Taking a unit on the old airfield at Ellough, or handing one back? We unbolt, carry, set down, level and anchor your machines in Beccles, and make the frames, guards and floor plates the new layout calls for.
Beccles, Suffolk, about 18 miles south east of our Norwich workshop on the A146.
Machinery relocation, Beccles
Two rents running at once is a strong reason to get the machines across fast.
Machinery installation in Beccles mostly means Ellough Industrial Estate and Beccles Business Park, where manufacturers and marine engineering firms work from sheds on the former airfield. When one of them takes a bigger building or gives a unit up, every machine has to be released from one floor and fixed to another, in the right order, between two fixed dates.
We deal with the mechanical and steel work. Isolating, disconnecting, reconnecting and commissioning fall to your electricians or the machine supplier, and who goes first at each end is agreed with them. Give us a machine list with weights and sizes, a plan of both units, the door dimensions and what you know about the floors. Where a lift is beyond jacks and skates, plant is hired for it.
Steel erection in Beccles
Release, carry, set, clear up
We walk both buildings with you, or work from plans if the move is a simple one. Estimates are free, and the figure is agreed before a single bolt is undone.
Once your electricians have isolated a machine, we free its holding down bolts, jack it onto skates and load it. If the lease asks for it, old anchors are cut flush with the slab, and any frames, brackets or plates we take down are cleared from the unit.
A new building seldom matches the old one. While you wait for the keys, we fabricate in Norwich whatever the new layout wants: base frames, packers, guards, steps, pipe brackets and cover plates for ducts or drains.
Positions are marked from your plan first. Each machine then comes in through the shed door on skates, goes onto its marks, and is levelled and fixed with anchors chosen for that slab, ready for reconnection.
Between two dates
Start from the day the old Beccles unit must be empty and work back. Together we decide which machines can go early, which must keep running until the last week, and what happens over the final weekend, so orders keep leaving for as long as possible while the move goes on.
Worth knowing about Ellough: the estate stands on a former airfield, so the buildings range from older sheds to modern units, and the concrete beneath them varies as well. Tell us the age of the building and anything known about the slab, and we will check it before choosing fixings.
Let us know the landlord's rules on fixings and floor repairs at both ends, plus any site induction. RAMS are supplied for the work.
Breakdowns around Beccles
A split machine frame, a cracked boat trailer or cradle in a yard by the river, a conveyor leg clipped by a forklift: each can be welded where it stands. Repair welding falls under our 24/7 call out, and the van has its own power. Tell us the material and the access.
Beccles is about 18 miles from us by the A146, and the arrival time we quote on the phone will be one we can keep. Safety is dealt with first, the lasting repair agreed after. Ring 07495 409006 at any hour.
Emergency welding in BecclesBeccles and the Waveney
Beccles lies on the Suffolk bank of the Waveney, on the A146 between Norwich and Lowestoft, with the Ellough estate a short way south east of the town. From our workshop that is an easy run for the van, or for a lorry loaded with your steel and machines.
Jobs in Worlingham, Bungay, Halesworth and over the river in Loddon are handled alike, boatyards along the Waveney included. Machine moving in Beccles can run in either direction: into the town from somewhere else in East Anglia, or out of it to a new home.
Steel fabrication in BecclesBeccles machine move FAQs
Holding down bolts are unscrewed where they will come out, or cut off level with the slab where they will not. Filling holes and floor repairs are builder's work, so check what your lease expects of you.
Yes. We release the machines at the old site, arrange suitable transport and set them down at Ellough or Beccles Business Park. Tell us where you are coming from, so travel and lorry time are priced properly.
Yes. Saws, presses, lathes and other workshop machines for yards on the Waveney are set down like any others, and riverside sheds often want packers under them for uneven floors. Lifting gear must come from, and be tested by, specialists.
Your electricians or the machine supplier, at both ends. Our scope is unbolting, moving, positioning, levelling, anchoring and the steel we fabricate. The running order is agreed with them, so no machine sits waiting on the other trade.
Machinery installation, Beccles
Send a machine list, both addresses, your Beccles move dates and any lease conditions about the floor. Expect some questions back, a walk round and a free estimate.