Case Studies

How canopies and rack clad cantilever solutions help pro-long and enhance timber storage from rain and the British weather

With heavy products often stored at height in warehouses and yards, health and safety should be everyone’s responsibility at a builders’ merchant depot, argues Mike Gorman, Sales Director and a SEMA-qualified Inspector at Filstorage.

Optimising storage space in timber yards and warehouses is becoming increasingly important for merchants wanting to find efficiencies in how their businesses are run.

With a critical shortage of warehouse space in the UK, so much so national media reports have suggested Britain could run out of space entirely within a year, it is no surprise builders’ merchants are struggling to find new sites. Here are our top tips to utilise your space.

Filstorage has helped Fielden Factors with their requirement to expand the storage capabilities at their Todmorden branch with the design, supply and installation of a rack supported mezzanine floor in the warehouse and cantilever racking in the yard.

Filstorage has completed the installation of a new run of cantilever racking with a canopy at NMSB’s Builder’s Merchants branch in New Milton, Hampshire.

Filstorage have helped family-owned Builders and Timber Merchants, PGR Timber with their expansion plans by completing supply and installation of their new depot in Chelmsford.

Yorkshire company, Fil (formerly Filplastic), has been at the forefront of this evolution for more than 20 years, producing and creating innovative branch concepts designed to maximise the space available.

Filplastic has helped a Hampshire builders’ merchant turn its vision of a new depot into reality with a £70,000 contract.