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Portable storage containers offer a solution to many home and business owners due to their versatility and affordability. Rentals in particular make a cost effective choice, to be sure, but they also offer a practical function for anyone who needs to store items. Before choosing one, though, it’s important to do your research and make …

Once you have purchased your shipping container, it’s time to prepare for its delivery at your site. This ensures the safety of the driver and a seamless delivery process overall. Failure to prepare beforehand could result in fees from your shipping container provider. For instance, here at A&M, we may charge you a dead run …

Everyone has a different purpose for having a shipping container. For some, it’s to transport goods, but for a vast majority of others, it’s for uses such as mobile offices, tiny homes, storage, pop-up shops and even pools. You can either buy a shipping container and retrofit it after the fact, or you can buy …

It’s easy to switch between work and play when you have a shipping container designed for innovative use. Creating new and dynamic spaces has never been easier, with containers once used for a certain shipping purpose now being reinvented into a multitude of creative ways. Shipping containers are the perfect candidate for this use, as …

If you’re an entrepreneur at heart and have always wanted to open a café but didn’t have the resources, now’s the time to get creative. Have you thought about converting a shipping container into a café? From a coffee shop to a sandwich shop to a popup pizza place, café containers can meet all your …

If you have elderly parents, aunts, uncles or other loved ones who need supervision but yet still want to maintain their independence, a granny pod in the backyard is the perfect solution. They’ve come a long way in the last several years, and we’re here to tell you all about how you can convert a …

This past year has been challenging for many hospitals and medical facilities as they are over-burdened and under staffed when it comes to testing patients for COVID-19. Now that a vaccine is available, those, too, will strain the capacity of hospitals and staff. Many popup sites are being used as temporary off-site testing areas to …

You may be wondering if you need a foundation for your shipping containerhome or other building. The answer is usually yes. Because the ground moves quite a bit over time, sinking, sliding and even rising, you have to ensure you have a stable foundation to keep the home on level footing – just like a …

Shipping container homes are increasingly popular as sustainable and inexpensive housing options. There are more than 300 million freight containers that sit empty at ports all over the globe, so the resources are certainly there. Real estate experts are projecting a rising synergy between storage containers as a housing alternative paired with traditional prefabricated building …

There’s a lot you can do with open-top containers. These are essentially boxes featuring four walls and a floor with no roof, different from standard shipping containers that feature three walls, doors at one end, and a floor, as well as a roof. Open top shipping containers are able to be loaded from above via …