Description
A one-trip 20ft container built with three doors rather than one: full-width hinged cargo doors at one end, and a single personnel door let into the opposite end. It leaves the factory, carries one paid load, and is sold on — so the paint is original, the floor is unmarked and the door gear has been worked once. This is Version B of the build, finished in white. Buyers choose the triple-door layout when a container has to be a working store rather than a sealed box: you get in through the small door every day and open the cargo end only when something large moves.
Dimensions
- External: 6.06 × 2.44 × 2.59 m (19 ft 11 in × 8 ft 0 in × 8 ft 6 in)
- Internal: 5.90 × 2.35 × 2.39 m (19 ft 4 in × 7 ft 9 in × 7 ft 10 in)
- Cargo door opening: 2.34 × 2.28 m (7 ft 8 in × 7 ft 6 in)
- Personnel door: single hinged leaf in the opposite end panel — exact opening confirmed at order
Build
- Cor-Ten weathering steel shell, one-trip condition
- Hinged double cargo doors with two locking bars per leaf
- Single personnel door at the far end
- Marine-grade plywood floor on steel cross members
- Wind and watertight, with unworn door seals
- Forklift pockets and standard corner castings
- White exterior finish
How a third door changes the way the unit is used
On a standard container every item passes through one opening, so whatever went in first sits behind everything that followed. A personnel door at the far end breaks that pattern. Routine access — fetching a tool, checking stock, working inside for an hour — happens through the small door, and the cargo doors stay shut. In practice that means less wear on the locking gear and seals, less weather driven into the unit on a wet day, and a container that can be reversed tight against a fence at the cargo end and still be entered.
It also allows the interior to be split. A partition part-way along gives a secure store reached through the cargo doors and a separate work area reached through the personnel door, without cutting any new openings.
Where it earns its keep
- Site compounds where the same people go in and out several times a day
- Plant and tool stores that also take occasional pallet deliveries
- Units destined for conversion, where a personnel door is already in place
- Sports clubs, yards and smallholdings needing daily access without swinging a full cargo end
Delivery, siting and cover
Delivery anywhere in the UK is free, including Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and the price you see is the total payable — no VAT is added at checkout. A 20ft unit is delivered on a tilt-bed lorry and slides off under gravity, so you need a firm, level pitch and a straight run of roughly 20 metres behind the drop point. If the ground or the approach will not allow that and a crane offload is needed instead, it must be agreed in writing before delivery. Leave door-swing clearance at the cargo end and about a metre at the personnel end when you mark out the pitch.
As one-trip stock this container carries our 12-month cover against structural defects and water ingress. Separately, you have 14 days to change your mind under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, and a 30-day right to reject the goods if they turn out to be faulty under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
Related units
This is Version B. Version A is a separate unit built to the same configuration, so check both for availability. Where cargo doors are wanted at both ends instead of a personnel door, the 20ft one-trip tunnel container is the unit to compare, and the plain 20ft one-trip container is the baseline if a single opening will do. Browse the wider modified container range, or read the buyers guide before settling on a door layout.
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