Used Pallet Racking
Used Pallet Rack Charleston, SC
Used beams, uprights and wire decking for Charleston warehouses, at a fraction of the cost of new. We deliver and install.
Getting Rack to Charleston
Charleston is about 200 miles from the yard, roughly a half-day run down I-77 and I-26. Kyle can tell you what we have in the sizes you need and what it costs to get it there and installed.
Buy Used Pallet Rack in Charleston, SC
Charleston runs on the port, and port work runs on timing. Used rack out of a yard that already has it standing usually beats waiting on a factory lead time.
Used rack runs a third to half off new, depending on condition. If used cannot cover the whole job, we stock new rack for the sizes and quantities it cannot fill.
What We Stock
Used Inventory
Used Pallet Rack Beams
Various lengths and capacities, priced well below new. What we have changes as loads come in and go out, so ask for a current count.
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Used Pallet Rack Uprights
Different heights and depths to match your storage and your ceiling. Send us what you already have standing and we will match it.
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Used Wire Decking
Wire decks let sprinklers reach every level through the mesh, which often keeps in-rack sprinklers out of the design.
See wire deck inventory +
Where We Work
Where the Warehouses Are in Charleston, SC
Here is the part that catches people: most of the market's warehouse space is not in the City of Charleston at all.
Palmetto Commerce Park
In North Charleston, which is a separate city. This is the market's flagship park, with Boeing's South Carolina operations and the Mercedes-Benz Vans plant anchoring it.
The port terminals
South Carolina Ports runs Wando Welch in Mount Pleasant, which handles more than 80 percent of the port's container volume, plus the North Charleston Terminal and the Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal that opened in 2021.
Camp Hall and the I-26 corridor
Northwest toward Ridgeville in Berkeley County, anchored by the Volvo Cars campus.
Permitting
Permits around Charleston
Inside the City of Charleston, the Building Inspections Division and the Charleston Fire Department's Fire Marshal's Office both sit in the Permit Center on George Street. The fire marshal keeps a staffed station right there in the building.
The fire division assigns every plan set to one of five review levels when it comes in, each carrying its own projected review time, with the caveat that those times stretch as workload does.
North Charleston is a separate city with its own offices. Its Building Inspections department handles commercial plan review, and its Fire Inspection Bureau issues fire permits for new commercial buildings and up-fits. Since most of the market's warehouse space is in North Charleston or the surrounding counties, that is often the office that matters.
Under the International Fire Code you need a permit once a building holds more than 500 square feet of high-piled combustible storage, and high-piled means the top of the load sits above 12 feet. That covers most pallet rack projects. The code itself is the same in every jurisdiction, but the forms you file and the reviewer who reads them change from one county to the next.
- Storage with the top of the load above 12 feet, whether rack, shelving or floor-stacked piles
- More than 500 square feet of high-piled storage area
- Combustible commodities, counting the carton and the wood pallet, not just the product
- A new tenant or a change of use in an existing building
South Carolina adds a state step for sprinkler shop drawings, and the local authority has to verify the submittal before the state fire marshal treats it as received. Get the walkthrough before the anchors go in, while changes are still cheap. How our permitting process works
Common Questions
Is my Charleston warehouse reviewed by the city?
Often not. Much of the market's warehouse space sits in North Charleston, a separate city with its own building and fire offices, or in unincorporated Berkeley and Dorchester counties. We confirm the authority before drawings are made.
How much can I save buying used pallet rack?
Used rack typically runs a third to half off new, depending on condition and what is available when you order. The exact number moves with what we have pulled out of warehouses recently.
Can I mix used and new rack in the same system?
Yes, as long as the sizes, load capacities and connection style are compatible. It is common on larger jobs, since the yard rarely holds every size in the quantity a full warehouse needs.
Do you install, or just deliver?
We do both. Stein is a licensed general contractor and our own crews handle installation, so the same company that sells you the rack sets it in your building.
Is used pallet rack safe?
We inspect what comes into the yard and give a condition rating on what we sell. Rack that is bent, cracked at the welds, or missing its capacity data does not go back out.
Get Started
Tell Us What You Need
Send us the sizes, the quantities and the ceiling height. We will check them against the yard and tell you what we can do.