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.
Tweed Heads, NSW
Shipping containers Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads is one town with a state line drawn through the middle of it, and the line changes more than the postcode. Your neighbour two streets north is under a Queensland council and you are not, so the rules that apply to a container in their yard are not the rules that apply in yours. That trips people up constantly. The delivery itself is easy in the sense that the motorway drops a truck at your suburb in under an hour from Cornubia, and hard in the sense that the good streets down here were laid out around water rather than around trucks.
- Delivered from
- our Cornubia yard, a straight run south down the motorway
- Typical lead time
- Usually 2–4 business days; add a day where a crane or a body corporate window is involved
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray where there is real side access; crane truck for canal blocks, villages and anything going over a fence
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.
The work they do around here
Around Tweed Heads we deliver containers for boat, jet ski, dive and fishing gear that never had a hope of fitting in the garage, storage for the trades working the constant rebuild from Banora Point to Kingscliff, cane and machinery gear on the river flats out toward Tumbulgum and Condong, stock and equipment for the tourism and short-stay operators along the beach strip, a lock-up for over-fifties village residents who downsized faster than they downsized their belongings, market and event gear that only comes out on weekends, and household storage while a Chinderah or Fingal cottage is knocked down and started again.
What the delivery actually involves
The best and worst of a Tweed delivery are within a few kilometres of each other. The motorway and the Tweed Valley Way mean a truck reaches almost any address here quickly, but the last hundred metres varies enormously. The canal and waterfront lots at Tweed Heads West, Banora Point and around the Terranora Broadwater have the classic problem: wide at the water, narrow at the street, house across the full width of the block and a side gate you could not push a wheelbarrow through. Those are crane jobs, not tilt jobs, and the questions that decide them are all about what is overhead and how much room the outriggers get on a cul-de-sac that was drawn for cars. Older Tweed Heads South and Chinderah streets are tight in a different way, with short pitched driveways, low service lines and mature figs and poincianas hanging over the road at about four metres. Ground splits three ways across the shire. The beach side at Fingal Head, Kingscliff and Casuarina is dune sand over a high water table. It drains superbly and carries almost nothing, and a loaded truck will find the bottom of a nature strip that looked perfectly solid. The river flats out through Chinderah, Tumbulgum, Condong and Stotts Creek are old cane country, low and soft, and much of that lowland is acid sulfate soil, which is a genuine reason not to go digging footings for a container without asking someone first. Up on the Terranora and Bilambil ridges you get red basalt clay, firm and often steep, with driveways that pitch away hard at the kerb so a tilt bed grounds out before the container is clear. Add the retirement villages and gated communities, where a delivery needs body corporate approval, a booked window and sometimes a route that avoids a height-limited entry, and the pattern is clear. Almost everything here is deliverable. Very little of it is deliverable without a conversation first.
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 Tweed Heads
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.
Tweed Heads
One town, two sets of rules
The border runs through the middle of Tweed Heads and it matters. On the Queensland side, a container on a residential block is dealt with by one council under one planning scheme. On the New South Wales side, a few hundred metres away, it is a different council, a different scheme and different language about what counts as a temporary structure. People routinely look over the fence, see a container sitting happily in a Coolangatta yard and assume the same applies at their place in Tweed Heads South. It might. It might not.
We are not going to guess at the rule for your street, because it changes and it is yours to check before you order. What we can tell you is which questions get asked wherever you sit: how long is it staying, can it be seen from the road, is it storage or are you cutting doors and windows into it, and does an estate covenant or a body corporate have a say. Behind the building line, screened by a fence or a bit of planting, sitting level and out of a drainage path keeps almost everybody comfortable. Parked on the front lawn where the whole street can see it does not. Sort that before delivery, because moving a container twenty metres after the truck has gone is a second delivery, not an adjustment.
