How Do You Guys Keep Your Jobsites Organized?

healthyhomes

I am curious to know, If a trailer was not an option for storage how would you organize an arsenal of tools? Specifically on a residential remodel. And would this method work in my cold winters?

I have heard you can apparently get large mobile storage devices?

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Chris G

Check out some rental crates. Stephenson's has them. I have never used them but I would in a heartbeat if I had the room and acceptance from the client. They are crazy cheap. Especially when you compare it to loading everything in your truck.

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steves

I use a 20' ground level storage box.
$60 a month,at the end of the job plywood over the shelves close the doors and call the ramp truck!

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genecarp

while planning the job, the customer is made aware of the need for us to commandeer a garage , or a stratigically located room, to organize our shop,

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dkillianjr

I do mostly all remodeling, so usually I commandeer a safe spot for tools and materials on the job. If nessesary in a unfinished basement I've commandeered a corner and built quick super cheap temporary walls out of some plywood to keep my tools behind just bring a cordless from the truck and remove two screws no fancy doors needed And for the real fussy people I just load up the tools daily, but of coarse thats more expensive

I have never owned a jobbox or rented a storage container, but they are options too.


Dave

WarnerConstInc.

One word: Systainers

Tom Struble

250 a month

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ApgarNJ

250 a month, those pods are a major rip off. you could BUY a trailer 3 times that cost and pay less per month.

on a funnier note, I drove past a house on the river, that's been a foundation only for years, thought the people ran out of money. I drove by it the other day. they are building the whole house out of sea-containers.

i really want to see how it turns out. i'll take pics next time i drive by.

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Tom Struble

i ain't driving no stupid trailer all around creation...call them up its there,call them up its gone

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ApgarNJ

you drive it there once, you keep it there during the job, you drive it back home. 250 a month, plus you pay every time you have to move it. i've never heard of a contractor working out of a freakin pod. i've seen the sea containers and they are much less for a LOT more space.

i guess you live in tight areas. i can't take my trailer everywhere, but then again, I don't need it on every single job.
no way would i waste hundreds of dollars a month on a pod.

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Tom Struble

waste? how is it waste,its priced out of the job

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griz

8x8x40 runs about $150/month around here.
Trailers are tough to beat though.

Tom Struble

oh you thought i pay for it.....like your trailer...no no my customer pays for it

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ApgarNJ

I realize that, but think of the additional income on each job if you didn't have to pay for that but still pay for storage. My customers have paid for my trailer, a little bit at a time. it's paid off in full 100%. I move it when I want to, night, weekends, mornings and I'm not relying on waiting for some guy from pods to show up with that big clunky truck and hope he brings it to the next job when I want. Things change short notice sometimes and you have to go somewhere else, if I had to call someone and wait for it to be moved, I'd be screwed. I've never seen a contractor rent a pod to store all his tools in on a jobsite. if anything, you make the customer move their stuff out and they store it in one of these things, giving you an area to store inside their garage/house etc. Before I had my trailer. I would use a bay of their garage as storage for my larger items I didn't want to take home on a daily basis.

Doesn't pods charge you each time you move it? gotta be more than 250 a month if you are moving it around a few times.

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ApgarNJ

it's a waste because you could charge them for storage and have a trailer that is paid for on the job and you pocket the 250 or whatever you charge them for storage and there, you have extra in your pocket at the end of the job, do that a few times and it adds up. Doesn't matter if it's figured into the job or not, it's how much you can go home with at the end of the job that really matters.
A customer of mine had one of those in their driveway during a major renovation we were doing for 8 months. I think that got expensive in a hurry for them. The initial drop off with delivery was over 300 bucks and then a monthly charge. They could have gotten a sea container 3 times or more the size of that small pod and stored a lot more in there.

when I finish a job one day, and say we've been there for two weeks, I can move it to the next job right away with no waiting, and working the next morning at 7am ready to go. how can you always know the exact day you'll be finished with a job when there are so many factors that can delay. are you telling me you can call pods at noon on the day you are finishing up a job and they will have it picked up that afternoon and waiting for you on the next job first thing the next morning? I would be impressed if they operated like that but my hunch is that it's very corporate and by the book and they aren't going to drop everything and move it for you without a day or two notice, if not more.

to each their own, this is the first time i've heard of someone using pods to move their tools around and store them on a jobsite.
they aren't even long enough for long ladders or picks.

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Big Shoe

To each his own.

It would be a container for me.

FreedomBuilders

Hangman noose uh...lol

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FreedomBuilders

Generally commandeer space at the jobsite. For larger projects Temp storage container.

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RPMs

i try to find a place out of the way (safe)to store my stuff.i normally unload and load daily, im afraid to leave anything behind. i do not have a closed trailer or job box at the moment. and i don't trust that the customer and or kids will try them out.

do any of you unplug your power tools when you go to lunch/etc.?

BCConstruction

Why wouldn't you use a trailer? Seems the most cost effective and easy to move system to store equipment and tools. Sod all them pod systems and containers. More hassle than they are worth.

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