Are you searching for answers to your questions about buying a used shipping container for storage?

ConexDepot Blog has assembled some of the most common questions that our customers ask about shipping container storage and shipping container businesses. buy new shipping container

This week we answer your questions on the sizes of shipping containers, how much you can store in your used shipping container, what types of things you can and can not store in a shipping container, and whether it is necessary to insulate your cargo container to protect your stored items.

Q: How big is a shipping container, and how much stuff can it hold?

Many of Conex Depot’s customers are homeowners and business owners who need a used shipping container for storage for their home items during a renovation or move or business owners who need convenient and secure storage space for their inventory.

What size of Conex container do you need for your storage needs? We can answer this question in two ways: the technical measurements and some simple rules of thumb for how much stuff a 20 ft and 40 ft cargo container will hold.

What are shipping container sizes? The two most common sizes of used shipping containers are the 20 ft and the 40 ft. The standard width is 8 feet with a height of 8 feet 6 inches.

20 ft shipping container

By far, the most popular size for home storage is a 20ft container. Measuring 6m/ 20ft x 2.4m /8ft (length x width), it has 1,172 cubic feet (33.2m). 150 square feet of floor space.

A 20-foot shipping container may hold the contents of a standard 3-bedroom home (furniture, home entertainment, beds, boxes, and the rest of your possessions) as a general rule of thumb. The 20 ft steel container is our most popular seller for homeowners that need temporary storage space for their household items during a home renovation project.

In reality, you will have about 25-28 cbm of usable space inside the container once the thickness of walls and other factors are subtracted from the total volume. It’s difficult to visualize what 25 cbm means in terms of how much space you will have.

Those cardboard boxes that you get from home movers are a convenient way of understanding how much stuff can fit in your shipping container. storage.One moving company calculated that 310 standard cardboard moving boxes could be stored in a 20 ft shipping container.

For comparison, a 20 ft shipping container can store the equivalent of
50-60 refrigerators or
100 washing machines, or
400 flat-screen TVs. That’s A LOT of storage space!

How many containers do I need for a 4-bedroom house?

The contents of the average four-bedroom home may need two 20′ containers- or a single 40′ for larger homes or if you also need to store seasonal items like outdoor furniture and groundskeeping and gardening equipment..

40 ft shipping container

The biggest of the standard available shipping containers is the 40 ft. A 40-foot cargo container measures 12.2m /40ft (length x width), and it has 1,172 cubic feet (67.6m). 300 square feet of floor space.

While some homeowners need a larger 40 ft shipping container, we most often see the 40 ft size chosen for business use. Used shipping containers provide a movable, convenient, and secure storage area for business equipment and inventory.