20ft Shipping Containers in Washington

20ft Container Dimensions & Details

The 20ft standard container, sometimes called a TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) or a conex box, is the global standard in intermodal shipping. It is the most widely available container size and the most practical choice for most Washington residential and small-business customers.

At 20 feet long and 8 feet wide it fits comfortably in a standard driveway and can be placed on most lots without special equipment or extensive site preparation. The steel handles what Washington weather brings, including the long wet season and the winter storms that ride in on it and Snow and ice, a routine planning item east of the crest and an occasional one west of it. Spokane County publishes a ground snow load of 39 pounds per square foot and a basic minimum roof snow load of 30, against Seattle's published ground snow load of 20 and the Seattle Building Code's requirement that roofs be designed for a uniform snow load of at least 25., Mountain pass conditions on Interstate 90, US-2 and US-12 from November into April. When chains are called at the top of the scale they are required on every vehicle over ten thousand pounds gross weight, which is every truck that carries a container, so a pass day moves a delivery window by a day or two rather than canceling it., Earthquakes. Seattle sits in Seismic Design Category D2 and Spokane County in Category C with portions of the unincorporated county in B, and the Washington Geological Survey maps liquefaction under the river valleys, deltas, tidal estuaries and made ground that parts of Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia are built on., Landslides on the steep bluffs and slopes of the Puget lowland, which is why an environmentally critical area designation changes the permit path and the foundation before anything else does., River flooding in the Skagit, Nooksack and Chehalis valleys, where the low roads go under in a wet winter and a February date on river bottom ground earns a phone call about the last quarter mile before it earns a truck., Salt air along roughly three thousand miles of tidal shoreline, which is a corrosion question rather than a storm question and is answered with a look at the roof and the door gaskets plus paint touch up, not with anchoring..

Remodels in Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane neighbourhoods where the lots are narrow, the older houses have no garage and the real approach is the alley behind the house.

Contractor tool and material storage on job sites across King, Snohomish, Pierce and Spokane counties, replacing the daily load in and load out.

Farm, orchard and timber storage from the Palouse to the Skagit Valley, where the container is often the first lockable, dry structure on the parcel.

Marine and fishing gear at Fishermen's Terminal, Commencement Bay, Westport and Bellingham, where nets, line, totes and deck equipment come off the boats between seasons.

Sites that will never take a 40ft: two 20ft boxes place on a hillside driveway or a plat cul-de-sac and give you two doors and two locations.

Household storage through a military move, a deployment or a rental gap around Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Naval Base Kitsap and Fairchild Air Force Base.