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.
Ipswich, QLD
Shipping containers Ipswich
Ipswich sits on a hundred and fifty years of coal mining and in a fair few suburbs the old workings are still down there under the houses. That is not something anybody thinks about when they buy a shed, but a container puts its whole weight through four small footprints and where it goes matters. Add the Bremer and Brisbane River flats on one side and cracking clay on the other and the ground is the entire story here. The trucking to Ipswich is simple. The placement is where the thinking goes.
- Delivered from
- Our Cornubia yard, run straight through on the Logan Motorway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2-3 business days between the order and the container landing
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray in 10ft and 20ft; crane truck for 40ft and for the older streets around the town centre
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 we tell people who ring from here.
What people order them for locally
Around Ipswich we deliver containers for storage while a Woodend or Sadliers Crossing worker's cottage is restumped and reclad, dry lock-up on the estates at Ripley, South Ripley and Redbank Plains where the shed is still a line on a plan, trade and plant storage across the Carole Park, Wulkuraka and Swanbank industrial land, contractor gear for the work running around the base at Amberley, hay, fencing and machinery on the small holdings through Rosewood, Marburg and Grandchester, and stock overflow for businesses along the Brisbane Road corridor.
The delivery problem here
Which part of Ipswich you are in changes the job completely. The growth corridor at Ripley, South Ripley, Deebing Heights, Springfield Lakes and Redbank Plains is estate country, and estate country has a repeating set of constraints. Carriageways are narrow, cars park both sides, and there is generally one position where a rigid truck can set up, which is directly in front of your block. The kerb crossings carry water meters, comms pits and stormwater grates designed to be driven across by a car rather than stopped on by a loaded rear axle, and cracking one turns into the property owner's problem rather than the driver's. Culs-de-sac turn tight for a vehicle with six metres hanging out past the back axle. The lots themselves have been cut and filled recently enough that the ground is still young, the turf over it is thin, and a corner casting will locate the soft spot on your behalf. The old town is the reverse. Woodend, Sadliers Crossing, Eastern Heights, North Ipswich and Booval have short pitched driveways, big camphor laurels and figs over the road, low service lines and side gates set out when a wheelbarrow was the widest thing going through them. Many of those are perfectly deliverable, just as a lift rather than a tilt drop. Then there is the ground itself, which splits three ways. West and south through Rosewood, Marburg, Willowbank and Amberley you get heavy reactive clay that is like concrete in spring and like grease in February. Along the Bremer and the Brisbane at Karalee, Barellan Point, Riverview and One Mile it is river silt and old alluvium that behaves the same way for different reasons. And through the old mining belt from Blackstone and Bundamba across to Collingwood Park, Dinmore, Tivoli and Ebbw Vale there are historic workings under the surface, which is rarely a delivery issue but is very much worth mentioning to us if your block has any known history.
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 Ipswich
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.
Ipswich
Old workings under newer houses
The West Moreton coalfield ran under a broad band of what is now suburban Ipswich, and the record of exactly where every tunnel went is better in some places than others. Most of the time this has nothing to do with a container. It becomes relevant when a block has a known subsidence history, when there is visible cracking or a dip in the yard, or when somebody wants a 40ft parked long-term over ground the owner already has doubts about. Our position is simple and it costs you nothing: tell us if there is any history, and we will place the container on the firmest and most stable part of the site rather than the most convenient one.
In practice that usually means moving it a few metres onto the driveway apron, a slab or a section of the block that has clearly been stable, rather than out in the middle of a lawn that has been quietly settling for a decade. It also means paying more attention than usual to what goes under the corners, because a properly pad-mounted container is far easier to check, re-level and lift out again later than one that has bedded itself into soft ground. None of this makes a container a bad idea in Ipswich. It just means the ten minutes spent choosing the spot is worth more here than almost anywhere else we deliver.
On the ground
On the flats, height is the only thing that protects anything
Ipswich floods, and people here carry the levels around in their heads more accurately than any web page could set them out. What deserves a blunt answer is what a container does and does not do. It keeps rain out from above. It is not a barrier. Once water rises to the level of the door sill it works past the seals, and an empty steel box of that size will lift and travel if it gets deep enough. Anyone telling you differently is selling something they should not be. Height is what protects the contents, and nothing else comes close to it.
