Steel Beam & RSJ Delivery in Kent

Steel is one of the most common loads we handle. RSJs going into kitchen extensions, loft conversions, knock-throughs and structural alterations make up a steady proportion of our weekly work, and we have been doing this kind of delivery for long enough to know that the lift matters as much as the haulage. A 200kg beam dropped on the front pavement of a terraced street is a problem, not a delivery. A beam lifted cleanly over the property and lowered into the structural opening is a job finished.

We work for builders, structural engineers and homeowners on small to mid-sized residential structural projects right across Kent. Typical jobs are single beams or small bundles destined for an extension, a loft conversion, a party-wall opening, or a beam-and-column replacement of a loadbearing wall. We also handle small fabricated frames — steel goal-post frames for wide openings, lintels for door replacements, and the kind of one-off structural steelwork that comes out of a local fabricator's yard. Heavier and longer commercial loads run on the same crane-equipped lorries, with the on-board crane doing the lift at both ends — covered in more detail below.

The lift itself is the bit that customers care about. We collect from the steelyard or fabricator, transport to your site, and lift the beam directly into position — through a window opening if the structure is already framed, over a rear extension if the opening is in the back, or onto an upper floor scaffold for a loft conversion. Where the beam needs installing into a precise pocket in a wall, we coordinate with your bricklayer or builder so the lift lines up with their schedule. Most residential beam drops are under an hour on site.

On compliance: every beam we lift is handled under LOLER and our operators are ALLMI CSCS certified. We carry full public liability cover, which matters on residential streets and party-wall jobs where neighbours' property is a few metres away. If your structural engineer has issued a method statement, send it through and we will work to it.