Posted on 06/12/2009 9:11:42 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Would you live in a house made of cargo shipping containers? Yes 49% 33651 No 51% 35495 Total Votes: 69146
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Oh I would. Some of those artsy types can really make some really neat looking stacks out of them, giving you a really neat looking home.
Hmmm.. never thought about it.
How much do shipping containers cost?
Will my neighbors let me live in one?
Will my wife live in one?
How many can I stack?
Do they float?
I’ll need a welder and a blowtorch.
This could be fun.
Why not, if they’re put together properly? They’re strong, and can probably be finished out on the exterior and the interior just like the typical house.
LOL, we just go a 40’ foot one for our range. A company in Fayetteville is reselling them. Ours is painted green and cost about $2000 on our lot.
We shoot IDPA on a large bay about 50 yards across. We put the box down the middle and now we have two 20+ yard wide bays so we can accomadate more shooters.
Plus, we now have a place to store props, targets, etc all close to the action.
And yes, they seem to be bullet proof, at least against rimfire, and handgun ammo. Not so sure about armor piercing 5.7 rounds or high powered rifle ammo.
That’s not a bad looking house, and with a little tweaking, that modern exterior could be given a Craftsman look!
Ever been in a military deployment area?
Army Installation Sustainability Success
Having used these in designs for data acquisition and control trailers and working with a company that has modified them for over 20 years I would say yes. You can make truly amazing and sturdy buildings out of them.
Are you sure they’re concrete blocks? Even if they are, they’d hold up fine if they were anchored onto a good footing with rebar, and the cavities were filled with concrete. Folks use those for foundation walls all the time.
Geez, those are a lot nicer than the ones I’ve lived in. In Africa I had a 20-footer for an office...we had four configured with a roof over them. The roofs always seemed to leak until we built truses and roofed them. I lived in a 40-footer with bathroom in a maintenance camp on a project in the Andes of Argentina. It was insulated, but at -40F it was always cold.
They work very well and have tremendous utility.
IIRC, they can be stacked 9 high fully loaded (~40K lbs), very sturdy items.
pretty soon we will all live in a shipping container
For later showing to the missus.
Sure. Heck, people live, long term, in campers that are smaller, no problem. This wouldn’t be much different.
You could even get fancy and use a bunch of ‘em. You could arrange containers artistically to anchor the building and to act as structural components. You arrange them around some larger, central communal living space. Some rooms might be inconveniently proportioned, but, overall, it could be pretty cool. They probably need some good insulation, but there’s a lot of potential there.
I would like one for a buried bomb shelter - the way this country is going...
49% of the people who read CNN say they would live in house made of cargo shipping containers.
We are on the fast track to 3rd world status.
They say they would because they have never had to. Put them in one for about a week and see what they say. And, yes, be saving those crates. If liberal leftists have anything to do with it you’ll be paying $600 to live in one - so you better start saving!
Once well tied down, their "unibody" construction makes them arguably stronger against wind loads than either a mobile home or traditional site built home.
Due to their metal construction, they will provide an excellent radiant heat barrier.
A used container can be had on Ebay for $500.
Join several together, cut holes for windows, attach siding to the exterior, insulate the inner wall, sheet rock the interior walls, add flooring and you have a pretty decent shell.
Well, if you can afford to bring in “those artsy types”, you can afford to build with more reliable materials.
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