Factories and haulage yards in Thetford cannot post a conveyor frame or a loaded trailer away for repair. Our mobile welding van travels the A11 with power of its own, works under your permit and slots in with your shift pattern.
Thetford, about 30 miles south west of our Norwich workshop down the A11.
On site welding in south west Norfolk
In a Thetford factory the weld is the quick part. The timing is the real job.
Thetford makes food and manufactured goods in volume and sends them out by the lorry load. Mobile welding in Thetford therefore means working inside other people's rules: inductions, hot work permits, isolations and a slot when the line is standing. Our qualified welders are at ease with that, and bring MIG, TIG and MMA plant to match the task.
A maintenance manager on Fison Way or Brunel Way may want a guard post put back, a platform extended or a stainless bracket added over a weekend shutdown. A transport yard may have a trailer with a cracked landing leg mount. Out by the forest it might be a timber trailer or a farm implement. Estimates cost nothing, the price is fixed before we start, and a coded welder can be supplied on request.
Structural steel in Thetford
Welded on site in Thetford
Explain what needs welding, when the plant can be released to us and what your site expects of contractors. We will answer with how long we think it needs and when we can come.
Cracked machine frames, guarding a forklift has caught, platform steps, handrails, conveyor legs and pipe supports. We mend or alter them in position during your stoppage, then clean the area down. If the local supply is isolated, our generator does the work.
Landing leg mounts, headboards, side raves and dock plates take knocks every day. We weld them in the yard between runs, and can sort barriers, bollards and gate frames during the same visit.
Round Thetford Forest, Brandon and Mundford we weld timber trailers, grabs, buckets, bale handling kit and implement frames in the yard or at the field edge. In food plants, stainless supports, brackets and frames are TIG welded. For aluminium, speak to us first.
How a Thetford job runs
Factory work starts with your maintenance or engineering contact. Photographs and a short description give us the metal and the scale of the repair. Then we need dates: the shutdown, the weekend or the night shift when the plant is ours to work on.
From those we write an estimate covering the A11 mileage, the hours in your window, materials, and whether one welder or two is needed to finish before the restart. If your permit office wants RAMS, tell us and we will provide them. Estimates are free, there is no rate card, and nothing begins until you have agreed the number.
Site note: tell us early about inductions, hot work permits, isolations and hygiene rules, so the welder arrives cleared to start.
Before the visit
First the repair: what the part does, mild steel or stainless, section size and the cause of the damage. If a drawing of the frame or platform exists, send it. If a fork truck did it, say so, since the fix might include a guard post to stop a repeat.
Next the site rules. How long is the induction, who issues the hot work permit, is there a fire watch after welding, what clothing is required in food areas, and how far is the van from the job? We need these answered ahead of the day.
Thetford and nearby
The A11 is dual carriageway the whole way from Norwich to Thetford, about 30 miles, passing Wymondham and Attleborough. Fison Way, Brunel Way and Thetford Enterprise Park are each a short hop off the main road, so little of the day is lost to back lanes.
Over the Suffolk border we cover Brandon, and to the north Croxton, Mundford and Watton, where the call is more likely to be farm or forestry kit than factory plant. Given the distance, planned work suits Thetford best. If a line goes down, ring 07495 409006 whatever the hour.
Steel fabrication in ThetfordThetford welding questions
Yes, by arrangement. Most factory welding in Thetford has to happen while the line is stopped, so we plan for your shutdown, night shift or weekend. Give as much notice as you can and we will agree the hours and the cost beforehand.
Not the racking itself. Bent uprights and beams should be swapped for the maker's parts, not welded. What we do weld is the steel that protects it: column guards, end of aisle barriers, bollards and floor fixed rails.
Yes. Tell us what your site requires, such as inductions, RAMS, hot work permits, isolations and a fire watch, and we will fit in with it. If the work calls for a particular welder coding or standard, name it and we will confirm what we can supply.
Yes. Stainless brackets, frames, supports and pipework are TIG welded. Stainless wants its own brushes and discs so that mild steel does not contaminate the surface. Tell us your hygiene rules and the weld finish you expect, and we will agree with you the area to be screened and cleaned.
Yes. Haulage trailers in the yard, timber trailers by the forest and implements on farms round Croxton or Watton are all welded on site, off our own generator. Photographs get you a free estimate.
Swift Fabrication Services
Ring 07495 409006 or send photographs, the material, your site rules and the window you have, and we will estimate it free.