On the ground
Villages, gated estates and the booking that is not a booking
The Tweed has an unusually high share of over-fifties villages, resorts and gated communities, and they all work the same way: approval and a delivery window are two separate things and you need both. The body corporate or park manager will typically want written notice, a nominated time, evidence of insurance from the transport operator and a route that does not run under a height-limited entry or across a driveway they know will not carry weight. None of that is difficult. All of it is close to impossible to organise on the morning the truck is out the front.
Get the approval in hand first, then ring us with the window you have been given and we will build the run to land inside it. It is also worth checking what size the manager will actually accept, because plenty of villages will approve a 10ft or 20ft in a designated area and will not entertain a 40ft anywhere. If the container has to sit somewhere visible from a common area, ask about screening at the same time, since that is usually the condition that gets attached anyway.
Worth knowing
Sand at one end, cane flats at the other
There is no single answer to what goes under a container on the Tweed, because the ground changes character in the space of a few streets. On the beach side, dune sand is the issue. It looks firm, it carries poorly, and every corner casting is concentrating a couple of tonne onto a footprint the size of a dinner plate. Straight down onto sand or thin turf and it will settle unevenly inside a season, which is when the doors start needing a shoulder. On the old cane flats behind the river the problem is the opposite: low ground that holds water and stays soft well below a surface that looks dry.
Both want the same answer. Concrete pads or hardwood sleepers under the four corners, bedded and checked level both ways and on both diagonals, so the load spreads and the floor sits clear of the ground. Get it a hundred millimetres or more up and air moves underneath instead of damp sitting against the bearers for a decade, which matters far more here than it does inland. The other thing worth knowing on the lowlands is that a lot of that country is acid sulfate soil, so if your plan involves excavating for footings rather than sitting the unit on pads, that is a question for the council before it is a question for us.
What delivery to Tweed Heads costs
Cartage is worked out per address rather than off a table. Distance is only part of it — access is usually what moves the figure.
The order of questions is always the same: what is it for, what grade does that need, and can a truck get in.
Elsewhere in the district
We also deliver to Kingscliff, Banora Point, Murwillumbah, Chinderah, Pottsville and the surrounding district. If your town is not on the list, ring — it almost certainly still works.
Common questions
Buying a container in Tweed Heads
Do Queensland or New South Wales rules apply to a container at Tweed Heads?
Whichever side of the border your title sits on, and in Tweed Heads that genuinely changes street by street. A block at Coolangatta or Bilinga is under a Queensland council and one planning scheme. Tweed Heads, Tweed Heads South, Banora Point and Kingscliff are New South Wales and a different scheme entirely. Do not assume the container you can see in a yard over the border tells you anything about your place. Check with your own council before you order, particularly if it is staying permanently, will be visible from the street, or is being cut about for a conversion.
Can you crane a container into a canal block at Banora Point or Tweed Heads West?
Yes, and on most waterfront lots it is the only way, because the house occupies the full width of the block and there is no usable side access. A crane truck stands on the street, lifts the container over the roofline and sets it in the back yard. What decides feasibility is reach and clearance: the horizontal distance from where the truck can legally stand, the height it has to clear, whether there are power or comms lines across your frontage, and whether the cul-de-sac gives room for the outriggers. Three photos, from the gate, from the back yard and looking up at the lines, usually settle it.
How fast can you get a container to the Tweed?
Two to four business days is the normal window, because the run south from Cornubia is short and the motorway does the work. What stretches it is a crane booking, a village or body corporate window we have to land inside, or wet weather on soft ground where waiting two days beats bogging a truck on your nature strip. If you have a hard date, tell us at the enquiry rather than after the booking is made and we will schedule around it.
Is there anything special about putting a container on the old cane flats?
Two things. The ground out through Chinderah, Tumbulgum and Condong is low and holds water, so it stays soft well under a surface that looks dry, and a container needs proper pads under the corners rather than being dropped onto turf. The second is that a lot of that lowland is acid sulfate soil, which becomes a real issue if you start excavating. Sitting a container on pads or sleepers avoids that problem entirely, which is one more reason we do it that way. Mention the ground when you enquire and we will bring the right materials.
Get a price
Send us the address and the access
We deliver to Tweed Heads 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.
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