Ultimate Guide to Custom Shipping Containers

Customizing your shipping container to suit your needs is a terrific way to save money on storage space. A twenty-foot custom storage container can store industrial equipment, while forty-feet of these containers are perfect for holding bulk grocery items like food and paper goods.

This guide will walk you through the questions that need answering before buying a modified unit so it's just right for whatever it is you're looking to do with them!

Why are Shipping Containers a good investment?

Shipping containers are a great way to solve many storage and space problems. One of the ways people use them is by transforming them into office spaces or just using them as an extra room for their business. Another option is purchasing one to create an affordable living space that you can easily modify according to your needs - perfect if money has been tight recently! There's also no shortage of uses out there, with shipping container buildings being a particularly economical alternative due to it being environmentally friendly too.

Shipping containers could be your next best investment. They can support a wide variety of amenities such as electricity, air conditioning, plumbing, heating and everything necessary for an alternate living or workplace. With modern aptitude and some resourcefulness you may find that these custom-modified shipping containers will suit all of the needs in which they are needed to fill.

Why Choose To Customize Your Shipping Container?

Besides being highly durable, shipping containers make an ideal frame for a custom container project. Despite the limitations to building shipping containers, the professional and skilled personnel at Atlantic Storage Leasing & Sales, LLC can convert your shipping container building into a reality. Customized shipping containers have everything you may need, such as container offices, roll-up doors, interior lighting, roof-top turbine vents, and personnel doors. With help from professional and skilled personnel at Atlantic Storage Leasing & Sales, LLC, you can get to own the custom shipping container that you have always wanted.

Ways To Customize Your Shipping Container

There are various standard sizes for custom storage containers: 10’, 20’, and 40’. 40’ custom shipping containers let you make the most of the internal storage space. Additionally, these larger boxes fit easily onto a plot of land and the flatbed of a truck. Depending on your budget and necessities, you will get the ideal container size to meet your expectations.

There are a variety of custom shipping container modifications and customization options provided by Atlantic Trailer Leasing and Sales, LLC that you can pick from for your container. These include:

·One-trip or new

As the name suggests, one-trip or new shipping containers have taken a single or no journey across the water. Generally, they are in excellent condition. However, before purchasing one, you should check the locking gear – it can be either high or low, to guarantee it best suits your exact needs.

·Refurbished

A refurbished shipping container is a custom container repainted or buffed to conceal any structural problems. However, before purchasing a refurbished shipping container, ask your potential vendor some questions. Was the container primed before it was coated? What state or condition was the custom container before the modification? Hasty paint jobs do not last long before rust starts to show.

·Water- and wind-tight

There are distinct conditions or grades of steel containers. While Grade A containers are in the best condition with few dents, holes, and rust, Grade B containers and below have increasingly more defects. The fewer flaws a container has, the more water- and wind-tight your units are. So, go for Grade A or B units if you plan to use them for alternative tenacities such as mobile museums or pop-up stores.

·As-is

If you need the most cost-effective and pocket-friendly option, ‘as-is’ custom storage containers are an ideal choice. ‘As-is’ containers have problems such as defunct locks or holes most of the time. Thus, before purchasing one, you should ascertain that the hinges work correctly and the doors line up.

Customization Options for the Interior and Exterior of your Container

Shipping containers embrace different types of custom shipping container modifications and customizations techniques for the interior and exterior of the unit. Some of the options you can choose from as a customer include:

· Roof-top turbine vents – custom storage containers can get hot in the sun. Adding a roof-top vent can not only improve airflow but also help reduce the interior temperature a little. At Atlantic Trailer Leasing and Sales, LLC, we offer roof-top turbine vent installations and louvered vents to the side of your container(s).

· Roll-up doors – We offer roll-up door installations in 3’ to 10’ widths, with 7’ wide roll-up doors as the most commonly used. You can add one or many roll-up doors to the side of your container to enhance accessibility. Alternatively, our team can add a roll-up door to the bulkhead end of the unit to make it a ‘tunnel.’ 

· Container offices – we can also add windows, doors, A/C, electrical, heating, and more to a custom shipping container to transform it into a container office. Since shipping containers are meant to be highly durable and are built of Corten steel, they are ideal for construction offices.

· Personnel doors – Steel personnel doors, more secure than roll-up doors, are an ideal addition to any custom shipping container. We can incorporate personnel doors into any shipping container to enhance accessibility. The majority of steel personnel doors encompass a steel frame that is welded directly into the corrugated steel wall of the shipping container.



Work with the Best Shipping Container Company in Atlanta, GA

We highly recommend having a shipping container modified by a specialist. The experts and professionals here at Atlantic Trailer Leasing and Sales, LLC can handle any customized shipping container build-out.

Nonetheless, modified shipping containers are an ingenious and affordable means to stay ahead of the game. If you need additional retail space, long-term refrigerated storage, or more restrooms, specially modified shipping containers may be the perfect solution. Atlantic Trailer Leasing and Sales, LLC has the knowledge and expertise you need to traverse the multifaceted shipping industry. Call us today or explore our job site for more queries and information on how you can reuse shipping containers for your home or business.