Portable cabins Manchester
The yard is here, the lorries are here, and cabins move through both every week. If your unit is in Greater Manchester, you are dealing with a local firm rather than a national call centre.
Home ground
Manchester is the base, not a service area
A lot of firms list Manchester on a coverage page because it is a big city. Ours is the yard the lorries come back to. Units we buy land here, get assessed properly, get cleaned up or repaired where it is worth doing, and go back out to the next buyer.
The practical difference is time and certainty. A cabin in Salford or Trafford does not need a lorry routed up from somewhere else, and a viewing does not need scheduling around a driver's national run. It also means we see a genuine cross-section of what the North West is finishing with, which is why our stock changes week to week rather than sitting still.
If you are buying, that is worth knowing before you commit to something from a stale online list. If you are selling, it is the reason we can usually give you a date quickly. Everything is lifted on our own Hiab lorries.
Both directions
We buy locally and we sell locally
Selling a unit to us
Companies and private individuals, single cabins or a whole compound coming off a finished job. Send photographs of the outside, the inside, the roof if you can see it, and the access route.
- A figure without anyone needing to attend, in most cases
- Collection date confirmed rather than estimated
- Disconnection stays with you — the unit must be dead before we lift
- Condition decides. We do not buy every cabin, and we will say so quickly
Buying a unit from us
Tell us the size, the layout and what it is for rather than picking from a list. We will tell you what is actually available this week and what condition it is genuinely in.
- Cabin and transport priced separately, so both figures are clear
- Refurbishment before delivery is usually possible — flooring, paint, partitions, windows
- Viewings at the yard by arrangement
- Part exchange against a unit you are replacing
Unit types
Everything we handle, in and out of the Manchester yard
The same categories come up locally as nationally, and most weeks there is something in each.
Portable cabins
The general-purpose unit, 10ft to 32ft, open plan or partitioned.
View →Site cabins
Built for repeated lifting and rough treatment on live sites.
View →Site offices
Fitted out to work in through a winter, not just shelter in.
View →Welfare units
Canteen, drying room and WC. Mainly static units.
View →Anti-vandal units
Full steel and shuttered, for exposed or unmanned sites.
View →Jackleg cabins
Adjustable legs, sited quickly without a formal base.
View →Toilet & shower blocks
Plumbed welfare sanitation for compounds and yards.
View →Shipping containers
Secure storage rather than accommodation.
View →Around the city
Greater Manchester and the wider North West
Work comes from across the conurbation and the towns around it. Nothing here is a promise about how fast a lorry reaches you — that depends on what is booked — but the distances are short and the routes are familiar.
The city and the inner boroughs
Manchester itself, Salford and Trafford. Dense sites, tight compounds and awkward access are normal here, so the access photographs matter more than usual. Restricted delivery windows and permit requirements come up regularly.
The southern and eastern boroughs
Stockport, Tameside, Oldham and Rochdale. A mix of housing sites, industrial estates and a steady supply of single units sitting behind workshops and on smallholdings.
The northern and western boroughs
Bolton, Bury, Wigan and out towards Warrington. Larger yards and more open sites, which usually means fewer access problems and more multi-unit clearances.
Cheshire and Lancashire
Beyond the county boundary in both directions. Farm and estate cabins from Cheshire, and contractor units off jobs across Lancashire, come through the yard constantly.
Merseyside and the coast
Liverpool, the Wirral and the docks estates. Easy runs from Manchester, and a regular source of containers as well as cabins.
Beyond the North West
The same service, with distance affecting the transport element rather than availability. See areas we cover for how that works region by region.
The local market
Why the North West throws up so many units
Greater Manchester has been building steadily for years — city centre residential, logistics and distribution sheds along the motorway corridors, infrastructure work, and housing across the outer boroughs. Every one of those jobs sets up a compound at the start and takes it down at the end.
That is the supply. Contractors finish a phase, the accommodation becomes surplus, and somebody has to decide what happens to eight cabins that are no longer earning. Some are worth refurbishing and reselling, some are worth stripping for parts, and some are past both — which is where disposal comes in.
The demand side is the same market from the other end: smaller contractors, groundworkers, farms, schools, sports clubs, storage yards and businesses wanting an office out the back without building one. Sitting between the two, in the same city as both, is the whole business.
Manchester questions
Where is your yard?
In Manchester. It is where units land when we buy them, where refurbishment work happens, and where our Hiab lorries start and finish the day. Being based here rather than running a national brand from an office is the reason we can look at a Greater Manchester unit quickly instead of waiting for a lorry to be in the area.
How soon can you look at a cabin in Greater Manchester?
Usually quickly, often same day or next day, though it depends on what the lorries are already booked on. For an initial answer we do not always need to attend at all — clear photographs of the unit and the access are frequently enough to give you a firm figure without anyone travelling.
Do you buy from private sellers as well as companies?
Yes. Roughly as much comes from farms, smallholdings, garden plots and small workshops as from main contractors. A single cabin behind a house in Stockport is a perfectly normal enquiry. The process is the same either way: photographs, a figure, then a date to collect it if you are happy.
Can I come and see a unit before I buy it?
Yes, by arrangement. It is a working yard with lorries moving, so we book viewings rather than have people turn up. If you are local it is worth seeing a unit in person, particularly if the finish matters — photographs are honest but they flatten out how tired an interior really looks.
Do you sell to buyers outside the North West?
Yes. The yard being in Manchester does not limit who we sell to; units go out on our own lorries across mainland Britain, with the transport quoted separately from the price of the unit. Local buyers simply pay less transport, which sometimes makes a Manchester unit worth travelling for on paper.
What sort of units come up locally?
Whatever the North West is building. Site offices and welfare units off finished housing and commercial jobs, anti-vandal units off exposed sites, jackleg cabins, drying rooms, toilet blocks and containers. Availability follows the local construction cycle, so it is worth asking rather than assuming what is in stock.
Got a cabin in Greater Manchester?
Send photographs and the postcode. We are local, we buy every week, and if the unit is not worth buying we will tell you that instead of stringing it out.