20ft from $27 a week, ex GST. Hire is in this business's name for a reason — a lot of what the valley and the coast need containers for has an end date on it.
Builders on a job with a finish date, and site sheds that follow the work up the highway. Growers on the coastal strip who need lockable storage through picking and want it gone afterwards. Anyone renovating who has to empty a house for eight weeks. Councils and contractors on the highway and bridge work. Event and festival operators through the season. Households between one place and the next.
The pattern is the same in all of them: the need is real, and it is temporary. Buying an asset to solve a temporary problem is how people end up trying to sell a container in a hurry, which is the worst possible time to be selling one.
For anything under twelve months, hiring usually costs less in the end. You are not tying up money in steel, and when the job finishes the unit goes back to the yard instead of becoming something you have to sell.
Beyond two years, owning comes out ahead, and by more than the weekly rate implies, because a used container bought at a fair price still has resale value when you are done with it. The stretch between one and two years depends on whether the end date is fixed or keeps sliding.
Because the yard both hires and sells, there is no reason for us to lean either way. Give us the expected duration and we will lay out both figures, even when hiring means a smaller sale for us.
Choose where the doors will face before the truck arrives; turning a box around later means another truck. Keep the access open for the whole hire, because the same truck has to reach it for collection — new fencing, a slab or garden beds built around it cause real grief at pick-up. And keep wet gear out of a closed box: in a humid coastal summer, trapped moisture sweats onto the contents faster than any leak would.
A 20ft starts from $27 a week, ex GST. The quote you get covers the weekly rate plus taking the unit out to you and collecting it at the end, priced for your address and access. Longer hires come down; a fortnight on a difficult site does not.
Short. We would rather hire you a box for six weeks than talk you into buying one you will be trying to sell in August. Tell us the end date if you have one and we will price it against buying so you can see both numbers.
Hire units are supplied cargo-worthy — checked wind and watertight before they go out, doors working, floor sound. If something fails during the hire because of the unit rather than the use, that is ours to fix.
Usually, and it is worth asking rather than starting again. If a job that was meant to run three months has turned into two years, ring us — a buy-out on the unit already sitting on your site avoids a second delivery and a second freight bill.
Fair wear is expected. Damage from use — a forklift through a door skin, a cut lock box, water in it because it was loaded wet and shut up for a month — sits with the hirer. We will always look at it and talk about it rather than send an invoice cold.
Tell us the job and the timeline and we will price it hired and bought, so the comparison is yours to make.
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