Selecting Your Standard Duty Longspan Configuration
Optimising your commercial stockroom, residential garage, or warehouse setup requires matching the perfect physical layout with your targeted load capacities. Our standard duty shelves are easy to assemble, fully adjustable and are designed for clean looks, and ultimate flexibility.
- Standard Steel Decks: Every complete unit arrives equipped with heavy-duty, clean, and durable powder-coated steel shelf panels as standard. These adjustable shelves present a completely smooth flat surface that is easy to wipe down and won't harbor dust or moisture.
- Custom Timber Deck Compatibility: If your project, workshop, or warehouse layout requires timber decks instead of steel, you can purchase our longspan frames and beams as individual components. This allows you to completely eliminate the standard steel decks and swap them out for custom timber sheets to suit your operational preferences.
- Starter Bays vs. Addon Bays: Always build your initial setup starting with a freestanding 2 upright frame Starter Bay. To extend your racking layout into continuous rows at a reduced cost, lock a 1 upright frame Addon Bay directly into the upright frame of the preceding unit. This modular growth ensures you only buy the steel infrastructure you actually need.
Uses For Standard Duty Longspan Shelving Solutions
Our standard duty longspan shelving systems are engineered to be exceptionally durable, flexible, and fully customizable to cater to a diverse range of storage needs. Designed for easy manual hand-loading, they are perfectly suited for organizing heavy boxes, plastic storage tubs, tools, and commercial inventory.
Providing a safe, rigid, and efficient storage solution that adapts to your space, this off-white racking range is widely utilized across the following environments:
- Commercial Offices & Archive Storage: Safely holding heavy document folders, photographic records, sensitive files, premium archive boxes, and day-to-day office supplies off the floor.
- Retail Stockrooms & Storage: Maximizing back-of-house floor plans for sorted merchandise layouts, incoming inventory, and seasonal window display materials.
- Residential Garage Storage: Taming household clutter, miscellaneous box sizes, heavy equipment, camping gear, and automotive spare parts.
- Professional Workshops: Providing a rugged, accessible, medium duty storage capacity for staging active trade projects, machinery parts, specialized toolsets and small parts storage.
- Storerooms & Business Stockrooms: Improving picking workflows and daily inventory tracking via total visibility of all stored items.
- Museums & Art Galleries: Offering stable, steady, and secure shelving structures for highly sensitive archival goods, historical artifacts, and artwork.
- Light Industrial Warehousing: Streamlining the manual handling and cataloging of multi-sized bulky goods and loose small to medium items that don't fit on standard pallets.
- Schools & Education Facilities: Providing the ideal storage solution for sorting bulky sports gear, classroom materials, and multi-purpose small-to-medium school equipment.
Understanding Longspan Bay Types: Starter vs. Add-On
When planning your shelving layout, you can utilize our filtering options to pick the exact configuration mix your floor plan requires. To build a safe and continuous row of shelving, it is critical to understand how these components lock together:
- Starter Bay (Freestanding System): Consists of two upright end frames and a full set of cross-beams. A starter bay is entirely self-supporting and is designed to stand completely alone as your first shelving unit. Every independent row *must* begin with a Starter Bay.
- Add-On Bay (Extension System): Consists of only one upright end frame and cross-beams. An Add-On bay cannot stand alone; instead, it is engineered mechanically to hook directly into the existing upright frame of your preceding starter unit. This allows you to add extra bays to build an infinitely long, perfectly stable continuous row that shares upright frames. Sharing uprights saves cost and increases the usable floor space by reducing the number of uprights needed.
Diagram: How a 1 end frame Add-On Bay connects to a 2 end frame Starter Bay via a shared central upright frame.
Standard Duty Longspan Specifications
Cross-reference our precise structural options to find the perfect load-rating and unit dimensions for your available floor plan space:
| Shelving Classification |
Available Dimensions |
Weight Capacity & Structural Best Use |
| Standard Duty 1.5m Unit |
1.5m Wide
500mm Deep
2.0m High |
120kg UDL per level. Space-saving 500mm depth layout. Ideal for light-to-medium duty storage, archive boxes, tighter walkways, and e-commerce picking paths. |
| Standard Duty 2.0m Unit |
2.0m Wide
600mm Deep
2.0m High |
200kg UDL per level. True industrial-grade capacity with a standard 600mm depth. Built for bulkier commercial stockrooms, tools, or parts storage. |
Why Choose Falcon Shelving?
Falcon Shelving™ is a 100% Australian-owned importer and direct retailer of premium, load-rated steel storage infrastructure. Because we deal directly with the manufacturing facilities and completely bypass middlemen, our clients reap the immense cost savings of purchasing commercial-grade storage solutions directly from the source.
Our standard duty longspan components are meticulously engineered from cold-rolled steel, finished in a clean, resilient off-white powder coating, and designed for 100% tool-free interlocking assembly. This ensures minimal structural downtime and maximum long-term organizational layout capability for your garage, business or warehouse environment.
Ready to plan your layout? See our step-by-step Longspan Assembly Guide for tool-free installation instructions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between the 1.5m and 2.0m longspan units?
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The 1.5m wide unit measures 1.5m W x 0.5m D x 2.0m H and supports up to 120kg per level, featuring a narrower 500mm depth perfect for tighter spaces. The 2.0m wide unit measures 2.0m W x 0.6m D x 2.0m H, handles a heavier 200kg per level, and offers a deeper 600mm storage surface.
What type of shelf materials come standard with these longspan units?
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All of our complete standard duty longspan units come supplied with clean, durable, powder-coated steel shelf panels as standard. They present a high-quality finish that resists rust and moisture, making them incredibly straightforward to wipe down and maintain.
Can I use my own timber or particle board shelf materials instead of steel decks?
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Yes. The complete kits come standard with clean, powder-coated steel panels, but our modular system allows you to adapt the bays using individual components. If your storage requirements mandate different shelf materials, you can choose to purchase the frames, beam lengths, and structural components individually without our standard steel decks. This gives you full flexibility to source and install your own custom timber or particle board panels.
What does Uniformly Distributed Load (UDL) mean for a unit's load capacity?
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UDL means the total weight capacities (120kg or 200kg depending on the unit size) apply only when your load is distributed evenly across the entire surface of the shelf tier. Concentrating extreme weight into a single localized spot can compromise structural stability and safety parameters.
Can I link multiple longspan add on bays together?
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Absolutely. You start by purchasing a freestanding Starter Bay which comes equipped with two complete upright frames. You can then connect as many Addon Bays (which feature only one upright frame) as you need to make a connected row of shelving.
What delivery and click-and-collect pickup choices do you offer?
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We offer a convenient flat-rate shipping model across the entire Sydney metro area. For locations outside Sydney, we source highly competitive commercial freight shipping quotes to safely deliver your order anywhere in Australia. Alternatively, you can select click-and-collect to pick up your order directly from our third-party warehouse facility in Lidcombe, Sydney (orders are typically processed and ready next day or within 1 to 2 business days after invoice payment).
How easy is it to install and configure this longspan shelving?
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Very easy. Our standard duty longspan shelving is designed for boltless, easy assembly. The beams simply slot into the upright frames, which makes installation quick. A single unit usually takes less than 30 minutes to fully assemble on a flat surface. Once assembled, you can easily customise your storage layouts because the shelf heights are adjustable in 75mm increments, and the open design offers unobstructed 360-degree loading access from both sides. In addition the longspan shelves can be secured to the floor for stability.
Can the longspan shelves be secured for safety?
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Yes. While our systems are perfectly stable on their own, the upright frames can be secured directly to the floor for maximum safety. Heavier items should be placed on lower shelves for balance.
