Rent a shipping container with a simple phone call

Jane on May 26, 2020

Rent a shipping container with a simple phone call

Did you know that it’s actually very easy to hire a container from Billie Box? If you’ve never hired one before, or you’ve had trouble in the past, you might be unsure about future container hire. We’re here to show you how renting a container from Billie Box can be accomplished with a few simple steps, starting with a phone call.

Reasons to rent a shipping container

Are you renovating your home? Require storage space for your business? Hosting an event such as a festival or market? Whatever the reason, a shipping container can easily solve your storage problems.

Shipping containers are resilient and weatherproof. They spend most of their lives carrying goods from one side of the Earth to another in all types of weather conditions. Therefore, they need to be tough in order to protect their contents!

Did you know that shipping containers can also deter thieves? Not only does it keep your stored items out of site, we also supply our containers for hire with lock boxes, which you can use with a padlock to deter thieves with bolt croppers. 

Shipping containers can be easily delivered and taken away with the right equipment. We have a list of depots across England, and can arrange delivery and collection nationwide from £195.00 plus VAT each way.

How to rent a shipping container

It’s in fact very easy to rent a shipping container from us! All you need to do is:

  1. Call us on 0800 121 7388 or 01473 557409 with your name, postcode, the size of the container and any accessories you require, and your rental period.
  2. We will then email you with a free quote.
  3. Once you have agreed to the quote, we’ll create a ‘hire agreement’ and invoice you for the first 26 weeks’ rental, accessories, delivery and collection charges, plus VAT. We also ask you to set up a standing order for all future payments. This form will be sent to you with the hire contract.
  4. When you have paid the first invoice, we will make the delivery and offload arrangements.

Find out more details about container hire here.

What kind of shipping container do I need?

Wondering what kind of shipping container you need? Well, it depends on how much you’re storing. A standard container size is 20ft (L) x 8ft (W) x 8’6” (H). This will usually fit the household goods of a one-to-two-bedroom apartment.

If this doesn’t sound like enough space, we also rent 40ft (L) x 8ft (W) x 8’6” (H) and 40ft (L) x 8ft (W) x 9’6” (H) containers.

Interested in hiring a container? Do not hesitate to contact Jane today on 0800 121 7388 or 01473 557409.

Chemical stores for Schools

Jane on March 6, 2018

Chemical storage is increasingly becoming an issue in schools of all sizes.  Our Chemical Stores are suitable for many industries in particular Schools, colleges and Universities.

For the last 5 years we have been selling chemical / pesticide stores to the Farmers and Universities. For the farming industry we have set up a website called ChemicalStorage4Farmers. This has significantly increased our chemical storage container sales and the Billie Box reputation in the Chemical storage market. Our customers buy from us with confidence.

Many Schools, Colleges & Universities are under pressure to store their chemicals safely and securely. Billie Box Chemical storage containers are fitted with a lock box and supplied with a hardened steel padlock that fits inside the lock box. If any opportunist thieves or vandals try to break in, you need to be sure that the locking mechanism is suitable to keep the store secure.

Billie Box Chemical Stores are fitted with a clear decal on the door saying ‘Dangerous chemicals’ (meaning “Enter at your peril”).  Part of the reason for clear labelling is to mitigate potential litigation. When a Chemical Store is clearly labelled as hazardous, if unwanted intruders get injured from a chemical spillage, then it shouldn’t be your fault.

Even with good safety procedures in place accidents can still happen.  To prevent chemicals spilling out of the container a low physical barrier  is fitted by the doors to the container. This barrier is called a ‘bund’. The bunded floor ensures that any chemical spill does not seep out onto your site (where children and students are walking) or into any nearby water course.

We know that our chemical storage containers are perfect as a secure facility for your School, College or University.  Buying a Billie Box Chemical Store is the safe, simple way to keep your dangerous chemicals secure.

Billie Box Chemical stores meet with the Health and Safety executive’s criteria, giving you the confidence that our stores are suitable for your secure storage requirements.

Billie Box is featuring in the ‘Pitchcare’ online Buyers guide now.

So why not give us a call today on 0800 121 7388 or GET a Quote here

Jane & Matt at Billie Box value your business and they like to be sure that you walk away a happy customer.

Storage Containers for Football Clubs

Jane on October 5, 2016

Football clubs often require storage containers for their unmanned sites.

Football Foundation

Did you know that the Football Foundation have set up a funding scheme for the purchase of a storage container? Click on Funding scheme for more information.

So, English and Welsh Football clubs can purchase steel secure storage containers from us at Billie Box. We offer 20ft and 40ft steel shipping containers fitted with a lock box and padlock. These containers are perfect as a secure lock up.

Billie Box has a variety of sizes and types of containers:

Second hand 20ft x 8ft storage container

Example of a Second hand 20ft x 8ft storage container (approx. 12 years old)

Example of a Second hand 40ft x 8ft steel storage container

Example of a Second hand 40ft x 8ft steel storage container

New (once used from China) 20ft x 8ft storage container

New (once used from China) 20ft x 8ft storage container

20ft Opensider

New (once used from China) 20ft x 8ft Opensider container

40ft tunnel container for sale

New (once used from China) 20ft or 40ft Tunnel container

More photos can be seen on our Gallery page.

