Shipping container home readying for Detroit debut

ap/yahoo ^ | january 4, 2014 | JEFF KAROUB

[Thank You Rush]

“”Those homes are trashed by the ferals. It would cost a lot of money to renovate them to Section 8 housing standards.””

Why bother renovating! Would they have an objection to moving into something that looks from the start of their move in the same as it would at the end?

[Bryanw92]

>>Why bother renovating! Would they have an objection to moving into something that looks from the start of their move in the same as it would at the end?

Its the magic of gummint “assistance”. You can’t be assisted unless you are helpless...so you better get helpless NOW.

[nascarnation]

corrugation is your friend in designing structures

http://www.structure1.com/html/shipping-containers3.htm

[wetgundog]

Fairly bulletproof too!, at least low caliber rounds.

[Kartographer]

To late robots are getting all the good shipping containers.

[bert]

containers are not really suited for housing. They are too hot or too cold. they make excellent storage. They are well suited to flea ,market shops

[nascarnation]

I think you’re wasting your time at FR.
With great ideas like you posted, you need to be out becoming the next Warren Buffet.

[Farmer Dean]

I wonder what the R number is for Kevlar,I’d want to add a layer to any home in the American urban wonderland.

[mdmathis6]

Might make a great faraday cage to protect electronic from emp’s

[nascarnation]

They’re quite cheap also. At least at the ports where they are located.

http://www.wikihow.com/Buy-a-Used-Shipping-Container

[al baby]

Well i think they stop small arms fire

[al baby]

And thats just what you can see they go another 3 or so deep into the hull and freeboard

[MamaB]

I have seen many small houses on tv. For people with little money, it is an option. They are nicer than I expected. Of course, they have to get rid of a lot of junk. If people want to downsize that much, more power to them.

[DJ Taylor]

"containers are not really suited for housing. They are too hot or too cold."

I lived in a 20 ft. shipping container for a year when I worked for Trans-African Mining Corp. We mounted them on a concrete pad, cut out and installed a door on the back, cut out a window in the side and installed an air-conditioner, sprayed the outside of the container with insulating foam and then we painted them white. They were actually quite comfortable even during the heat of the day.

[MamaB]

I still think that us one of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen. What were they thinking? Maybe they weren’t.

[kingu]

Oooh, there's an idea, double stack them in an old big box store - deals with a lot of the issues of heating/cooling, add in a community play area, then put iron gates on the entrance and exits, call it a poor man's gated community and really rile the code junkies.

I'm sure Ikea and a whole bunch of others have designs for a minimal space like the containers. 24-30 families in one closed Office Max space? ‘Shopping opportunities right outside the door in this secure and earthquake safe gated community.’

[nascarnation]

Sounds like an excellent package.

[Pelham]

Yet another sign of the trajectory on which America is headed.

[Pelham]

“As the Red Chinese buy up our homes and buildings here, we’re buying up their shipping containers to live in.”

In SoCal, Chinese buyers are making all cash offers for high end homes.

[lentulusgracchus]

I've seen plenty of small houses, was a guest in one that had been built right after the War for a returning vet, it was a 2-1-1C in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (It was added on to later, but that's another matter -- as built, it was about 900 square feet.) A familty-starter for The Greatest Generation and their Boomer kids.

I've never pounded the table, that a family needs a 2800 ft² 5-3-3 or something like that. It's just sad that they're living in discarded industrial junk.

Postscript: That little house was directly in the path of the giant F5 outbreak a few years ago; the one that struck Tuscaloosa roared right up to the back fence, picked up off the ground, sawed off the top 2/3's of the mature oak (post oak or water oak, I think) in the back yard, sailed over the house without touching it, then came back down across the road and took out everything for the next 60 miles or so. I was told that the swath of destruction was two miles wide and destroyed thousands of newer houses, many of them large in that neighborhood, that lay on either side of the little house I speak of.