Lift and Shift Peterborough

Lift and shift in Peterborough and across Cambridgeshire

We provide lift and shift in Peterborough for warehouses, food processors, engineering firms, energy and rail sites, hospitals and schools. It covers heavy or awkward items where a crane cannot reach or cannot do the final placing: transformers and switchgear into switchrooms, chillers, boilers, air handling units and generators in and out of plant rooms, machinery repositioned inside a factory, tanks and process skids, and delicate laboratory equipment or display cabinets.

We cover the city from Werrington to Orton and Hampton, east to Fengate and Whittlesey, and out to Stamford, Oundle, March, Wisbech, Spalding and Huntingdon. Send details and photos and we can price most jobs the same working day.

What lift and shift covers

We raise, lower, turn and travel a heavy item along a route and set it on its base, using gantries, skates, rollers, jacks and toe jacks. Where a crane outside brings the item to a door, we plan both parts together and our crew takes over from the hook.

What we lift and shift in Peterborough

Item	Where it usually is	How it moves
Switchgear and transformers	Warehouse and commercial switchrooms	Turned on skates inside the room and lowered onto its base frame
Boilers and air handling units	Basements under city-centre offices and shops	Lowered down the stair on a gantry and jacks, then rolled to the plant room
Production machinery and presses	Factory halls at Orton Southgate	Toe jacks under the base, rollers across the hall to the new position
Process skids and mixing tanks	Food production halls	Skated along a covered route to its place in the new layout
Laboratory equipment and display cabinets	Science rooms, clinics and public buildings	Padded skates and a low-headroom gantry, every edge protected

Give us the weight, the size and where it has to end up. More detail is on our lift and shift service page.

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 Peterborough

Our Peterborough work comes from six kinds of building.

Distribution warehouses

Big sheds on the parks along the A1 and A47 depend on their switchrooms and standby generators. Replacement units come in through a service door between loads and are skated past the racking. See our industrial sector page.

Packing halls and cold stores

Processing sites across the Fens change tanks, skids and cold store plant during short shutdowns. The halls are hygiene areas, so the route is covered and the kit cleaned before it goes in. See our food and beverages page.

Factory floors

Engineering firms at Fengate and on the other estates move presses and production machinery to make space for new plant. Most of these moves never leave the hall, so no crane is booked. See our plastics and metals page.

Switchrooms and energy sites

Energy from waste and renewable generation sites change transformers and switchgear when the plant is shut down for it. The new unit regularly shares a room with the old, so the order of work matters. See our power and renewables and waste and recycling pages.

Hospital and school plant rooms

School boiler rooms are worked on in the holidays. Hospital buildings never close, so heavy units come in at quiet times along a corridor cleared for the move. See our healthcare and pharma and education pages.

Rail buildings by the main line

Heavy kit in equipment rooms near the East Coast Main Line is changed inside a booked possession whenever a crane has to stand close to running lines. See our rail page.

Access and planning for a lift and shift in Peterborough

Points we check on most Peterborough jobs:

Soft ground outside. Peat and made ground around the city may not take the weight they appear able to when an item crosses a yard. We check the bearing and lay mats or steel tracks under the skates.
Floor loading and what lies beneath. We find out whether the route crosses a suspended floor, a pit, a service trench or a cold store slab over insulation.
Headroom and the route. With the item on the equipment we measure its height against beams, ductwork, pipe runs and door heads, and walk the route for tight turns.
Occupied buildings. Schools and hospital buildings stay in use while we work, so the timing and a marked-off route are agreed with the people who run the site.
Street space and closures. If the lorry needs part of a road or pavement, we arrange the traffic management with Peterborough City Council, or with the council covering the town concerned.

Getting it where it needs to go

Peterborough jobs run both ways, into buildings and out of them, and plenty swap old for new in one visit. A few never go indoors: a transformer skated across a yard to a new plinth, a tank moved between buildings, a generator set into a compound, or a unit lifted onto a warehouse roof and rolled to its base.

Inside, expect a stair down to a school boiler room, an undersized goods lift, a mezzanine in a Fengate unit or a raised floor in a control room. Gantries, jacks, rollers and skates get most items past these. When nothing fits, a door frame is stripped back or the item goes through in sections.

Postcodes and areas we cover

We lift and shift in every PE postcode and the districts around it:

Peterborough: the city centre, Werrington, Fengate, Hampton, Orton and Whittlesey
The Fens: Wisbech, March, Chatteris, Ramsey and Spalding
South and west: Oundle, Stamford, Bourne, Huntingdon, St Ives and St Neots
Wider area: Cambridge, Kettering, Corby, Grantham, Boston and King’s Lynn

We also lift and shift right across the UK.

Why Peterborough firms choose Synergy Lifting for lift and shift

Replacements run as one job. Removing the old boiler or switchboard and fitting its replacement are planned together and done by the same crew.
Crane outside, crew inside, one plan. Where a crane lands the item at a door or on a roof, the same team takes it on to its base under one lift plan.
Boiler rooms to press shops. The same crew and kit move a school boiler and a press at Fengate.
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

Peterborough lift and shift jobs often come with other work, so we also offer:

How a lift and shift works

Tell us the weight and dimensions, where the item sits now and where it is going, with photos of the way between.
We price it from a desktop survey the same working day, and visit first if the route is tight or the floor is an unknown.
We draw up the method statement, risk assessment and lift plan, and check the floor loading.
Our crew rigs, lifts, moves and positions the item.
It is lowered onto its base, levelled and handed over to your installer.

Common questions

Can you work in a building next to the main line?

Yes. Work inside is planned with the site team as normal, while a crane or load near running lines needs clearances and a possession agreed with the rail operator first. Tell us how close the job is to the track.

Can you install a process skid in a food hall during a short shutdown?

Yes. We stage and clean the skid outside before the stop begins, so the shutdown is spent moving it in and setting it down.

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 Peterborough

Phone: 01733 592 477
Email: peterborough@synergy-lifting.co.uk

Send the item’s weight and dimensions with photos of the route in and out, and we will price it for you.

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