Delivery and Offload

Billie Box arranges transportation to your site with a Hi ab lorry, that will offload the container to the side of the vehicle. More information about the delivery conditions, please visit our Delivery page.

Container accessories

Accessories for storage containers are available for purchase from Billie Box via Paypal, please view our Padlocks, and Absorpoles pages for more information.

Planning Permission

Within the conditions of the Football Foundation funding scheme, you must apply for planning permission. When you speak to your local planning department, you can advise them that the storage container is a ‘Temporary structure and can be moved at anytime with specialist equipment’. This may result in no planning permission required. However, according to the funding scheme, you will still need to get this confirmed in writing.

Storage container Rental

If the funding scheme is not the route your football club would like to take, we do offer storage container rental around England and Wales.

GET a Quote today

So please contact Jane or Matt for a quotation by either T: 0800 121 7388 or click on GET A Quote

About Jane Billing
Jane Billing has over 30 years’ experience in shipping container supply. During that time Jane has gained a very broad knowledge of the whole shipping container industry. From construction, to shipping, to adaption and conversions, if you have a question about any aspect of the shipping container industry Jane will likely have the answer for you. After many years working for some of the biggest names in the shipping container industry Jane set up her own company, Billie Box Ltd, in 2012. Since launching, Billie Box Ltd has sold well over 1500 new and used containers.

Schools Colleges and Universities

Jane on June 28, 2013

Billie Box knows that many industries require their products and services. One in particular is schools. With the number of burglaries on the rise and the schools colleges and universities not being attended during the evenings and weekends, there is more and more need for secure storage. Our shipping containers are perfect for static storage and are a ‘Must have’ for a school, college or university.

New 20ft sea container

Jane Billing, only the other day, spoke to a headmaster of a school in Kent. The headmaster was reluctant to have a shipping container for storage, as he had his existing containers broken into recently. Jane asked if the gentleman had, had a lock box fitted or was the padlock fitted to the door handles. The headmaster replied: “What is a lock box?” Jane explained that a lock box was a steel shrouded area to house a padlock, whereby opportunists cannot get access to the padlock with bolt croppers. The headmaster then replied: “That is brilliant, I will have a re-think” and he went on to buy a 20ft container.

Schools often have sufficient space to place an, 8ft, 10ft, 20ft or 40ft box, with plenty of room for our vehicles to drive and offload the container. Please see our video showing a box being offloaded.

Delivery and offload of 2 x 10ft sea containers

Billie Box has assisted many schools across England in supplying a secure storage container on a sale or rental basis. We always recommend a lock box and padlock is fitted to ensure that they are doubly secure.

Lock box for shipping containersCISA 66 padlock for shipping containers

So if you are a school and wondering what do about your storage problem, why not call us today on 0800 121 7388 or 01473 557409 or ‘Get a Quote’

Lock up your valuables

Jane on March 5, 2013

What has your outbuilding or shed got in it? A bike or two, these could be worth anything from a hundred pounds to several thousand pounds each, lawnmowers can be approaching a thousand pounds, perhaps even a quad-bike or classic motorcycle are inside. Are you a member of an allotment association needing to store rotavators and strimmers or a community sports club with grounds person’s equipment? All of the items mentioned above are highly desirable and very easy to move and steal, how much would they cost to replace? Often many thousands. So is your storage secure? Is it locked with a cheap padlock across a wooden door or perhaps has a large window that can be broken or removed.

In the year to March 2021, there were 440,000 domestic burglary cases in England and Wales (Source – Gov.uk). A lot of those crimes would have been outbuildings and sheds being broken into. We secure our homes with high-security locks but leave some of our most valuable possessions in poorly protected places. Sometimes sheds and outbuildings are broken into by opportunistic thieves hunting for the tools they need to break into the property they are targeting. Your poorly protected tools may enable a thief to break into your home.

What’s the answer? At Billie Box we have an excellent solution. Shipping containers can be used as secure storage and start from just eight feet long and go as big as forty feet long. (sizes in between are ten and twenty feet). One of the smaller units could be used in a large garden or on communal allotments, larger units could be used on farms to protect small tractors and quad-bikes etc. There are no windows to be broken and they are constructed from corten steel (high tensile steel). Solid steel walls protect your valuable items.

The doors are secured with a hardened steel padlock supplied with three high-security keys and can be fitted with a lockbox – A steel shroud around the lock that prevents physical attack directly on the padlock for added security. Any attempt to gain access to the unit with noisy machinery would certainly attract unwanted attention, well before the container is even scratched.

Another benefit of using our secure containers is that your insurance costs could be reduced, if your valuables are behind locked steel doors and steel walls the risk to the insurance company is reduced, so they may reduce your premium, or even insure something that they previously considered a too higher risk. All insurance companies have different criteria. It’s worth contacting yours, to see if it will save you money – a saving isn’t guaranteed but certainly a possibility.

Contact Jane Billing at Billie Box for a quote on your needs, It could tidy up and declutter your premises, giving your company or organisation a more professional image to visitors and potential customers, whilst preventing the distress and loss of a break-in.

Remember: Prevention is better than cure…

Call Jane and Matt today on 0800 121 7388 or get in touch via our contact page…

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