Data center capacity can be grown a module at a time.
Posted on 01/05/2014 12:55:33 PM PST by Carriage Hill
This is a shipping container. It’s used to transport large amounts of goods on boats and on trains. By itself, it’s pretty boring.
But with a little imagination, the shipping container becomes a cheap, reliable building block that can be used to build chic little getaway homes and castles of majesty alike!
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Back then in the 50s, as kids, any port in the storm worked for us. We were “creative” and could make a castle out of a 50lb bag of kitty litter. Heh.
These houses have everything. We have somebody around here who is building them, and they’re really nice, comfy spaces. Better than a lot of “regular” houses.
Data center capacity can be grown a module at a time.
Fascinating; I never would have guessed.
Their opinion of "only" and mine are a lot different. You'd think this would have cost maybe $25k in South America. While some of those shipping containers are rather striking, one wonders if there are still residual pesticides or whatever chemicals left inside that the homeowners are now breathing. I'd also need a lot more insulation under the hot summer sun.
A couple of those units are very ready-for-primetime, as well as for bugging-out.
Agreed; I’d want them very carefully tested for residues, ***before*** using any as part of my home.
thats a nice looking home, but getting the crates up must have taken some heavy equipment...Men can make nice things...Been a widow for over 20 years, but love men, they come in handy for the heavy lifting....LOL
The government regulations sure do stink. Made by people that never built anything in their lives..
Why do I get the feeling that it would cost more to cobble up a home out of those things than to just BUILD a home from scratch.
Heavy equipment is a good thing, but in the 50s, I remember seeing Grandpa using block-and-tackle and large teepee logs to hoist things into the air.
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/johnny
Sounds comfy and safe, considering your circumstances.
If this gets popular, expect the planning commission/building inspectors to start special rules (with extra $).
Then the advantage will go away.
Good!
There is a real need for affordable housing (REAL affordable housing—NOT the Dim and Alinskyite version of that term)!!!!
I saw one at a hunting show fitted out for a hunting camp. It was better than a tent but I didn’t want it, and I don’t want any of these.
It was .... It was ....
Without windows and amenities, they’re pretty claustrophobic.
(The building department here is self financed and builders tell me they find on average $4k-6k worth of fines. Builders just figure that into the costs.)
Got rope?
In Alaska they are very popular for making shops, just stack two high and spaced far enough apart to spread some beams and rafters you then get a sizable shop. Average cost though here is $2500 each though. But they by themselves are earthquake proof. The better ones are the ones that were reefer units as they already are very well insulated.
Its a no brainer liberals will mock the use of these as homes, next thing we know they will connect them with the Duck Dynasty as “hillbilly condos” Or “upscale trailer trash”.
I know a guy not too far from me that has a ton of ATCO buildings, these are pretty much a reinforced single wide manufactured box on wheels used all over Alaska for offices, shops and sleeping quarters, they can be opened up on the sides to be lined up for a large interior space.
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