Hire when the job ends.

What your hire quote covers

The quote should name the size, the condition description, the delivery arrangements, the way the hire period is described, and what happens at the end. If you need shelves, a lock box or another door for the duration, those are modifications and they have to be written in. Read that page before you assume a hired box can be cut about.

The hire figure, the minimum period and how quickly a truck can arrive belong in the quote for the particular job and the particular unit. Your postcode and your access notes are what make that quote specific.

New, single-trip and cargo-worthy language still matters if the goods must stay dry. Hire does not create a special grade. If you need the wind and watertight check explained, use the grades page. Do not treat a hire as a way to skip condition.

How to brief a hire so the quote is usable

Tell us the site rules. A school, a body corporate, a hospital loading dock or a farm with a wet-season track all change the delivery and the collection. Hours, inductions and a named site contact belong in the first message. Delivery planning is the same checklist, read twice: once for arrival and once for the day the container leaves.

Tell us who is responsible for the container while it sits there. You will want to know who may open it, how it should be left, and who to call if the ground floods around the pad or a vehicle hits a corner. Those are practical questions, not small print you discover later.

Choose Hire on the form when that is really the request. Choose Not sure when you want the comparison. Choose Buy only when you have decided the container stays. The enquiry keeps the choice you selected, and a written quote is still required before anything is agreed.

Photographs, placement and the day it leaves

Ask for current photographs of the hired unit ahead of delivery, especially if the container will sit somewhere visible or you are particular about doors and seals. General pictures are not that unit.

Agree door direction for the way the site will work in the middle of the hire, not only for the easiest unload. A door facing a future scaffold can ruin a good hire. Mark it on a photo.

When the ending arrives, clear the container, unlock what you added, and make the approach as open as it was for delivery. Call 1300 789 543 if the date needs to move, and do it before the truck is arranged. How ordering works is the same sequence, with collection as the last beat rather than a surprise.

Hire questions

A fit-out, a closed dock, and a date that might slip

A high-street fit-out often needs a container for the works and not beyond. Old stock, dust-sensitive fittings and a skip already on the kerb compete for the same short piece of street. Hire matches that if the ending is the reopening. The brief has to include the date, and what should happen if the builder runs past it. A hire with no note about a late finish is a plan with a hole.

The dock that shuts at a set hour is the access problem. A window before other shops open is a different job from midday, when the lane is already queued. Write the hours a truck can stand there, and the hours it cannot. Collection needs the same honesty, because the reopened shop may be busier than the closed one. A delivery that worked at dawn is not automatically a collection that can happen at dusk.

If the fittings must stay dry, ask for the condition description in words and read the grades page. Hire is not a way around that question. If a shelf is wanted for the duration, put it in the same message. A shelf on a hired shell is a change with an ending, and it has to be written down or it is not in the job.

Not sure remains the right selection if the owner might keep the container as a storeroom after reopening. Tell us whether the container might stay or go back, and give the dates. The quote can show the fit-out period on its own and a purchase of the same container separately.