Steel the other trades build onto
Canopies, Juliet balconies, glazing steel, balustrades and brackets for self builders, extension builders and business owners in Attleborough. We make the frame that the glass, oak and roofing fix to, 17 miles up the A11 in Norwich, and fit it when your other trades need it.
Attleborough, about 17 miles from Norwich down the A11.
Architectural steel, Attleborough
The glazier, the joiner and the roofer all work off our frame. If the steel is out, every trade after it pays for it.
Attleborough is set to grow, with major new housing planned and plenty of self build plots, extensions and refits already under way in the town and the villages round it. A lot of those jobs are run by the owner or a small builder, booking one trade after another. Swift Fabrication makes architectural metalwork for Attleborough projects like these, in mild steel and stainless steel.
Building that way puts a lot of weight on the steel. A canopy frame has to suit the roofer's build up. A balustrade post has to take the glass panel that is already on order. So we ask who follows us, get their sizes and fixing details, and fabricate to them. Anything load bearing is made to your engineer's calculations, not to our guess.
How a job runs with us
Your glazier, joiner, roofer
Estimate free, price agreed
About 17 miles down the A11
What gets asked for here
A new house on a plot at Great Ellingham, an extension in the town, a smarter front on a unit at Haverscroft. Three kinds of job, and the steel each one tends to call for.
Juliet balconies with glass-ready posts or flat bar infill, entrance canopies on brackets, slim corner posts and frames around sliding doors. Every piece comes with the plates, holes and tabs the next trade needs, so nobody ends up drilling finished steel on site.
A balustrade for a new stair or landing, a handrail down the garden steps, brackets under an oak worktop, a steel framed screen between kitchen and hall. Stairs are made as stringers, treads and panels, then put together in the house.
Firms on Haverscroft, at Bunns Bank and at Snetterton grow into their buildings. We make entrance canopies, steps and handrails up to a new office door, balustrades for a mezzanine office and frames for signs, painted or galvanised.
Working with your other trades
Send drawings if you have them, or a sketch with sizes and photos of the opening. Then tell us what fixes to the steel: toughened glass, oak, zinc, tiles, a sign. If your glazier or joiner has a detail they like to work to, pass it on. Allowing for it before we cut costs nothing. Afterwards it costs a lot.
The estimate is free and the price is agreed with you before work starts. New openings are measured once they are built, because a drawing and a finished wall rarely agree to the millimetre. Attleborough is a short run from the workshop, so coming back to check a size is no hardship. Galvanising or powder coating can be arranged and adds time.
Glass already on order? Give us the panel sizes and the supplier's fixing detail and we will set the posts out to match.
Running the job yourself
You do not need an architect to talk to us. People managing their own build around Attleborough often come with a planning drawing, a phone full of photos and a clear idea. We go through section sizes, how the piece fixes to block, brick or timber frame, and the finish it needs, then work it up into something we can make.
We do not sign off structures. If Building Control wants calculations for a balcony, a canopy or a glazing frame, your engineer or designer supplies them and we build to those figures.
What to send for a priceAttleborough and the villages
All of it is fabricated in our Norwich workshop and brought down the A11, past Wymondham, to your site. We cover Attleborough itself, the Haverscroft and Bunns Bank estates, Snetterton, and the Norfolk villages around the town: Old Buckenham, Great Ellingham, Banham and on towards the Suffolk border.
Much of the town is new, or soon will be, but the streets round the church are older. If your building is listed or sits in a conservation area, consent is yours to arrange and we make the steel to what is approved.
All Attleborough servicesAttleborough steel questions
Glass, timber frame, measuring up, Building Control and the villages we reach, answered plainly.
Yes. Give us the glass sizes, the thickness and the clamp or channel your glazier uses, and we set out the posts and fixings to suit. We make the steel frame and balustrade. The glass comes from your glazier.
Yes. Snetterton, Old Buckenham, Great Ellingham and Banham all sit close to the A11 run we make to Attleborough from Norwich. We measure, deliver and fit, or supply only if your own builder is putting the steel up.
Usually, provided the fixing points are planned in. Tell us early and we can make brackets and plates for your builder or frame supplier to fix back to solid structure within the wall. Your engineer confirms what each fixing has to carry.
Once the wall, slab or stair it fits to is built. We price from the drawings, then measure on site before cutting any steel, so the piece suits what is there and not what was drawn.
That is for your designer or Building Control to say. A wide canopy carrying tiles or glass has real weight and wind load on it. If it turns out to need supporting steel, we can fabricate that with the canopy.
Structural steel in AttleboroughSwift Fabrication, Norwich
Send drawings, or a sketch and photos with sizes, or ring 07495 409006. You get a free estimate for architectural metalwork in Attleborough, and the price agreed before we start.
