Bought a machine for a workshop in Diss, and the haulier will only drop it at the door? We take it from the yard to its place, level it, bolt it down and make any stand or guard it lacks.
Diss, about 23 miles south of our Norwich workshop down the A140.
Machine moving in Diss
Delivery usually ends at the roller door. The hard part starts just inside.
We offer machinery installation in Diss for the smaller manufacturers, joinery and engineering shops and agricultural processors on Vinces Road, Sawmills Road and out in the Waveney valley villages. Few of them move machines often enough to own toe jacks and skates. We bring them, steer the machine to its spot, level it and anchor it.
The mechanical and steel work is ours, and that is where we stop. Power, controls and commissioning are for your electrician or whoever sold you the machine, and we fit in around their visit. For an estimate, send the weight, the footprint, photos of the doorway and floor, and a sketch of where it is going. If it is too heavy for jacks, we hire in the right lifting plant.
Steel erection in Diss
Unload, place, fix, finish
For a single machine, photos and a sketch are often enough to go on. Estimating is free, and you approve the price before any lorry or plant is booked.
We can meet the delivery if you want us to. The machine goes up on jacks, onto skates, through the door, round the benches and onto its marks. There it is levelled with shims or its own jacking screws and held down with anchors suited to your slab.
Used machines often turn up without a stand, a guard or a fixing drawing. We measure up and fabricate what is missing in Norwich: base frames, raised plinths, guards, steps and brackets for extraction ducting.
One new machine usually means two old ones have to shift. With power and air disconnected by your own people, we unbolt them, slide them along or take them to another unit in Diss, then level and fix them again.
Small firms, small gaps
A five person workshop in Diss cannot close for days, and has nobody spare to stand and watch. So we pick a day that suits your order book, often a Friday or Saturday, turn up with the steel already made, and aim to leave the machine sitting ready for your electrician on Monday.
A note on older Diss premises: some workshops on the older estates, and in converted farm buildings nearby, have thin or patched concrete floors. Send a photo and the slab depth if you know it. A heavy machine may want a spreader plate or a wider base frame, not bare anchor bolts.
No formal permit system? That is fine. Tell us who is in charge on the day and any house rules. RAMS are still written for the work.
Breakages in and around Diss
In a small firm one cracked frame or snapped bracket can halt every order. Our 24/7 call out includes repair welding at your premises, and the van carries its own power. Tell us what has failed, what metal it is and how close we can park.
Diss is some 23 miles from Norwich, so call outs here are by arrangement and you will get a plain answer on timing. We make the machine safe, then talk through the proper repair. The number is 07495 409006.
Emergency welding in DissDiss and the Waveney valley
Diss sits right on the Norfolk and Suffolk border, a direct drive down the A140 from our workshop. Steel for your job is made in Norwich and travels with the crew, so whoever welded the stand also sets the machine on it.
Crossing the Waveney is routine for us. Eye, Botesdale and the Mid Suffolk villages are covered along with Scole, Roydon and Harleston on the Norfolk bank. Machinery relocation in Diss, whether to the next unit or out to a farm site, is estimated the same way.
Steel fabrication in DissDiss machine install FAQs
Yes, given the weight and the delivery slot. A pallet truck or your own forklift may cope with lighter machines. For heavier ones we book a forklift or HIAB with an operator, and settle with the haulier where the lorry will stand.
Yes. We look over the frame, find sound fixing points, and make a base or feet if it has none. Where the maker's fixing details cannot be traced, an anchor layout is agreed with you before any hole is drilled.
Yes. From Diss we reach Eye, Botesdale, Harleston, Scole and the villages in between, and the county boundary makes no difference to how we price. Give us the postcode and tell us what the access is like.
Your electrician or the supplier. Moving, levelling, anchoring and any steel we make are our side. If you have no regular industrial electrician, line one up before the install date so the machine is not left standing idle.
Machinery installation, Diss
Send the machine weight, a few photos, your Diss address and the delivery date if there is one. We will ask for anything else we need, then estimate for free.