Pallets in Waterlooville
Waterlooville sits just off the A3(M) north of Portsdown Hill, and its pallet trade is dominated by the building, trade supply and service businesses that serve the housing spread across this part of the county.
Trade supply territory
Builders' merchants, plumbing and electrical suppliers, landscaping and fencing businesses, kitchen and flooring showrooms — the trade counter is the characteristic Waterlooville business, and trade counters live on pallets. Materials arrive palletised, get broken down for collection by tradespeople, and leave a stack of empties behind.
The newer business park development on the town's southern side has added a layer of light industrial and service units, which brings more conventional distribution requirements alongside the merchant trade.
Heavy loads need honest pallets
Building materials are unforgiving. Blocks, slabs, tiles, bagged aggregates and boarding put concentrated weight on a deck and will find a weak bearer quickly. This is one area where we will often steer a customer away from the cheapest used pallet, because a pallet failing under a tonne of paving in a customer's driveway costs far more than the saving.
If you are palletising heavy materials, tell us the weight and how it is distributed. It makes a genuine difference to what we recommend.
Clearing empties from a busy yard
Merchant yards fill with empty pallets faster than almost anyone. Where they are sound and in usable sizes there may be a value in them; where they are broken, wet or non-standard, the priority is simply getting them off the yard so the space is usable again.
Give us a rough count and a description of the condition and we will tell you which of those two conversations we are having.