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From our manufacturing base in Taranaki, New Zealand, our systems are custom-built for you from marine-grade aluminium for superior performance in hard-to-reach locations. Our range includes:
Tailor-made or off-the-shelf all our products are made to our very own exacting standards.
Plus we’ll bring you the very best of our own ideas – like our non-penetrating famous ‘Monkeytoe’ clip developed as part of our goal to always strive for improvement and to make things better.
We’ll design, manufacture and ship our systems anywhere in New Zealand, Australia and most of the Pacific area, ready for installation by our specialist team.
Our complete, robust design to installation service is designed for your peace of mind, no matter what your job requires we’ve got it covered.
Let us guide you through the design, consent, specifications, budgeting and full compliance of your project. We bring efficient and transparent project management, better design, better materials, better systems, and better installation. Everything better.
Ambitious with a culture of innovation, we have a crack team across all areas of our business and believe you’ll value our insight. It’s our core strength – always on the lookout for better ideas and better ways to do things.
We treat your building or project as preciously as if it were our own. Large or small every job is the most important one to us.
We challenge the status quo to provide the very best. Thinking beyond the now to stay top of game and ahead of the curve.
We’re open, honest and respectful of everybody’s ideas. Great communication between the entire team is vital to keep things running smoothly. And it’s all about doing a better job.
Meeting our client’s requirements to the highest standard is a given. Going over and above is the order of the day.
It all started with Kiwi innovation.
Tim Prestige, our Director – then operating a mobile engineering firm – had done a lot of work with a client when they came to him asking for a solution: to fix a walkway to a hidden-fix roof profile, without penetrating the roof sheeting. This was, after all, the time of New Zealand’s leaky homes crisis; industry leaders and local builders alike were scrambling to overcome water ingress issues and looking for smarter weatherproofing solutions. What could Tim and his team develop that would break the mold?
Monkeytoe was soon born, with the original Monkeytoe clip being a revolution in mounting for New Zealand. This first clip formed the ‘Monkeytoe’ name, it simply snapped onto the roof sheeting and the walkway was built of this base clip.
From there, the company grew from fewer than a half-dozen workers producing roofing walkways, to the Australasian-spanning, groundbreaking access solutions leader it is today.
Our earliest clients were builders and plant operators. We grew steadily, growing our reputation for perseverance, innovation, and challenging the status quo. Now, we’re no longer ‘the boys on the roof’; we’re doing large, complex structures, designs, and total access solutions for the transport industry and primary industries, alongside food manufacturing and commercial construction.
15 years of HVAC plant mounting and custom access, backed with an equal number of years of engineering, has seen Monkeytoe grow into a full solution provider across design, manufacture, and installation.
Over the last decade and a half, we can say, without a doubt, our staff have are our most valuable asset. We’ve got a great culture here at Monkeytoe, and with our values of; Visionary, Ownership, Innovation, Collaboration and Excellence (VOICE), we know that everyone has a voice and chance to be heard, this helps us strive for everything better.
Monkeytoe is on a trajectory, where innovation is at the heart of what we do. We’ve got big aspirations; our future projects – especially around Aluminium/composite products – will open doors to innovation spaces where no one else is playing, which is a huge motivator for our team, and continues to set us apart.
Monkeytoe is officially registered – the first raised walkway and platforms full solution provider (design, manufacture, install).
We introduced our very own louvre screening to the market. The perfect addition to our plant platforms.
Monkeytoe came out with our fresh new brand and website.
Monkeytoe launched our own custom-brewed Ginger Beer as a gift to our valued clients
Operations officially began at our Melbourne office. The manufacture of products/systems for install.
We introduced our very own acoustic screening to the market. The perfect addition to our plant platforms.
Monkeytoe launched our own custom-brewed Lemon-aid as a gift to our valued clients.
Monkeytoe launched the first lightweight aluminium|carbon fibre structural beam on the market.
Off the back of an already solid stair system, Monkeytoe launched a range of sound treatments and wooden stair treatments to improve the stair aesthetics and tread noise.
The Walkway decks weigh 8kg per metre. The weight of Walkway Supports varies depending on the length used. (Allow 2.15kg per metre) A 1300mm Walkway support weights 2.80kg (e.g. which suits 1200mm purlin spacings). A 2500mm Walkway support weights 5.38kg (e.g. which suits 2400mm purlin spacings)
The Monkeytoe Aluminium walkway is a full aluminium fabricated system which results in a very strong walkway. Being fabricated with 2 specialised side beams means this walkway can span up to 3m with loading of 2.5kpa/m.
The Skywalk is a lighter walkway that spans a maximum of 2.4m between supports and then has the FRP Deck clipped to support beams underneath. The Skywalk is a lighter construction, but more modular.
Timber walkways cause two issues;
When the walkway is near a potential fall area of more than 300mm so generally when the roof has a pitch of more than 7°.
Monkey Toe top fixing roofing clips have specially fabricated jack stud which is threaded into the roofing clip then sits on the purlin below. The Jack stud is then tek screwed onto the purlin and the Monkey Toe clip screws down the outside of the stud until it is sealed onto the roofing profile. Using this unique Monkey Toe fixing, all loads are transferred to the building structure – not the roofing product.
Generally you will see a nail or tek screw line in a top fixed profile.
Generally when the platforms is closer to the edge of a roof than 2000mm and when raised more than 300mm above that of an adjacent platform or the Roof. (For further detail refer toAS/NZS 1657, 1992).
When closer than 2000mm from the roof edge or where the potential to fall more than 2000mm high is apparent.
The standard units are 0-80kg, HD are 80-150kg and the super HDs can support up to 400kg depending on the roof pitch and the actual physical dimensions [please ask the MKT consultants for a special design].
The following detail is required:
A Mesh Platform provides the service personnel a service area, further enhancing the protection of your roof. It means the servicemen are working on the same level as the mechanical units, making it easier to service. It is also safer as they are working on a level area rather than standing on the slope of the roof.
Generally, the platform induced lateral loads can be transferred to braced walls/portal frames/shear walls through roof diaphragm actions by the roof sheeting or other forms of diaphragms such as plywood. In the case where the diaphragm is absent or inadequate, the lateral load transfer can be achieved through axial tension/compression actions of the purlin in the along direction and through out of plane bending and shear in the across direction. In this case the client’s structural engineer is required to carry out this check. Monkey Toe can assist with this if required.
‘We are not a team of winners, we are a Winning Team’ Budd Prestidge
Together our team contribute to the growth, success and essence of Monkeytoe. We’re proud to come from a diverse background of education, ethnicities, experiences find out here if working with Monkeytoe is right for you.
Supporting our community is at the heart of Monkeytoe, and here are some of the organisations we support: