10ft Shipping Containers
Side access is pinched, the setback leaves nothing to manoeuvre in, or all that is needed is a lockable spot for the mower, an air compressor and a wall of hand tools.
Geelong, VIC
Shipping containers Geelong
Geelong knows containers better than most cities its size. The port works them, the industrial land north of town was built around heavy manufacturing, and a lot of local trades have loaded or unloaded one at some point. What we will not pretend about is where ours come from. Geelong is the far end of our run and the container travels a long way south to reach you, which is why the window is a fortnight rather than a few days. Say your date early and it is a non-issue. Leave it late and no amount of goodwill fixes the distance.
- Delivered from
- Geelong orders are carted south from the Cornubia yard and the Grafton depot on the interstate schedule, which is why we quote a window and mean it.
- Typical lead time
- Usually 8–14 business days on the interstate schedule
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for estate blocks, industrial yards and firm ground; crane truck for laneway access, over-fence lifts and most 40ft placements on tight lots
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.
Read this before you settle on a size.
What they get used for around here
Around Geelong we deliver containers for trade and plant storage across the industrial land at North Geelong, Corio and Breakwater, site stores for the constant estate build work at Armstrong Creek, Charlemont and Mount Duneed, surf, board and wetsuit storage through Torquay and Jan Juc where the garage gave up years ago, boat and fishing gear storage on the Bellarine at Ocean Grove, Barwon Heads and Portarlington, hay and machinery storage on the basalt plains grazing country out through Lara, Little River and Bannockburn, and household storage while a Newtown or Geelong West weatherboard is renovated.
What has to be right before the truck books
Three different ground types sit within twenty minutes of each other here and each one wants a different approach. The basalt plains north and west — Lara, Little River, Corio and out toward Bannockburn — are heavy black cracking clay. Dry, it is hard enough to carry anything and opens into cracks you can lose a tape measure down. Wet, it becomes grease that a loaded rigid truck will not climb or steer on, and it stays that way for days after the surface looks dry. The Armstrong Creek and Charlemont growth corridor is the same reactive clay with cut-and-fill estate blocks on top of it, so you get young ground that has not settled combined with soil that swells and shrinks through the year, which is the worst combination there is for a container left sitting on bare turf. Those estate streets also bring the familiar list: narrow carriageways, cars both sides, and service pits and stormwater grates at the kerb line that a loaded rear axle will crack, at the property owner's cost rather than the driver's. The Bellarine and Surf Coast are the opposite problem — Ocean Grove, Barwon Heads, Point Lonsdale and the Torquay side are sand over a shallow water table, which drains beautifully and carries very little, and a truck will sit down into a nature strip that looked entirely solid. Older Geelong is a third case again. Geelong West, Newtown and Chilwell have narrow streets, bluestone kerbs, rear laneways barely wide enough for a ute and side gates set out for a wheelbarrow, so a crane lift from the street is often quicker and safer than trying to thread a tilt-tray down the side. And the wind belongs on this list. A strong south-westerly off Corio Bay will stop a crane lift, because nobody swings a six-metre steel sail over a roof in a gale. We will move the hour rather than take the risk.
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 Geelong
Priced with delivery to your address - one call, one number.
20ft Shipping Containers
There is about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground for it to sit on, and you would rather not discover in half a year that the bigger box was the answer.
40ft Shipping Containers
You have the space, the approach is genuinely open, and the aim is the largest amount of storage per dollar spent that anybody sells.
Geelong
Why the window is a fortnight
We would rather be straight about this than clever. Geelong is the southern end of our run, the container is carted down from the Cornubia yard or the Grafton depot on an interstate schedule, and eight to fourteen business days is the honest window from order to on the ground. There is no local yard here with your container standing in it, and any supplier who quotes you a day rather than a window is either working off a different model entirely or telling you what you want to hear.
The practical way to work with that is simple. If your date is fixed — a settlement, a lease start, a site handover, a build program — tell us at the enquiry, before anything is ordered, and we will say plainly whether it fits. If your date is flexible, say that too, because a flexible order slots into a run that is already heading south. And if the requirement is genuinely urgent and we cannot make it, we will tell you that on the phone rather than take the order and let you find out.
