Factory, warehouse and mezzanine stairs
Mezzanine stairs, plant access stairs, platform steps and handrails for factories and warehouses in Thetford. The parts are made in Norwich, brought down the A11 and assembled around your production, nights and shutdowns included.
Thetford, about 30 miles south west of our Norwich workshop down the A11.
Industrial stairs for Thetford
Making an access stair is routine. Getting it into a busy Thetford plant without stopping the line takes planning.
Thetford has one of the larger food and manufacturing bases in Norfolk, with logistics sheds along the A11. So steel staircases in Thetford are mostly working stairs: up to a mezzanine, over a conveyor, onto a tank top or a plant platform.
We shape the job around the hours you can give us. Every stair is made as bolt together parts, stringers, treads, landings and handrail panels, sized to pass through a personnel door or ride on a pallet truck. It is trial assembled in the workshop, so on the night it is a spanner job, not a cutting and welding job. That keeps hot work, and hot work permits, to a minimum on your site.
Machinery installation in Thetford
Mezzanine, plant access and handrails
Send the layout drawing, or the platform height and the floor space you can spare. Add the shift pattern and any shutdown dates. The estimate is free, and it says what can be done in the window.
Single flights, and flights with a mid landing, up to storage and office mezzanines in warehouses and units on Fison Way, Brunel Way and the Thetford Enterprise Park. Chequer plate treads, a handrail both sides, and a top landing made to meet your platform edge.
Short stairs and step overs for conveyors and pipe runs, access stairs to tanks, hoppers and plant decks, with kick plates where the drawing asks for them. Painted or galvanised mild steel, or stainless in wash down areas.
Tubular handrail and knee rail for platform edges, walkways and loading docks, made in bolt on panels so a damaged length can be swapped later. Balustrades and stairs for the office end of the building too, where looks matter more.
Your standard, your designer's figures
Industrial stairs still fall under rules: Building Regulations for the building, and often a company or insurer's standard for access to plant. Pitch, rise, going, handrail and knee rail heights, toe plates and loadings should be fixed by your designer, engineer or Building Control before we quote.
Swift Fabrication makes the stair to those dimensions and does not certify it. If a mezzanine or a floor slab has to carry the stair, that check is for your structural engineer. Where a detail will be hard to clean around, or a landing blocks a fork truck route, we flag it at the quote stage.
On food sites, tell us the hygiene rules for contractors and tools, so we plan for them from day one.
Quotes for Thetford sites
A drawing or sketch with the height to climb, the clear width, the direction of travel and what sits at the top and bottom. Tell us mild, galvanised or stainless, which part of the factory it is in and whether a fork truck can help us unload.
We come down the A11 to measure before any steel is cut, and can sit your site induction on the same visit. Fitting can be booked for a night, a weekend or a planned shutdown. Galvanising goes to an outside works and adds a stage, so order early if the date is fixed. RAMS are sent ahead for your approval.
Related work in Thetford
A stair often comes with the structure it serves. Our team fabricates mezzanine floors, plant platforms, walkways and pipe supports to your engineer's drawings and installs them around Thetford, Brandon, Mundford and Watton. We can also position and bolt down the machine the stair leads to.
A free estimate comes first, then an agreed price before we order steel. We work for factory engineers, warehouse managers, main contractors and builders.
Structural steel in ThetfordThetford stair FAQs
Yes. The stair arrives as finished parts that bolt together, so many mezzanine flights can go in during one night or weekend window. Give us the hours and we will tell you plainly whether the job fits them or needs two visits.
It is built to whatever rise, going, rail heights and loadings your designer, engineer or Building Control put on the drawing. Sign off is theirs. We are fabricators and do not issue compliance certificates.
Yes. We weld stainless as well as mild steel, and can make stairs, handrails and step overs with open, cleanable details for wash down areas. Tell us the grade and surface finish your hygiene team wants.
Yes. All three are a short run from Thetford, which is about 30 miles from our Norwich workshop. That includes the Suffolk side of the border around Brandon.
Steel staircases in Thetford, Norfolk
Call 07495 409006 or email the drawing and your shutdown dates. We will come back with a free estimate for the stair, platform or handrail.