Storage Container Rental in Philadelphia, PA

A rowhome rehab in Philadelphia has nowhere to keep tools overnight: the house is open to the studs, the truck can't stay on the block, and every ladder and saw that goes home at night comes back an hour late in the morning. A 20 foot steel container on the lot, in the rear yard or on the sidewalk where the city allows it gives the crew a locked, dry room they can walk into, and it keeps the finish materials, the cabinets, the tile, the flooring, out of the weather until the day they go in.

Containers are made for the ocean, so rain, snow and a Philadelphia summer don't get in. Add shelving along one wall for the small stuff, keep the center aisle clear, and put the things you need first nearest the door. A lock box welded over the padlock keeps bolt cutters off it.

On a site with a fence and a laydown area, a 40 foot container becomes the job's warehouse: fixtures, lighting, appliances and the trim package that arrives weeks before it's needed. Trades that bring their own gear often ask for their own 20 foot box next to the general contractor's. Containers can be set side by side or end to end, and moved once the site plan changes, so tell us where the crane and the concrete trucks need to go and we'll keep the boxes out of the way.

A restaurant renovating its kitchen, a church redoing its hall, a school adding a wing over the summer, a property manager turning over a floor of apartments: each needs the contents out of the way without hauling them across town. A container in the parking lot holds the furniture, the equipment and the records for the length of the job, and it comes back inside when the paint is dry. For a building with a parking lot, a 40 foot container is usually the simplest answer; on a lot with no spare space, a 10 foot fits in one parking space.

Landscapers, event companies, retailers and contractors with more equipment than garage all run into the same wall every season. A container in the yard or behind the shop, rented month to month, costs less than a second shop and holds what a storage unit across town can't: a mower, a trailer's worth of staging, a winter's worth of salt. It's on your property, so the crew loads at seven in the morning instead of waiting for a facility to open.

A container needs a level, firm surface and a path for the delivery truck, which is a roll-off truck that tilts and slides the box off its bed. Asphalt, concrete and packed gravel all work; soft ground calls for a couple of cribbing blocks. On a Philadelphia lot the usual spots are the driveway, a rear yard reached from an alley, a parking lot or the construction site itself inside the fence. The sidewalk and the street are the Streets Department's right-of-way, so a container there follows the same approvals as a dumpster. Tell us the address and we'll say what fits.