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Ten Guides For People Who Specify Steel Grating
What the joint between bearing bar and cross bar actually changes, why grating rusts at the cut end and not in the middle, how to size a channel cover so it drops in first time, and when stainless with acid passivation is worth the money over hot-dip galvanized carbon steel. Every figure quoted comes from a specification published on this site, and where a figure does not exist the guide says so.
Welded Or Press Locked Steel Grating
Two ways of joining a cross bar to a bearing bar, and the environments that decide between them.
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Hot Dip Galvanizing Or Acid Passivation
Two different protection strategies for two different metals, and what happens when they are specified into the wrong environment.
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Carbon Steel Or Stainless Steel Grating
The choice is made by the environment and the cleaning regime, not by the load and not by the budget.
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What Heel Guard Grating Is For
Why a narrower slot changes where a drainage run is allowed to go.
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Bearing Bar And Cross Bar Explained
What 30x2.5 and 8x2 actually mean on a specification, and which of those numbers you should argue about.
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How To Size A Drainage Channel Cover
The five measurements and two facts that turn an enquiry into a panel that drops in first time.
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Why Grating Rusts At The Cut End
Corrosion on a grating panel is almost always a fabrication sequence problem, not a material problem.
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How To Install Steel Grating Panels
The handful of installation decisions that decide whether a panel run is quiet, safe and still serviceable in five years.
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Choosing Grating For A Visible Floor
What changes when the grating is part of a finished surface that people look at rather than a working deck they walk over.
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Specifying Ball Joint Handrail
Why the drilled ball exists, what to measure before ordering, and how to match a run that is already installed.
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