That makes the worthwhile conversation one about siting rather than product. Choose the highest workable spot on the block ahead of the flattest one. Stay off the overland flow path, since a large share of the damage in recent events came from water sheeting across properties rather than the river rising into them. For a long-term store on low ground at Karalee, Barellan Point or One Mile, ask about lifting it further on blocks or a raised pad, keeping the floor well up and the underside dry and ventilated. Where the contents are genuinely irreplaceable, elevation is the most valuable decision available to you.
Worth knowing
Ripley, Springfield and the estate street problem
The corridor south and west of the town centre is one of the fastest-growing residential areas in the country, and most of the containers we put into Ipswich now go onto blocks that did not exist ten years ago. Those deliveries succeed or fail on one hour of preparation. Shift the cars off your frontage, warn the neighbours, and describe the kerb crossing to us, in particular whether a pit or a grate is set into it. If the frontage cannot be made to work at all, the fallback is a crane standing on the road and lifting over the fence. That is more machine than a tilt drop, and considerably less argument, and it lands first time.
The other estate question is size and it answers cleanly. On a lot of four to six hundred square metres, a 20ft is about the practical limit. Six metres of container wants nine or ten metres of straight approach to set down, which most driveways and side yards can produce. Go to 40ft and the side access is generally gone altogether, with something close to twenty metres of clear run needed, which those lots almost never offer. Where the shortage is volume rather than floor length, a 20ft high cube buys another 300mm of internal height over the same ground. Worth checking your covenant before you order, too, because a number of the estates out there are stricter than the council position and it is far cheaper to know first.
What delivery to Ipswich 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.
Other areas we deliver to
We also deliver to Springfield, Ripley, Goodna, Karalee, Rosewood and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Ipswich
My Ipswich block is in an old mining area. Does that affect where a container can go?
It can, and it is worth raising with us at the enquiry rather than on delivery day. Old workings run under parts of Blackstone, Bundamba, Collingwood Park, Dinmore and Tivoli, and while the vast majority of jobs are entirely unaffected, we would rather site a container on the firmest, most stable part of a block than the most convenient. If you know of subsidence history, visible cracking or a dip in the yard, tell us. Mounting it properly on pads also means it can be checked, re-levelled or lifted out later without any drama.
Is a shipping container safe storage on a flood-prone Ipswich block?
It makes a very good store, though not because it holds floodwater out, since it does not. Water at door-sill level works past the seals, and an empty unit will lift and travel once it is deep enough. Elevation is what saves your contents. Choose the highest workable part of the block instead of the flattest one, stay out of the overland flow path, and give some thought to blocks or a raised pad that lifts the floor well up. Done that way it is an excellent long-term store. Relied on as a barrier, it will let you down at the worst possible moment.
Will a truck fit down my street at Ripley or Springfield Lakes?
Usually, given an hour of preparation. The same constraints repeat street after street: a narrow carriageway with cars along both kerbs, a single workable setup position immediately outside your block, service and stormwater lids in the crossing that break under a loaded rear axle, and a tight turning head. Clearing the parked cars off your frontage does most of the work. Photograph the street and the kerb crossing, send both through, and you will be told which truck is coming. Where the frontage cannot work at all, a lift over the fence can.
How quickly can you deliver to Ipswich, and can I see the container first?
Two to three business days is normal for a standard 20ft with clear access, and it is often quicker. What stretches it is a crane booking, wet weather on clay where waiting a day beats bogging a truck in your yard, or a unit needing a lockbox or vents fitted before it goes. The yard is at 51-55 Bromley Street, Cornubia, straight through on the Logan Motorway, open Monday to Friday 7:30am to 5pm and Saturday 8am to 12pm, and you are welcome to come and inspect. Ring first so the unit is accessible, or ask and we will photograph the exact one and send it to you before delivery.
Get a price
Start with the address and the access
We deliver to Ipswich 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