A new start-up company supplying disposable PPE to the NHS following the outbreak of Covid 19 chose Simple Mezzanines to design and build their new mezzanine storage floor complete with fire protection to underside.
The floor will soon have handrail and a pallet gate to the exposed edge – client requested that we leave it off whilst they load the floor and install racking…
The job was started in September 2020 and completed within just over a week – to everybody’s satisfaction as always!
We recently published a post regarding ‘up and over’ gates. However, other designs are available for circumstances or situations where standard gates aren’t quite the best solution. Find out when is best to use a concertina gate in mezzanine flooring.
The image featured below is a concertina gate on a mezzanine. In this case, the gate itself still hinges at the centre posts. But rather than needing to be opened in an arcing fashion, this type simply opens and closes in an opposing manner. The rear expands as the front contracts and vice versa.
Other types of gate are available. For example, if headroom is limited, the concertina gate for the mezzanine is good. Where as deeper (or longer) loads might need an entirely different gate design, as will taller loads.
Simple Mezzanines can provide solutions to most loading problems. We can either offer our own products, or if you need a more dedicated gate, we can procure one for integration into your new mezzanine floor from a supplier like DRB Safety Barriers.
Just remember to get in touch with us for your new mezzanine floor!
Got the headroom? Use a raised platform mezzanine and free up ground floor storage space.
At Simple Mezzanines we love to spend our time proposing and then installing bespoke solutions to our client’s space management needs. And a raised platform mezzanine can sometimes provide the perfect solution.
We do this by introducing a raised platform mezzanine into ‘dead’ areas. In these areas, headroom isn’t limited but personnel often tend to put pesky weird and wonderful materials. These usually constitute the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ products which can be stacked up against a wall or in a corner.
This raised platform mezzanine floor was installed to overcome such a scenario. The client then decided to do a stock check and relocation. Afterwards, it quickly became clear that they had lots of product and equipment which was used infrequently. However, it took up a relatively large amount of space.
The new mezzanine flooring provided a cost effective solution to this problem. Those items which are required less frequently will be stored on the mezzanine floor. Whilst the product which needs more regular access will be located beneath the raised platform. An eminently sensible solution.
Get in touch with us here and we’ll answer any of your mezzanine related questions.
People often think of mezzanine floors as having a ‘forest’ of columns and braces below. This impedes access and limiting use of the space – discover below how we minimise braces on a mezzanine floor.
The below image shows a good example of a floor we designed to minimise braces. This was used instead of crossing braces or struts. We incorporated high level knee braces in order to allow staff to move freely and block store pallets below the deck above.
Columns on this job are around 4 metres apart – if you have the vertical space and the slab’s up to the task, we can go much wider.
Up and over gates for mezzanine flooring can be a solution to getting your load safely onto the mezzanine floor. It is simple when it’s small, lightweight and can be carried up the staircase by hand, however heavier and larger loads present more of a problem.
Typically, Fork Lift Trucks are the most common means of transferring the load onto the mezzanine. This is because they are usually available in premises which benefit from the inclusion of raised storage structures.
Fork lift trucks are a good way of getting the load onto the mezzanine floor; however there must be a safe means of doing so. This is where the up and over gate for the mezzanine flooring comes into place.
The safe method must allow the load to be sited. Also, it must protect operatives receiving the goods from the risk of falling when fixed hand-railing is not in place!
Up and over gates for mezzanine flooring like the one in the image are a great solution. When the load is received onto the platform, the operative at mezzanine level ‘opens’ the gate by drawing it over and downward from its closed position. This creates a recess on the edge of the deck onto which the load can be lifted. It also forms a barrier to stop them from advancing towards the edge of the floor whilst the gate is in the receiving position.
Once in place, the load can be qualified as safe by pushing the up and over gate on the mezzanine upward and away from the receiver towards the edge of the floor into its closed position.
Once this is achieved, the load can be removed into the mezzanine space. In combination with the gate creating a physical barrier to allow personnel to walk right to the edge of the floor. There should now be no risk of falling due to the lack of railing.
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If you’re looking for mezzanine floors in the UK, then look no further than Simple Mezzanines. We are centrally located and serve the entire UK.
Simple Mezzanines have been around for many years and we have installed mezzanine floors in the UK throughout the country. We have even gone overseas when the need has arisen.
Fill in our enquiry form (or email your sketch and spec to us) and we’ll be delighted to provide a free, no obligation, competitive quote!
Simple Mezzanines take health and safety with mezzanine floors on site seriously.
We are CHAS accredited and we ensure that our fitters receive pre-start toolbox talks and are in receipt of site specific RAMS (risk assessment and methods statement) on every job.
We visit your site following receipt of order, so as to carry out not just the mezzanine floor survey, but also a survey of the wider site. This allows us to note any hazards on site and then ‘manage’ them by agreement with the client before we arrive on site to install your mezzanine floor.
Health and safety with mezzanine floors is a common sense matter and we ensure that our own policies are married to your own in house policies in order to come up with a sensible plan.
Like most things, the more thought we put in to the job at the front end, the easier it is to get things right at the installation phase.
We like to keep all elements of the job…SIMPLE!
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We often get asked lots of mezzanine floor questions, due to the complex nature of installing and the variety of options available. So let us solve your problems, ask us your mezzanine floor questions.
Mezzanine floors are designed to help provide a solution to some of your storage problems. The end result is an increase in useable space, however we recognise that not everybody is an expert on the subject.
Visit our FAQ’s page and you can find information on what the procurement process might involve.
If you have specific questions or requirements which aren’t addressed on the page, fill in the form and allow us to help you find those elusive answers.
This Simple Mezzanines review from Kerim Suavi, General Manager of Crowbond comes highly recommended:
‘What a fantastic company! From design to completion all members of the Simple Mezzanines team have been reliable, helpful, honest, professional and above all else they have provided value. We were so happy with Simple Mezzanines in the first job they completed for us that they have just completed a second mezzanine at our premises and once again we couldn’t be happier with the result. Big thanks to Bob and Graham and his installation team for their effortless execution on both jobs!’
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We’ve recently added even more Mezzanine Floor FAQ’s. These include relevant responses to allow you to get a firmer grasp of the subject of mezzanine floors. This includes the various aspects of their design, manufacture and legislation which may (or may not) apply to their introduction within your workspace.
Visit us and take a look at the page. If you don’t find an answer to your particular Mezzanine Floor FAQ then get in touch with us.
Some spaces are easier to put mezzanine in than others but it is always possible to overcome mezzanine flooring problems when it comes to installing them. Even encumbrances like existing offices, building structures and roof steelwork don’t necessarily cause us mezzanine flooring problems. If we put some thought into it and you – the client, are committed to making it happen then anything is possible.
We replaced their existing mezzanine with a brand new, larger replacement. This replacement had new hand railing and compliant stairs. This allowed them to utilise really valuable space above their block-work office and beneath the roof steelwork.
OK so you may not have a convoluted site like this one. However, our ability to overcome mezzanine flooring problems undertake an installation like this should give you the confidence that we can do the straightforward ones with even more aplomb.
Typically, we can fit around 100m of new mezzanine flooring in 3 days. This includes hand railing and a staircase. And as there’s no need to engage with wet trades (Building Contractors, for example) the job is clean and quick. It will have limited impact upon your day-to-day operations.
Get in touch with us – we’re happy to give you the benefit of our expertise and experience.
There are vast possibilities for specifying your mezzanine finish and upgrades. For instance, you could specify upgraded handrail designs and different paint finishes to suit your environment.
Mezzanines follow pretty much a standard design irrespective of their proposed use and are either:
From there on in, it’s the way the floor is developed which changes its overall appearance to the mezzanine finish:
You may think your application would benefit from a more polished look. One of the main ways to achieve this is by specifying high quality stair and handrail finishes.
Glass infill panels, stainless steel components, powder coated steelwork in non-standard RAL or BS colours can all be supplied. These can all, when done well, add a great deal to the aesthetic of a bog standard mezzanine.
Simple Mezzanines can provide many different mezzanine finishes and designs to hand railing and stairs. We’re always happy to discuss your requirements at the initial investigation stage.
