Bought outright · England, Scotland & Wales
Sell sleeper units and sleepouts
Sleeper units, sleepouts and portable sleeping accommodation, bought as they stand. A photograph or two and the postcode it is standing on is enough to get a figure.
What we take
The unit that quietly stopped being used
Sleeper units have a habit of outliving the reason they were bought. A contract that needed people on site overnight ends, a seasonal crew stops coming, a holiday let changes hands, and the cabin stays where it is with the door shut.
They come to us from farms and estates, from remote depots and wind and quarry sites, from sports clubs and from contractors who kept accommodation on a long job. Condition sets the figure; what it was used for does not.
- Types
- Sleeper cabins, sleepouts, bunk units, single berth units, sleeping cabins with a washing area or WC compartment.
- Sizes
- From a 12ft single berth up to a 32ft unit split into several sleeping compartments.
- Fit-out
- Complete, part stripped or bare. All three are bought, at different figures.
- Numbers
- One unit, or a row of them off a camp or compound.
More of a linked block than a single cabin? See selling a modular building.
What decides the figure
What we are looking at in the photographs
Two or three pictures are enough to start. On a sleeping unit these are the useful ones.
The outside, from a corner
Two elevations and the roof line in one frame, showing the length and how the unit sits on its base.
Each sleeping compartment
One picture per compartment shows the layout, the berth arrangement and the state of the linings without any measuring.
The floor at the corners
Where a floor softens first. Around any washing area and under the window is where water tends to get in.
The windows and their frames
Sleeping units carry more windows than a site office, and condensation damage shows around the frames before anywhere else.
The roof
From an upper window, a bank or anywhere safe and higher than the unit. Never climb onto it for us.
The way in
From the road looking towards the unit, showing the gateway, the standing ground and anything overhead.
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 unit is lifted off its base and taken away whole, on our own HIAB where the ground and overhead clearance allow it and a tilt bed where they do not. If you think the access rules it out, ask before you assume. Send a photograph from where a lorry would have to sit and we will tell you.
Sleeping units are often in the least convenient place on a property — up a farm track, behind a clubhouse, at the back of a yard. That is normal work, but it is the reason the access photograph is worth more than any other single picture you send.
Anything you want to keep needs clearing out beforehand. Payment is by bank transfer on collection, against a figure agreed before the lorry is booked.
The rest of what is standing
Often one of several
Where there is a sleeper unit there is usually a store, a container or a welfare cabin nearby. All of it can be handled as one job.
Site cabins and offices
Site offices, stores and gatehouses, bought in service, tired or stripped back.
See details →Containers
Shipping and storage containers, plain or converted, 6ft through to 40ft.
What we pay for containers →Welfare and canteens
Welfare units, canteens and drying rooms, fit-out intact or long gone.
See details →Common questions
Sleeper units, asked and answered
What is a sleeper unit?
A portable cabin fitted out for sleeping rather than working — bunk or single berths, sometimes with a small washing area or a WC compartment at one end. They are also called sleepouts, sleeping cabins or accommodation units depending on who you ask, and we buy all of them.
Do you buy sleepouts from farms and estates?
Yes, and a good number come from exactly there. Farms, estates, holiday parks, sports clubs and remote depots all end up with a sleeping cabin that stopped being used years ago. It is one of the more common single-unit enquiries we get.
Does the fit-out have to be in?
No. Bunks removed, mattresses gone, a washing area stripped out — all normal and all still bought. An intact fit-out is worth more because it shortens the work, so leave it in unless you want it.
What if it has been lived in?
It makes no difference to us as long as it is emptied of belongings and reasonably clean before the collection date. We are pricing the unit, not the housekeeping.
It has stood unused for years. Is it worth asking?
Yes. What matters is whether water has got into the floor and whether the frame is straight, not how long it has stood. Two photographs will usually be enough for us to say whether it is worth money or worth a removal quote instead.
Do the services need disconnecting first?
If it has water or drainage connected, yes — off, drained down and disconnected, and the electrical supply isolated before the date. That is your own plumber and electrician rather than ours.
How are we paid?
Bank transfer on collection, against a figure agreed before the lorry is booked.
Sleeper unit nobody has opened in years?
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.