What sets your price
1. Unit size
A 12ft for six costs less per week than a 20ft with an office for twelve. Size by peak headcount, not average: an inspector counts seats. The choosing guide maps crew size to unit.
2. Hire length
Weekly rates sharpen as hires lengthen, because delivery and collection are the same cost whether the unit is out for two weeks or six months. Tell us the realistic length up front and it prices better than extending later.
3. Distance
Every delivery, service visit and collection is a wagon and a driver. We work the North East only, from Durham, which keeps the transport element small and the servicing honest. A national supplier trucking from a distant depot builds that in somewhere.
4. What is included
This is where quotes stop being comparable. Ours states the weekly rate, delivery, collection and servicing frequency separately, so you can see the whole cost before you commit.
In the weekly rate
What you pay for
- The unit, on hire by the week from delivery to collection
- Delivery, siting and handover, quoted as a stated figure
- Scheduled servicing and waste removal at the agreed frequency
- Collection at the end of the hire, quoted up front
- Risk assessment information and user instructions at handover
- Optional extras, priced separately and only if you want them
What costs extra, and why
- Aborted deliveries where access was not as described. Tell us about the tight lane before the wagon finds it
- Extra service visits caused by misuse or blocked access
- Damage beyond fair wear and tear, recharged at cost
- Moving the unit to a different site mid-hire
All of it is in our terms of hire rather than discovered later.
Ask every supplier the same four questions
- What is the total cost for X weeks, delivery and collection included?
- How often is it serviced, and is that in the price or extra?
- What happens if the job overruns, and at what rate?
- What is the charge if I need it moved, or if delivery aborts?
Two quotes that look £20 apart on the weekly rate can be hundreds apart over a twelve week hire once those answers are in. Our full breakdown of the economics is in the cost guide, including where cheap gets expensive.