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27 Jul

Posted at 09:15h in Articles, Uncategorised

  Are you looking for a short-term, secure, and convenient storage option? Or what about a temporary office, classroom, or site accommodation? For many businesses and homeowners, storing or have a temporary site solution is a necessity, but what if you need a container for a short time only? In such a case, purchasing one is not going to make much sense. Rental containers are convenient and more cost-effective and they are removable too because not everyone wants a big metal box staring at them from their kitchen window every day. Before signing up for container rentals just anywhere, avoid costly mistakes with these helpful tips:   Determine the size. While many suppliers can customise containers to their clients’ needs, rentals come in set sizes that vary from 6 m (20 ft) to 12 m (40 ft) long. Because these are standard sizes, they are easily available and more affordable than customised versions. Should you find yourself stuck on the size, your supplier should be able to help you determine the right one for your needs and the space you have for it.   Decide on the specifications: It is important to know what you’re looking for, there are a variety of rental containers from storage containers...

27 Jul

Posted at 09:05h in Articles, Uncategorised

Are you looking to hire a storage container? Needing a temporary site office or ablution?   Follow these 7 easy steps and hire your container or park home today.   Step 1: Contact us or Request a Quote with your requirements. Step 2: Our team will assist you with a quote that suits your needs i.e. Site office container with an aircon for hire or one without an aircon.  You can also see all our container and park home options below: Container Hire Prices Park home Hire Prices Step 3: Receive your official quotation and Lease Agreement Lease Agreement Step 4: Return your completed Lease Agreement. You can email it to the Sales Representative that helped you or to sales@absolutecontainers.co.za Step 5: Make full first months hire payment, refundable breakage deposit, and return transport. Please send the POP to your Sales Representative or sales@acontainer.co.za Step 6: Receive your Absolutely Awesome Hired Container or Park home.        ...

27 Jul

Posted at 07:26h in Uncategorised

As the cost of fixed property has continued to mount, many South Africans have had to settle for a life in rented premises. By contrast, some have managed to secure ownership by exploring less conventional options. These new owners are among thousands of individuals, families and businesses that have chosen to invest in one of the increasingly popular park homes for sale in various parts of the country.   To erect this type of accommodation from timber and other traditional building materials can be expensive and could cost almost as much as any comparable new building. On the other hand, a prefabricated modular dwelling is much quicker and easier to assemble. It can be designed to the purchaser’s specifications and transported to the desired site when complete. Furthermore, when the modules employed for this purpose are steel shipping containers, the task is also far less expensive.   In practice, many of the so-called park homes for sale are not intended for residential use. When assembling a building from rectangular steel boxes, there is plenty of scope for the designer. The containers can be joined end-to-end, side-to-side or top-to-bottom, according to the new owner’s needs. The finished structure and proposed use need be limited only by one’s...

27 Jul

Posted at 07:20h in Uncategorised

Often, households and business owners can find they have a temporary need for extra storage space. Their requirement might be just for a couple of weeks, several months or even a year. In each case, regardless of whether the additional space is for domestic or business purposes, the most practical course will generally be to rent shipping containers. Not only do these units provide a versatile, durable and secure storage option, but to rent shipping containers rather than purchasing them can also offer several benefits.   There are many reasons why one might need extra space for a while. For example, when hiring a builder to perform a significant home makeover, you might need somewhere to store furniture temporarily while staying with family or friends. There are few better ways to be sure your prized possessions will remain safe from opportunistic thieves and undamaged by extremes of weather than sealing them inside a reinforced steel box.   Furthermore, when you rent shipping containers, you also have the option to relocate them with ease. Should the need arise, the unit and its contents can be loaded onto a flat-bed truck or rail car and transported safely to a new home or business premises, ready for deployment. This combination...

04 Jul

Posted at 15:35h in Uncategorised

Some Compelling Reasons to Rent a Park Home   House prices in South Africa have rocketed. In many areas, an average home can now sell for around R1 million. Not surprisingly, the high selling prices have also led to parallel increases in the cost of rented properties. The situation has seen a growing number of South Africans turning to a less conventional form of accommodation. Rather than insisting on bricks and mortar, they choose to occupy metal dwellings and look for park homes to rent.    The cost of converting a shipping container into a comfortable dwelling is markedly less than building a conventional brick or concrete structure. In turn, this means that the cost of renting these properties is also correspondingly lower. For many people, the past few years have been particularly difficult due to the lingering effects of a global recession, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of our more unfortunate citizens have been grateful to find any form of shelter. The option of park homes to rent provides a welcome alternative while waiting for better days when it may, once again, be possible to consider leasing a suburban townhouse or even owning your own home.   Understandably, some folks might have second thoughts about living...

