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.
Redlands, QLD
Shipping containers Redlands
Cornubia is on the Redlands doorstep. Up over Mount Cotton Road and you are in the shire, which makes this one of the shortest runs we do and one of the simplest to move if the weather turns. The complications are all local. Ground that changes character between one street and the next, older bayside blocks with no way down the side of the house, and a set of inhabited islands where the last leg of the delivery goes across water rather than over bitumen.
- Delivered from
- Our Cornubia yard, a short run over Mount Cotton Road into the shire
- Typical lead time
- Usually 1-3 business days on the mainland; island jobs are arranged around the barge
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray wherever there is a usable side access; crane for 40ft, small bayside blocks and over-fence work
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 Redlands we deliver containers for boats, trailers, crab pots and dive gear put somewhere the garage stopped being able to hold, plant and stock for the nurseries, turf farms and landscaping outfits the shire runs on, materials staged ahead of a build on one of the bay islands, furniture and contents parked while a bayside cottage comes down and goes back up, equipment lock-ups for schools, sailing clubs and community groups at Cleveland and Wellington Point, and machinery and feed on the acreage around Mount Cotton, Sheldon and Redland Bay.
What has to be right before the truck books
Redlands ground changes over remarkably short distances and getting that right is most of the job. Through Victoria Point, Redland Bay, Thornlands and Wellington Point you strike sandy profiles that drain fast and carry poorly, and a loaded truck will sit its rear duals down into a nature strip that looked entirely solid from the footpath. Move a couple of streets inland toward the paperbark and melaleuca flats and the profile flips: low ground that holds water and stays greasy underneath long after the top has dried off. Neither type rules out a delivery. Both are worth establishing before a truck is standing on your lawn. Block sizes are modest through much of the shire, especially in the older bayside pockets at Cleveland, Ormiston, Birkdale and Thorneside. Houses were built hard against one boundary, side gates are narrow, and mature gums and figs carry limbs at precisely the height a raised tilt bed needs. Overhead services along the frontage are common too. On a good number of those blocks, craning the container over the fence is both quicker and safer than threading a tilt-tray between the house and the fence line, and it is what we will normally suggest. The newer estates at Thornlands and Redland Bay bring the familiar pattern of narrow streets, kerbside parking, pits in the crossing and fill that has not settled. Then the islands, which are their own category. Russell, Macleay, Lamb and Karragarra are reached from Weinam Creek, and North Stradbroke from Toondah Harbour, so the delivery carries a marine leg with its own constraints on vehicle length, weight and loading. Island roads are frequently unsealed, narrow and short on turning space, and island blocks are often sand. All of it is doable and we do it. It gets 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
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.
Redlands
Getting one onto Russell, Macleay, Lamb or Karragarra
Island jobs come up constantly in Redlands enquiries and the answer is yes, with a process attached to it. The unit is carted by road to the ramp and then goes across on a barge, and that water leg governs everything else about the delivery. Vehicle length and weight ceilings, how loading is handled and when the runs go are all set by the barge operator, and they are not ours to guarantee on somebody else's behalf. You will not find a timetable or a standing arrangement published on this page for exactly that reason. Those details shift, and a stale website costs you a wasted morning at a ramp.
What happens instead is that the water leg gets worked out with you and the operator while the quote is being put together, so what comes back to you is a single answer covering the container and getting it onto your block, not a price for the box and vagueness about everything after the ramp. In practical terms a 20ft is a great deal simpler to land on an island than a 40ft, and once island roads and typical island block sizes come into it that only becomes truer. Give us the island, the street, whether the driveway is sealed and how much room there is to turn at the far end, and you will get something you can plan around.
On the ground
Sand on one street, bog on the next
The working version of the Redlands ground problem is that a walk past the front fence tells you nothing. Sandy ground presents as firm and is not. Low-lying ground looks dry across the top and is saturated two hundred millimetres beneath. Either one will let a corner casting drop away inside a single season, and a unit that has gone out of square has doors that no longer line up, which turns a good store into a daily irritation. Both situations have the same cheap remedy: pads or hardwood sleepers beneath the four castings, bedded in and levelled along the sides and across the diagonals, spreading the point load rather than letting it punch through.
The water table is why this counts for more here than in most districts. A floor pressed against wet ground never gets an opportunity to dry out below, and on anything kept long-term that is where the deterioration begins, well before the roof gives anybody trouble. Raise it a hundred to a hundred and fifty millimetres, let air circulate underneath, and after ten years the difference is obvious, in the state of the underside and in how simply the unit can be picked up again if you sell up or rearrange the yard. Describe the ground when you enquire, whether it is sand, wet and low-lying, recent fill or an existing slab, and the right materials travel up with the container and the levelling is done on the day.
Worth knowing
No side access at Ormiston or Wellington Point
A lot of the older bayside housing was built close to one boundary with a side gate sized for a wheelbarrow, which rules out backing a tilt-tray down the side and rules in a crane truck lifting from the street. That is routine work and it is not a fallback, it is often the better option, because a lift goes in first time and does not risk taking out a fence, a downpipe or the neighbour's hedge on the way through. Three things settle it: the horizontal distance to be covered, the height needed to clear the roof and the trees, and whether the roadway has room for outriggers with power and comms wires accounted for. Photograph the house from your gateway, the yard looking back toward the road, and the wires overhead, and the job gets answered quickly and priced once instead of twice.
What delivery to Redlands costs
We price the cartage with the unit rather than off a rate card. Give us the address and the entry and you will get a real number.
Give us the address and a rough idea of the entry and we will do the working out at our end.
Nearby towns we cover
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
Do you deliver out to the bay islands and Straddie?
Yes. The unit is carted to the ramp by road, Weinam Creek for Russell, Macleay, Lamb and Karragarra or Toondah Harbour for Straddie, then goes over on a barge. Vehicle size, weight and loading windows are set by the barge operator, and that leg gets organised with them while your quote is being prepared, rather than pricing the road portion and leaving the water to you. Landing a 20ft on an island is far simpler than a 40ft, and once you are onto island roads that gap widens. Name the island and the street, and describe the block.
My place at Cleveland has nothing down the side. Is that a problem?
Rarely, because a crane parked on the road will take the container over your fence or your roof and put it in the back yard. It is ordinary work on the older bayside blocks, where houses were built tight to one boundary. Whether it goes ahead depends on the reach required, the height to be cleared, any services running along your frontage, and whether the roadway allows outriggers to go down. Photograph the house from the gateway, the yard looking back toward the road, and the wires above, and you will have a firm answer shortly.
Will a container sink into sandy or boggy Redlands ground?
Set down directly onto sand, thin turf or wet low-lying ground it will drop away unevenly, because everything the unit weighs arrives through four small footprints. Pads or hardwood sleepers beneath the castings, bedded and levelled, sort that out for good and hold the floor above a shallow water table. Say what the ground is when you enquire, whether sand, wet and low, recent fill or a slab, and the materials come up on the truck so it is levelled on the day rather than left as a job for your weekend.
How quickly can you deliver to the Redlands, and can I inspect first?
One to three business days is normal on the mainland, because the yard at 51-55 Bromley Street, Cornubia is only a short run over Mount Cotton Road. Island jobs get arranged around the barge and take longer to line up. You are very welcome to come and look at the containers first, Monday to Friday 7:30am to 5pm or Saturday 8am to 12pm. Ring 1300 467 776 so the units are accessible. If the trip does not suit, we will photograph the exact unit on request and send it through before delivery.
Get a price
Tell us what has to fit in it
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 — 1300 467 776, Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm, Sat 8am-12pm