Lift and Shift Northampton

Lift and shift in Northampton and across Northamptonshire

We provide lift and shift in Northampton for warehouses, food plants, engineering works, offices, schools and data rooms across the town and county. It covers heavy or awkward items a crane cannot reach or cannot put in their final place: switchgear wheeled into a switchroom, a chiller brought up from a basement, a boiler taken out through a plant room door, a machine shifted to another bay, or a tank lowered onto a new plinth.

Our crews work across Northampton, Brackmills, Swan Valley, Moulton Park and Duston, and out to Towcester, Daventry, Wellingborough, Rushden and Kettering. Send the details with a few photos and we can price most jobs the same working day.

What lift and shift covers

Lift and shift is raising, lowering, turning and moving a heavy item along a set route and seating it on its base, without a crane hook above it. The kit is gantries, skates, rollers, jacks and toe jacks. On many jobs a crane outside lands the item at the door and our crew carries on from that point.

What we lift and shift in Northampton

Item	Where it usually is	How it moves
Transformers and switchgear	Switchrooms in new industrial units and warehouse buildings	Raised on jacks, set on skates and walked through the doorway to the plinth
Chillers, boilers and air handling units	Roof and basement plant rooms in town-centre offices and shops	Taken up in a goods lift or through a floor hatch, then rolled to the base
Generators and UPS	Data rooms and standby power rooms in commercial buildings	Skated in from the service door and seated on anti-vibration mounts
Production machinery	Factory floors at precision engineering firms	Toe jacks under the base, then skates to its new place on the same floor
Tanks and process skids	Wash-down areas in food factories	Rolled over boarded floors inside the hygiene zone and levelled on the base
Display cabinets and laboratory equipment	School, college and retail buildings	Padded rollers and a low gantry, moved slowly by hand

Give us the weight, size and both positions and we will explain what it needs. The lift and shift service page describes our method in more detail.

Get In Touch

Please leave a few details and a member of our lift and shift team will be in touch to discuss your requirements in more detail.

Where we work in and around Northampton

Our Northampton lift and shift work comes from a spread of buildings and rooms.

Warehouses and distribution sheds

The big sheds at Brackmills and Swan Valley have switchrooms and sprinkler pump rooms, and it is into and out of those rooms that transformers and pump sets travel. See our industrial sector page.

Engineering and component works

Precision engineers and component makers across the county make space for a new cell by jacking machines up and running them a few metres to fresh fixings. See our automotive sector page.

Food production halls

Tanks and process skids are swapped in halls with washable walls and resin or tiled floors, which we board and cover along the whole route. See our food and beverages page.

Units on Moulton Park and the older estates

Smaller buildings here mean roof plant to bring down and boilers in cramped side rooms behind doors that barely clear the item. See our HVAC sector page.

Hospital, school and college plant rooms

Air handling units and boilers are replaced in basement and roof plant rooms around term dates or the estates timetable, and college labs need equipment moved between floors. See our education sector page.

Data rooms and critical plant

Generators, UPS, battery cabinets and switchgear go into live rooms, over raised floors we check first. See our data centre infrastructure page.

Access and planning for a lift and shift in Northampton

Points we check on most Northampton jobs:

Tight yards on the older estates. On Moulton Park and the estates around the town the yard is often smaller than the unit. We fix where the lorry stands, so the item comes off at the door and goes straight onto skates.
Floor loading. Jacks and skates concentrate the weight on a few small points. We check each slab, mezzanine deck and suspended floor on the route, and lay mats or steel plate where the numbers call for it.
Headroom and the route. Clearance is measured with the item already on the equipment, along with every door, corner, ramp and threshold between the vehicle and the base.
Buildings in use. Sheds, schools, offices and data rooms keep going around us, so we agree hours and a fenced route with the site team.
Road space. If the vehicle has to stand on a road or pavement, we arrange the traffic management with West Northamptonshire Council, and with North Northamptonshire Council in Kettering, Wellingborough and Rushden.

Getting it where it needs to go

New plant goes into a building, old plant comes out, and on some visits the old unit leaves as the new one arrives. Other work stays outdoors: a transformer taken across a yard to its plinth, a tank moved between two buildings, a unit placed on a roof or a generator skated into a compound.

Around Northampton the obstacles are mezzanines and dock levellers in the sheds, stairs and small goods lifts in town-centre buildings, ramps down to basements, raised floors in data rooms and narrow doors on the older estates. Gantries, jacks, rollers and skates get past these, with a crane added where it helps. When nothing fits, we strip back a door frame and make it good afterwards, or take the item through in sections.

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every NN postcode and the Northamptonshire districts around it:

Northampton: town centre, Abington, Kingsthorpe, Hardingstone, Duston and Dallington
Industrial areas: Brackmills, Swan Valley and Moulton Park
South and west: Bugbrooke, Weedon, Towcester and Daventry
North and east of the county: Wellingborough, Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Kettering, Burton Latimer, Desborough, Thrapston and Corby
Wider area: Milton Keynes, Bedford, Rugby, Market Harborough and Oundle

We also lift and shift right across the UK.

Why Northampton firms choose Synergy Lifting for lift and shift

Measured before we quote. Doors, corners, floors and headroom are checked before any price goes out.
Crane and skates on one contract. Where a crane lands the item outside, our own crew moves it inside under a single plan.
Plant rooms and factory floors alike. We handle switchrooms in the Northampton sheds as readily as machines on the engineering estates.
Qualified and accredited. CPCS and NPORS operators, lifts planned to BS 7121, equipment inspected under LOLER and PUWER, SSIP approved, Constructionline Gold Member, certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, and members of the Construction Plant-hire Association.

More than lift and shift

A Northampton lift and shift can be one part of a larger job, so we also offer:

How a lift and shift works

You send the weight, dimensions, current and final positions, and photos of the way between them.
We quote the same working day from a desktop survey, and visit first where the route is tight or the floor unknown.
The method statement, risk assessment and lift plan are written and the floor loading checked.
Our crew lifts the item and moves it into position.
Once set down and levelled, it is handed over for connection.

Common questions

Can you put heavy plant onto a warehouse mezzanine?

Yes. We check the deck rating, land the item with a crane or gantry and skate it into place over boards. Mezzanine drawings and the item weight are enough to start.

Can you change a rooftop unit on a Moulton Park building?

Yes. A crane in the yard lifts the old unit down and the new one up, and we move it across the roof to the frame. If the yard is too tight for the crane, we arrange the road space with the council.

How much headroom do you need?

Less than most people expect, but it decides the method. What counts is the gap between the top of the item and the lowest obstruction on the route once the item is on the equipment. Where it is tight we use a low-headroom gantry or jacks and lift in smaller steps.

Will you damage our floor?

Not if the route is prepared, and that preparation is part of the price. We spread the load with mats or tracks where the slab needs it, protect finished surfaces, and agree beforehand what gets covered and what gets made good.

Get a quote for lift and shift in Northampton

Phone: 01604 300 218
Email: northampton@synergy-lifting.co.uk

Send us the weight, the dimensions and some photos of the route, and we will come back with a price.

We also provide lift and shift in Milton Keynes, Coventry, Leicester and Luton. See all the lift and shift locations.