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Modular floating pontoon platform installed beneath a stone arch bridge to provide safe access for inspection and maintenance works, supplied by Floating Pontoon Hire

Typical uses

Typical uses range from small floating platforms for surveying work housing scaffold towers, up to much larger pontoon platforms used to provide safe working for diggers and spider cranes. Scaffold towers are frequently erected on the system and can be secured with eyebolts that we can build into the platform. We have experience housing scaffold towers on our pontoons on swimming pools, lakes, rivers and even tidal locations working on piers.

Safety coverings

The standard surface of the pontoon is durable and non-slip. For hot work the surface can be covered in a safe metal cladding to avoid damage from sparks. Allowing almost any work to be undertaken right next to your desired location – increasing convenience and reducing time and expense.

Floating platform applications

Our floating work platforms have been used for all manner of applications. The most common use is surveying and repairing bridges, piers and water defences. Less obvious uses include cleaning super yachts and supporting pipes on long runs to shore.

Plant and machinery

With a safe working load of 175kg per square metre in single height configuration, or 350kg in double height configuration, with a maximum load capacity of 350kg and 650kg in the respective configurations. Even a single height pontoon of 6m x 8m could support over 8 tonnes of plant when the load is correctly spread. We work closely with a renowned marine engineering firm who are able to run stability and buoyancy calculations on potential installs to provide piece of mind that your employees and your equipment will be as safe as possible at all times.

Technical support

Please tap into our experience to work out the correct specification for your project, the plant you will be using, the work being undertaken and the job location. We will help build your risk assessments and advise on safe working practice.

Our clients

Crane-assisted deployment of modular floating pontoons by Floating Pontoon Hire, showing professional marine construction and safe installation of temporary access pontoons on a UK waterway

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