How many lockers fit on your wall?

At full bank height, two 900 mm banks stand on a 2 m wall with room to spare — so 4 to 24 doors depending on compartment size, or 100 phone cells from two standard 50-cell cabinets, rising to about 120 in a single bank made to the opening. Cap the same wall at 1.8 m, though, and every 1850 mm bank is ruled out: the tallest standard phone cabinet that clears it is 1150 mm high and holds 30 cells in 950 mm, which brings the same wall down to 60. That collapse is why the height limit matters more than the wall length in most enquiries, and why the planner asks for it first.

The lowest obstruction over the whole run, not the ceiling height in the middle of the room. Soffits, downstand beams, bulkheads, sprinkler drops, FCU casings, cable trays and light fittings all cap a locker bank, and so does the door or lift the bank has to come through if it ships welded. If you are not sure, enter the lowest figure you can measure and tell us the real constraint when you send the photo — we would rather size down and then find we can go taller.

It deducts 20 mm from the width you enter before laying anything out, which is the allowance an installer makes by reflex for an out-of-square wall, a skirting return or an architrave. It is deliberately visible in the result rather than hidden in the arithmetic. Measure at the tightest point of the opening — floor level and head height both, if the wall is old — and enter the smaller figure.

No, and it is not a commitment either. It tells you what fits, which is the question that blocks most projects at the planning stage. Price is driven by compartment count, steel gauge, finish, which lock you choose and how difficult the site is to install in — our pricing page explains what moves each of those. Send the planner result with a photo of the wall and you will usually get an indicative figure the same working day.

Yes, on every family, and it is a normal order rather than a special. Compartment splits, bank width, plinth height, ventilation pattern and door swing are all made to order, so an alcove, a stair underside or a run between two columns is solved by fabricating to it rather than by leaving a gap at one end. On phone cells the planner gives an indicative made-to-opening figure because the cell pitch is regular enough to calculate; on the larger families the honest answer needs a drawing, so send one. Custom fabrication adds time rather than a large premium — assume eight to ten weeks for a made-to-opening charging cabinet, which is the longer end of our made-to-order range.

Three routes, in the order we would try them. Split the count across two or three locations, which is usually better than one long run because it puts compartments where people already stop. Drop the compartment size, if the contents genuinely allow it — going from a day-use door to a phone cell multiplies the count on the same wall by roughly four. Or reduce the count itself by moving from assigned compartments to shared day use, where the number follows peak simultaneous attendance rather than headcount, and is often a third of what was first asked for.

Not yet — those are quoted per run of wall rather than per compartment, so a count is the wrong output. Standard cupboards are 900 mm wide and 1850 mm tall, archive cabinets 900 × 2050, and shelving bays are 900 to 2000 mm wide, so dividing your run by those figures is close enough for planning. Send the run length and what is going on the shelves and we will lay it out properly.