Author: Gabrielle

Time to downsize? The tiny house movement is perfect for folks looking to simplify, and it can work in a myriad of situations. If you’re looking for a roof over your head between builds, then one of our top-quality portable sleepouts would be just right for you! If you’re making the call to live small for any period of time, be it month to month or year to year, there are a few things to consider before you buy or rent your sleepout or portable home:

 

Pick with purpose

Often the concept of sacrificing a lot of stuff and space can be especially daunting to us, especially if we’re used to bigger homes with plenty of things (most of which we might not use). A good tip for anyone who is feeling tentative about moving into a portable sleepout would be to take some time to write out your current goals; then see how your smaller quarters might line up with them.

 

A few examples could include:

 

Building the perfect family home

Retiring at 30 years old

Traveling

Moving to your favorite location

 

Then consider whether or not the commitment to a smaller living space is going to suit these goals. If you’re building the perfect family home, a portable house could provide your family with temporary shelter. If you’re planning to shake your mortgage off at 30, a portable home could cut your living costs tremendously and make that goal a lot easier to achieve. If you’re planning on traveling often, then hiring a sleepout might be a great option if you’re not planning on being home all that often. If you’d like to live in your favorite New Zealand city, or you’re moving up or down the island for work, then hiring a portable home gives you a reliable option instead of shopping for rentals.

 

Hiring or buying a portable home can be easily justified, and we hope our units will ease the pressure when it comes time to make those big decisions. Keep an eye out for the next part of our series (early May), where we further explore ‘tiny living’ with our portable buildings for hire in New Zealand!

Wow, what a week we’ve had! Australia’s evil ex – cyclone Debbie – has wreaked wet havoc upon our poor country. We’d like kiwis to know that we are available right now to discuss temporary accommodation if your home has been damaged due to the severe weather and flooding. If you do need a place to house people after the effects of a flood, you can consider our portable sleep-outs (or portable self contained units):

 

Easy access

Our portable homes are easy to transport anywhere up and down the country. We have Portable Building Hire spots set up all over the North Island, so there’s a good chance one is always within reach of your town.

Our units are easily shifted onto your site, and we are excellent problem solvers when it comes to terrain challenges.

 

Customisable

While we can offer you a temporary home in case of an emergency, that in no way means we would be compromising quality or comfort. Our units can be customised to suit your needs. Our self contained units can come with up to two bedrooms, and can feature a kitchen and bathroom as you like. It’ll feel more like a smaller-scale home than a campground, and the best part is that you’ll have a say in its design!

Here is a list of specifications we can include to make sure you have the best possible portable building; built to your exact needs:

 

Self Contained Unit Specs

Carpet

Vinyl

Single or double sink

External lights

9m x 3m with 1 bedroom

12m x 3m with 2 bedroom

Installed heatpump

Optional Sizes: 6m x 3m / 9m x 3m with 1 bedroom / 12m x 3m with 2 bedrooms

 

Will I be warm this winter?

Of course. Our portable units for hire or purchase in New Zealand are each equipped with a powerful heatpump and – if you like – cozy carpet to keep your toes warm during the colder months of the year. You won’t go cold this winter, because Portable Building Hire has you covered in our cozy self-contained units.

There are plenty of situations and places that will prompt you to hire a portable building in New Zealand. While there are a few obvious situations requiring portable units such as toilet blocks or sleepouts, we’d like to spend time in our blogs bringing a few more abstract – yet still fundamental – portable building hiring situations to your attention.

Today we’re taking a look at a pair of portable offices/meeting rooms we’ve spotted around the country recently to help you see the full potential of portable building hire in New Zealand!

 

An office in a car park

If you’ve ever shopped for a new or secondhand car (and if you happen to be in the market of selling them) then chances are you’ve seen one of our portable buildings parked discreetly amid the vehicles. Our portable office buildings provide both salesman and buyer a room in which to comfortably discuss and fill out any necessary paperwork. Having a room dedicated to meeting with the buyer and filling out their documentation means that the employees of the car dealership will not need to sacrifice their own office space to make room for meetings with buyers. Buyers will also enjoy the dedicated, private space as they handle this important (often expensive) transaction, as well as several of their personal details.

 

A ‘stop by’ bank

If you’ve driven around Queensgate mall in Wellington lately, then you’ve probably noticed the myriad of portable buildings being used as temporary office space for New Zealand banks. As half the mall is out of access due to the earthquake, many banks have been forced to shift into these portable units in order to continue providing service to their customers. One of our portable office units would be a perfect solution to any businesses – such as banks – who are expected to be ever-available to their clients no matter what! So, you could consider hiring a portable office to be an excellent option in case of a business emergency!

Autumn is on its rainy way, and as the temperature drops and the days shorten you’ll want to make sure that your contractors have the shelter that they require. In addition to a lunch room, there are several other units that you might need to consider hiring on your worksite, and we’re pleased to report that Portable Building Hire can provide you with all of them!

Let’s take a look at which units you might be required to hire:

 

Hire an office meeting room

Is a health and safety course on the cards for for team? Do reviews of building or road work plans take place on the bonnet of someone’s vehicle? Are meetings being held under the nearest tree; shouted across a sea of hard hats?

