Shipping Containers have come a long way since their conception as sturdy, steel boxes that are used to transport goods across the world's oceans. These days you are just as likely to find a shipping container in your local park, masquerading as an ice cream kiosk, being used as an office on a construction site,…Read more →Why Add Cladding to a Shipping Container?
Living in a semi-rural location North of Sydney in Australia, Matt had dreamed of having his own observatory for years. In 2013 he completed a self-built observatory made from shipping containers. The finished result is a very smart and functional building with office space as well as a dome room housing the telescope. This article…
We have supplied shipping containers to customers in Bristol and the South West for various projects including bars, housing, and offices for local businesses. Although our head office is in Wythall, near Birmingham (where we also have a depot), we supply shipping containers across the UK. The excellent road links around the South West, and…Read more →Shipping Containers in Bristol
If you follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn, you will know that we love sharing the various shipping container homes that we come across online. Shipping container cribs are a growing trend as home designers search for more sustainable and cost-effective building materials, and we never fail to be impressed at how our favourite steel…Read more →Shipping Container Cribs To Inspire Your Own Design Project
The Tokyo Olympics are finally underway and more than 10,000 athletes from around the world have travelled to Japan to compete in over 339 sporting events. Shipping Containers from across the globe were dispatched to Tokyo weeks before the Olympic opening ceremony to ensure that the teams from the 206 competing nations had everything they…
Number 199 in our series of novel uses for shipping containers is this amazing installation built as a visitor centre for a vineyard. Located on the East coast of Tasmania, the 'Devil's Corner Cellar Door and Lookout' is a fantastic example of modern shipping container architecture. Building design using shipping containers It was designed by…
Container Delivery & Siting Guide. How to accept delivery and place your shipping container on the ground for best use and life Please read this guide carefully if you are buying and having a container delivered by us. This guide is designed to help you understand our delivery requirements and limitations as well as how…Read more →Shipping Container Delivery & Siting Guide
July 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of our very first shipping container sale, and to mark the occasion we asked our hardworking team to tell us about their most memorable shipping container projects from the past decade. There have been a good many fantastic containers commissioned for our customers over the years - more than…
Here at Budget, we not only sell shipping containers - we also buy back units that are no longer required. Selling your old shipping container to us is easy, you simply send in your request to sell and some pictures of the inside and outside of the shipping container. Please note, we only buy-back standard…Read more →Selling Shipping Containers
The one almost impossible to answer question that we get asked is "How much is a shipping container home?" Our answer is that this is very much dependent on your specification. Shipping container homes are not ‘off the shelf' items - each one is built to a defined specification and/or plan provided to us by…Read more →What’s the Cost of a Shipping Container Home?
