Mobile Shelving

Our mobile shelving is a cost-effective, high-density way to store far more in the same room, removing the fixed aisles that static shelving wastes.

• Space-saving by design: bays roll along a floor track, so you keep one moving aisle instead of several fixed ones and reclaim the rest as storage.
• Medium weight, medium duty: built for everyday archive, records and stock storage.
• Manual operation: move each bay with a hand-wheel capstan or a push and pull handle, with no power supply or wiring to install.
• Composite steel track: fitted with levelling shims and an 18mm false floor, so it runs true on uneven surfaces.
• Flexible sizes: base widths of 1200mm, 1000mm, 900mm and 750mm, single or double-sided.
• Standard heights and depths: 1825mm, 2125mm and 2425mm high, with shelf depths from 150mm to 600mm.
• UK made to ISO 9001: with free UK Mainland delivery on most orders and a free site survey to plan your layout.

We have supplied storage since 2008 and source from established UK manufacturers, so you get a proven, medium-duty system and a team who can work out the right layout around your space.

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How our mobile shelving works

The system is refreshingly simple to run. Each bank of bays sits on a wheeled mobile carriage that glides along a high-quality steel track. To reach what you need, you turn a hand-wheel capstan or push and pull the handle, and a chain and sprocket drive moves the bay smoothly aside. There is no power supply to install and no wiring to maintain, which keeps both the cost and the upkeep down.

The base is completely free-standing. Its composite steel track carries the load with minimal deflection, levelling shims deal with uneven surfaces, and an 18mm flooring-grade false floor gives a safe, flush surface to walk on, so the whole system runs true even in an older building. Bays can be single or double-sided, which lets you place a run against a wall or back to back down the middle of a room.

Because only one aisle is ever open, a mobile shelving run holds a good deal more than the same floor area of static shelving, and everything stays at a comfortable height to reach. For most teams the manual, medium-duty design hits the sweet spot: enough capacity for daily archive and stock storage, without the cost or servicing of a powered system.

Mobile shelving for archives, offices and stockrooms

Because it is medium weight and medium duty, this system suits the everyday storage that quietly eats floor space. Think document and box archives, records rooms, libraries, sample and stock cupboards, stationery stores and back-office overflow. It is equally at home in a busy office as in a warehouse mezzanine, and we also supply tape storage roller racking for server and media rooms.

Schools, the NHS, councils and commercial offices all reach for mobile shelving when a records room or store cupboard is bursting, because it buys back space without the upheaval of moving to a bigger site. If your team keeps files, samples or supplies that have to stay on hand, it is usually the tidiest fix.

Sizes, capacity and specification

The range is built around practical sizes rather than one fixed model, with the widths, heights and depths listed above, single or double-sided. That spread means you can match the system to what you actually store, from slim box files to deeper archive cartons, and you can mix depths across a single run.

Not sure how many bays your room will take, or how the tracks should be laid out? Tell us your floor dimensions and what you need to store, and we will help you work out the most efficient layout before you commit to anything.

Delivery, site surveys and value

Because every room is different, we offer a free site survey so the system is specified around your actual space rather than a catalogue guess. Standard shelving typically arrives within 10 to 20 business days, and for larger projects there is volume pricing.

Ready to get more from the same four walls? Browse the mobile shelving options above, or call our team on 01244 264627 for free advice and a layout that makes every square metre work harder.

Mobile shelving FAQs

How much space can mobile shelving save?

Static shelving needs a fixed aisle between every run. Mobile shelving keeps just one moving aisle that you open where you need it, so the floor those extra aisles used to take becomes usable storage instead. The exact gain depends on your room, which is why we offer a free site survey.

Is the system manual or powered?

It is manual. You move each bay with a hand-wheel capstan or a push and pull handle, driven by a chain and sprocket mechanism, so there is no power supply, wiring or electrical servicing to worry about.

Will it work on an uneven or older floor?

Yes. The base is free-standing, so it does not need bolting into your existing floor, and the track is fitted with levelling shims under an 18mm false floor to keep everything running true on uneven surfaces.

What can I store on it, and what sizes are available?

Bays come in 1200mm, 1000mm, 900mm and 750mm widths, heights up to 2425mm and depths up to 600mm, single or double-sided. That makes it a good fit for archive boxes, files, records, samples and general stock. Tell us what you keep and we will match the specification to it.