With rain, wind, and very cold weather in the pipeline for our country, it’s time for your team to take things indoors. Sometimes a work site isn’t anywhere near a building or a covered area for that matter. Our portable units make for perfect portable meetings rooms or temporary sales offices on site. Our portable office or portable meeting room units come in a myriad of sizes to suit your site’s needs. Big team or bare bones, we’ve got you covered.

 

Hire a lunchroom (hiring a smoko room)

Don’t let another day go by wherein your team spend their lunch times sitting in their work vehicles eating a sad lunch alone. The cold weather can deplete morale dramatically, so the best way you can boost the mood for your team is providing a comfortable place for rest, respite, and – most importantly – tea and coffee!

Our portable lunchroom units bring all the comforts a collection of contractors could ever desire: a hot water boiler, kitchen cabinetry, a cozy wall-mounted heatpump and an external slider or hinged entrance door. What more could you ask for?

 

Hire a portable toilet block

Last, but certainly not least, you’ll need to provide restroom facilities for your team. There’s no arguing this one, unless you’re comfortable with your contractors going for a long drive in search of the nearest toilet!
Not only do our portable toilet units come with multiple toilets, you can opt for showers, urinals, single or double vanities, hand towel dispensers, soap dispensers and separated male/female partitions – numbers of each are totally customisable!  

If you’ve done any house hunting lately then there’s a rather large chance you’ll be coming away from it disheartened, distressed and a little depressed. Desperate times call for desperate measures, but don’t allow those measures to become dismal living conditions! We urge kiwis to stop settling for crammed flats and overpriced dingy abodes: instead, we encourage you to try one of our beautifully crafted portable homes!

 

Portable units and the tiny house movement

Kiwis are practical sorts. Give us a problem and we’ll find a fast, efficient and effective way to solve it. Give us a housing crisis and we’ll make it work with the help of a sleepout! Whether you plan to live in your portable home full-time or have it as an extra amount of space on your property to accommodate more people, a portable unit makes the perfect sleepout for any kiwi on the hunt for a home.

With the Tiny House Movement becoming so popular, you won’t have to feel like a fish out of water among friends and family having the smallest space around. Tiny Homes are both affordable and fashionable – people admire the crisp, clean, organised lifestyle of Tiny Homeowner. Living in a sleepout-sized home sets a good example to your friends and family, showing them that you don’t always need to settle on sub-par properties just to set up a comfortable place to live. You can design and rent or buy a unit with Portable Building hire and pay comfortably low costs to achieve modern, comfortable independence.

 

The biggest benefit of a portable sleepout

You can forget the stack of ultra-intimidating mortgages because a portable house is as kind on your wallet as it is on the environment! Our units are built in a heartbeat to our high standards – made from scratch with quality kiwi materials and tailored to suit each individual client. Save your money on renting expensive apartments or buying in the middle of a seller’s market: with a portable home, kiwis can once again be in control of fair living costs and a comfortable space to stay.

Portable Building Hire aims to be New Zealands go-to provider of portable and temporary building solutions. From accommodation (and temporary accomodation) to offices, toilets to classroms…we’ve got the right room for you!

 

Customise your space

All our units are built brand new with high quality New Zealand sourced and made materials. We build each unit to suit your specific situation, giving you full-reign over every inch of the building you’ll be ordering from us. While hiring ready-made units can be handy and a little on the cheaper side, we believe that you’ll find it far more efficient in the long-run to work with us on a unit that’s purpose-built for your task.

Space is an extremely valuable thing, so you’ll be wanting to use every inch of it efficiently. You can bring your requirements to Portable Building Hire and together we can create a space that’s meeting all your needs.

 

No corner cutting

At Portable Building hire, we aren’t aiming to be the cheapest in town. When it comes to a quality structure that’s fit for transport, use, and the environmentally taxing tests of time…one doesn’t cut corners to cut costs.

You can rely on us to build products of the highest possible quality at fair prices – without a single corner cut, and a single compromise to your units integrity.

 

For the very best in professional design, construction and supply of relocatable portable buildings, get in touch with Portable Building Hire today! With our famously wide range of quality portable building designs for sale or hire, we are here to help you find something suited perfectly to your requirements.

November 2016 gave us an earthquake that has brought about endless dramas and dilemmas in the structural integrity of our buildings. Hundreds of workers are still working in ever-changing conditions as they wait for their office building to be repaired or (in more dire cases) replaced. Instead of sentencing your hard workers to a gypsy office life, why not set them up somewhere reliable, comfortable and efficient while your official office building is repaired or replaced?

The last thing any worker needs to keep your company running efficiently is to cart their desk around from building to building: papers get lost, information gets confused and commuting becomes a never-ending nightmare!

 

The solution

Don’t settle to stay unsettled: set your staff up comfortably in an office they can rely on each working day: a Portable Building Hire multi-office unit!

Our multi-office units come equipped with every amenity your staff could ever desire from an official office building, with added benefits to boot!

