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
Redlands, QLD
Shipping containers Redlands
The Redlands sit closer to the port than almost anywhere we deliver, so the haul is short and the container is cheap to get to the shire. Everything interesting happens after that: ground that is sand on one street and boggy wetland margin on the next, small bayside blocks with no side access, and a set of islands where the last leg is a barge rather than a road.
- Delivered from
- Port of Brisbane, a short run around the bay
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–4 business days on the mainland; island deliveries are arranged case by case
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; crane truck for 40ft, tight bayside blocks and over-fence lifts
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.
Start here if you are working out what to order.
Common uses in and around town
Around Redlands we deliver containers for boat, trailer, crab pot and fishing gear storage where the garage lost that fight long ago, trade storage for the nursery, turf and landscaping businesses the shire is full of, building materials staged for a job on one of the islands, household storage while a bayside cottage is knocked down and rebuilt, gear storage for schools, clubs and community groups, and dry storage on the acreage pockets out through Mount Cotton and Sheldon.
The delivery problem here
Redlands ground is inconsistent over very short distances and that is the thing to get right. Through Victoria Point, Redland Bay, Thornlands and Wellington Point you get sandy profiles that drain fast and carry poorly — a loaded truck's rear duals will sit down into a nature strip that looked entirely solid. A street or two away, behind the bay and around the melaleuca and paperbark margins, the ground is low, holds water and stays soft long after the surface looks dry. Neither is a reason not to deliver; both are a reason to know before the truck is on the block. The blocks themselves tend to be modest, particularly the older bayside stock at Cleveland, Ormiston and Wellington Point. Houses sit close to one boundary, the side gate is narrow, and there are big established gums and figs with limbs right where a lifted tilt bed wants to be. Overhead service lines across the frontage are common. On plenty of those, lifting over the fence with a crane truck is quicker and safer than trying to thread a tilt-tray down the side. The newer estates at Thornlands and Redland Bay have the usual pattern: narrow streets, cars parked both sides, service pits and stormwater grates on the kerb line that will crack under a loaded axle, and fill that has not settled. The islands are their own thing. North Stradbroke and the southern Moreton Bay islands — Russell, Macleay, Lamb, Karragarra — are reached by barge, which means the delivery has a marine leg with its own constraints on vehicle size, weight and loading. Island roads are often unsealed, narrow and short on turning space, and the blocks are frequently sandy. It is all doable, we do it, and it needs to be arranged rather than simply booked.
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 Redlands
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
Redlands
Getting a container onto a bay island
Island deliveries work, and they are one of the more common questions we get from the Redlands. The container travels by road to the ramp and then across on a barge, and the barge is what shapes everything else about the job. Barge operators set their own limits on vehicle length and weight, their own loading arrangements and their own running times, and those are theirs to set rather than ours to promise. We deliberately do not publish a schedule or a fixed arrangement here, because it changes and a website that is six months out of date on a barge booking will cost you a day standing at a ramp.
What we will do is work it out with you and the operator as part of the quote, so you get one answer covering the container and getting it to your block rather than a container price and a shrug about the water. Practically, a 20ft is far easier to move onto an island than a 40ft, and on Russell, Macleay, Lamb and Karragarra the island roads and blocks make that even more true. Tell us the island, the street and what the block looks like at the enquiry and we will come back with something real.
On the ground
Sand one street, bog the next
The practical version of the Redlands ground problem is that you cannot judge it from the footpath. Sandy blocks look firm and are not, low blocks look dry on top and are wet 200mm down, and both will let a corner casting sink unevenly within a season. The answer either way is the same and it is cheap: concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, bedded and levelled in both directions, so the point load spreads and the underside stays off the ground.
It matters here more than in most places because of the water table. A container floor sitting hard against damp ground never gets a chance to dry out underneath, and that is where trouble starts on a long-term store — not from the roof, from below. Get it a hundred to a hundred and fifty millimetres up with air moving under it and the difference over ten years is considerable, both in the condition of the underside and in how easy it is to lift the thing out again if you ever need to. Tell us what the ground is like when you enquire — sandy, low and wet, filled, or a proper slab — and we will bring the right materials on the truck and do the levelling as part of the delivery rather than leaving you with a job to sort out afterwards.
Worth knowing
Salt air and a bit of upkeep
A shipping container spent its working life crossing oceans, so salt air is not new to it, but a container parked in a bayside back yard is in a different situation to one on a ship: it sits still, under trees, with leaf litter collecting on the roof and grass growing up around the base. Wet leaves held against a roof panel and long grass trapping moisture against the bottom rail are what actually start surface corrosion, far more than the sea breeze does. Keep the roof swept, keep the grass down around the base, keep the underside clear and open, and leave the doors open on a dry day occasionally so any condensation clears. That is essentially the whole maintenance list, and it is the difference between a unit that looks tired in five years and one that is still solid in twenty.
What delivery to Redlands costs
Delivery is priced with the container, not separately and not off a list. One phone call gets you the real number for your address.
Send three photos of the site with your enquiry and we can usually tell you the truck and the timing straight back.
More of the region
We also deliver to Cleveland, Victoria Point, Redland Bay, Capalaba, Wellington Point and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Redlands
Can you deliver a container to North Stradbroke or the southern Moreton Bay islands?
Yes. The container travels by road to the ramp and crosses on a barge, and the barge operator sets the limits on vehicle size, weight and loading times. We arrange that leg with them as part of your quote rather than quoting the road portion and leaving you to sort out the water. A 20ft is considerably easier to get onto an island than a 40ft, and the island roads and blocks usually reinforce that. Give us the island, the street and a description of the block and we will come back with a real answer.
Will a container sink into sandy ground in the Redlands?
It will settle unevenly if it goes straight onto sand or thin turf, because each corner casting concentrates a large point load into a small footprint. Low, boggy blocks behind the bay do the same thing for the opposite reason. Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, bedded level, solve it permanently and keep the floor clear of a shallow water table. Mention the ground type at the enquiry and we will bring the materials and level it on delivery rather than leaving you to it.
There is no side access at my Cleveland house. Can you still deliver?
Usually yes, with a crane truck lifting from the street over the fence or the house into the back yard. That is routine on the older bayside blocks where the house sits close to a boundary and the side gate is narrow. What decides it is reach and clearance — how far the container has to travel horizontally, what height it must clear, whether there are service lines across the frontage, and whether the street gives room for the outriggers. Photos from the gate, from the back yard and looking up at the lines let us answer quickly.
Which grade should I buy for a container living outdoors near the bay?
For anything that has to stay dry long-term in salt air, cargo-worthy is the grade to ask for — every cargo-worthy unit is checked wind and watertight before it leaves the yard. As-is units are cheaper and perfectly useful where a bit of surface rust or a dent does not matter, but they are not sold as watertight and that will show up sooner in a coastal position than it would inland. Tell us what is going inside it and we will tell you honestly which grade you need.
Get a price
Work out the right container with us
We deliver to Redlands 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