General Building
HERMEQ supplies construction site equipment for groundworks, building and fit-out: the props, lifting aids, access equipment and safety items a job needs around its main plant. Adjustable push-pull props brace walls, formwork and falsework at an angle, and vertical acrow props for floors and openings have their own category. Kerb stone handles lift kerbs and blocks by hand or by crane, and heavy duty builders buckets carry mortar, water and debris. Trestle accessories, including stabilisers, safety posts and gates, add edge protection to trestle platforms, and slim, high-visibility hole covers close temporary floor voids. Much of the range is manufactured in the UK, with next day delivery on many lines.
Push-pull props or acrow props
Push-pull props hold a wall, panel or shutter in line from an angle, and acrow props carry a load vertically. The push-pull props in this range come in sizes 0 to 4 and are used for wall bracing, tilt-up panel support, shuttering alignment, back propping while concrete cures and bracing during demolition, all under light to moderate loads. They are not a substitute for a full-duty vertical prop, so where a job means carrying a floor, a lintel or the masonry over a new opening, the choice is from the acrow props range, with the temporary works design setting the prop type and spacing.
Two fittings connect props to the rest of the temporary works. U-head props slot into the top of an adjustable steel prop or a system scaffold standard and seat a timber or steel beam in a U-shaped head so it cannot move sideways. Prop bracing double couplers clamp scaffold tube to a prop at a right angle, and swivel couplers make the same connection at any angle, so a line of props can be braced together with tube.
Kerb stone lifters and materials handling
The lifting method decides the type in this part of the range: by hand, from a crane hook, or on the forks of a telehandler or forklift.
Kerb stone handles and lifters
A kerb lifter is chosen by the weight of the stone and how it will be lifted, across a range rated from 150 kg to 500 kg. The manual kerb stone handle is the lightest tool, for standard kerbs placed by hand on footway and paving work. The two-person stone handle takes heavier kerbs and blocks with a wider jaw, and the universal kerb stone lifter works either by hand or from a crane, which suits jobs where some stones go in by hand and others by machine. For the heaviest kerbs, blocks and slabs, the crane kerb stone handle hangs from a crane or hoist by its lifting ring.
Builders buckets and mortar tubs
A bricklaying or plastering gang is usually supplied with builders buckets bought in bulk. Larger batches from the cement mixers go into mortar tubs, which are chosen by how they will be moved: fork channels for a telehandler, a crane lift frame for loading out to upper floors, or a flat bottom for mixing and storing at ground level. Mortar tub liners stop mortar sticking to the tub and hold its moisture, so it stays workable for longer.
Temporary stairs, ladders and staging for site access
Stairs carry routes that people use all day, ladders give occasional access between levels, and staging boards and trestles make a platform to work from.
Temporary stairways
The modular steel stairway is built from connecting units that reach heights up to 7.7 m and fixes to a concrete slab or a scaffold, so it suits long-running access between floors, down embankments and into excavations on groundworks and civils jobs. Aluminium temporary stairs are light enough to lift, move and re-pitch as the work changes, which makes them the choice for phased construction, mezzanines and internal scaffold routes where the access point moves often. Where the route also crosses an open excavation, either stair pairs with trench bridges.
Steel scaffold ladders
Galvanised steel scaffold ladders give access between scaffold lifts and levels where a stair is not needed. With no paint to wear through, they suit exposed and long-running jobs such as housing, rail and energy work, and their angled rungs give boots a better grip in mud and wet weather.
Youngman staging boards and walkway handrails
Youngman staging boards span between trestles or supports to make a working platform for bricklaying, roofline work and internal fit-out, in lengths and widths to match the trestles in use. A handrail post and bracket clamps to a board of any width and takes scaffold tube as the handrail and scaffold boards as toe boards, and a staging post and bracket supports the board on posts for a raised walkway. For a ready-made run, the board walkway with handrails combines the staging board and aluminium handrails in one unit.
Trestle platform accessories
Builders trestles carry boards for low-level work, and the accessories add edge protection and controlled access to that platform. Trestle safety posts fit flat-top trestles and hold scaffold boards as guardrails and toe boards, and S brackets overlap the boards and keep handrails and toe boards in line along the run. At the face of the platform, a trestle gate fitted with a ladder bracket gives a gated point of entry from a ladder, and trestle stabilisers brace the trestles themselves against movement.
Edge protection and hole covers for stairwells and floor voids
Open stairwells and floor penetrations each take their own product during fit-out.
Stair guard safety posts
Stair guard safety posts fix to the floor at the head of a stair or along a stair void and hold scaffold boards in pre-cut slots as timber rails. One post design works for straight runs and corners, so a whole stairwell is protected with a single item.
Hole covers
The choice turns on the size of the void and how often it is opened. Small hole covers press in on spring-loaded legs with no fixings, so trades can lift and refit them over service cores and test points they return to. Large hole covers screw down at the corners over bigger voids, which suits busy internal floors where a cover has to stay in place. Openings in roads, yards and footways outside the building are covered with road plates or trench covers.
Boot wash stations for site welfare
Boot washing on site comes in two formats: a framed station that operatives walk through at the site entrance, and a portable tank for a cabin door or a smaller job.
Boot wash stations
The boot wash station is a galvanised framed unit with mesh infill, made in an in-line version that takes three operatives at once and a back-to-back version for two, which fits where space at the gate is short. It belongs at the main pedestrian entrance, so boots are cleaned before operatives reach the welfare cabins or leave the site.
Portable boot wash tanks
The Blakes boot wash is a heavy gauge, powder-coated steel tank with fitted nylon brushes and a shape that resists tipping, and the Kinnie boot wash is a compact, heavy duty tank for the doorway of a single cabin.
Standards for site access and edge protection equipment
Each item of access and edge protection equipment in the range is made to a named standard, which is the reference to quote when a method statement or site audit asks for it. Steel scaffold ladders are certified to BS EN131 Parts 1, 2 and 3, the standard for portable ladders, under a BSI Kitemark licence, and also meet BS2037 Class 1. BS2037 is the long-standing standard for ladders, trestles and lightweight staging, and Class 1 is its heavy duty industrial class, which Youngman staging boards and board walkways also meet. Trestle S brackets and ladder brackets are made to BS EN 13374, the standard for temporary edge protection systems. Prop bracing couplers are tested to EN74-1 Class B, the standard for couplers that join scaffold tube in falsework and scaffolds. The trestle edge protection components are powder coated in high-visibility yellow in-house, so guardrails and gates stand out against boards and brickwork.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What size push-pull prop do I need?
Push-pull props run from size 0, which closes to about 1.14 m, to size 4, which extends to about 4.88 m. Because the prop works on a diagonal, measure from the floor fixing point to the wall or panel fixing point and choose the size whose adjustment covers that length with some thread to spare. A brace set at an angle is always longer than the height of its top fixing, so a tall panel often needs a larger size than its height suggests.
Can one person use a kerb stone lifter?
The manual kerb stone handle is the one designed for a single operative, for standard kerbs lifted by hand. The two-person handle must only be used by two operatives working together, and the universal lifter works with two people or from a crane. The heaviest stones go on the crane-hooked handle.
What is a Youngman board?
A Youngman board is a staging board: a long, narrow aluminium-framed platform with a plywood deck, named after the Youngman brand and now the trade's general name for staging. It spans between trestles or supports to make a platform where a ladder would not give enough room to work.
Do trestle platforms need stabilisers?
Stabilisers are fitted to any trestle platform used above 1.2 m, at one per trestle. They lock into place without specialist tools and fit all HERMEQ trestle models.
Can hole covers take vehicle traffic?
Hole covers are made for foot traffic on internal floors, and their load tests use a heel-point load over the void. Where plant or vehicles cross an opening, steel road plates are the product for the job.
What goes in a site boot wash?
Clean water, with a disinfectant added where the site or client requires it, for example on farmland or near livestock. Mud is brushed off the soles and sides of boots with the fitted brushes and settles in the tank. Change the water once it turns to slurry, which on a wet, muddy job can mean more than once a day.