Mezzanine & Raised Storage Solutions

Double your usable floor space without the expense and disruption of relocating to a larger warehouse.

Direct Storage Systems designs, engineers, and installs custom structural mezzanine floors and raised storage platforms across Geelong, the Surf Coast, and Western Melbourne. Built from heavy-duty structural steel and BlueScope galvanised purlins, our freestanding mezzanine systems transform unused vertical airspace into high-capacity storage, production zones, or elevated office space.

Unlock the Hidden Capacity of Your Facility

Paying commercial rent for unused overhead space is an unnecessary operational expense. When business growth leads to inventory bottlenecks, moving warehouses or undergoing major building construction is costly and disruptive.

A structural mezzanine floor unlocks the vertical envelope of your current building, allowing you to:

• Expand Capacity by up to 100%: Gain significant extra floor area within your existing boundary footprint.
• Maintain Lower-Level Operations: Keep open, functional floor layouts underneath with ample clearance for forklift traffic, workbenches, packing lines, or pallet racking.
• Avoid Expensive Relocations: Delay or eliminate the overhead, downtime, and lease costs associated with moving to a bigger facility.
• Modular & Relocatable Asset: Unlike permanent building additions, our bolted structural platforms can be extended, reconfigured, or dismantled and relocated if your business moves.

Technical Specifications & Standard Profiles

• Clear Heights Underneath: Standard clearances of 2400mm, 2582mm, and 2945mm (Custom clear spans and heights engineered to order).
• Finished Floor Heights (AFFL): 2722mm, 2904mm, and 3267mm to match standard staircase stringers.
• Main Structural Beams: Heavy-duty H300 x 150mm profile (UB310 structural steel equivalent).
• Secondary Joists & Purlins: High-tensile genuine BlueScope galvanised steel purlins.
• Perimeter Safety Handrail: Industrial galvanised steel pipe and modular clamp safety ball-tube railing system.
• Framework Finish: Main structural columns, primary beams, and staircase modules are finished in a durable, industrial dark grey powder coat.
• Load Rating: Fully certified and engineered to your specific safe working load (SWL) requirements (from lightweight picking to heavy machinery and dense pallet storage).

Certified Access, Staircases & Safety Gates

• Engineered Steel Staircases: Fabricated from heavy 3mm checker plate folded directly into the stringer profile for secure bolting. Features black abrasive non-slip safety nosing, compliant 135mm closed rear risers, and standard tread widths of 800mm (926mm overall) or 1000mm (1126mm overall).
• Up & Over Pallet Safety Gates: The ultimate high-safety loading solution. The rollover design ensures that when the gate is opened to accept a pallet from a forklift, the inner edge is completely barriered off—protecting upper-level operators from fall hazards at all times.
• Heavy-Duty Sliding Pallet Gates: 1800mm clear opening (2600mm overall gate assembly, requiring 4200mm track run) in a rugged galvanised finish.
• Personnel Self-Closing Swing Gates: Spring-loaded single-direction access gates that prevent foot traffic from stepping out into active forklift drop zones.