It seems to me it would be cheaper and easier to make pre-fab corrugated sheets of steel and build them in a modular configurations.
Are there an excess of unused, decommissioned shipping containers 'clogging up or landfills' that we have to find alternative uses and recycle?
What is the rust-free life-span of a shipping container used as housing?
Just like an official third-world country!
Free at last! Free at last!
And have a very good AC unit.
I’ve seen some pretty cool things done with them
Sturdy sheĺls and airtight
I’ve always thought this should be a good thing
and what do they
Smell Like?
Red Snapper,
Halibut?
I’ve read a lot of articles and seen a lot of youtube videos regarding repurposing shipping containers as homes.
It’s not practical.
It looks like a cool idea, but the devil is in the details. However, If I could get the containers FREE, I’d find a way to make it work to some degree.
When they build apartments out of old wind turbine blades, I’ll be very impressed.
Also, the rent seems high for what they are getting, in comparison to income.
When they build apartments out of old wind turbine blades, I’ll be very impressed.
Also, the rent seems high for what they are getting, in comparison to income.
All it takes is one unruly tenant to turn the building into a s@hole. No privacy, lots of noise.
No thanks.
Ugly
I’ve looked at containers as possible housing “units”.
For a shed, for a utility room, for good security, they are pretty good. Gotta be very careful of roof corrosion.
But everything I have looked at, to run utilities, to make smooth residential-style walls, to place windows, seems like more work than stick-built. Under current hyperinflation lumber pricing, that may no longer be so.
But they certainly seem like a hell of a lot of fuss to wire and plumb and finish out. Yes, I have seen some interesting structures and small dwellings out in the boonies, and yes, there is an attraction in being able to get instant enclosure to a remote spot.
And how structurally safe from earthquakes stacked like that? Just curious
Some positives:
-inexpensive
-sturdy
-sized for transport
-security
-fire resistant
-mobile
-easy to partially bury
Some Negatives:
-difficult to insulate
-difficult to avoid rust and condensation in humid areas
-difficult to install doors and windows
-difficult for cellular reception
-difficult to expand on
-difficult to fit furniture due to non-standard sizing
-requires special skills and tools for connections such as plumbing and electrical
-electrical conductivity could be a risk
There is a severe shortage of Container’s [TEU’s]. these boxes are worth a lot more on an Ocean Carrier than as an apartment!
So are those double-wides?
Lived in container rooms in Iraq, some even had indoor plumbing, but usually had to go to a separate facility. Called them Chu’s (containerized housing unit).
Utah is full of empty land, especially to the West of Salt Lake in Tooele County.
High rise boxes for Mexican illegal aliens - who were never there just a few decades ago - are totally unnecessary, and that part of SLC is already ugly.
Reminds me of the insanity of the Moscow concrete block buildings sitting next to a sea of empty land stretching for thousands of miles. Communists always build ant hills.
I give them six weeks before they’re covered in graffiti, and become a hub for drug sales. The looney leftist “leaders’ of Salt Lake City love stuff like this for the poor, oppressed, underserved minorities, and third-world women and children. My guess is no one living here will have any income other than some kind of welfare. Even after they’re living here they’ll still be showing up at the homeless shelters and soup kitchens for free food.
OTOH, I couldn’t afford to live there—the rent’s too high. Good thing my house is paid for or I’d be on the street.
This is just another half-baked leftist solution to an incorrectly defined problem and it creates more problems than it solves. Specifically, it does not recognize or reward successful people. Then it puts less successful people in a bind. Or at least I assume it would. What happens when one of the tenants begins to make more than the arbitrary income level? Does he have to move? Or will he find a way to make less money? Pure stupidity.
Upscale, the are double wides! Lol
“Are there an excess of unused, decommissioned shipping containers ‘clogging up or landfills’ that we have to find alternative uses and recycle?”
Actually saw that stat yesterday. Of every 100 containers shipped to the United States, only forty return. That’s because the US buys more foreign goods than foreigners buy from the US. An aerial shot showed empty containers at the SF port stacked very high and covering a lot of space.
And, incidentally, the reason for that is our trading partners are aging out. They are huge producers of goods, but do not have the population in the “buy’s stuff” category, between 20 and 40, to consume what they make...or buy our products. This is one reason Trump renegotiated all the trade deals. The deals were one-sided in favor of anyone not an American.