Up on the ridge, ten minutes from the middle of Lismore and a long way above it in every sense that matters. Goonellabah is high ground, and that fact has quietly reshaped what people here buy containers for.
What we deliver into Goonellabah is largely permanent household storage on blocks people intend to stay on, workshop and hobby conversions, trade storage for builders working down the hill, storage for families who moved up here after 2022 and have more possessions than the new house has room for, and school and community group storage around the sporting fields. Any of those we can price today. Tell us the use and the address and you will have a delivered figure and a realistic date in the one call.
A word on grades: new single-trip is sealed and unmarked, cargo-worthy is checked wind and watertight, and as-is is cheaper and carries no watertight claim. We will photograph the actual box on request and send it before the delivery day.
| Size | Used from | New from | Hire from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10ft Containers | $4,350 | $6,400 | POA |
| 20ft Containers | $2,200 | $3,300 | $27/wk |
| 40ft Containers | $2,600 | $5,500 | POA |
Ex GST and indicative. What is available on the day decides the rest. Whatever the run to Goonellabah costs, it is in the figure you are told and it does not move.
Goonellabah has always been the high ground east of Lismore, and since 2022 a good many people have moved up here or invested more heavily in staying. That has a practical effect on container demand: a much higher proportion of the units we deliver into this postcode are bought rather than hired, and bought as a permanent fixture on the block rather than as temporary storage during a job.
That changes the specification. A container that is going to sit somewhere for fifteen years wants to be cargo-worthy or better, wants proper pads under it, and wants to be sited where you can still get a truck back to it if you ever want it moved. It is worth twenty minutes of thought before ordering rather than being placed wherever the truck could reach on the day.
It also means the conversion question comes up more here than almost anywhere else on our run. Workshop, studio, home office, storage that has to look like something. If there is any chance of lining it, buy a high cube — the extra 300mm of internal height is the difference between a room and a corridor once a ceiling goes in.
The classic Goonellabah block has three levels: the street, the house pad, and a lower or upper terrace that is doing nothing useful. That terrace is where people want the container, and it is where the job gets interesting.
Three things decide it. Whether a vehicle can stand somewhere with a clear line to the terrace. Whether the retaining wall between the two is close enough that a crane truck cannot reach past it. And whether the terrace itself will carry the load without the edge letting go, which is a genuine question on filled terraces rather than a theoretical one.
None of that is unusual and none of it is a reason not to proceed. It is a reason to sort it out on the phone with photographs rather than on the day with a driver looking at it. If the terrace is a fill terrace and the container is going near its edge, say so — that is the one where we would want to talk about setting it back from the batter.
The constraint in Goonellabah is almost always the driveway rather than the street. This is cut-and-fill country — the level ground on a block is very often a terrace above or below the road, reached by a steep driveway with a tight turn at the top or bottom of it. A tilt-tray needs a straight run and something close to level to slide a container off, and a steep drive that a car handles easily can be entirely wrong for a truck carrying six tonnes on the back. The other recurring issue is turning space: a vehicle that can get up a drive and cannot turn around at the top has to reverse the whole way back down, and drivers will decline that rather than attempt it. Where the terrace is the target, a crane truck standing on the street and reaching over is very often the answer, and it is worth pricing that properly rather than assuming it is out of reach. Photographs from the street looking up the drive, and from the terrace looking back down, answer almost every question we would otherwise ask.
The universal requirements are simple: bearing capacity underneath, room to manoeuvre, and headroom. Where any of those is doubtful, a few photographs settle it in minutes. There is a full rundown in our delivery access guide.
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