The mod hub lists electrical packages among the build-outs our Woodlawn shop cuts and wires. This page is the detail behind that line: what goes in the box, how the layout gets drawn against the rest of the build, and how the package changes with what the container is for.
The boundary comes first, because it shapes everything after it. Our part ends at the rough-in. The sub-panel gets mounted, the conduit gets run, the boxes get set, and the outlets, switches and fixtures go in. A licensed electrician you hire makes the final connection and takes the work through inspection wherever the container lands. Permits are not ours to pull. No one in our shop makes the box live, certifies the work or signs their name to it.
The hub card puts it in one line: panel, outlets, and switches roughed in clean, ready for licensed final hookup and inspection. Unpacked, that is the list.
No amperage, breaker count or wire size appears here, on purpose. Those belong to the electrician sizing the work against your feed and your real loads.
For the package itself we claim what the mod hub claims and nothing past it. It is built to be wired up by a licensed electrician for final hookup and inspection in your jurisdiction. Whether it clears is your inspector's call, and a website does not get to promise that.
Grounding, bonding and surge protection sit on the electrician's side of that line too. Lightning protection is not something we install and grounding is not a service we sell, which our answer on lightning says plainly. Solar arrays, batteries and charge controllers are not ours either.
This is the part people underestimate, and the part worth your time on the phone. Where a box lands on a wall is barely an electrical decision. It is a decision about furniture, made in steel, and it is expensive to take back once the walls are closed and the container is loaded.
Openings come first, wiring second while the shell is still open, then insulation and interior finish go on last, over both. The workshop conversion guide walks the full sequence if you want the whole build rather than the electrical slice.
The components are the same family every time. What gets specced out of them changes completely with the job the container is doing and with who owns it.
| The build | What the package usually looks like | What we need from you |
|---|---|---|
| Plain storage | The light end. A fixture and an outlet or two, on the small end of the panel range, so you can see what you are pulling off a shelf. | Whether you want an exterior fixture at the doors, which on a sealed storage box is usually the better of the two. |
| Workshop | Outlets along the bench wall, a switched interior run, an exterior fixture, and more breaker slots, since tools, dust collection and lighting can all be going at once. | What will genuinely be running at the same time, and which wall the bench lands on. |
| Mobile office | The finished end. Dedicated circuits for equipment, groundwork positioned for a mini split, and conduit and pass throughs for network and phone. | Whether a mini split is coming, since insulation and cooling get specced alongside the wiring. |
| A container you already own | The same package, provided the box is structurally sound and wind and water tight. We look at it first and say honestly what it will take. | The container at our Woodlawn yard if that can be arranged, because we need it stripped out and the doors open. |
| A month to month rental | Built for removal from the day it is drawn, since every piece of it comes off the box again when the rental ends. | That it is a rental, said while we spec it rather than after. |
What sets the panel is the list of things you intend to run together. The sub-panel entry covers it. Also air conditioning a container, mobile offices and the container office guide.
Our answer on getting electricity to a container tells you in one sentence to hire your licensed electrician early. Here is what that sentence is worth. Give us their name at spec time and the panel and the conduit go where they ask, checked before we open a wall. Their day on your site is short after that, because nobody is moving anything once the container lands.
What they will want settled is what we will ask you about:
How power reaches the container is about your property, not about the box, and it is not this page. Distance, buried against overhead, the trench, solar and generators all sit at running power to a field container. Permits go the same way, since we do not pull them: start at the permits hub, the permit guide or permits for a modified container.
A single modification usually turns around in a few days. A full build-out with insulation, electrical, lighting and finished walls runs one to a few weeks depending on scope and parts, with a real timeline on the written quote before work starts. The modification timeline answer has the detail.
No modification price is published here or anywhere else on this site, deliberately: a build-out is a specification, not a menu item. Every mod is itemized on a written quote before anything gets cut, and modification cost factors lists what the shop weighs on an electrical rough-in.
Every other mod our shop builds is on the custom modifications hub.
Give us the container size, what will be running inside it, and roughly where power will enter, and we price it out line by line in writing with the schedule on the same sheet. Have your electrician's name handy if you already have one. If you would rather talk it through first, call (276) 237-6144.
Same-day reply. We'll send a real number, a real delivery window, and any photos we need to confirm fit.
You'll hear back from us today (or first thing tomorrow if it's late). For anything urgent, call (276) 237-6144.