Guides for the decision you are stuck on.

Start from the stuck point

Most people open a guide because one decision is blocking the rest. They have not pegged the pad, or they have pegged it and cannot picture the truck, or they are holding a quote that says “delivery” and nothing else. Start there. The buying guide is the longer order of a purchase. The how it works page is the sequence from enquiry to day. These notes sit beside those, each on a single snag.

Measuring is the tape on the ground: body, door arc, truck stop. It is not the dimension table, though you will want that table open. Ground prep is what you build after the method is known, not a slab poured in hope. Truck choice is a reading of your worse photo. If you do those three in that order, a lot of arguments never start.

Door direction is the peg at the end you will walk to in six months. People skip it because the truck is more dramatic. Then they live with doors facing a puddle. Mark the peg before the truck exists. Shelves, if you want them, have to agree with that peg, because a shelf on the wrong wall deletes the walk or fights the door.

Condensation is the note for anyone who has seen water and assumed a leak, or who is about to store paper, fabric or cartons. Locks are for shared keys and seized bars, not for a fantasy of a vault. Colours and repainting are for the face a neighbour sees. Paint does not change the grade words. Read those two only if appearance is actually the question.

Paper, and the end of a hire

Reading the quote is the habit of sending holes back: missing grade words, a missing method, a missing door end. Insurance is a list of questions for your insurer, not a cover we add in the small print. Auction buying explains why a listing and a supplier quote are different products, so you do not ask one to behave like the other.

Collection day is for hires. Empty the container, clear the gate you have now, and ring if a fence grew. A purchase is not collected. If you are unsure which you are doing, the form’s Not sure option exists so the quote can show both. Hire and the buying guide are the two readings behind that tick.

Town and state notes under delivery areas are the local ground: black soil, a wet season, a steep court, a sea leg. Use a town note when the place changes the advice. Use a guide when the decision would be the same in any town. They link to each other. You do not have to memorise the map.

Ask the quote for the amount, the unit and the journey. Ask the council, or the territory authority, if the container will stay. Ask your insurer about cover. These notes help you recognise a vague reply and send a clearer question.

A Saturday, and which link to send

One person is standing in a court with a tape and no idea if a truck can stop. Send them measuring, then truck choice. Do not send them the colour page. Colour is not their problem yet.

Another is holding two quotes and cannot tell why the descriptions feel different. Send them reading the quote, then grades. If one quote is an auction listing, send them the auction note so they stop comparing a deadline with a journey.

A third is a hire that ends next month, and a scaffold has appeared. Send them collection day before they send the original photo again. The original photo is out of date. Collection day tells them to walk the lane they have now.

A fourth is worried about water on the ceiling of a container they already own. Send them condensation before they buy another box in a panic. Sweat and a leak are different, and the note shows how to look.

Start with the decision that is holding you up. A shipping container decision is rarely blocked by a lack of enthusiasm. It is blocked by one unmeasured corner, one unspoken door end, or one silent line in a quote. Open that note, do the thing it asks, and then come back to the form with a clearer message. 1300 789 543 is there if you would rather talk the stuck point through than read it. If you are writing on behalf of someone else, send them the single link that matches their stuck point rather than the whole set. A court needs the measuring note. A wet ceiling needs the condensation note. A hire that is about to end needs the collection note. Send the one note that matches the stuck point, and leave the rest of the set for later. Delivery areas cover the ground itself: a season, a hill, a channel, a court with a rule. Use a guide for the decision and a town page for the place, and let the quote be the document that joins them.

Using the guides

Then write the enquiry

When the guide has done its job you should be able to name the goods, the gate and the decision you made. Put those in the message. Leave size as help me choose if the tape and the truck still disagree.

Sizes and grades sit on containers, grades and dimensions. The phone is 1300 789 543. The form is on contact if you already know what you want to say.