10ft10ft Shipping Containers
The side passage is narrow, the council setback leaves you nothing to play with, or all you need is somewhere lockable for a mower, a compressor and a rack of tools.
Used from$4,350
New from$6,400
Laidley, QLD
Shipping containers Laidley
Laidley is close enough to the yard that our trucks pass through it on the way to somewhere else. That helps. What does not help is the town itself, which was laid out long before anybody was reversing a twelve-metre tray down a driveway, and the creek, which has been through the middle of it more than once.
- Delivered from
- Loaded at our Forest Hill yard, a few minutes up the road
- Typical lead time
- Usually next business day, and often the same day when the yard has the unit ready
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; a 40ft goes out on a side loader, because a lot of entries here will not take a semi turning
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
What matters locally, first.
Common uses in and around town
Around Laidley we deliver containers for storage on the smaller mixed farms out toward Mulgowie, Thornton and Blenheim, turf and machinery gear, hay and feed under lock, workshop and tool storage for tradesmen working out of home blocks in town, clean dry space through a rebuild or a renovation, and secure storage on the rural-residential blocks up around Laidley Heights where the shed has not been built yet.
The delivery problem here
Two different delivery problems share one postcode here. In town the blocks are old, deep and narrow, with a single driveway down one side and often a carport, a tank or a side gate halfway along it that stops a truck dead. Where there is rear lane access it is usually the answer, but the lanes are narrow and the fences are close, and it is worth a look at the aerial before we commit a tilt-tray to going down one. Where there is not, the container frequently goes in the front yard on the day and gets walked around later with a machine. That is a normal outcome in Laidley, not a failure. Out in the valley the constraints are the roads. Mulgowie, Thornton, Townson and the country up the creek are served by narrow sealed roads that go to gravel, with floodways and low causeways at the crossings and not much shoulder to pull onto. A loaded truck cannot simply stop and turn around out there, so we plan the run knowing where it can turn before it commits. After rain the causeways decide the day rather than the paddock. If water is over a crossing the delivery moves, and that is not a negotiation. The ground on the valley floor is good alluvial soil that grows things well and holds water for exactly the same reason. Dry, it is firm and a truck will drive on it happily. Wet, it goes greasy on top while staying solid underneath, which is the worst combination of the two, because it looks fine right up until the wheels break traction on a slope. Laidley Creek has been through the town more than once and the people here know their contours better than we do. Where a block has any rise on it, that is where the container goes, and we would rather spend the extra ten minutes getting to the high corner than the easy one.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Laidley
Guide prices in AUD, ex GST. Delivery is quoted with the container.
10ft
20ft20ft Shipping Containers
You have about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground to put it on and you would rather not find out in six months that you should have gone bigger.
Used from$2,200
New from$3,300
40ft40ft Shipping Containers
You have the room, the access is genuinely open, and you want the most storage per dollar available anywhere.
Used from$2,600
New from$5,500
Laidley
Hiring versus buying on a short job
The question comes up on almost every renovation and rebuild in this district, and the answer is usually about time rather than money. If the storage need has an end date, a kitchen out for six weeks, a roof off, a shed being replaced, a house being lifted, then hire is the cleaner arrangement. The unit arrives, does the job, and goes away again, and nobody is left owning a steel box they now have to sell or find a use for.
If the need does not have an end date, buying wins fairly quickly. Storage on a rural block is rarely temporary. The gear that has to go somewhere this year still has to go somewhere in five years. A purchased unit also stays on the block and keeps working, becoming the fencing store, the feed shed or the workshop annexe, and it holds a resale value that a shed does not. The honest test is whether you can name the date you will not need it any more. If you can, hire it. If you cannot, buy it, and put it somewhere you will still be happy with it permanently.
On the ground
Security on a block nobody watches at night
Theft around the valley is opportunistic and it goes for the things that are easy to lift and easy to sell: power tools, generators, welders, fuel, chainsaws, quad bikes, copper. A container beats every alternative here for one plain reason. There is nothing to lever. A shed has sheeting, a roller door and a personal access door, all of which give somebody something to work with. A container is a welded steel box with two doors on solid locking bars, and getting into one without keys and a plan is genuinely hard work.
The weak point is the padlock, so protect it. A lockbox welded over the lock area shrouds the shackle so bolt cutters cannot reach it, and it is worth the small cost on any unit holding tools. Beyond that, orientation does a lot of free work. Put the doors facing the house, or facing a fence line, or into a corner where a vehicle cannot back up to them. Somebody who cannot get a ute to the doors is not carrying a welder across a paddock in the dark. Light the approach if there is power nearby. None of it is high technology. It just makes your place the harder option.
Worth knowing
Ten foot or twenty on a town block
Most Laidley town blocks will take a 20ft comfortably once it is in position. Getting it into position is what decides things. A 20ft is about six metres long and two and a half wide, and it wants roughly twelve metres of straight clear ground to be tilted off, which on a deep narrow block usually means the front yard or the road. A 10ft is a little over three metres long, takes far less room to place, fits down the side of most houses, and is enough for a mower, tools, garden gear and a stack of boxes. It is also much easier to move later. Where the block is tight and the need is domestic, the 10ft is very often the right answer even though the 20ft looks like better value per square metre. Where a trailer, a bike or building materials are involved, the 20ft earns its space. Either way, measure the approach before you decide on the size rather than after.
What delivery to Laidley costs
Delivery is quoted with the container. It moves with the distance, the truck the site needs and how hard the last thirty metres are, so we price it per job rather than publish a figure that would be wrong for half the addresses here.
One call sorts it. Size, grade, where it is going and what the entry looks like — that is everything we need to price it properly.
Also delivered nearby
We also deliver to Forest Hill, Gatton, Plainland, Mulgowie, Hatton Vale and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Laidley
Will a truck get a container down a Laidley driveway?
Often, but the older town blocks make it a real question rather than a formality. The typical Laidley house block is deep and narrow with a single drive down one side, and a carport, a tank or a side gate halfway along stops a tilt-tray well before the back yard. Where there is rear lane access, that is usually the answer. Where there is not, we place the unit at the front and it gets walked around later with a machine. Send through a couple of photos and we will tell you which one it will be.
Do you deliver out to Mulgowie, Thornton and Blenheim?
Yes. That country is close to the yard and we are on those roads regularly. The planning is about the roads rather than the distance. The valley roads narrow and go to gravel, there are floodways and causeways at the creek crossings, and there is nowhere for a loaded truck to turn around between certain points, so the run gets worked out before it leaves rather than on the fly. If the crossings are up, the delivery moves to the next dry day. That is not caution, it is the only sensible way to do it.
What happens if the creek crossings are up on my delivery day?
We move it, and we will ring you rather than wait for you to ring us. A loaded truck on a flooded causeway is not a risk anybody in this business takes. Water through the Laidley and Lockyer crossings usually drops away fast once the rain stops, so it tends to be a matter of days rather than weeks. If the delivery is time-critical, tell us at the point of order and we will build a bit of room into the date rather than promising something the weather can take away from both of us.
Where should a container go on a block that has had water through it?
On the highest firm ground you have, with the doors reachable from that same high side. A container will not keep floodwater out. Water reaches the door seals and comes in, and an empty unit will float, so the only thing protecting what is inside is the height you put it at. People in Laidley generally know their own contour better than any map does, so back your own judgement. It is worth building the pad up and spending the extra time getting the truck to the high corner rather than the easy one.
Get a price
Work out the right container with us
We deliver to Laidley and the surrounding district. Tell us what is going in it and what the access is like, and you will get a price with the cartage worked out. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 0477 410 500, Mon–Fri 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm