Information for Specifying Lockers

Frames & Openings

When counting the number of lockers you need, you need to be aware of how the lockers are sold. Some vendors sell them by the opening, and some sell them by the frame. Get this number wrong, and you may receive too many or too few lockers.

A Frame is the door frame. A frame can have multiple doors in it. Each door is considered an Opening. Some manufacturers price lockers by the frame and some price by the opening, so it is important to understand the difference. Hallowell lockers sold on this site are priced by the frame.

Building a Row of Lockers

With the way lockers are assembled, they add a little bit of growth to the width of the row as you add each frame. If you do not allow for this growth, your lockers may not fit between the walls.

A good rule of thumb is to add 1/16" per frame into your overall dimensions.

To properly calculate the overall length of a row of lockers, add 1/16" to the width of the frame, and multiply that width by the number of frames in the row to get the overall length.

Example: Add 1/16" to a 12" wide frame of lockers to get 12-1/16". If you have 10 frames in the row, then 10 x 12-1/16" = 120-5/8" or 10'-0 5/8".  5/8" may not seem like much, but it is enough to keep you from installing that last locker in the row if you only have 10 feet of space. Now you have to leave one locker out of the row, and add a filler panel, or you have to modify the wall.

You can use the calculator below to easily find the overall length of your locker rows.