On the ground
Reactive clay under a new estate block
Armstrong Creek, Charlemont, Mount Duneed and Lara sit on some of the most reactive soil in the state, and the estate blocks add a second problem on top: the ground was cut and filled recently and has not finished consolidating. Put a container straight onto thin turf over that and it will move. The clay swells with winter rain and shrinks back through a dry summer, unevenly across a six-metre footprint, and each corner is concentrating a serious point load into a small patch. A season later the frame is out of square and the doors need a shoulder against them.
Pads are the whole answer, and on this soil make them generous — the point is to spread the load over a wider area than the casting itself. Bed them in, check level both ways and across the diagonals, and set the door end on the high side of any fall. It is also worth looking at where the container sits relative to the drainage the builder designed into the block. Estate lots usually have an overland flow path across them, and a steel box parked square in it will send stormwater toward the house or the neighbour, which is a much more expensive conversation than moving the container two metres would have been.
Worth knowing
Salt air on the Bellarine and the Surf Coast
A container spent its working life crossing oceans, so sea air is nothing new to it. What is new is standing still. On a block at Ocean Grove, Barwon Heads or Jan Juc it sits under trees with leaf litter building on the roof and grass growing up around the bottom rail, and that trapped moisture is what actually starts surface corrosion — far more than the salt breeze does on its own. Sweep the roof a couple of times a year, keep the grass down around the base, keep the underside open and clear, and leave the doors open on a dry day occasionally so any condensation clears.
Underneath it, sand is the other coastal consideration. It drains superbly and carries badly, so the corners need pads or hardwood sleepers to spread the load, bedded level in both directions. Get the floor a hundred millimetres or more clear of the ground so air moves under it and it is not sitting against damp sand for a decade. That also makes the unit far easier to lift out later if you sell the place or reconfigure the yard. If the container is living outdoors on the coast holding anything that must stay dry, ask for cargo-worthy, which is inspected wind and watertight before loading — the grades page sets out the differences.
What delivery to Geelong costs
There is no flat delivery rate here worth publishing. What the truck has to do at your end changes it too much, so we quote it per job.
Describe the spot it has to land on and we will work backwards from there to the container and the truck.
Nearby towns we cover
We also deliver to Torquay, Ocean Grove, Lara, Bannockburn, Colac and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Geelong
Why is a Geelong delivery slower than a coastal New South Wales one?
Distance, plainly. Containers for Geelong are carted south from our Cornubia yard and Grafton depot on an interstate schedule rather than pulled out of a local yard, so eight to fourteen business days is the realistic window. It is a scheduled truck, not a next-day service. The trade-off is that the unit is chosen and checked before it is loaded rather than being whatever was closest to the gate. Give us your date at the enquiry and we will tell you honestly whether it works.
My Geelong West house only has a rear laneway. Can you deliver?
Usually, but with a crane truck rather than a tilt-tray. Those older laneways are narrow, often bluestone, and rarely give a truck room to manoeuvre, let alone tilt a bed and slide a container off. Lifting from the street or the lane over the fence is faster and safer where the reach allows it. What we need is the horizontal distance from where the truck can stand to the spot, the height it must clear, and whether there are power or comms lines overhead. Photos from the lane and from the yard answer it quickly.
Will a container stay level on an Armstrong Creek block?
Only if it is set up properly, because that ground is reactive clay under recent fill and it moves through the year. Straight onto turf, the corners punch in unevenly and the doors stop lining up within a season. Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, made generous to spread the load and checked level on both diagonals, prevents it for good. Mention the ground and the fall at the quote and we will bring the materials on the truck and level it as part of the delivery.
Can wind stop a crane delivery in Geelong?
It can, and occasionally it does. A container being lifted is a large flat surface on the end of a boom, and a strong south-westerly off Corio Bay makes controlling it unsafe. If conditions are bad on the morning we will move the lift to later in the day or to the next one rather than risk a load swinging near your roof. It is not common, but on an exposed coastal block on a windy week it is worth knowing before you plan your day around it.
Get a price
Get a price for your address
We deliver to Geelong 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 — 1300 467 776, Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm, Sat 8am-12pm