Lift and Shift Bournemouth

Lift and shift in Bournemouth and across Dorset

We provide lift and shift in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch for hotels, boatbuilders, engineering firms, manufacturers and healthcare and education buildings. It covers heavy or awkward items a crane cannot reach or cannot place: transformers and switchgear into switchrooms, chillers, boilers, air handling units and generators in and out of plant rooms and basements, machinery repositioned inside factories, tanks and process skids, and delicate items such as display cabinets and laboratory equipment.

We work across Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Hurn, Ferndown, Wimborne and Ringwood, and out to Swanage and Wareham, pricing most jobs the same working day.

What lift and shift covers

Lift and shift means raising, lowering, turning and travelling a heavy item along a route, then setting it on its base, using gantries, skates, rollers, jacks and toe jacks. On plenty of jobs a crane outside lands the item at a door or on a roof, and our crew carries on from there.

What we lift and shift in Bournemouth

Item	Where it usually is	How it moves
Transformers and switchgear	Switchrooms in new apartment and commercial blocks	Toe-jacked off the trailer, rolled through the door and lowered onto the plinth
Boilers and air handling units	Basement plant rooms in offices around Lansdowne	Lowered through a hatch on a gantry, then skated to its base
Machine tools and fabrication plant	Engineering units on the Nuffield and Mannings Heath estates in Poole	Toe jacks and skates to a new bay inside the same unit
Standby generators and UPS	Ground-floor plant rooms in venues and retail buildings	Skated in from the loading door and lowered onto its mounts
Laboratory and medical equipment	Healthcare, college and school buildings across the conurbation	Jacked off its feet and moved on low-profile skates
Display cabinets and heavy fittings	Venues, shops and hotel lobbies near the seafront	Hand-moved on soft-wheeled rollers over sheeted floors

Our lift and shift service page explains the process in more detail.

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Where we work in and around Bournemouth

Our Bournemouth lift and shift work comes from six kinds of building.

Cliff-top hotels and conference venues

Hotels along the East and West Cliff keep their boilers and air handling units in basements or on the roof. A replacement travels through back-of-house corridors while guests use the front of the building. See our HVAC sector page.

Boat sheds around the harbour

Inside the sheds at Hamworthy and around Poole Harbour, tanks and generators get moved aside when a larger hull needs the floor. See our maritime sector page.

Precision engineering units at Hurn

The business parks at Hurn house aerospace and electronics firms whose switchrooms and UPS rooms sit inside clean, finished units, so new panels travel over sheeted floors. See our aerospace sector page.

Factory floors in Poole and Ferndown

When a manufacturer on these estates changes its layout, machines are shuffled between bays while the other lines keep producing. See our industrial sector page.

Clinics, colleges and schools

Medical and laboratory equipment travels along corridors and through lifts shared with patients or students. Education work goes into the holidays, and healthcare moves into hours agreed with the estates team. See our healthcare and pharma and education pages.

New-build and refurbishment schemes

Seafront apartments and commercial schemes need switchgear and generators set in their rooms before the finishes go in. A crane lands each item at a floor opening, and we take it the last stretch. See our construction sector page.

Access and planning for a lift and shift in Bournemouth

Points we check on most Bournemouth jobs:

Sloping service yards. Yards behind the cliff-top hotels are small and fall away from the building, so the item leaves the lorry on a gradient. We build a level landing and hold the load on a winch as it travels.
What lies below. Seafront hotels tend to keep plant in a basement below the floor we cross. We confirm what the slab spans onto and lay steel tracks where the figures call for it.
Headroom along the route. We measure clearance with the item on the equipment, and every door and turn between the lorry and the base.
People in the building. Hotels and offices stay open, so we keep to back-of-house routes and agree timings with the building manager.
Standing the lorry. Where the lorry needs road or pavement space, we arrange the traffic management with Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, or with Dorset Council for Ferndown, Wimborne and Verwood.

Getting it where it needs to go

A Bournemouth job can run in any direction. New switchgear goes down into a basement while an old boiler comes up out of a hotel plant room, and some visits swap a chiller for its replacement in one go. Others never go indoors, such as a transformer crossing a yard to its plinth or a skid moving between buildings.

Victorian hotels on the cliffs bring narrow stairs, split levels and service lifts smaller than the plant. Units on the estates add mezzanines and ramps, and newer offices can have raised floors. Gantries, jacks, rollers and skates get most items past these, with a crane where it saves a stage. When nothing fits, we strip back a door frame and make it good afterwards, or the item goes through in sections.

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover every BH postcode and the districts around Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch:

Bournemouth: town centre, the East and West Cliff, Lansdowne, Boscombe, Southbourne, Winton, Charminster and Kinson
Poole and the harbour: Poole, Parkstone, Branksome, Hamworthy, Upton and Lytchett
East and north: Christchurch, Hurn, Ferndown, Wimborne, Ringwood and Verwood
Wider area: Swanage, Wareham, Blandford, Dorchester, Salisbury and Southampton

We also lift and shift right across the UK.

Why Bournemouth firms choose Synergy Lifting for lift and shift

Straight answers on sections. If an item will not fit through whole, we say so at quote stage and plan where it splits.
Door to base, same team. When a crane lands the item at the door, the same team takes it on to the base under a single plan.
Quoted from a desktop survey. Most enquiries are priced from a desktop survey the same day, with a visit only where the route needs seeing.
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 Bournemouth lift and shift is often part of a wider job, so we also offer:

How a lift and shift works

Send the weight and dimensions, both positions and photos of the route between them.
You get a price from a desktop survey, the same working day where we can. Tight routes or unknown floors get a site visit.
We draw up the method statement, risk assessment and lift plan, and check the floor loading along the route.
On the agreed day our crew lifts, moves and positions the item.
It is set down, levelled on its base and handed over ready for connection.

Common questions

Can you get plant down a sloping hotel service yard?

Yes. We set out a level landing and hold the item on its skates with a pull-lift so it cannot run away on the gradient. Photos of the yard give us a first answer.

Can you move a machine to a new bay on one of the Poole estates?

Yes. We jack it off its mounts, run it on skates to the new position and set it down level, with the route cordoned so the rest of the unit keeps working.

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 Bournemouth

Phone: 01202 618 113
Email: bournemouth@synergy-lifting.co.uk

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

We also provide lift and shift in Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol and Reading. See all the lift and shift locations.