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Guides for people who specify steel grating, written around where panels actually fail rather than around what a catalogue says.
Reading a bar section
A designation like 30x2.5 describes the bearing bar, and it tells you more about the panel than any adjective can.
Choosing a coating for steel grating
The coating decides how many winters a panel survives, and it should be chosen against the environment rather than the budget.
Heel guard slot widths
Standard grating slots are sized for drainage, and they happen to be exactly the size of the things people walk on them with.
Welded or press locked
Two ways to join the same bars, with different surfaces, different appearance and different behaviour in stainless.
Why grating fails at the edges
The mesh is rarely the problem. The frame, the seating and the hook take the impact, and they are what gets specified carelessly.
Specifying a hook detail
A cover has to stay put under traffic and lift out by hand, and the hook is the only part that reconciles those two.
Tell us what the opening is
Send the measured opening, the load it has to take and where it will live. We reply with a bar section, a panel layout and a coating recommendation rather than a catalogue page.