Thirty years of safety decking.
The Original Safety Deck Company. Quoted, supplied and installed from St Neots — nationwide on a phone call.
- FASETPlatform decking · PD10107
- SMAS WorksafeSSIP approved · 186749
- CSCSCarded operatives
- BS EN 12811-1:2003Load Class 3
- ACR[M]001:2014Class B fragility
- WAHR 2005Work at Height compliant
- 1996Original safety decking
- Class 3To BS EN 12811-1:2003
- 2.0kN/m²SWL UDL on Trad Deck
- 48 hrQuote turnaround
- 7countiesOn our doorstep
- UKNationwide from St Neots
Two systems. We’ll specify the one your job actually wants.
Trad Deck is the familiar answer on many housebuilding plots. G-Deck Lite suits some projects where fast handling, steel rigidity and whole-area efficiency matter. We install both and can mix them on the same job where it makes sense.
Four steps. The same person from first call to final collection.
No account manager layer. No subcontracted crews. The people who assess your enquiry are the same people who plan the work, and whoever installs the deck comes back to dismantle it.
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Enquire
Send us the drawings, site details and programme. We can usually measure and quote from that; if the job needs a closer look, Paul, Ewan or a senior surveyor will arrange a site survey.
- 02
Plan & RAMS
Method statement, risk assessment, CDM 2015-mapped RAMS and a delivery window before we book a crew.
- 03
Install
Two or three of our crew lay the deck in one visit. Joint Handover Certificate countersigned with your site manager.
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Dismantle
A single planned visit when the trades above are finished. Every component inspected. Area handed back clean.
Decking the work, in the way the work actually runs.
Programmes differ across our four sectors. The deck doesn’t — but the way we sequence it, the way we phase delivery and the way we write your RAMS does.
Housebuilders
One pattern per plot type, one crew through the phase. Trad Deck on the standard plots, G-Deck Lite where it suits the area and programme.
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Care homes
Long install windows, live works adjacency, CDM compliance. Crews trained for sites where occupied space is metres away.
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Apartments
Repeat floorplates, fastest unit cost. We pattern the first floorplate and the rest of the block goes in to that pattern.
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Commercial
Cat-A, Cat-B fit-out, distribution, biotech, industrial refurb. Where the bay is awkward, we'll specify per bay.
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Paul or Ewan answer the phone.
Paul Darrington founded Graceland in 1996 and still runs the business day-to-day alongside Ewan Craig. Between them they will pick up the phone, assess the drawings, walk a site when needed and sign off a plan.
There is no middle layer. If the deck on your site needs a decision, the people making it are the people who have been in this category since it started.
Nationwide from a yard in St Neots.
Seven core counties on the doorstep, the rest of the UK scheduled around crew movements so you’re not paying for a dedicated visit.
The yard sits inside the road network that picks up the East of England and the Midlands. The same crew can be on a Cambridgeshire plot before lunch and a Hertfordshire site after it.
- Quote within 48 hours of receiving project details
- Mobilising on site within 7 days, nationwide
- One Handover Certificate per install, signed on site
- 01BedfordshireCounty line is on our doorstep — ten minutes from the yardOpen the page
- 02BuckinghamshireA421 west — direct corridor from St Neots into Milton KeynesOpen the page
- 03CambridgeshireHome county — St Neots is in CambridgeshireOpen the page
- 04HertfordshireA1(M) corridor — straightforward run from St NeotsOpen the page
- 05LeicestershireA14 / A6 / M1 — direct corridor into the East MidlandsOpen the page
- 06NorfolkA14 / A11 / A47 — longer reach but mobilised regularlyOpen the page
- 07NorthamptonshireA14 / A45 west — direct corridor from St NeotsOpen the page
- 08SuffolkA14 east — direct corridor from St NeotsOpen the page
- 09EssexM11 / A12 / A120 — extended reach from St Neots, mobilised regularlyOpen the page
- 10Greater LondonA1(M) / M25 — extended reach into the M25 beltOpen the page
Notes from thirty years of installations.
compliance6 min readSafety deck loadings explained
SWL vs ultimate load. UDL vs point load. Load Class 3 to BS EN 12811-1:2003. Class B fragility. The numbers on a safety deck spec, and what they mean on your CDM file.
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guides5 min readSafety decking vs crash decking — what's the difference?
Safety decking prevents a fall. Crash decking arrests one. They are different categories of product, and the wrong one on your CDM file is a real problem.
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guides5 min readSafety decking vs scaffolding birdcage
Birdcage scaffold is still the right answer on some jobs. Safety decking is the right answer on most. Where each one wins, written by an installer who does not sell scaffold.
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Get a quote within 48 hours.
Send us your drawings and project details. We can usually quote from them; if a site survey would help, we’ll arrange one.