About We Buy Any Cabin
We trade in used site accommodation. Units come in from sites and yards across mainland Britain, get sorted, and go back out to people who need them. That is the whole business.
What we do
Buying and selling, not one or the other
Most firms in this trade sit on one side of the fence. They either sell cabins or they clear them away. We do both, and the two halves feed each other. A welfare unit that comes off a finished contract in Leeds on Tuesday is often the unit somebody in Bristol has been looking for on Friday.
That matters more than it sounds. Because we are buying constantly, we know what units are actually worth right now rather than what a price list said last year. And because we are selling constantly, we know which units are worth buying and which ones are going to sit in the yard costing money.
The range is straightforward: portable cabins, site cabins, site offices, welfare units, anti-vandal units, jackleg cabins, toilet and shower blocks, and shipping containers. Single units or whole fleets, in either direction.
Transport
We own the lorries. This is not a detail.
Almost everything that goes wrong with a cabin job goes wrong at the point of lifting it. Owning the transport is how we keep control of that.
A lot of cabin dealers do not have their own Hiab fleet. They agree a price, then ring round for a haulier, and the haulier turns up to a yard he has never seen with a cabin he has never lifted. If the ground is soft, or the unit is heavier than someone said, or the reach is wrong, the job stops and everybody starts arguing about who pays.
Our lorries are ours. The drivers work for us, they lift cabins every day, and when we quote a collection we are quoting on our own kit and our own diary. If access looks difficult we will say so at the quoting stage rather than discovering it on the day.
It also means the price we give is the price. There is no third-party haulage margin sitting on top of it that we have to guess at, and no situation where a subcontractor puts his rates up between the quote and the collection.
Where it genuinely helps you is timing. When a site has a hand-back date and the cabin has to be gone by Friday, we are looking at our own vehicle diary and can tell you straight away whether that is realistic. We would rather say no to a date than agree to one we cannot hold.
Where we are
Manchester base, mainland coverage
We are based in Manchester, which puts us within reasonable reach of most of the country. The M60, M62 and M6 are on the doorstep, so Yorkshire, the North East, the Midlands, North Wales and the North West are all comfortable running.
We work throughout mainland Great Britain, so England, Scotland and Wales. Longer runs to the South West, the South Coast or central Scotland are normal work, though transport on a single unit that far out is a bigger share of the total, and we will be upfront about that rather than quoting a headline figure and adding it later.
We do not cover Ireland or Northern Ireland, and we do not cover the islands. If that is where your unit is, we are not the right firm and we will tell you so quickly rather than waste your week.
Being straight about it
We Buy Any Cabin is a name, not a promise
"We Buy Any Cabin" is what we are called. It is not a commitment to buy every unit that gets offered to us.
We would rather say this plainly on the page than have you find out after you have sent photographs and waited three days. Condition decides. A cabin with a sound roof, a solid floor and intact lifting points has a value. A cabin that has been standing open for two winters with water through the deck and rot in the corners usually does not, because the cost of getting it here and putting it right is more than it will ever be worth.
Size, layout and specification come into it too, and so does where it is. A tired unit at the end of a long drag from Cornwall is a different proposition from the same unit sitting in a yard in Salford.
When a unit is not worth buying, we say so, and we will tell you why. In some cases there is still a route forward: paid removal and disposal where the unit has reached the end of its life and simply needs to be off the site. That is a cost to you rather than a payment, and we make sure that is clear before anything is booked.
Who we deal with
Trade and private, treated the same way
A good half of what we buy comes from companies. Contractors closing out a job, plant hire firms refreshing a fleet, groundworkers who have finished with a compound, facilities teams clearing a yard. That work tends to involve multiple units, a fixed hand-back date and somebody who needs a purchase order raised and paperwork that stands up.
The rest comes from individuals. Somebody who bought a cabin for a smallholding and no longer needs it, a farmer clearing a corner of a field, a private buyer whose building work has finished. Single unit, no procurement process, usually wanting a straight answer about whether it is worth anything.
We handle both and we do not price them differently on principle. What changes the number is the unit and the journey, not whether the seller has a company letterhead.
What does differ is the admin. Trade sellers usually want an invoice, agreed payment terms and a collection slot that fits a programme. Private sellers usually want to know when the money lands and whether they need to be there when the lorry arrives. We deal with both, and we will tell you which questions we need answered before we can commit to anything.
Why people use us
What we are actually useful for
Not a list of promises. A list of the situations where using us tends to work out better than the alternatives.
One firm, both ends
You do not need a dealer to value the cabin and a separate haulier to move it. Valuation, purchase and collection sit in the same place, so there is nobody to blame when something changes.
Straight answers on condition
We will tell you if the unit is tired, if the roof is a problem, or if it is not worth what you hoped. That is more useful than a flattering number that gets revised down when the lorry arrives.
Two figures, not one vague one
The unit is priced on what it is worth, and the haulage is priced on distance and access. You see both, separately, so you can see exactly what you are paying for and compare it with anybody else.
Fleets as well as singles
Whole compounds coming off a finished contract are normal work, not an exception. One visit, one set of figures, and a collection plan that fits the hand-back date.
We know what sells
Because we are selling the same units on, we know which specifications move and which sit. That feeds directly into what we can offer you, and into what we will honestly recommend when you are buying.
A route for the dead ones
If a unit is genuinely finished, it still has to leave the site. We can quote to remove and dispose of it properly rather than leaving you to find someone who will take it.
How it runs
What working with us looks like
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Tell us what you have or what you want
For selling, that means photographs, rough sizes and the postcode. For buying, it means the size, the layout and roughly what the budget is. Either way, more detail up front means fewer emails afterwards.
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We come back with a real number
Not a range designed to get you on the phone. A figure based on the unit, its condition and where it is, with the transport already in it and VAT confirmed at the point of quotation.
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We agree access and a date
What the ground is like, whether the lorry can get within reach, whether services need disconnecting first. This is the conversation that decides whether the day goes smoothly.
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Our lorry does the work
Our driver, our Hiab, our responsibility. On a purchase the unit is lifted and taken away. On a sale it is placed where you want it, provided the ground and the access allow.
If anything changes between the quote and the collection — the unit turns out to be in worse condition than the photographs showed, or the access is not what was described — we will talk to you before we do anything, not afterwards.
Talk to us about a cabin
Selling one, buying one, or clearing a compound. Send the details and we will come back with a straight answer, a price, and a date we can actually hold.