20ft and 40ft steel containers for storage, job sites, shops, ranches and acreage. Sourced to order from Houston depot inventory and delivered to your address.
Wind & watertight · Cargo worthy · One-trip · Delivery quoted to your ZIP
Condition is the real decision, not size. Most people storing equipment on their own property want wind & watertight — it's a working container at the lowest price. Pay up for one-trip only if appearance matters.
8ft wide, 8ft 6in tall. Fits on most driveways and smaller lots, and needs far less room to set than a 40.
9ft 6in tall — a foot more headroom than a standard. Best cost per square foot if you have room to set it.
Drawn to scale. The high cube is the same width — the extra foot is height, which is what matters if you’re walking anything in with a loader.
More deals go sideways over placement than over price. Here's exactly what has to be true at your address.
| How it arrives | Tilt-bed truck. The trailer tilts and the container slides off as the truck pulls forward — it is not craned or set with a forklift. |
|---|---|
| Room you need | Roughly 100ft of straight clearance behind the drop spot for a 40ft, less for a 20ft, plus room for the truck to turn in. Gates and tight corners are the usual problem. |
| Overhead | Clear of power lines, branches and eaves. A 40ft high cube stands 9ft 6in before it's on blocks. |
| Ground | Firm and reasonably level. Soft ground after Houston rain will bog a loaded truck. Railroad ties or blocks under the corners keep the floor dry and the doors square. |
| Cost | Quoted to your address, not a flat fee — it depends on distance from the depot and how easy the site is to get into. Send your ZIP and we'll give you an out-the-door number. |
This is the part that goes wrong. Gates, tight corners and low branches stop more deliveries than price does — walk the route before you order.
North and northwest Houston is home turf. We deliver across the greater metro — if you're outside these, send your ZIP and we'll quote it anyway.
Also serving Klein, Humble, Kingwood, Cypress, Willis, Montgomery, Hockley and the rest of Harris and Montgomery County.
The things worth knowing before you spend money on a steel box. If yours isn’t here, text it to (346) 220-0544 and we’ll answer it straight.
It depends on three things: size, condition grade, and how far the truck has to drive. Delivery is a real share of the total, not a rounding error, which is why a single advertised price is usually hiding something. Text your ZIP code and the size you want to (346) 220-0544 and you'll get one out-the-door number — container, trucking and set — before anything is owed.
A 20ft container needs roughly 60 feet of straight room for the truck to back in and tilt the box off the bed. A 40ft needs about 100 to 120 feet. Both need around 10 feet of width the entire route and 16 feet of overhead clearance — power lines, tree limbs and carport eaves stop more deliveries than anything else. Ground should be firm and close to level, under about 4% slope. Send a photo from the road toward the spot and we'll tell you free whether a truck can do it.
Wind and watertight (WWT) is a working container — surface rust and dents outside, dry and sound inside, doors sealing. It's the value pick and it's what most people storing things on their own property should buy. Cargo worthy (CW) is inspected and certified structurally fit to ship loaded internationally, so it's cleaner and comes with a survey. One-trip was built overseas, loaded once, shipped here and sold — technically used, practically new. Buy up only if appearance matters or you need the certification.
A 40ft is cheaper per square foot and arrives on one truck, so it's the better deal on paper — if you have 100 to 120 feet of straight room to set it. A 20ft sets in about half that and fits driveways and side yards a 40 can never reach. If a 40 won't fit your property, two 20ft boxes hold nearly the same volume, can go in two different places, and can be sold off one at a time later. That costs a second trip charge, and it's still sometimes the right answer.
It varies, and it's worth checking before you buy rather than after the box is on the ground. Rules differ between the City of Houston, unincorporated Harris and Montgomery County, and individual municipalities like Conroe and Tomball — and deed restrictions or an HOA can be stricter than any of them. Call your city or county permit office and read your HOA covenants. We deliver containers; we can't tell you what your jurisdiction allows.
We deliver across Greater Houston — Houston, Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, Tomball, Magnolia, Montgomery, Cypress, Humble and Kingwood, plus the surrounding areas. If you're outside that list, text your ZIP anyway. Most of the time the answer is yes and it just changes the delivery portion of the quote.
Tell us where it's going and what you're storing. Delivery is quoted per address, so we need the ZIP to give you a real number — not a range.
Prefer to talk? Call or text (346) 220-0544 or email ken@bayoucitycontainers.com.