04 Jul

Posted at 15:28h in Uncategorised

Interested in Used Shipping Containers for Sale?   Maybe you are planning to relocate overseas. Perhaps you require some extra storage space or are thinking about a poolside summer house. If so, your most cost-effective option could well be to invest in one or more of the used shipping containers offered for sale for these and similar purposes. When compared with the cost of purchasing new units, the savings can be considerable. Even if your second-hand purchase should have a few scratches, a fresh coat of paint should not take long or cost a fortune.   The simple idea of using a metal box of uniform dimensions and shape to simplify loading and unloading goods has revolutionised the marine freight industry and slashed the cost of transporting goods by sea. The rectangular boxes must stand up to rough handling by dockside cranes and the constant buffeting of high seas. However, when buying used shipping containers for sale, the new owners can rest assured that their rugged construction guarantees many more years of useful life.   If all you need is to provide some secure storage for items that are cluttering up your home or filling your garage, you should need to do no more than provide a suitable concrete base as a foundation...

27 May

Posted at 09:18h in Uncategorised

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Nature and Uses of Reefers   While the English language has the largest vocabulary by far, it is also notorious for possessing many words that can have more than one meaning. A classic example of this literary confusion can be seen in the various interpretations shared by the word “reefers”. For example, a yachtsman may associate the word with someone engaged in reefing a sail to reduce the surface area exposed to the wind. In 1931, Time Magazine was the first to publicly use the same word to describe home-rolled cigarettes made from ground and dried dagga leaves. In other circles, however, it is a term that describes a refrigerated truck body or container used to transport or store fresh foods and various other temperature-sensitive materials.   Of course, one can keep things cool by stacking them in ice, but reefers offer a more precise means to maintain the optimal temperature ranges required for specific tasks. For example, to retain their quality, frozen goods need to be transported at a temperature of between -18°C and -25°C, whereas 0°C to -2°C is the range usually recommended for the safe transport of fresh meats and fish. By contrast, fruit and...

27 May

Posted at 08:49h in Uncategorised

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Various Types of Shipping Containers for Sale   With the possible exception of the transition from sail to steam, nothing has had more influence on the growth of maritime trade than the various types of shipping containers for sale to freight lines and exporters. The concept was the brainchild of an American haulage company owner, Malcolm McLean. Having noted the vast amount of time spent on loading and unloading cargo, he hit on the idea of detaching the trailers from his trucks and loading them, complete with their contents, onto a freighter, using a dockside crane. In 1955, McLean bought a steamship company to test an idea that would cut current shipping costs by 90%.   The need for standardisation quickly became apparent, and ISO specifications governing the dimensions of shipping containers for sale emerged during the early ‘60s. The resulting ease of stacking saw containerisation grow and, by the ‘70s, it had already become the accepted norm among those involved in the transport of marine cargo. In practice, standardised container sizes also led to the first fully intermodal transport option. Their uniform width and length means it is possible to load them aboard trucks, trains, or ships with equal...

21 Apr

Posted at 11:57h in Uncategorised

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Modular Buildings Offer a Practical and Economical Option   The latest estimates suggest there are now more than 17 million shipping containers on the planet and that only about 5 million of these are in active use on the high seas at any one time. Of the rest, many are awaiting their turn to be emptied or restocked with export goods, while some are providing temporary storage space for reserves of fast-moving stock items. A growing number of decommissioned containers are likely to become modular buildings though. Given their constant handling and the pummelling they experience whilst at sea, these metal boxes are among the strongest structures ever manufactured. However, in addition to their exceptional strength, shipping containers are of uniform height and width, and available in seven standard lengths. The combination of its robust structure with its uniform dimensions has led to the redundant shipping container becoming the perfect starting point for constructing park homes, site offices, additional classrooms, and many other types of temporary or permanent modular buildings. On average, these containers have a useful lifespan of twenty-five years or so. If professionally refurbished, they should easily survive a further twenty-five or a great deal longer if...

21 Apr

Posted at 09:54h in Uncategorised

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] New and Used Shipping Containers for Sale in South Africa   The volume of goods transported by sea has been increasing steadily since maritime trade began. To keep pace with the rising demand, ship owners have had to extend their fleets or commission bigger vessels with correspondingly enlarged cargo space. The process of loading and unloading cargo, however, remained slow, adding to the ship owners’ costs, and thus forcing up transport costs. All that changed during the mid-1950s with the launch of a converted tanker, by one Malcolm McLean. His ship carried the first precursors of the shipping containers offered for sale today. The ground-breaking maiden voyage of that vessel, re-named the SS Ideal X, marked a turning point in marine cargo history. Dockers at the US port of New Jersey succeeded in loading her with 58 fully laden, uniformly sized, stackable metal boxes in a record time of under eight hours. More significantly, this revolutionary concept served to reduce the prevailing cost of $5.86 to load each ton of cargo to a mere 16 cents. Today, discounting the new shipping containers for sale, there are more than five million of these rectangular metal boxes at sea, and perhaps a further twelve...

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