A Mezzanine Floor in Your Shed or Warehouse

A Mezzanine Floor in Your Shed or Warehouse

What is a Mezzanine Floor?

A mezzanine floor in your shed or warehouse is a raised area giving you an extra floor in your shed or warehouse. A mezzanine is a freestanding structure built on your existing floor to give you more storage space, an increased Production area or even an office administration area. It is the perfect way to avoid having to move to bigger premises or just to make more storage space without the hassle of moving to a new building.

Avoid the expensive and logistically complex move to a new warehouse and increase both the pick area and floor space of your existing warehouse with a raised storage area.

How is a mezzanine floor kit made?

A “mezzanine floor” is installed into existing buildings to add further useful space and is usually a steel structure with timber or steel mesh decking. This ‘space’ is usually above an existing original floor.

Steel storage areas are highly customisable and they are a low-cost way to increase storage space by using free airspace in any shed or warehouse. The use of a raised storage area or warehouse mezzanine floor can double floor space, allowing for a low-cost expansion solution.

An added space after the building was completed is called a mezzanine floor. It is simply a storey (or floor) in a building that has one or more open edges. (That is an edge that does not butt up to the building walls and is left ‘open”.

Mezzanine is used to describe a floor that has been added above the existing floor.  The term is also used for a floor structure that is classed as non-permanent, regardless of whether it has an open edge and its size.

Mezzanine areas make sense – A Mezzanine Floor in Your Shed or Warehouse

Customers will often request a mezzanine in their new shed or warehouse. A new shed quote can include a mezzanine. Including a mezzanine floor in the initial design can often be cheaper and easier to install than retrofitting. However, it is never too late to consider the addition of a mezzanine. Your imagination is all that will hold you back in the design.

Your mezzanine floor and shed design will be determined with a few questions. We will work with our customers to find out the best solution to their requirements.

Australian Standards on Mezzanine floors.

Deflection limits are extremely important and often ignored by many disreputable installers and manufacturers. The floor can experience an allowable ‘bend’ when loads are applied. Australia has Australian Standards for these, just like in shed buildings, but again these standards are often ignored.  A professional, competent business like Professional Choice Sheds® will assist you in determining what your requirement demands are, then explain their proposal with their quote.

Again, if you have a metal shed or warehouse, it has barely the strength to carry its own weight. Do not allow the use of brackets against already over-stretched beams. This happens with a cheap mezzanine build.  It’s OK to fix to existing structural walls. Your Australian high tensile steel mezzanine should be ‘stand-alone” and this is what you get with Professional Choice Sheds®

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Professional Choice Sheds® – Proposal and engineering

You will receive a highly detailed proposal. To ensure that the mezzanine is up to Australian Standards, this includes the description of the steel to be used. An engineering certificate is quite a useless piece of paper. That is unless you can be sure that your structure has been fully tested to pass all Standards. You can be 100% sure of Professional Choice Sheds. Fantastic engineering, easy followed drawings, and no hassle with any council on the engineering or certification.

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