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
Sunshine Coast, QLD
Shipping containers Sunshine Coast
There are two Sunshine Coasts as far as a truck is concerned, and the boundary is the escarpment. Below it, the flat coastal strip and the growth corridor are straightforward apart from sand. Above it, the range roads to Maleny, Montville and Mapleton decide what size container you can realistically have, and it is better to have that conversation before you order than after.
- Delivered from
- Port of Brisbane, run north up the Bruce Highway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–5 business days; hinterland drops are scheduled around the range run
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; crane truck or side loader for 40ft where the approach allows it
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.
Before the detail, the shape of it.
What the containers do here
Around Sunshine Coast we deliver containers for gear and feed storage on the acreage through Eumundi, Cooroy, Doonan and Belli Park, site stores for the constant build work at Palmview, Aura and Bli Bli, workshop conversions on hinterland blocks where a shed would need approval, secure storage for market and event traders who need everything to disappear between weekends, board and boat storage where the garage lost that argument years ago, and dry storage for small growers and nurseries on the flats.
Getting it onto the block
Start with the range, because it drives everything above 200 metres. The climbs to Maleny off Landsborough, to Montville off Palmwoods, and to Mapleton off Nambour are narrow, tightly cambered, and stitched with hairpins that a long rigid truck cannot straighten out. There are sections with a rock face on one side and nothing much on the other, weight and length restrictions in places, and mature fig and eucalypt canopy hanging low over the road. A tilt-tray carrying a 20ft handles those climbs. A side loader carrying a 40ft is a genuinely different proposition and on some of those roads the honest answer is no, or two 20ft instead of one 40ft. If the address is up top, ring and settle the size question with us first. Acreage above the range brings the usual rural pattern too: long unsealed driveways with a crown and table drains, gates set at an angle to the road, and turning space at the far end that has to be real rather than optimistic. Decomposed granite and the red volcanic soil up there hold together well in the dry and turn slick in the wet, and the wet lasts longer at altitude than it does on the coast. Below the escarpment the problem is sand and water. Peregian, Coolum, Marcoola, Pelican Waters, Golden Beach and most of the Noosa side are sand over a shallow water table. It looks solid, it carries very little, and a loaded truck will find that out on a nature strip. The canal and lake estates at Pelican Waters, Mooloolaba and Twin Waters add the same no-side-access problem you get on any waterfront lot, which usually means lifting over the fence rather than backing in. Newer estates on the corridor have narrow streets, kerbside parking and service pits that will not take a rear axle. And through summer, a heavy afternoon storm can put a soft block out of action for a day or two.
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 Sunshine Coast
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
Sunshine Coast
The range decides the size
If your address is Maleny, Montville, Flaxton, Mapleton or anywhere along the top of the Blackall Range, the first question is not what you want to store, it is what can physically get there. The roads up were built for a different era of vehicle and they have not got wider. The practical outcome is that a 20ft on a tilt-tray is the workhorse for the range, and it covers most of what people actually need. Where the requirement genuinely is 40ft of length — a workshop, a long-term store on a working block — we look at whether the approach can take a side loader, and if it cannot, two 20ft placed end to end gets you there with more flexibility and an easier delivery.
It is worth saying that this is not caution for its own sake. A truck that cannot make a hairpin has to reverse a long way downhill on a road with no shoulder and a drop on one side, and a container that will not fit through the gate at the top has to go all the way back down again. Both cost a day and neither is anybody's idea of a good time. Five minutes with a satellite image of your driveway and gate, plus a photo taken from the gate looking back toward the road, avoids nearly all of it. If you are on the range and are not sure, ring and describe the approach — we have run enough of those climbs to know which ones are fine and which ones need a different plan.
On the ground
Salt air, sand and setting it up properly
On the coastal strip a container will be living in salt air and sitting on ground that drains fast and carries badly. Neither is a problem if the setup is right. Corner pads or hardwood sleepers spread the point load so the unit does not settle out of square and start binding its doors. Keeping the underside off the ground lets air move and stops moisture sitting against the floor bearers. Keeping the roof clear of leaf litter matters more here than most people expect — wet leaves held against a roof panel are what starts surface corrosion, not the sea breeze on its own. The same goes for grass growing up around the bottom rail, which traps moisture against the steel for months at a time. None of this is onerous. A sweep of the roof a couple of times a year, a whipper snipper around the base, and leaving the doors open on a dry day now and then so any condensation clears is the entire maintenance regime, and it is the difference between a container that looks tired in five years and one that is still solid in twenty.
Worth knowing
Acreage, sheds and the approval question
A lot of hinterland and acreage buyers come to us because a container solves a problem a shed does not. It arrives finished, it does not need a slab poured and cured first, it is lockable and vermin-resistant on the day it lands, and it can be moved or sold on later if the plan changes. That combination suits a block that is still being worked out, one where the house is two years away and the tools need to live somewhere in the meantime, or one where a permanent structure means starting a planning process nobody wants to start. It also suits a steep block, because a container can be levelled on pads on ground where a shed slab would mean serious excavation.
Where you do need to be careful is with the rules, which differ between the councils on the coast and depend on how long the container is staying, whether it is visible from the road and whether it is being altered. Estates and rural covenants add their own layer. We will not guess at your particular situation, but the pattern is consistent enough to plan around: temporary and screened is easy, permanent and prominent is where the questions start. Sort that out before delivery rather than after the neighbours have had a look.
What delivery to Sunshine Coast 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.
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 Maroochydore, Noosa, Nambour, Maleny, Beerwah and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Sunshine Coast
Can you get a 40ft container up to Maleny or Montville?
Sometimes, but the range roads are the limiting factor rather than the container. The climbs off Landsborough, Palmwoods and Nambour have tight hairpins, narrow carriageways and low canopy, and a side loader carrying a 40ft cannot always make them safely. A 20ft on a tilt-tray is the reliable option up top. Where you genuinely need the length, two 20ft placed end to end usually delivers more usable, more flexible space and a far simpler delivery. Send us the address and gate photos and we will give you a straight answer.
Will a container sit properly on a sandy Sunshine Coast block?
Yes, provided it is set up on something. Coastal sand from Golden Beach up through Coolum and Peregian drains well but carries poorly, and dropping a container straight onto it means uneven settlement and doors that stop lining up. Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corner castings, levelled in both directions, solve it for good and keep the underside off a shallow water table. Tell us about the ground when you enquire and we will bring the timber on the truck.
How long does delivery take to the Sunshine Coast?
Two to five business days is normal, with coastal addresses at the shorter end. Hinterland and range deliveries get scheduled around the run up the escarpment, so they can sit a day or two longer, and heavy rain will push a soft or unsealed driveway back rather than risk bogging a truck on your property. If you have a hard date, say so at the enquiry — we would rather build the schedule around it than tell you afterwards that it did not fit.
Can I look at a container before it comes to the Sunshine Coast?
You can. The yard is at Forest Hill in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane off the Warrego, and containers sit on hardstand there where you can open the doors and check the floor and the seals yourself. Ring ahead so the unit is accessible. If that drive is not realistic from the coast, ask for photos of the specific container on request and we will send them before delivery, including the corners, the door end and the internal floor.
Get a price
Tell us what has to fit in it
We deliver to Sunshine Coast 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