Lightweight mezzanine floors are becoming increasingly popular as new industrial units are popping up everywhere. These new units can be erected quickly and relatively cheaply.
Most facilities have high roofs as there’s unlimited space as you expand upward. However, the footprint these new sites occupy are limited by the size of the land available to develop.
Lightweight mezzanine floors made from steel are ideally suited to inclusion in these modern units.
They can be incorporated as soon as the slab’s cured, roof’s complete and the wall cladding is in place. We can also install floors using generators for our power and lighting. Fork Trucks, Scissor Lifts and Cherry Pickers can be powered using gas. Therefore, the erection of the structure isn’t compromised by the lack of a permanent electrical supply.
If you’re contemplating moving to, expanding into, or starting your business from a new unit like the featured in the image, think about future expansion WITHIN the unit.
It may be worthwhile considering Simple Mezzanines to cost your mezzanine floor for installation at the early stages. Otherwise you may get to the point of occupying your new site and realise that you need that new raised floor immediately.
Get in touch with us and we’ll help you to identify what’s right for you and how best to achieve your new mezzanine installation – wherever and whenever it might be.
When it comes to installing a mezzanine floor, Simple Mezzanines are a well established and trusted supplier.
Our experience and expertise can be yours for free when you engage us to design, manufacture and install your new floor.
The image shows us installing a mezzanine floor, which we originally built some years ago. We were recently asked to dismantle and re-build the mezzanine floor at the client’s new premises.
All we had to change was the decking, since the installation was still pristine and had stood up to the rigours of daily use very well.
Take a closer look at the picture… The stair serves two separate sides of the floor and is located to allow travel distances from each level, so that the reaches from each side is minimised.
At Simple Mezzanines we don’t over-complicate our service or try to be all things to all men. We manufacture good quality mezzanine floors which are installed quickly without fanfare.
After all, you don’t want us to take longer than necessary to fulfil our obligation to you once you’ve placed your order with Simple Mezzanines. No more so than we wish to outstay our welcome.
Give us a clear site and we’ll do the rest. We can organise hired-in plant if you don’t have the necessary access and lifting equipment, as well as looking after the applications to your local authority. We can also provide drawings and calculations for landlord approval and fire rate the floor as required.
It’s all in the name, Simple Mezzanines. So why over-complicate your life.
Find out more about us here, we look forward to hearing from you.
We can provide infill panels on your mezzanine floor handrail voids like those in the image featured below:
Logos can be laser cut, and powder coating to reflect your corporate colours. The infill panels on your mezzanine floor can also be incorporated to project a modern, clean and highly valuable aesthetic in your public areas. Even if it’s just a staircase from reception to the first floor offices.
We built the mezzanine floor for a car dealership pictured below for Porsche in Heathrow. They decided that they wanted to create a secure facility to park their Boxter and Cayman models overnight. They were used to having them exposed on a forecourt and decided they wanted something more secure.
A local contractor will be forming offices above and fire rating the underside. It was therefore imperative that we commenced on time and erected the mezzanine floor for the car dealership in two days.
We achieved both of these feats with ease. The dealership can now drive their used cars into the space beneath the floor with no problem.
Mezzanine floor corporate colours are highly important to some of our clients. They are integral to any successful brand and effect all stakeholders.
We are well aware of this and as a result we use corporate colours as and when required. Our finishes are high quality and we pay great attention to detail.
We were simply engaged to fabricate and fit a new staircase to an existing office. The staircase incorporates the corporate colours of the mezzanine floor. Hence we satisfied the clients ancillary needs.
If your company is interested in fitting a mezzanine floor or in finding out more about it, please get in touch with us here.
Last year we completed two mezzanine floors for a leisure centre based in Manchester, which runs an inflatable fun park. The floors were designed to support inflatable slides and cafe facilities. The mezzanine floor to the right has both 4m & 6m levels. There’s even a gangplank to allow users to dive off using a zip-wire!
Simple Mezzanines were awarded the job of building the mezzanine floor for the leisure centre because they’d already installed the original cafe mezzanine floor in 2015. The client remains delighted following their recent installation during October 2019.
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We recently manufactured and installed a new suite of mezzanine flooring in a leisure environment. The client wanted infilled handrailing with a combination of simple perforations and corporate logos. They also asked if we could do some glass panels in the deck. This allowed their customers to view the action taking place below whilst they enjoyed the cafe facilities!
Simple Mezzanines sought advice and provided what the client wanted for their mezzanine flooring. We formed fire rated bulkheads below the glass panels to hide the floor steelwork. We also applied painted borders around the panes to hide the steel seating channels upon which the glass sits.
Customers can now view the area beneath the mezzanine flooring whilst standing on the glass inserts (if they wish to).
If this is something your company would be interested in then contact us here and we’ll get in touch with you very soon.
Mezzanine floors can be installed even in old airfield hangars like the one featured below . This particular building combines particleboard and open steel mesh decking. This allows electric pallet truck use around the archive shelving, whilst still allowing light from the first floor area to permeate below the new mezzanine.
The moral of the story is that mezzanine floors are not limited to a certain type of building. They can be installed almost anywhere.
Get in touch with us here with any questions you might have on anything mezzanine floors.
Don’t just take our word for it. Look and see for yourself what our clients say about us in this mezzanine floor review.
We recently completed a mezzanine at J&K ROSS/ARC-BAN in Warrington. Read on to find out what was said about us:
Chris Ross – the Principal of J&K Ross/ARC-BAN – Mezzanine Floor Review
“Working with Simple mezzanines was really very easy, they were attentive from the word go and willing to discuss changes that we found we needed as the plan progressed. The work was started and finished on time and to exact specification, the site was left clean and tidy when they finished, I would highly recommend them.”
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Simple mezzanines recently completed a tranche of 8 small storage floors with W/C enclosures below, at a new commercial estate in Herts.
Each floor was around 30 square metres and the main contractor decided to incorporate them in order to allow tenants to bring the facilities to the front of the unit as opposed to siting them in the rear corner as per typical new estate builds – we encouraged the developer to see a scenario whereby visitors might be welcomed into a stand alone reception created around a mezzanine – thus utilising space above, as opposed to creating a reception area which wasted vertical space, had no access to rest facilities, and which relied upon the structural properties of a proprietary partition and ceiling system for stability, as opposed to ‘borrowing’ much greater stability from our new mezzanine structure!
Works were completed in four weeks and two of the new tenants are now proposing to have fully glazed walls installed to enclose the area below mezzanine, with high quality partitions above creating high quality, stable and secure customer receptions and meeting spaces – Simple Mezzanines anticipated this and designed the floors with deflection values which lent themselves to the introduction of office walls but with typical storage capacities too!
When Torque Logistics extended their retail logistics hub at Wakefield, they called on Simple Mezzanines to manufacture and install a three tier floor totalling around 7500 square metres.
Simple Mezzanines had previously provided a smaller single tier floor with fire protection at the client’s Leeds premises, so it was an easy decision on their part to re-engage with the same supplier.
The Wakefield floor was designed over three tiers – each with concertina loading gates, 2m tall mesh panel handrailing and tower staircases serving all three levels – it was one of the largest floors installed in the UK during 2018 and Torque brought their project in on time!
Simple Mezzanines are delighted to provide 7500m three tier floors, but we’re equally delighted when you entrust the task of supplying and installing your 7.5m single tier floors to us as well!
Simple Mezzanines recently designed and installed a new external escape staircase at Bewdley Museum, to allow guests using their wedding venue to exit safely via a secondary route if ever the need arises.
The existing staircase was over 100 years old and did not meet the criteria for modern escape stairs – it was too steep, parts were degraded to a worrying degree and the structure simply didn’t meet the standards which Wyre Forest District Council expect of their public buildings!
The museum occupies a very old building with limitations in place as far as what can be introduced into the space – the yard which the stairs exit into has an old brick ‘slab’ and is entirely enclosed – the thoroughfare immediately adjacent to the yard is used by the public to move between the Tourist centre and the museum gardens and concessions, so Simple Mezzanines had very limited space into which the new stair could be sited, however the desired solution was arrived at quickly in tandem with the museum management and the installation was effected speedily and without impacting upon the ease at which members of the public could safely pass through the space!
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