Fraser Coast
Fraser Coast streets and sandy pads
Delivery across the Fraser Coast for renovators, downsizers and small businesses, quoted with the container.
Hervey Bay orders are mostly moves, boats and a sandy pad. Units are checked and photographed before delivery.
Delivery across the Fraser Coast for renovators, downsizers and small businesses, quoted with the container.
Pialba, Scarness, Torquay, Urangan, Point Vernon and River Heads are all 4655. Houses here are often on sand, and a container parked for a move or a boat fit-out needs its corners on something solid or it settles out of square. Driveways in the older esplanade streets are short. A 10ft is the size that fits when a 20ft would stick out to the footpath.
Howard and Burrum Heads are 4659, quieter and more acreage. Toogoom is back in 4655. People heading across to K'gari store four-wheel-drive and camping kit in a locked box between trips. Delivery is booked once the size and the pad are confirmed.
Hervey Bay keeps growing because people retire here, and that shapes what containers get used for. A typical case is someone between houses: sold down south, building or buying in the bay, and needing a household's worth of furniture kept safe for six months. A 20ft container on hire does that job and leaves when you unpack.
The other is the permanent shed substitute. Caravanners, fishers and anyone with a boat at Urangan ends up with more gear than garage. Where the block is tight, a 10ft container tucks beside the house and takes the fishing gear, the camping kit and the mower. For this kind of storage a used cargo-worthy unit is plenty; buy new only if the look of it matters to you or the neighbours.
Much of the bay is built on sand, and sand is fine under a container but poor under a loaded truck if it is loose or has been soaked. A firm driveway or compacted gravel for the truck's run-in avoids a bogged tilt-tray. Under the container itself, use concrete blocks or pavers at the four corners so it stays level as the ground settles.
Salt air is the other local factor. Containers are made for the sea, but surface rust on a used box needs a wire brush and a dab of paint now and then, more so near the Esplanade than out at Howard. Inside, fit vents: a closed steel box in a humid coastal town will sweat without airflow. Cargo-worthy grade is sold wind and watertight; as-is grade is not, and is best kept for gear that can get damp.
Check the driveway against the clearances on our delivery page, and check any estate covenant or body corporate rule about structures visible from the street — plenty of newer Hervey Bay estates have one. Then call us with the address. The delivery is priced in with the container, so you see one total.
Yes, and it is one of the most common uses here. Hire a 20ft, pack it with furniture off the floor on pallets or blankets, add moisture absorbers and fit vents if it will be closed up over summer.
Yes. The towns north-west of Hervey Bay are within our Fraser Coast delivery area. Some streets are sandy or unsealed, so tell us what the road surface and the driveway are like.
For most households, yes. A 10ft has 16 cubic metres inside — room for outboards, rods, eskies, swags and a mower, with shelving down one wall. It will not take the boat itself; for that you need length, and a 20ft is the starting point.
Yes. The acreage areas behind Hervey Bay are within our Fraser Coast delivery area. Tell us whether the track in is sealed, gravel or sand.
Any steel near the coast needs some care. Wire-brush and paint chips as they appear, keep the roof clear of debris and wash salt off stored gear. A new container needs the least maintenance.
If it fits the door. The opening is 2.34m wide and about 2.28m high on a standard container, or 2.58m high on a high cube, so measure the rig — including the spare wheel, jockey wheel and any roof rack — before you order. Small boats and camper trailers usually need a 40ft for the length.
Only if the driveway and the overhead clearance work, and if a temporary placement is allowed on that block. Urangan 4655 is a delivery suburb. Ask the council if it will sit for months in view of the street.
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A Pialba renovation and a Burrum Heads block need different access notes. 1300 235 972.