On a Mission

Forty years on and things are very different today, portable building designs have moved forward in many ways with modular buildings forming a large part of todays market for specialist manufacturers, but there’s still a big market for traditional portable buildings. Our range of portable buildings and storage shipping containers available today to hire, are completed to more exacting designs, standards and finishes, offering an unprecedented level of warmth, style and quality. We still carry forward the old fashion values from years gone by in the form of local depots, maintaining close customer contact and understanding, but we have had to succumb to modern day communication mobile phones, e-mail, facebook, linked in and the like.

There were no HIAB units (cranes assisted transport) in the day, a portable building was generally delivered on a flatbed truck and the driver had to jack the portable building up, drive truck away and then jack it back down to the ground using whats called a “Hi Lift” Jack, not the safest method but there were no other options unless a dedicated crane was employed to offload.

So it’s not so much that we’re breaking new ground, the portable building industry is effectively a very mature well serviced market. Unfortunately we see an industry that’s lost some of its focus, an industry now dominated by a few self elect multinational business, backed by public and private equity and a number of upstart companies which have sprung from the 2009 financial crisis when cabin businesses were going bust and thus cabins themselves were very cheap.

Welcome back RENT-A-UNIT®. We are very proud to reintroduce to the market this iconic brand of the 80’s. Out goes the common basic designs & methods. In place of which we introduce a new portable building we call Squadron®. Robust in construction, modern in design with sleek warm, comfortable, stylish interiors, user friendly & with energy efficient insulation’s, and glazing and including features like UPVC window frames, tinted glazing, insulated steel doors with vision panel’s, steel ring beam (optional), beefed up jack legs, plastic coated steel exterior panel’s, LED lighting on PIR sensors (optional), even built in Bluetooth speaker systems so you can stream radio or music through your phone (optional).