Sell portable cabins
Fleet disposals, compound clearances and end-of-contract accommodation. Send us the schedule and the condition, and we will price the lot and collect it on our own transport.
Trade disposals
Written for the person who has to clear the compound
Hire companies refreshing a fleet, principal contractors closing out a job, groundworkers who ended up owning six units they no longer need — the problem is the same shape every time. There is a date, there are units on the ground, and somebody has to make them disappear without it becoming a project of its own.
Selling portable cabins in quantity is not the same job as selling one. The pricing is a batch calculation, the collections have to fit a programme that is already tight, and the paperwork has to survive an audit. We work to all three.
Send a schedule to the quote form with photographs against each line if you have them. A spreadsheet is fine. A list in an email is fine too.
How a fleet job runs
From schedule to empty compound
Volume disposals succeed or fail on sequencing. This is roughly how ours are put together.
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You send the schedule
Sizes, types, quantity, location and a rough condition note against each unit. Photographs help most on the ones you are least sure about. If some units are still in use, mark which and from what date they are free.
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We price it as a lot
A batch is priced on the whole, which is why a couple of weak units among a good group rarely kill the deal. We will tell you plainly if anything in the list falls outside what we can take.
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We agree the phasing
Half now and half after handover, one group a week, or everything in a single push if the compound is already dead. The programme drives the plan. We can hold a date and move it once without drama if your dates slip, which they usually do.
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Collections run against the plan
Our lorries, our drivers, our lifting gear. Your site contact gets told which day and which units, and the compound empties in the order you asked for.
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One settlement, one set of documents
Paperwork issued to match how you need it coded. Nothing is left half done and nothing is left on your site for someone else to inherit.
What we see most
Four situations that come up again and again
Hire fleet renewal
Older stock coming out as new units arrive. Consistent condition, maintained on a schedule, usually the easiest kind of batch to price accurately from a list.
Job completion
Accommodation bought rather than hired for a long contract, now surplus. Often good units that have sat in one place for two years and need checking for rot at the base.
Yard clearance
Units accumulated over years, mixed sizes, mixed states, some of it forgotten. This is where honest condition notes save everybody a wasted lorry movement.
Business closing or moving
A deadline that does not move and a landlord expecting a clear yard. Phasing matters less here than certainty about the final date.
Whatever the situation, the constraint we most often have to design around is access rather than volume. A tight yard with one gate takes longer to clear than an open compound with twice the units in it.
Mixed batches
Being realistic about condition across a fleet
No fleet is uniform. There is always a unit at the back that has been used as a store since 2019, one that took a knock from a telehandler, and one that everybody assumed somebody else had checked. We expect that and we price for it.
Where it stops working is when a batch is mostly beyond use and the good units are being used to carry the rest. We will not pretend a stripped shell with a soft floor has value because it is standing next to six sound cabins. The honest version is to buy what is worth buying and quote separately to clear the remainder, which is exactly what we do.
If you want the detail on where that line sits, what we buy sets it out unit by unit and explains the reasoning.
Also worth reading
- What moves the value of a unit — useful before you build the schedule.
- Cabin removal — where the units are not being sold, only cleared.
- Cabin disposal — for the ones at the end of their life.
- Hiab collection — access, ground conditions and reach.
- Buying rather than selling — if you are replacing as well as clearing.
Questions from trade sellers
How many portable cabins will you take at once?
Anything from one to a full fleet. Volume changes the logistics rather than the appetite: a dozen units means several lorry movements and a schedule, not a different decision. Send a list with sizes, types and rough condition against each and we will price the batch as a batch.
Can you work around our handover programme?
Yes, and phased collection is normal for us. Site accommodation is usually the last thing off, and the compound often has to stay live while the rest of the job winds down. Give us the dates you need each group gone by and we will build the collections around them rather than asking you to work around us.
Will you buy a mixed batch where some units are poor?
Often, yes. A batch with two tired units among eight sound ones is a normal trade lot and we price it as a whole. What we cannot do is treat condition as irrelevant across the board. If several units are beyond use we will say which ones we are buying and quote separately for clearing the rest.
Do we get one invoice or one per unit?
One set of paperwork for the whole disposal unless you need it split for internal coding. Plenty of contractors want it broken down by site or by cost code, which is fine if you tell us at the outset. We would rather set it up correctly than reissue documents after your month end.
Do you buy ex-hire fleet with livery on it?
Regularly. Ex-hire units are among the better things we buy because they have been maintained on a schedule and the condition is consistent across the batch. Livery is not a problem. If you need branding removed before the units are resold, tell us and we will make that part of the arrangement.
Who is responsible for the lift and the transport?
We are. Our own Hiab lorries do the lifting and the haulage, so there is no third party to coordinate and no separate transport quote appearing later. Your site team needs to give us access, firm ground and a point of contact. Everything from the crane outwards is ours.
Send the list and we will price the batch
Sizes, quantity, location and honest condition notes. Photographs against the doubtful ones. We will come back with a figure and a collection plan that fits your programme.