 

The benefits of hiring a multi-office building

Our multi office buildings feature all the comfortable basics that you could desire from your usual office situation. Stay cool in the summer with the stylish glass sliding doors slid wide open, and keep toasty-warm in the winter with cozy carpets and a modern heatpump!

There are power, internet and phone points to boot, so nobody has to fight for the phone line! With plenty of space for desks, shelves and cabinets, your staff will have all the room they need to keep things running as comfortably and efficiently as they do in your regular office.

Our units can be custom built to order, so you can make sure your team are getting exactly as much as they need space-wise for their temporary ‘office away from the office’. We also pride ourselves on our portability, so you can set your office up anywhere that suits! Check out our multi-office building page for more information on our units. If you’d like to hire a temporary office unit in New Zealand then the team at Portable Building Hire are only a call away!

Summer is in full swing at last. The warmer weather and longer, brighter evenings make the perfect seasonal conditions for festivals, fairs and concerts across the country.

If you’ve been assigned the role of renting the bathroom facilities then you’ve come to the right place! Your festival and fair-goers deserve better than the barely-breathable confines of a portaloo: give your company a good name by hiring one of our professional (and oh so spacious) toilet blocks!

Whether your concert is only in town for a night or two, or your fair is due stretch across several weeks, we can accommodate with our temporary toilet block hire services.

 

The pros of portable toilet block hire

To start, the whole experience is just so much more sanitary than your average portaloo experience. Measuring a comparatively luxurious 6m x 3m they are big enough to accommodate 4 toilets in separate cubicles.

Another bonus our portable toilet blocks offer is privacy: they provide your crowd gender separation and privacy. You also have the option of showers, urinals, single and double vanities, soap dispensers and hand towel dispensers at your disposal…so make the most of the experience! We believe that a quality toilet block doesn’t miss any sanitary detail.

Oh, and as most events require wheelchair access by law we were sure to include ramps as an entrance option for our portable toilet blocks. Wheelchair users will have easy access to the toilet, and you can bet they’d like to thank you for it!

Delivery and setup is a breeze – the hardest part of our portable toilet block hire process is picking up the phone or emailing to order!

 

Hiring a portable toilet block in New Zealand

Hiring your portable toilet block is simple! Get in contact via phone or email today and we’ll walk you through the process in a pinch.

If you’ve ever watched an episode of Grand Designs, you’ll know that the estimated and actual finished dates for the house build never end up aligning.

Families end up ‘squatting’ for months as they wait for their houses to be finished. Some spend exorbitant amounts on renting or continuing mortgage payments on their current house, some overstay their welcome with friends and family, and some like to stick around on the property in tents and shipping containers – keeping a watchful eye on the build.

What we recommend

Don’t waste precious build budget on renting an expensive home when you’ve already purchased a brand new property. We recommend any one of our portable self contained homes for you and your family to stay in. Temporary sleepout hire can provide you and your family with comfort, security and independence during the build!

Now’s your chance

Don’t suffer the Grand Design drama of trying to get your house up and running during the rainy season: get the build done in summer! Now is your perfect opportunity for a fast, dry, efficient build. Sit back and relax in your new neighborhood while you watch the property pop up before your eyes.

Also, because we’re in the sunniest and sweetest months of the year, you can arrange an outdoor cooking and entertaining area by your portable home to invite a sense of indoor and outdoor flow in your cozy little temporary unit.

A sense of normalcy

Don’t shift the family around like gypsies moving from one form of temporary accomodation to the other. Hiring a portable home in New Zealand offers your family a stability that’s second only to your work-in-progress home.

Summer is the season of opportunity for kiwis building in New Zealand. Hire a portable home while you build to give your family the cool, convenient shelter they deserve – why go away to visit a bach when you can set up your own on your personal property?

Do you find yourself awkwardly sprawled across the floor of your family member’s living room every holiday season? Perhaps your role – instead – is the host of the home, and you’re the one who trips over the army of sleeping relatives on your way to the kitchen in the morning after your Christmas party.

Whatever the case, there always seems to be a shortage of sleeping space every summer when we want to get together with friends and family. We often find ourselves travelling quite a distance during the holidays, and (thanks to our booming summer tourism industry) the likelihood of finding a hotel or motel to stay in is very bleak.

The holiday season solution

Stop kicking yourself for opting not to add that extra room to your current home. Instead, get a proactive, practical solution with one of our Portable rooms!

We can build and ship a portable room – as small or spacious as you like – to sit on your property over the summer months and provide temporary accommodation for any visiting family members. Keep the room open and available all summer, then finish your hiring term when winter kicks back in. It’s simple and super efficient!

You might find you like having the extra space, and that works for us too! Purchase or rent the portable room long term and use it as part-time storage during the cold, quiet months of the year. You might even like to convert the room to an office while you wait for the weather to warm up again!

A safe place to spend a Silent Night

Our portable rooms are superbly safe. They are lockable and sturdy: they are built to withstand any of those stray storms summer tends to throw our way! Your family can rest easy on any corner of your property, and your belongings within can be locked away safely – certainly a benefit that tent-dwellers and public accommodation stayers don’t tend to see!

If you’re looking to get a portable room set up this summer then you better be quick! Check out our ‘contact us’ section to get in touch today!