Buying Guide

This buying guide has all the information you need to make a purchase. If you already know what you’re looking for and want to browse our range, then click here to get started.  

Our Product Range

In summary, the range includes all-steel, longspan shelving, tyre racking, workbenches and retail shelving (see image below).

Furthermore, all our products are made from quality steel and powder coated for durability. So your investment will last.

Falcon Shelving's products are suitable for a wide variety of applications, including: warehouses, residential garages, workshops, retail outlets, commercial offices, home based offices, storerooms, shipping containers and rental storage facilities, among others. 

Buying Longspan Shelving

This buying guide begins with an explanation of our longspan range of products, because many of the factors are common to all the products.

Ideal for Long or Bulky Items

Longspan shelving is an excellent choice for the general purpose storage of: boxes, cartons, plastic totes, archive files and other long or bulky items. Importantly, you can access and load items from both sides.

All Standard Units Come With 4 Levels

Each standard unit of longspan shelving comes with 4 levels, as shown below.

The Units Come in a Range of Sizes

Starter Bays and Addon Bays

Notably, there are two types of longspan units:

1. Starter Bays - have two blue uprights and are designed to stand alone.
2. Add-on Bays - have only one upright and are designed to connect to an existing bay. As a result they cannot stand alone.

Connect Units Together to Form Rows

Our longspan units are easily connected together into a row. So you can expand your available storage area, as required.

Making a row of shelving is simply a matter of beginning with a Starter Bay and connecting as many Add-on Bays as you need (see image below).

Starter Bay		Addon Bays		Row
	+		=

Each Unit is Made Up of 4 Bundles of Components

Each Starter Unit of longspan shelving is made up of 4 bundles of components in the quantities shown below. 

Starter Bay Components 

Components	Uprights	Beams	Decks	Locking Pins
Number per Unit	2	8	8*	16

* 1m wide units need only 1 deck per level

Addon Bay Components

Add-on Units have the same set of components, minus one upright. This is because the beams of the Add-on Unit are designed to attach to the upright of an existing Unit to form a connected row of shelving.

Importantly, the width of a Starter + Addon is slightly less that the width of two Starter Bays, because you use one less upright. For example, you save 8cm every time you use an addon from the 300Kg/ level range of Heavy Duty Units. So a 2m wide starter + a 2m addon would create a row that is 3.92m long rather than 4m.  

DIY Assembly is Easy – No Tools Required

Falcon Shelving's simple slot together system makes DIY assembly easy. No tools are required. The orange cross beams simply fit into the grooves on the blue uprights and are secured with a steel locking pin (see image below).

Shelf Height is Easily Adjustable

As a result of the slot together assembly, the position of each level is easily adjustable up or down to accommodate different sized items (see image below). So the gaps between shelves don't have to all be the same.

Adding Extra Tiers or Levels

Adding an extra level is simply a matter of purchasing extra beams, extra decks and locking pins.

To make things easy, you can buy everything you need for an extra tier of shelving as a complete kit (extra level) on our website. 

Easy to Customise

It's easy to create custom shelving configurations. Simply select the size and number of uprights you need and then select the required number of extra level kits (tiers of shelving) required.

Maximum Load Capacity 

Each of our longspan units is rated in terms of the maximum, Uniformly Distributed Load (UDL) that can be stored on each shelf level. Importantly, there is also a maximum load capacity for the unit as a whole. 

Heavy Duty and Standard Duty Shelving

Our tri-coloured, Heavy Duty Shelving comes in load capacities of 150Kg/L and 300Kg/L

In addition, we have a standard duty range of longspan shelving (white in colour) that is designed for loads of 120Kg and 200Kg per level (see image below).

Buying Workbenches

Workbenches are an integrated part of our longspan range of products. As a result, they can be used as a stand alone unit or they can be connected together with workbench addons, just like the regular longspan products.

Importantly, they can also be connected to regular longspan units as required. Indeed, just think of them as short longspan units with two levels (see image below).

In terms of dimensions, they are 0.95m high and come in widths of 1.0m, 1.5m, 2.0m and 2.5m,

Each workbench is made up of:

• 2 uprights (1 upright for addons)
• 4 beams
• 2-4 steel decks (two for 1m wide units)
• 8 locking pins
• 4 plastic caps (to cover the holes on the top of the upright)

Just like a regular longspan units, you can adjust shelf heights and add extra shelves (extra levels) as required.

Retail Shelving Made to Order

While we do not hold stock of retail shelving, we can supply all your retail shelving requirements on a "make to order" basis.

Notably, our range includes standard sizes of pegboard gondola, mesh gondola and outrigger shelving (see examples below).

Pegboard Gondola	Mesh Gondola	Outrigger

We can also custom manufacture shelving and fittings to your specification, for orders of 30 or more units.

Lead times are typically 6-8 weeks following sign off on an order and payment of a 40% deposit.

Give us a call or send us your sketches and requirements and we can help you scope and finalise your design.

Buying Guide Next Steps

If you would like further information beyond this buying guide, then please contact us or check out our blogs.

Alternatively, you can shop our range here.