Bought outright · England, Scotland & Wales
Sell site cabins and site offices
Site cabins, site offices, stores and gatehouses, bought as they stand. A photograph or two and the postcode it is standing on is enough to get a figure and a collection date.
What we take
The unit nobody wants to deal with at the end of a job
Site cabins are the last thing on a compound to get sorted out. The job finishes, the offices come off the job or get left behind, and a unit that was earning its keep for two years starts costing ground rent instead.
That unit is our core purchase. We buy them one at a time from farms and yards, and forty at a time from contractors closing a site down. Condition sets the figure; what the cabin was used for does not.
- Types
- Open plan site offices, split and partitioned offices, cabins with a kitchen bay, stores, gatehouses and combination units.
- Sizes
- From a 10ft store up to a 32ft office. Small units are wanted — 8ft and 9ft cabins move quickly and are never too small to price.
- Condition
- In service, tired, or stripped back to bare board. All three are bought, at different figures.
- Numbers
- One cabin, or a whole compound cleared in a planned sequence.
Just the one, behind a yard? The way a single unit is handled is set out on sell my portable cabin.
What decides the figure
What we are looking at in the photographs
Two or three pictures are enough to start. If you are walking out to the cabin anyway, these are the ones that answer the most questions.
The outside, from a corner
Far enough back to get two elevations and the roof line in one frame. It establishes the length, the window and door arrangement and how the cabin sits on its base.
The floor, at the corners
The single biggest thing. A floor gives way at the corners and under the door threshold long before it goes in the middle, so photograph the edges.
The inside, end to end
One from each end tells us the layout, the state of the linings and whether the partitions are original or something somebody added later.
The consumer unit
Whatever is there, even if it has been isolated or emptied. Electrics are tested and certified before anything goes back out, so we would rather see the real starting point.
The roof
From an upper window, a bank or anywhere safe and higher than the cabin. Never climb onto it for us.
The way in
One from the road looking towards the cabin, showing the gateway, the ground the lorry stands on and anything overhead. It is what stops a collection date being wasted.
Useful if you can get it, not a requirement. Send what you have and we will ask if we need more.
How the collection runs
Our own vehicles, so the date is one we control rather than one we are waiting on somebody else for. The cabin is lifted off its base and taken away whole, on our own HIAB where the ground and the overhead clearance allow it and a tilt bed where they do not.
Awkward access is worth asking about rather than assuming. Tell us what stands between the cabin and the road, and send a photograph taken from where a lorry would have to sit, and we will tell you how we would reach it. That photograph matters more than people expect.
Several cabins together, or offices standing alongside containers and welfare units we are already buying, price better than a single unit on its own. If you are clearing a compound, send the whole picture rather than one item at a time.
Payment is by bank transfer on collection. The figure is agreed beforehand and the lorry is booked against it.
Past saving
When it is a removal job instead
Not every cabin is worth buying. A unit with a failed roof, a soft floor and a frame that will not lift cleanly is a removal job, and saying otherwise helps nobody.
Where that is what you have, we will say so plainly and quote to take it away instead. Knowing which of the two you are holding is worth more than an optimistic figure that changes on the day.
Redundant and surplus units at the end of a contract are the normal case, and mixed compounds are the normal shape of the job.
Alongside the rest of the compound
Site cabins rarely stand on their own
If yours is sitting next to containers, welfare or an anti-vandal unit, all of it can be handled as one job on one visit.
Containers
Shipping and storage containers, plain or converted, 6ft through to 40ft, bought on the same terms.
What we pay for containers →Welfare and canteens
Welfare units, canteens and drying rooms, bought whether the fit-out is intact or long gone.
See details →Anti-vandal units
Steel clad units with shutters, bought seized, dented or working.
See details →Buying rather than selling? We also have used site cabins for sale and used site offices.
Common questions
Site cabins and site offices, asked and answered
What counts as a site cabin?
Anything that was built in a factory as a self-contained unit and lifted onto a compound: open plan site offices, split offices with a partitioned meeting end, cabins with a small kitchen bay, stores, gatehouses and combination units. Steel clad or panel clad, on legs or sitting on blocks. If it travels whole on a lorry, it is a site cabin as far as we are concerned.
Do you buy second hand site offices with the fit-out still in?
Yes, and usually for more. Desks, partitions, blinds, floor coverings and a working kitchen bay all shorten the work needed before a unit goes back out. Strip it only if you want the contents, not because you think we want it empty.
The unit has been sitting since the contract finished. Still worth asking?
Almost always. A cabin standing idle on a finished compound is the most common thing we buy. What matters is whether the frame is straight and the floor is sound, not how long it has stood or how tired it looks.
Do you take the whole compound or just the good ones?
Whole compounds are normal work. Some units get bought, some get quoted for removal, and they are separated as we go rather than the whole lot being priced at the worst one on the ground. Send the full picture and you get a proper split.
What if the electrics have been isolated or stripped?
Not a problem. Units come to us with the supply disconnected, the consumer unit gone or the wiring pulled out, and they are still bought. Say what you know and the figure reflects what is actually there.
How are we paid?
Bank transfer on collection. The figure is settled before the lorry is booked, and it does not change on your yard.
Do you sell site cabins and site offices as well?
A good deal of what we buy is refurbished in our own yard and goes back out, so yes. Tell us the size and the layout you want and we will say what we can do. What is standing in the yard changes week to week.
Site cabin standing idle since the job finished?
A photograph or two and the postcode it is standing on. That is enough for a figure, and the figure is what you are paid on collection.