Sell my cabin
One cabin, sitting where you no longer want it. Send us photographs, we give you a figure, and if it suits you we bring our own lorry, lift it and pay you on the day.
Getting a figure
How to sell your cabin without it turning into a project
Most people who want to sell a cabin have already discovered the awkward part. The cabin itself is easy enough to sell. Getting it off the ground, onto a lorry and out of the gate is where it usually stalls, and that is the bit that puts buyers off.
We deal with both halves. Because the lifting equipment is ours, the price we give you already has the collection in it. There is no second quote from a haulage firm arriving a week later and quietly eating the difference.
Start with the photo form. It takes a few minutes and it is the fastest route to a real answer.
Photographs
What to photograph, and why each shot matters
Pricing a cabin from pictures is straightforward when the pictures show the right things. These are the shots that answer the questions we would otherwise have to ring you about.
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All four sides, from a distance
Stand back far enough to get the whole unit in frame. This tells us the size, the cladding type, whether it is a jackleg or a flat-bottom unit, and how straight it is sitting. Two photographs taken from opposite corners will often cover all four elevations.
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Inside, including the floor by the door
The doorway is where water gets in and where the floor goes first. A picture of the internal layout tells us whether it is open plan or partitioned, and whether the fit-out is worth keeping or coming out.
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The roof, if you can get above it safely
The roof is the most expensive thing on a cabin to put right and the least likely to be looked at. Standing water, patched felt or a sagging middle changes the figure. If there is no safe way up, say so and leave it. Nobody should be climbing on a cabin to sell it.
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Each corner, close up
Corner posts take the load when the unit is lifted. Forklift damage, rot at the base or a missing lifting eye affects whether we can move it at all, so a corner shot is worth more to us than a tidy photograph of the paintwork.
Do not tidy the cabin, repaint anything or take pictures from the flattering angle. We price what is there. A cabin that turns out to be worse than the photographs suggested just means an awkward conversation on collection day, and neither of us wants that.
Collection day
We lift it ourselves and pay before it leaves
The lorries are ours. The drivers work for us. That sounds like a small thing until a subcontracted haulier cancels on the morning of a handover and you are left with a cabin nobody will touch and a date you cannot move.
On the day, the driver looks at the unit against the photographs we priced from. Assuming it matches, you are paid, the cabin is lifted onto the bed and the site is left clear. We are not asking you to wait for payment terms, and we are not asking you to help with the lift.
What we do need is access. A Hiab needs to get close enough to reach the cabin with the crane, on ground that will take the weight of a loaded lorry.
Being straight with you
If we do not want it, you will hear that too
We Buy Any Cabin is a name, not a claim that condition is irrelevant — and anyone telling you otherwise is going to change their mind when they see the unit.
Condition decides
A tired cabin that is structurally straight is worth buying. A cabin with a rotten floor, a collapsed roof deck or fire damage through the frame is a liability we would be moving at our own cost. Read what we buy and what we pass on before you send photographs.
We can still clear it
A cabin we will not buy is often still a cabin we can take away. That is a removal and disposal job rather than a purchase, so money moves the other way, but it solves the same problem. See cabin disposal.
No wasted visits
We would rather say no from the photographs than send a lorry two hundred miles to look at something. That is why we ask for the corners and the roof up front, and why an honest set of pictures gets you a faster answer than a flattering one.
Questions about selling a cabin
How do I get a price for my cabin?
Send photographs and tell us where the cabin is, roughly what size it is and how the lorry would reach it. That is enough for us to give you an indication, normally the same working day. If the pictures leave a question open we will ring and ask rather than guess, because a figure based on a guess helps nobody.
What photographs should I send?
Six or seven is plenty. All four sides from far enough back to see the whole unit, one or two of the inside including the floor by the door, and one of the roof if you can safely get above it. Add a close shot of each corner post and lifting eye. Bad light is fine, blurry is not.
When do I get paid?
On collection, before the cabin goes on the lorry. Our driver confirms the unit matches the photographs, then payment is made and the cabin is lifted. If what turns up is materially different from what we were shown, we discuss it there and then rather than loading first and arguing later.
Do I have to arrange a crane or a haulier?
No. We run our own Hiab lorries and do not subcontract the lift, so the person quoting the job is from the same firm as the person driving to it. You do not need to book plant, hire a crane or be on site with a forklift. We need firm ground and room to get the lorry within reach.
Will you buy a cabin from a private individual?
Yes. A fair share of what we buy comes from people with one unit in a garden, a paddock or a yard behind a house, not from contractors. The process is identical: photographs, an indication, a collection date, payment on the day. You do not need to be VAT registered or trading.
What happens if you do not want my cabin?
We tell you straight away. We Buy Any Cabin is a name, not a promise that condition never matters, and there are units we will not put on a lorry. If yours is one of them we can usually still quote to take it away and dispose of it responsibly, which is a different job with a different number attached.
Send the photographs and we will price it
Outside, inside, roof and corners. Tell us the postcode and how a lorry would reach it. An indication normally comes back the same working day.