Wire decking sits between your beam levels to support smaller cartons and loose items and keep product from falling through to the level below. It's one of the most common add-ons to a pallet rack order, and available from AMH in both new and used inventory.
Wire decking is a welded wire mesh panel that drops into beam levels, giving forklift operators and pickers a solid surface for cartons, loose product, or partial pallets that would otherwise shift or fall through open beam space. It comes in a range of stock sizes and wire gauges to match load and span requirements, and it's compatible with most major rack profiles, so it fits cleanly whether your beams came from us or another manufacturer.
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Wire decking is a welded steel mesh panel that drops into the beams of a pallet rack bay to create a load-bearing shelf. It replaces solid plywood or steel decking and needs no fasteners — support channels underneath hook over the beams and hold the panel in place. The open mesh is the point: it lets sprinkler water, light, and air through, and it stops small items and debris from falling into the aisle.
Often, yes. Solid shelving blocks overhead sprinkler discharge from reaching product lower in the rack, so fire codes and insurers frequently require either open decking or in-rack sprinklers. Wire mesh is the usual way to satisfy that requirement without adding sprinkler piping. Requirements vary by jurisdiction, commodity class, and rack height, so confirm with your AHJ or insurer before you order — it is cheaper to spec the right deck than to retrofit.
Three or four channels is the common configuration. Decks are available with as few as two and as many as five or more. Channel count, gauge, and mesh size together set the capacity, and the right combination depends on load weight, how the load sits on the deck, and your beam span. A point load from a drum or a machine base needs a very different deck than evenly distributed cartons.
Waterfall decking bends down over the front and back beams, so the load sits above the beam face and the deck cannot be pushed off. Flush decking sits inside the beams, level with the top of the beam. Waterfall is the more common choice because it locks in place and protects the beam edge; flush is used when you need a level surface across the whole bay.