Pallet racking in Hereford, straight up the A465 from our Neath yard.

Yes. We usually install in a chiller over planned shutdown periods, often a weekend or a run of night shifts, after the store has been emptied or partly cleared. Fitters work in cold weather clothing with staged breaks, and we bring components pre-sorted by bay so time inside the cold zone is short. For a freezer we coordinate with your engineers on whether temperature can be raised during the work. Fitting time depends on the number of bays and how much of the store can be cleared at once, so we agree the shift plan at survey stage. Full lead time from order is 4 to 8 weeks.

It depends on how many product lines you hold and how many pallets of each. A shuttle suits stores with fewer lines and deep stocks of each, because the cart runs lanes 30 to 50 pallets deep and handles about 30 pallets an hour. Two-way shuttles are rated to −40°C, so they work in standard blast freezer and frozen storage. In a Hereford freezer the gain comes from removing aisles inside an expensive insulated box. We model your stock profile at survey stage and compare shuttle, drive-in and mobile racking before you commit to the 12 to 16 week lead time.

Yes. Rotherwas has everything from post-war portal frames to brand new enterprise zone sheds, and each needs a different approach. In older buildings we check slab condition, column positions and eaves height before designing, because many floors were laid for a different use. On new Skylon Park units we work from the developer's floor specification and your fire strategy. Either way, the survey takes one to two hours on site and you receive a drawing and quotation, usually within a week of the visit.

Cantilever racking. Long and awkward items such as stakes, rails, gates, steel tube and guttering sit on arms instead of beams, so there are no uprights in the way along the front. Outdoors we specify hot dip galvanised cantilever, which suits the weather on an open Herefordshire yard. Arm lengths and the number of levels depend on bundle size and the truck that loads it. Most merchants also add a run of longspan shelving for boxed fixings, which takes roughly 200, 400 or 800kg per level depending on the specification.

We book around your calendar. Drinks and produce stores are fullest in autumn, which is the worst time to inspect because lower beams are hidden and trucks are flat out. Many Hereford operators choose late winter or early summer instead. A SEMA Approved Rack Inspector works through the site bay by bay, and the written report with photographs and red, amber and green ratings follows within a few working days. If you have sites in Leominster or Ledbury as well, we plan them on the same trip.

Often, yes. Firms moving from an older Rotherwas building into a new shed, or consolidating into Moreton-on-Lugg, can usually reuse sound frames and beams if they are a recognised make and inspection shows no damage. We dismantle, check, transport and rebuild, adding new components only where the layout changes. Racking you no longer need can be sold to us, and used stock is also available through palletrackingwales.shop for smaller expansions. A move of this kind is typically planned four to six weeks ahead.

Our installers are SEIRS registered, the business is SafeContractor approved and every design follows the SEMA codes of practice. We have traded since 2009 and the team has more than 35 years of combined experience. Sites at Skylon Park with security or clearance procedures should tell us at survey stage, so we can provide named operatives, method statements and risk assessments in the format your security office needs before the first delivery arrives.