Hi, I am David Hall
I served nearly 14 years as a United States Marine before moving into the container industry. The Corps taught me that details matter, that commitments are kept, and that you do not leave someone hanging when they are counting on you. That is the standard I bring to this business.
I came into this business because buying a container was harder than it needed to be. People were paying for units they had never seen, then meeting a delivery charge nobody had quoted them.
Site conditions matter too. A property on rural acreage needs a different delivery plan than a tight lot in Seattle.
I built Washington Storage Containers to make buying a container in Washington simple: clear pricing, clear container grades and a written quote before you commit.
Delivery Geography in Washington
Washington is the only state named for a president, it holds temperate rainforest and true desert inside the same 71,300 square miles, and the Cascade Range down its middle splits it into two climates, two economies and one very long delivery map
Washington divides into a west side and an east side along the crest of the Cascades. West of the crest is the Puget Sound lowland, glacial ground that is dense and packed hard on the ridges and soft fill and peat down in the river valleys, under a marine climate with a long wet season. East of the crest the state turns to shrub steppe, to basalt coulees carved by the Ice Age floods, to irrigated orchard and vineyard ground through the Yakima and Wenatchee valleys, to the sandy section roads of the Columbia Basin, and finally to the wind blown loess hills of the Palouse. The Columbia River cuts through the middle of all of it and then turns west to form the southern border. Puget Sound and the islands add a long tidal shoreline and a ferry system, so some island deliveries depend on a ferry sailing. Planning a container delivery in Washington means asking about the pass, the ferry, the grade and the ground before anyone asks about the mileage.
What to Plan Around in Washington
The Puget lowland sits on glacial ground laid down by repeated glacial advances, the most recent around 15,000 years ago. The two materials at or near the surface behave very differently under a load. Till is a dense, tightly packed soil that is strong but lets almost no water through, so water sits on top of it and runs sideways. Outwash drains freely and generally bears well. Down in the Duwamish, the Kent Valley and the Puyallup and Nisqually deltas the ground turns to soft fill, delta silt and peat instead. That matters more for a container than for a house, because a container puts essentially its entire weight through four corner castings rather than spreading it along a continuous footing. Four point loads on ground that softens through a Puget Sound winter is how a box ends up out of level, with doors that no longer close and a roof that ponds water.
- ✓ Level, firm ground under all four corners
- ✓ Drainage that carries water away from the container
- ✓ Unpaved access to farm, ranch and acreage sites
- ✓ HOA covenants, deed restrictions and local permit questions
- ✓ Access at job sites, plants and other working sites
- ✓ Driveway width and overhead clearance on the truck's route