Steel for a growing Wymondham, from 10 miles away
Structural steel fabrication for Wymondham's builders, developers and business units. Beam packages for new homes and extensions, frames and mezzanines for Gateway 11 and the A11 estates, made from the engineer's drawings and delivered in the order you build.
Wymondham, about 10 miles south west of us on the A11.
A town that keeps building
New estates, self build plots and fresh units beside the A11 all need steel, and they all need it in step with the other trades.
Swift Fabrication Services Ltd is a Norwich steel fabrication and welding firm, and Wymondham is about as close as a delivery gets without being in the city. The town is growing, with housing going up on its edges and commercial space at Gateway 11, Ayton Road and Browick Road, so the steel wanted here is mostly for builders, developers and unit fit-outs.
We work from the structural engineer's drawings and beam schedule. The design and the calculations are theirs, and we neither size nor certify steel. Our job is to turn that schedule into finished members, each one cut, plated, drilled and marked with the engineer's reference, so the crew on site can see at a glance which beam goes where.
Steel fabrication in Wymondham
Beam packages, frames, floors
Free estimate, agreed before we cut
About 10 miles down the A11
Steel by the package
One RSJ or forty numbered members for a row of plots, the method is the same. These are the kinds of steel we make for housing and commercial work around Wymondham.
Steel for new houses and self builds: ridge and purlin beams for vaulted roofs, UB and UC beams over open plan ground floors, goalposts for wide glazed openings, and wind posts. Supplied as a marked package per plot, in Wymondham, Hethersett, Mulbarton and Hingham.
Rear and side extensions on the newer estates, loft conversions, and knock-throughs in the older streets round the Abbey and the market place. Beams with end plates or bearing plates, flitch plates for timber, box frames, and spliced beams where a long length will not go through the house.
For units at Gateway 11, Ayton Road and Browick Road, and the engineering firms out at Hethel: mezzanine floors, columns and baseplates, goalposts for new shutter doors, plant platforms and machine frames. Portal frames, purlins and cladding rails for new buildings.
Send the engineer's drawings and schedule and the whole package is priced as a free estimate, member by member, so you can check it against the drawing. With the price agreed, we confirm lengths and bearings with your builder, and come and measure wherever steel meets existing walls.
The members are made in our Norwich workshop, primed, and marked up one by one. A bigger job can come in stages: ground floor steel first, roof steel when the walls are up, so nothing sits rusting in the mud or gets in the way. Wymondham is a short hop down the A11, a HIAB lorry handles the heavy lengths, and our team can install if wanted.
On a live development, tell us the plot number, the site contact, delivery hours and where the steel can be set down clear of other trades.
Keep the build moving
Bricklayers reach beam height sooner than most people expect, and a gang standing idle is expensive. Pass us the drawings as soon as the engineer issues them, along with your build programme. We will say when each stage of steel can be ready, and keep you posted if anything shifts.
We need the drawings and schedule, the plot address, the finish and the dates. Near the Abbey and in the conservation area, listed building and planning consents are for you and your architect to secure. If the specification names a welding standard or coded welders, tell us and we will confirm what we can supply.
Ask for a steel package priceFrom your engineer
The structural layout and the beam schedule, with every member's section, length and end detail. Connection drawings if there are steel to steel joints. The architect's plans, which show us how beams get in. Then site photographs, the set down area, and whether a crane, a telehandler or manpower will do the lifting.
Deliveries go to Wymondham, Hethersett, Hingham, Mulbarton and Hethel, and on down the A11 to Attleborough. Being so near to Norwich, a site visit or a second drop is easy to arrange. The rest of Norfolk and much of Suffolk is covered from the same workshop.
Our checklist for fabrication quotesBuilders ask
Single RSJs, multi plot packages, phased delivery, fitting and what to send us.
Look through all the FAQsYes. Give us the engineer's schedule for each house type and the number of plots, and we will price it per plot or as one package. Members are marked with the plot and beam reference, and delivery can follow your build sequence instead of arriving all at once.
Yes. One beam for an extension in Wymondham or Hethersett is a normal order, and at about 10 miles from the workshop delivery is simple. We need the section, the length and any plates from your engineer's drawing. If the beam must be split to get it in, the engineer has to approve the splice.
Not safely, and Building Control will ask for an engineer's calculations anyway. Beam sizes depend on span, load and what sits on top, so they need working out properly. When the engineer has done that, send us the drawing and we will make exactly what is shown.
Our process, drawing to deliveryIt varies with the size of the package and what is already in the workshop. Ask with your dates and you will get a plain answer on when the steel can be ready, before you commit to anything.
Yes. Our installers set beams, posts and frames for builders and developers around Wymondham, lifting with whatever plant suits the plot, and leaving the steel level, packed and bolted up ready for your bricklayers. Propping existing walls is the builder's job. RAMS are provided for the work.
Steel erection in WymondhamThe engineer's layout and beam schedule, connection details, the finish, the site address and when each stage is needed. Architect's plans and a few site photographs help. The quote checklist lists the lot.
Open our quote checklistGoes with the steel
Swift Fabrication Services
Forward the engineer's drawings and schedule, the Wymondham plot or unit address and your dates. You will have a free estimate, and a price agreed before cutting starts.
