Meta Description: Container Alliance discusses the best steps to refurbish shipping container units, using paint, windows, doors, and more to support your various projects.

The maritime shipping industry is the backbone of world trade, with storage units in the hundreds of millions worldwide. With so many used, yet perfectly functional containers across the globe, it makes sense that people are increasingly refurbishing and remodeling shipping containers for an array of purposes.

Businesses and individuals can rent or buy shipping containers to support temporary or ongoing projects, thanks to the accessibility, durability, affordability, and the opportunity to recondition them to their specifications.

Why Refurbish a Used Shipping Container's Exterior?

With shipping container units drifting around the globe, it would be a massive waste of sea-worthy materials like Corten steel and marine-grade flooring to let them sit unused. However, shipping containers often incur visual exterior battle scars such as moderate paint wear and rust after traveling overseas.

Savvy customers have discovered the value of taking these multi-functional storage and shipping vessels to recycle and reuse them as affordable alternatives to taking on a new build project for uses such as portable offices, mobile health units, retail shops, and training facilities. With the extra care and effort to remodel shipping container units, customers can enjoy unrivaled quality at a fraction of the cost of traditional or other alternative structures.

How to Refurbish a Used Shipping Container's Exterior

Some customers don't mind a rough-around-the-edges shipping container for projects where it isn't a reflection of their brand or an eyesore to their neighbors. Businesses or individuals planning to put their shipping containers front and center need to invest in some revitalization, such as adding a fresh coat of paint and doing some additional rustproofing.

Here are some steps you can take to refurbishing your shipping container fleet with premium modifications or a single container you recently purchased to ensure it is in tip-top shape for your needs.

Step 1: Determine Your Container's Purpose

Suppose you need it as a construction site office. In that case, you can get away with fewer refurbishment and revitalization steps than if you want to use your unit as a retail space to ensure it is inviting to customers. This step helps you decide on the type of paint job, degree of rustproofing, and number and placement of windows required to give it the most suitable appearance.

Step 2: Rustproof Your Container

Rustproof your unit by first finding weakened areas that might have developed after years, months, weeks, or even days at a time at sea and in ports. You'll need to rustproof the whole container, but make sure to find damaged areas to give them special attention and care.

Step 3: Paint Your Container

Seal in your container's rustproofing with a paint job to give it the look you want it to have. Whether you want to ensure that your shipping container blends into the area or expresses your brand's color scheme, the decision to paint shipping container units gives them a fresh appearance and a like-new quality.

Step 4: Modify Your Container to Suit Your Specific Purpose

Add modifications that support your shipping container's intended function, such as windows, skylights, vents, and roll-up doors.

Container Alliance Can Refurbish Your Container For You

Contact our Container Alliance team to learn more about how we can refurbish and revitalize your shipping container's interior and exterior to your specifications.

Refurbish and Revitalize a Shipping Container

Container Alliance discusses the best steps to refurbish shipping container units, using paint, windows, doors, and more to support your various projects.