80 x 80mm or 100 x 100mm rolled hollow sections or universal beam or column section of 300 x 300 x 12mm welded base plates and 300 x 100 x 12mm cap plates having a 4, 6 or 8 zinc plated bolt connection.
• Base plates fastened to concrete floor slabs with 4 off Hilti HSA through bolts 110 x 12mm.
• Main beams UB sections with support column spans to any span or customer's requirements.
• Floor channels on 400 or 600mm centres in galvanised "C" os Swage type channels in various thicknesses.
• Floor finishes in heavy duty particle board tongue and groove 2440 x 600mm panels in 22, 25, 30 or 38mm thick depending on load requirements. Other floors available in flat steel plate, chequer plate, aluminium or open grid floor panels.
• Stair treads in steel chequer, open grid, flat plate or timber.
• Handrails to landings and walkways or platforms, 1100mm high double rail, 38mm ERW round tube with 50 x 50mm SHS uprights on approx. 1500mm centres. Handrails to staircase 900mm above pitch line and double rail as above.

Happy Homes Furniture, Swansea, South Wales

All round display platform on out-of-town shopping estate. Heavy duty floor for retail of furniture and carpets. Extra wide double rise steel access stairway for members of the public. Floor covered in red carpet. The underside of the floor having a suspended ceiling and clip on column covers all given one hour fire protection, to comply with building control and fire authority regulations.

N. Whittaker & Co. Ltd., Lancaster

Illustrates a two tier mezzanine storage platform 6 metres with a clear floor height of 2500mm on each level, complete with a double tier stairwell and 1100mm high double rail handrails to exposed edges of floor. Each level designed to carry 4.79 KN/M². Installation took six working days to complete.

Coach House Antiques, Colne, Lancashire

24,000 sq. ft. platform featuring heavy duty flooring, high density 38mm tongue and groove particle boarding being laid after construction of steelwork in an interlocking pattern and then construction screw fixed to teh steel floor channels. This floor was supplied with 18 metre by 2500mm wide loading ramps instead of staircases to facilitate ease of load and trucking bulk furniture. Platform manufactured and installed in four weeks.

Over the top or economy design construction. Floor beams or channels galvanised "C" or Swage style channels fixed by bolting to the top flange of the main beam by zinc plated bolts on 400 or 600mm centres depending on loads required. This method normally used where cost is of importance and there is plenty of headroom to the building.

Inset or notched in design floor channels either "C" or Swage type bolted to welded beam cleats or plates within the depth of the main beam. Channels normally on 400 or 600mm centres depending on load requirements. This construction used in most buildings where head room is limited.