Bought outright · England, Scotland & Wales
Sell toilet and shower blocks
Toilet blocks, shower blocks, welfare units and single WC cabins, bought as they stand. Send a photograph or two and the postcode it is standing on, and you will get a figure and a collection date.
What we take
Welfare units are wanted, not tolerated
Toilet and shower blocks are among the units that move fastest for us. Every site needs them, fleets run short of them, and a block that is sound underneath goes back into use quickly. That is why we would rather buy one than see it stand another winter.
They come to us from contractors closing a compound, from farms and yards, from sports clubs and schools, and from fleet operators replacing older stock. Condition sets the figure; what it was used for does not.
- Types
- Toilet blocks, shower blocks, combined welfare units, single and twin WC cabins, accessible and disabled units, container-based blocks.
- Sizes
- From an 8ft single WC cabin up to a 32ft block split into cubicles, urinals and a washing-up area.
- Condition
- Working, tired, or plumbing that has been stripped out. All three are bought, at different figures.
- Numbers
- One block, or a compound cleared in a planned sequence alongside the offices and containers standing next to it.
Just the one, behind a yard or a clubhouse? 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 it anyway, these are the ones that answer the most questions.
The outside, from a corner
Stand back far enough to get two elevations and the roof line in one frame. It establishes the size, the door arrangement and how the block sits on its base.
The floor
The one thing that decides more than anything else. Around the pans, under the basins and in any shower tray is where a floor gives way first, so photograph the corners rather than the middle.
The cubicles and fittings
Pans, basins, urinals, cubicle partitions, doors and taps. Missing and broken items are not a problem, they are just part of the figure.
The plumbing runs
Whatever is visible of the pipework, the tank if there is one and the point where the services enter. Frost damage shows up here before it shows up anywhere else.
The roof
From an upper window, a bank or anywhere safe and higher than the block. Never climb onto it for us.
The way in
One from the road looking towards the block, showing the gateway, the ground the lorry has to stand on and anything overhead. It is what stops a collection date being wasted.
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 block is lifted off its base and taken away whole, using our own HIAB where the ground and the overhead clearance allow it and a tilt bed where they do not.
Before the date, the water needs turning off and draining down, the drainage disconnecting and the electrical supply isolating. That is your plumber and electrician rather than ours, and it is the one thing that most often moves a collection date, so it is worth starting early.
Several units together, or a block standing alongside offices and containers we are already buying, almost always 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 disposal job instead
Not every block is worth buying. A unit with a failed roof, a floor that has gone soft around the pans and a frame that will not lift cleanly is a disposal job, and pretending 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 have got early is worth more than an optimistic figure that changes on the day.
Mixed compounds are the normal case rather than the exception. Some units get bought, some get taken away, and they are separated as we work through them rather than priced at the worst one on the site.
Alongside the rest of the compound
Most welfare units arrive with something else
A toilet block rarely stands on its own. If yours is sitting next to site offices, cabins or containers, all of it can be handled as one job on one visit.
Sell buildings to us
Portable and modular buildings bought outright, paid for on collection, one unit or a whole compound.
How selling works →Containers
Shipping and storage containers, plain or converted, 6ft through to 40ft, bought on the same terms.
What we pay for containers →What it is worth
The things that move a figure up and down, and the ones people expect to matter but do not.
Read the valuation guide →Common questions
Toilet and shower blocks, asked and answered
What kinds of toilet and shower block do you buy?
Site toilet blocks, shower blocks, combined welfare units with a canteen or drying area, single WC cabins, disabled and accessible units, and container-based blocks. Mains connected or self-contained, one unit or a compound full of them. If it was built as a factory-finished unit and it travels on a lorry, it is one for us.
Does the plumbing have to work?
No. A block with sound sanitaryware, cubicles and pipework is worth more because it can go back into use with less work, but blocks with cracked pans, missing basins, seized valves or frost damage are still bought at a lower figure. Tell us what you know about it and we will price what is there rather than what we hope is there.
Do we have to disconnect the services first?
Yes. Water off and drained down, the drainage disconnected and the electrical supply isolated before the collection date. That is work for your own plumber and electrician, not something we do on the day. Say at enquiry stage if that has not been arranged yet and we will plan the date around it.
Does it need cleaning before you collect it?
It needs to be emptied and reasonably clean, and any chemical or waste tank emptied and the contents disposed of by you. Beyond that, do not worry about it. We are pricing the unit, not the housekeeping, and photographs of a block in the state it is actually in are more useful than a tidied version.
What about a block that has stood unused for years?
Common, and still worth asking about. What matters is whether water has got into the floor and whether the frame is straight, not how long it has been standing. Two photographs will usually tell us enough to say whether it is worth money or worth a removal quote instead.
How are we paid?
Bank transfer on collection, unless something else is agreed in writing beforehand. The figure is settled before the lorry is booked and it is not renegotiated on your yard.
Do you sell toilet and shower blocks as well?
Much of what we buy is refurbished in our own yard and resold, so yes. Tell us the size and the layout you are after and we will tell you what we can supply. What is standing in the yard changes from week to week.
Got a toilet or shower block standing idle?
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.