10ft10ft Shipping Containers
The side passage is narrow, the council setback leaves you nothing to play with, or all you need is somewhere lockable for a mower, a compressor and a rack of tools.
Used from$4,350
New from$6,400
Mandurah, WA
Shipping containers Mandurah
Mandurah containers come down the Kwinana Freeway from stock held at a Fremantle depot. Down here the questions are about boats, canals, sandy ground near the estuary and the rural lots out toward Pinjarra — so that is what this page answers.
- Stock held at
- A Fremantle depot, down the Kwinana Freeway
- What sets the date
- The Fremantle stock on hand and the site at your end. Confirmed the day you order.
- Usual truck
- Tilt-tray for 10ft and 20ft; side loader or crane for canal-side and narrow lots
Every enquiry answered within one business day.You hear back from a person, not an autoresponder. Enquiries that land on a weekend are answered the next business day.
Plain answers for the Peel.
What they end up holding around Mandurah
A lot of Mandurah life happens on or near the water, and the gear that goes with it has to live somewhere. Crab nets, rods, kayaks, outboards, trailer spares and wetsuits fill a garage quickly, and a 10ft or 20ft at the side of the house takes the overflow. People moving down from Perth into a smaller place use one to hold what will not fit while they decide what to keep.
Further out it is working storage: hay, feed and tack on the horse and hobby properties east of the freeway, machinery and fertiliser on the farms toward Pinjarra and Waroona, and lockable site boxes for builders busy in Lakelands, Meadow Springs and the newer estates on the northern edge of town.
No Mandurah yard — here is the arrangement
We do not have premises in Mandurah or anywhere else in Western Australia. Our WA stock sits at a third-party depot in Fremantle, and a Mandurah order is loaded there and trucked south.
If you want to see the unit first, we can arrange an inspection at the depot. Or we can send photographs of the specific container on request, before delivery. Everything else — the quote, the questions, the booking — is handled over the phone.
Grade moves the price more than size does, and it is what decides whether a unit is sold watertight — the full rundown is on the grades page.
The range
Containers we deliver to Mandurah
Guide prices in AUD, ex GST. Delivery is quoted with the container.
10ft
20ft20ft Shipping Containers
You have about seven metres of straight, reasonably level ground to put it on and you would rather not find out in six months that you should have gone bigger.
Used from$2,200
New from$3,300
40ft40ft Shipping Containers
You have the room, the access is genuinely open, and you want the most storage per dollar available anywhere.
Used from$2,600
New from$5,500
What to check before you order in Mandurah
Before you ring, walk around your place and look at the six things below. They decide whether a Mandurah drop is quick and tidy or turns into a second attempt.
Canal or waterfront lot?
Houses on the canals at Port Mandurah, Halls Head and Dawesville tend to be built wide on narrow lots, with little room between the side walls and the fence. A tilt-tray will not reach the back of most of them. If the container has to go beside or behind the house, a side loader or a crane from the street is the realistic option. Tell us which canal and send a photo from the kerb.
Is your ground low near the estuary?
Parts of the Peel sit low beside the Peel Inlet and the Harvey Estuary, and after a wet winter some backyards stay soggy for weeks. Pick the highest, firmest patch you have. Put the container on pads so air gets underneath. And do not keep anything down low you would mind losing — a container is no defence against rising water, which gets in at the door seals.
Can the boat trailer still get past?
If the plan is to back a boat down the side of the house, measure it now. People site a container where it looks neat and then discover the trailer cannot get through any more. Leave the path you actually use clear, with room to spare for a bad reverse.
Rural access east of the freeway
On acreage out toward Pinjarra, Nambeelup and North Dandalup check the gate width, whether the driveway crosses a table drain or a culvert, and whether the ground will hold a truck after rain. The plain inland from the coast carries heavier soil than the beach sand and holds water through winter.
Which way will the doors face?
Mandurah gets a strong afternoon sea breeze through summer, and doors that open into it swing hard. Point them away from the south-west, or fit something to hold them open. It saves hinges and fingers.
What does the gear inside need?
Boat gear is often put away damp, and damp gear in a closed steel box sweats and grows mould. If ropes, sails, wetsuits or life jackets are going in, fit vents at both ends and let things dry before you lock up. For contents that must stay dry, buy a grade sold wind and watertight — cargo-worthy or new.
Mandurah
Salt, sand and a steel box by the water
Anywhere near the estuary or the ocean front, salt air works on steel all year. A new or cargo-worthy container arrives painted and sound; what keeps it that way is washing it down a couple of times a year, dealing with scratches quickly, and stopping sand drifting up against the bottom rails where it holds moisture.
Sand has one more habit here: it moves. Leave a container door open on a windy afternoon and you will be sweeping it out for a week. Close up when you walk away.
On the ground
Getting it level on Peel sand
Coastal sand is decent ground to sit a container on, as long as it is firm. Trouble starts where a block has been built up with fill, where reticulation keeps one corner wet, or where tree roots push up from underneath. A container resting on one high corner twists its frame, and the doors stop closing properly.
Solid pads under each corner — concrete, or sleepers on a compacted base — and a quick check with a level once it is down will save you grief later. If the doors ever start binding, the fix is nearly always packing one corner, not the doors.
What the driver needs from you
For a 10ft or 20ft on a standard Mandurah block, a tilt-tray needs a clear straight run, firm ground under its wheels, and no wires or eaves over the point where the bed lifts. Reversing across a kerb and footpath is routine; reversing over a soft lawn after rain is how trucks get stuck.
A 40ft is a job for a big industrial yard or a farm. On a residential lot in Mandurah it rarely fits, and when it does it needs far more room than people picture. If you have your heart set on one, send photos and we will tell you straight whether it works.
Delivery cost, plainly
The delivery component is worked out for your address and included in the quote. It moves with the truck your site needs and the run from Fremantle. There is no flat Mandurah rate on this page, because any single rate would be wrong for half the town.
Around the Peel
We also deliver to Rockingham, Pinjarra, Waroona, Dawesville, Falcon, Bunbury.
Straight answers
What Mandurah people want to know
Is there somewhere in Mandurah I can see the container?
No — we have no yard in the Peel. WA stock is held at a Fremantle depot, and you can arrange to inspect a unit there. Otherwise we send photos of the actual container on request, before delivery.
Can you put a container beside a canal house?
Often, but rarely with a tilt-tray. Canal homes usually have narrow side access, so it becomes a side loader or crane job from the street. Send a photo from the kerb and one of the spot, and we will tell you what it takes.
Will a container keep my boat gear dry?
A cargo-worthy or new unit is sold wind and watertight, so rain stays out. As-is stock is not sold as watertight. Either way, put gear away dry or it will sweat, and fit vents if you store ropes, sails or wetsuits inside.
Do I need council approval in Mandurah?
It depends on the block, how long the container stays and what it is for. Ask the City of Mandurah — or the Shire of Murray if you are on that side — before delivery day.
Can you get one onto a rural block near Pinjarra?
Yes. Tell us the gate width, the state of the driveway and whether anything soft lies between the road and the spot. Winter is when paddock access gets difficult, so a dry spell is worth waiting for.
When would I have it?
When you order, we confirm a date based on the stock at the Fremantle depot and what your site needs. If you are working to a fixed day, tell us at the start.
Get a price
Give us the Mandurah address
Tell us the suburb, what is going in it and whether the block is canal-side, suburban or rural, and we will price it with delivery from Fremantle included. Every enquiry answered within one business day.
Or skip the form and ring us — 0477 410 500, Mon–Fri 7:30am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm