Lift and Shift Deeside

Lift and shift in Deeside and across Flintshire

We provide lift and shift in Deeside for manufacturers, process plants, energy operators and food producers around the Dee estuary, and for offices and colleges in Chester. The work is heavy or awkward plant that a crane cannot reach or cannot put in its final place: switchgear into a switchroom, a chiller or boiler out of a plant room, a generator into a basement, machinery repositioned inside a production hall, or laboratory equipment taken between floors.

We work across Queensferry, Shotton, Connah’s Quay, Sealand, Garden City and Broughton, and out to Mold, Flint, Holywell, Chester, Ellesmere Port and Wrexham. With a few photos we can price most jobs the same working day from a desktop survey.

What lift and shift covers

We raise, lower, turn and move heavy items away from a crane hook, using gantries, skates, rollers, jacks and toe jacks, then set them down on their base. Where a crane outside lands the item at the door, our crew takes over.

What we lift and shift in Deeside

Item	Where it usually is	How it moves
Transformers and switchgear	Switchrooms in factory units on Deeside Industrial Park	Jacked up, rolled through the door and lowered in line with the existing panels
Chillers, boilers and air handling units	Basement plant rooms in Chester offices and colleges	Gantry off the lorry, then skated down a protected corridor
Machine tools and presses	Production halls at Sealand and Garden City	Toe jacks under the bed, skates to a new bay
Standby generators and UPS	Data rooms and standby plant rooms on Flintshire business parks	Rolled in through the shutter door onto anti-vibration mounts
Tanks and process skids	Process plants on the industrial park	Turned on jacks and run into the bund during a shutdown
Laboratory and test equipment	College labs and engineering test rooms across Flintshire	Low gantry and padded skates, landed at the bench

Send the weight and size and we will say what the move involves. Our lift and shift service page covers the 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 Deeside

Our Deeside lift and shift work comes from a handful of building types.

Units on Deeside Industrial Park

In the park’s big factory units, machines shuffle between bays after a line change and switchrooms get new panels. See our industrial sector page.

Aerospace suppliers

Firms that machine and test aircraft parts across Flintshire add switchgear and generators as their workshops grow. See our aerospace sector page.

Metal and process works along the estuary

Chemical and process firms on the industrial park keep drive motors and pumps in cramped motor rooms off the plant floor, replaced during shutdowns. See our plastics and metals and chemicals pages.

Wind farm workshops on the north Wales coast

Workshops on the coast west of Deeside that support the Liverpool Bay wind farms need heavy test equipment and machinery shifted inside. See our maritime sector page.

Food plants, colleges and offices

Food plants across Flintshire replace mixers inside hygiene areas, while college and office buildings around Chester and Mold swap boilers in plant rooms with a single way in. See our food and beverages and HVAC sector pages.

Access and planning for a lift and shift in Deeside

Points we check on most Deeside jobs:

Clean and controlled rooms. Precision manufacturers here keep test rooms clean and free of vibration, so our equipment goes in wiped down and wrapped, and we agree which doors can open.
What the slab sits on. Floors on the industrial park sit on made-up estuary ground, crossed by drainage runs and service trenches. We trace those along the route and bridge them with steel plate or mats where the figures call for it.
Headroom and the route. Clearance is measured with the item on the equipment, then every door, corner and step from lorry to base.
Buildings that stay open. Offices and factories keep working, so hours and route are agreed with whoever runs the building.
Road space. Where the lorry needs road or footway space, we arrange traffic management and closures with Flintshire County Council or Wrexham County Borough Council, or with Cheshire West and Chester Council on the English side.

Getting it where it needs to go

Deeside jobs bring plant into buildings or take it out, and plenty swap old for new in one visit. A few never go indoors: a transformer skated across a yard onto its plinth, or a unit craned onto a roof and rolled to its frame.

Factory units on the park bring mezzanines and dock levellers. Older premises in Chester and Flint have stairs, cellars, goods lifts and doors narrower than the plant, and test rooms sit on raised floors. Gantries, jacks, rollers and skates get most items past, with a crane where that helps. When nothing fits, we strip back a door frame and make it good, or take the item through in sections.

Postcodes and areas we cover

We cover the CH and northern LL postcodes either side of the border:

CH4 to CH6: Broughton, Saltney, Queensferry, Shotton, Connah’s Quay, Sealand, Garden City, Flint and Bagillt
CH7 and CH8: Mold, Buckley, Holywell and Mostyn
CH1 to CH3: Chester, Upton, Christleton and Waverton
CH65 and CH66: Ellesmere Port, Little Sutton and Great Sutton
LL11 to LL14: Wrexham, Wrexham Industrial Estate, Gresford, Ruabon and Chirk

We also lift and shift right across the UK.

Why Deeside firms choose Synergy Lifting for lift and shift

New panels in line with the old. Added switchgear is set level with the existing board.
One lift plan from lorry to base. One plan and one appointed person cover the crane outside and the shift inside, so nothing falls between two contractors.
Planned back from your restart. The plant is on its base before your line has to run.
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

Lift and shift on Deeside tends to sit alongside other work, so we also offer:

How a lift and shift works

Send the weight and dimensions, where the item stands now and where it is going, plus photos of the route.
We quote from a desktop survey, same working day where we can, and visit first when the route is tight or the floor is unknown.
We draw up the method statement, risk assessment and lift plan, and check floor loadings.
The crew lifts, moves and positions the item.
It is set down on its base, levelled and handed over for connection.

Common questions

Can you work inside a clean production or test room?

Yes. We agree the room’s rules with your team beforehand, bring the equipment in cleaned and wrapped, and move slowly to keep vibration down. Anything that cannot be cleaned stays outside.

Can you replace a boiler in an older building in Chester?

Yes. Older buildings in the centre often have cellar plant rooms down a narrow stair, so the old boiler may come out in sections and the new one go in on a low gantry and skates. Photos of the stair and plant room are enough for a first answer.

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 Deeside

Phone: 0151 808 1883
Email: deeside@synergy-lifting.co.uk

Send the weight and dimensions with photos of the route for a price.

We also provide lift and shift in Liverpool, Warrington, Wigan and Stoke. See all the lift and shift locations.