A Few Tips/Repairs To Keep Your Container Strong Longer

What would happen if your containers could serve you longer than their average life span? Doesn’t that mean more profit since you wouldn’t have to invest in a replacement? Absolutely!

Storage Container Maintenance

Shipping containers perform multiple functions: they serve as storage units, equipment enclosures, and some organizations convert them into a workspace. Irrespective of what it’s used for, here we share practical tips on storage container maintenance to help you keep your containers in good shape for the long haul.

How To Prolong The Lifespan Of Your Container

Although shipping containers are durable and not easily damaged by the elements, you still have a role in ensuring their longevity.

Re-level Your Container

Your container unit should always be placed on a flat, level surface. But after a while, you may observe the container beginning to shift, and that’s when you need to re-level it. The four edges should touch the ground to ensure balance while the floor cross members are elevated. When balanced, the container’s weight is evenly distributed across all four edges—thereby prolonging its lifespan.

Watch Out For Rust

If your container is kept in an open space or any area subject to natural elements like snow and rainfall, rust could develop. For proper storage container maintenance, inspect the container, especially the rooftop, caulk, and weathering strips. Clean every trace of dirt, rust or debris, using vinegar and a wire brush.

Similarly, identify areas with dents where water can accumulate and paint with moisture-resistant paint.

Prioritize Maintenance

If you want your containers to last for several more years, you need to prioritize storage container maintenance. The excuse of “containers are durable and resistant to rust” is not going to help you extend its life span. Make allocations for scheduled maintenance. It’s the smart way to preserve your shipping containers.

Lubricant Door Hinges

Open the right door of your container and clean its cam, door hinges, and keeper. After proper cleaning, add some lubricant to the door’s hinges and repeat the same for the left door. You will see lots of improvement, and it’ll serve you much longer.

Carolina Containers

Keep your shipping containers in the best condition with regular storage container maintenance. What’s more, it’s a proven way to prolong its lifespan. When you need additional onsite storage, you will get only the very best when you source it from Carolina Containers. Call us at 919-562-9187 and see what we can do for you.

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Shipping Containers As Mobile Immunization Clinic

Vaccines save lives. Getting desperately needed vaccines to people who need them, especially during a medical crisis such as a pandemic, is vital but logistically tricky. This difficulty is real for remote and rural areas that lack the more extensive medical infrastructure of major cities, or even smaller towns for that matter. Mobile immunization clinics are often employed to get people in remote areas the vaccines they so desperately need.

Custom Shipping Containers

Constructing such mobile clinics might seem complicated, but there is, as with most such issues, an easy answer. Custom shipping containers are the perfect solution for immunization clinic needs.

Shipping containers are straightforward to adapt to various uses, and mobile clinics are one of them. Shipping containers are essentially giant steel boxes constructed to be sent from one corner of the world to another. This design makes them exceptionally portable, durable, reliable, and easy to wipe down and sanitize.

As part of their ease of modification, HVAC systems, doors, windows, and storage equipment can be easily added to a shipping container as part of the portable clinic creation process. Shipping Containers are also cheap and easy to find. Even though they can last for years, many containers are used once and left aside because, in the shipping industry, it’s cheaper to do that rather than send them back empty. These used shipping containers can be purchased and modified to suit various needs, like portable immunization clinics.

Portable Immunization Clinics

The space they provide might seem a bit cramped, but they’re perfectly suited for the needs of a small immunization clinic. You don’t need a lot of space to give someone a shot, after all. Since they are giant steel boxes, shipping containers can also be combined to make a larger clinic, if needed. Their design and construction make them easy to ensure, both for privacy and security.

Shipping containers are easily modified, so they are a cinch to clean depending on the wallcovering and flooring selected. Their durable nature makes them portable and reliable. In short, shipping containers are excellent for use as a mobile immunization clinic. Strapped onto the back of a flatbed truck, they can be located just about anywhere to help those in need. Vaccinating the population means thousands of saved lives. Making it accessible to all no matter their location achieves that goal.

Carolina Containers

Need a mobile clinic or office? Carolina Containers can create a custom shipping container to meet your needs. Give us a call at 919-562-9187 and see what we can do for you.

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