Shipping-container-home

[Anonymous 0]

See video link below about this widower who built a very cool
shipping-container-home, in which he can travel around the world. My primary question would be what options he has to park it to live in.

This is kind of a clever idea for avoiding direct property taxes too.

[Anonymous 6]

Great idea, but i would want to combine more than one. Have a bunch of them hooked together. I saw that on a home building show on HGTV once. This guy was building off the grid and got four of these containers and built one big house.

[Anonymous 42]

ABSOLUTELY! I just priced a 40 ft Conoco container @ $4,200. I want it for dry storage.

Saws-all, welder, drill, nuts and bolts, creativity, and the sky is your limit!

They’re built perfectly square too! Level it on concrete below the frost line and FORGET IT! Everything goes in snug and square! Cabinets are flush and tight fitting no shimming and f~~~ing around! You could have a kickass cottage in no time flat! Weld them side by side and cut out the middle!

Bury one in the ground for a nuclear bunker or illicit shenanigans!

I posted about these before! Granddad would approve? He’d think a man was stupid to choose otherwise!

All grandad had at his disposal was twisted, warped, wet, moldy wooden crates!

Cargo containers have rubber sealed doors that lock down water tight! You can even survive a tsunami! And with corrugated steel walls you can also survive a tornado! Snow load? ever see how high they stack them? FULL OF HEAVY S~~~?

I’m an apostle of the steel container!

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Wow
Awesome

Men I wish I had those skills.

There must be something I can create with my profession.

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[Anonymous 42]

Carnage wrote:

There must be something I can create with my profession.

Bro, I met a Doctor years ago that made his home’s theme out of highly finished drift wood! Railings banisters, all through the house drift wood was the theme! Beautiful f~~~ing house too! Surrounded by his own man made clean bottom pond! Not a flooded swamp mud hole like our lake.

[Anonymous 6]

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22520]

When you get down to it, it is a good idea. Those are large steel constructed crates. The material is good to work with and allows for flexible construction.

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

I want one, maybe two for an underground bunker(s).

Ideally, I’d like to create an underground water-tight hatch on it (in addition to an above-ground hatch covered by a fake tree stump Hogan’s Heroes style) that connects to one of my hidden basement rooms.

If two, I can imagine one bunker as living quarters and food stockpile and the other as an underground gun range and tertiary armory. Since I’d probably want more than 40′ to shoot down, I’d probably have an underground range made from cinderblocks that simply connects to the shipping container.

Another idea would be to have an adjacent compartment which has a hand-pumped well, for fresh water. Thus no need to go outside for water.

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[743 roadmasterParticipant]

Have been looking into this for a while. Being as I want to build close to the Gulf and the chance of a hurricane is always possible. What I have learned.
Up front cost per foot is going to be more then a site built home, unless you have mad skills in all forms of construction and can do it yourself.
Need proper insulation if not you are living in a mold patch, because that metal will sweat.
The pay off comes in the years down the road. Cost of living, upkeep and the like.

mgtow is its own worst enemy- https://www.campusreform.org/

[GregB0Participant]

If you put in the proper environmental controls they are not bad to live in. They have little/none weather proofing and once they get hot or cold, it is hard to resolve unless you open one of the end doors.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22502]

They factor that stuff into lot and hookup rates. No one really escapes property tax. They get it indirectly.

Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

I would like to have a s~~~ load of them underground like vault-tech from Fallout 4.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[HammerheadParticipant 362]

Sorry to rain of one part of this idea, but you CANNOT simply bury them and cover them with dirt as an emergency shelter. Think about it – – they’re built to stack on cargo ships, to be weatherproof and sturdy (including their heavily timbered floor), but not to accept side or top loads except on their exterior skeleton. They’ve got a highly reinforced FRAME, but the sides and top are flimsy and will cave in if subjected to loading. Be careful and research how to properly use them, or they can kill you.

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