Used Pallet Racking
Used Pallet Rack Durham, NC
Used beams, uprights and wire decking for Durham warehouses, at a fraction of the cost of new. We deliver and install.
Getting Rack to Durham
Durham is about 145 miles from the yard, a straight run up the I-85 corridor. If you are adding to a system you already have standing, send Kyle the dimensions and he will match them against what we have.
Buy Used Pallet Rack in Durham, NC
Used rack runs a third to half off new, depending on condition. Ours comes out of warehouses that are closing or reconfiguring, goes back to our lot in Charlotte, and gets checked before it ships.
A lot of Durham work is matching, not starting from scratch. If you have a system standing and need to extend it, send us the upright dimensions and beam lengths and we will tell you what we can match.
What We Stock
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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.
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Where We Work
Where the Warehouses Are in Durham, NC
Durham's warehouse space leans toward lab and pharmaceutical support rather than pure e-commerce fulfillment.
Research Triangle Park
Seven thousand acres, the largest research park in the country. About three quarters of the land is in unincorporated Durham County, which matters for permitting.
Treyburn Corporate Park
Fifty-three hundred acres in unincorporated county, served by city water and sewer. Merck, Novo Nordisk and Corning all have operations there.
The I-85 and I-885 interchange
The East End Connector opened in 2022 and gave trucks an I-40 to I-85 route around downtown. Class A distribution followed it in.
Permitting
Permits in Durham County
Durham does not have separate city and county building departments. One joint City-County Building and Safety Department handles permits, plan review and inspections for both, enforcing the state building code and both zoning ordinances.
Fire is where it splits. Inside city limits it is the City of Durham Fire Department's Fire Prevention Division. In unincorporated Durham County it is the Durham County Fire Marshal's Office. The county publishes a jurisdiction lookup tool because the address decides.
This trips up Research Triangle Park projects in particular. Most of RTP is unincorporated, so fire review goes to the county even though the building permit still comes from the joint department.
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
All commercial plan review goes through the county's digital system, and the set has to be separated by trade into individual files. Get the walkthrough before the anchors go in, while changes are still cheap. How our permitting process works
Common Questions
Who handles permitting for a warehouse in Research Triangle Park?
Building permits come from the joint City-County Building and Safety Department. But most of RTP is in unincorporated Durham County, so fire review goes to the Durham County Fire Marshal's Office rather than the city. The address decides.
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.