One of the most immediate and noticeable benefits of installing an office mezzanine floor is the significant increase in usable space. Mezzanines can double or triple the existing floor space without costly relocation, whether you need additional office space, storage, or meeting rooms. This adaptability makes mezzanines an ideal choice for businesses facing space constraints.

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Every mezzanine floor project begins with a free comprehensive consultation. Advantage Storage and Handling prioritises a detailed understanding of your business’s storage challenges to create a bespoke design that maximises space and usability. Our customisation capabilities extend to the choice of materials, decking, and finish to ensure your new mezzanine floor seamlessly integrates into your existing environment.

Whether you need to expand production, set up a quality control station, or facilitate order picking, a mezzanine allows you to quickly adapt to changing business needs without disrupting the current organisation of your warehouse. The versatility ensures that your warehouse operates optimally, adjusted for real-time logistics demands.

Falls are a natural occurrence but the preventable reasons why they occur or safety measures in place to reduce the impact in the workplace are key considerations. Many slips and trips that result in lawsuits come from a simple spillage or out of place obstacle. Risks that are easily removed by health and safety training should be undertaken by all staff. Immediate cleaning of spills, appropriate signage and storing objects in their correct place. It seems so simple, doesn’t it? Other causes of falls may be improper clothing or footwear, inadequate lighting or rushed actions, all avoidable through proper training and upkeep. The greater danger of a fall in a warehouse environment is from a height. This could turn an accident into a tragedy. If stock is stored on a mezzanine there must be handrails or barriers, and pallet gates in place to prevent any possibility of falling from an exposed edge or manual handling injuries. When handling larger or heavier products and materials on pallet racking systems, teams should use a forklift truck or other appropriate handling equipment to protect themselves from falling objects but to also safely manoeuvre items as and when required. When working at height for installations or maintenance and where there are exposed edges, fall protection such as harnesses is essential and potentially lifesaving.

Click to see our range of safety barriers.  These are specifically designed to ensure protection from load falling and prevent any exposure to edges.

Cantilever racking systems are ideal for the construction, manufacturing and logistics industries where there is a need to store heavy-duty and bulky materials and products, offering a wide range of benefits, including:

Mezzanine floors enable manufacturers to streamline their workflow and improve organisational efficiency. By segregating different manufacturing processes across multiple levels and operations can be better organised. For example, the ground floor can be dedicated to receiving, packaging, and shipping, offices, while the mezzanine level can house assembly lines or specialised production areas. This separation minimises interference between different stages of production, reduces congestion, and optimises the movement of goods. Read more on how you can improve business efficiency with a mezzanine installation.

The load-bearing capacity (3.5kN, 4.8kN, 7.2kN and 9.6kN as standard) and structural considerations play a significant role in determining the cost. If the mezzanine floor needs to support heavy equipment, machinery, or large amounts of storage, it will require stronger materials and construction techniques, which can add to the cost. Mezzanines as a rule are bespoke in construction and so can be designed to meet additional load capacities that might fall outside of the standard specifications.

There are different types of pallet gates available depending on pallet sizes and business needs, such as height restrictions or how the mezzanine or platform will be loaded and unloaded. The options for pallet gates are:

• Up and over: One of the most common types of pallet gates, which has been designed so the operative or employee pulls the barrier down to expose the loading edge for the forklift truck. This style has two barriers on a balanced up-and-down mechanism, rising up to open and allow pallets to be placed or removed, and closing again to protect the loading/offloading, or exposed edge. This prevents the worker from having to go near the unprotected or exposed area and reduces the risk of the individual, product or pallet falling.
• Bi-Swing: Bi-Swing pallet gates come with two spring-loaded gates that close on the exposed edge as soon as the pallet has been moved away from the loading area. They can be pushed open for loading also allowing the worker to stay well away from any high risks edges.
• Concertina: These pallet gates rise up folding all the barriers together at the top to increase the headroom for higher loaded pallets. This style is for larger pallets and offers a range of 1300mm to over 3000mm in width, in excess of 2500mm in depth, and 1800mm to 3000mm in height. They operate in a similar fashion to the up-and-over pallet gate.
• 360-degree: Rotating or 360-pallet gates have a 3-sided barrier on a rotating base that stands just 50mm from the floor. This swings all the way round, allowing the pallet to be placed in the open end and swung round to be offloaded. These offer no restrictions on headroom other than your ceiling height. The pallet’s width and depth it less flexible and a business must be clear on what size they will be working with.

If your business is in the industrial sector, you must always keep up with busy manufacturing or production lines and have efficient time management. To help manage busy manufacturing and production functions, a slightly different type of mezzanine floor would work for you. A production mezzanine floor offers the ability to increase workspace, add machines, increase dispatch or packaging areas and more.

Advantage works closely with our customers to understand their needs and ambitions, not only to create a space that addresses their current plans but also to help with future proofing for the greater vision.

Production mezzanine floors, depending on their size and purpose, will need to be fire-rated and come equipped with all necessary safety features. All mezzanines need are subject to building control and should be signed off accordingly. A turnkey supplier such as ourselves will also provide heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), electrics, plumbing or any other associated works required. Delivering your project with maximum efficiency and minimum disruption to your business.

A mezzanine floor is great for adding extra office space while freeing up the ground floor for manufacturing, production, or storage. Offices can be built on top or underneath a mezzanine floor and with enough headroom a mezzanine can have multiple stories, allowing for each level to be designed to meet different requirements. Whether that be offices to the underside or on top, and storage on the other, there is double the floor area to work with. Connected by staircases from the floor, a mezzanine can be one of the best ways to utilise available space, creating that much-needed floor area to add the necessary office space, meeting and break-out rooms, restrooms, canteens, or even kitchen areas for staff to relax in whilst on breaks. More information about office mezzanines can be found in our blog.

More permanent options would include remodeling the internal of the warehouse by building walls and fitting it out like a new build, this is not always feasible if especially if you don’t own the building. Also, if changes impact the building’s exterior it will require more complicated planning permission and is likely to be much more expensive.