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Saturday, August 16, 2025
With the container doors closed, might be bear proof too
Very cool. The sound and insulation issues seem solvable. But I understand that the price of these shipping containers skyrocketed during the Covid supply chain fiasco.
Just under $4,000 here in North Central Arkansas There a a number of drive through coffee shops, sandwich shops and other such things. They are fabricated out of Corte steel that really never needs painting as it won't rust. Corten is used in high light poles just so they don't have to paint it. Welds great by all common methods. You can google it and get a great education of it's properties. You just might find a use of it for your own projects. Have fun!
Time and time again it has been shown that trying to turn a shipping container into a livable domicile is always a losing prospect. There is a reason stick built homes are the most common method of construction.
Container homes as well as "tiny" homes and most of the other sparkly things that catch the eye are not taken seriously by serious people.
you're right, ghostsniper. they're unmanageable temp-wise in their original state and when you add interior framing for insulation you move the dew point and create areas for condensation to collect which not only affects indoor air quality but causes rot damage to any wood against the exterior walls. a poor explanation but it's the gist.
Living in a steel box, no insulation, no real power or plumbing. Realistically by the time allowances are made for those "upgrades", on could have built a conventional structure that doesn't look like shipping containers. Thanx but no thanx!
Pro's and con's in the cabin issue, see a shower: supplied by what? Toliet, where is it? insulation in the ceiling: should have been done first with dry wall going up. Power? has lights must have a generator somewhere, over all is it kept locked up or if someone in an EMC needs access can they?
Looks cool and secure, but a lot of modification to get there, and I would wonder about condensation.
During the first Gulf War NATO put a lot of assets into Turkey in case Saddam decided to expand the war northward. This meant lots of extra AWACS crews that overwhelmed the lodging facilities on the Turkish airbase, so crews were put in a hotel in a nearby city.
But this made them vulnerable to terrorist/commando attack, so NATO looked for a solution to get them back on base. The Germans offered up a bunch of metal mobile trailers they inherited from the former East German military.
Aeroflot (yes the Russkies) was contracted to fly the trailers to Turkey. Once some of them were in place it was found they condensed copious amounts of water on the inside, and were wired in some odd Soviet military electrical voltage. The Aeroflot plane broke down and it took six weeks to find and order the needed parts from somewhere way back in the former Soviet Union.
So the trailer idea was abandoned, and the crews stayed in the hotel for the rest of the war without incident.
“Without incident,” that is, until the NATO troops’ wives found out that a Russian “exotic dance” troupe touring Europe had been performing in the hotel ballroom when the war kicked off. When the dance girls found out the hotel was going to be filled for the foreseeable future with a 100-200 airmen (and a few airwomen) away from home and on per diem, the troupe cancelled the rest of its tour and stayed to prop up NATO morale. :) Wives complained, but the arrangement held until the end of the war.
It looks like a nice enough hunting cabin. From the comments though one would think someone was planning to move in forever and raise a family. I got a kick out of the regional construction office in Chinhae where they made themselves a nice enough 3 story office out of shipping containers back when they were building another 30 or so buildings at CFAC. I suspect it's long gone by now.
I'd have to question the wisdom of cutting 40' worth of vertical support from the middle two(four) walls and relying on just the 4x4 pairs to keep it from sagging under a snow load, heavy rain or a bear.
Shipping container housing: By the time you're done, if you did it right, you could have saved money with logs, cinder blocks, or stick-built, and gotten more house for less trouble.
Conex boxes are sometimes okay if you're building a workshop, but for a dwelling, not so much.
it does look defensible.
ReplyDeleteAnd wildfire resistant, too!
DeleteI wonder how loud that might be in a rain storm. No insulation.Just wondering.🤔
ReplyDeleteLooks like a secondary corrugated roof in the first pic.
DeleteNo insulation under the roof means that it is going to be very hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
ReplyDeleteVery cool. The sound and insulation issues seem solvable.
ReplyDeleteBut I understand that the price of these shipping containers skyrocketed during the Covid supply chain fiasco.
$8000 for a 40' one-trip reefer (insulated) in my area.
DeleteJust under $4,000 here in North Central Arkansas There a a number of drive through coffee shops, sandwich shops and other such things. They are fabricated out of Corte steel that really never needs painting as it won't rust. Corten is used in high light poles just so they don't have to paint it. Welds great by all common methods. You can google it and get a great education of it's properties. You just might find a use of it for your own projects. Have fun!
DeleteBear Proof, but not Hood Rat Proof!
ReplyDeleteTime and time again it has been shown that trying to turn a shipping container into a livable domicile is always a losing prospect. There is a reason stick built homes are the most common method of construction.
ReplyDeleteContainer homes as well as "tiny" homes and most of the other sparkly things that catch the eye are not taken seriously by serious people.
Thanks Dad…
Deleteyou're right, ghostsniper. they're unmanageable temp-wise in their original state and when you add interior framing for insulation you move the dew point and create areas for condensation to collect which not only affects indoor air quality but causes rot damage to any wood against the exterior walls. a poor explanation but it's the gist.
DeleteI consider myself a serious person and I live in an off-grid tiny home. Oregon coast, ten acres, creek, wildlife. Take that!
Delete@Ken, anything can be done, of course, but at what cost? If a person can't afford a stick home they surely can't afford the other methods.
Delete9:50 will always be a renter and knowing that makes him bitter and envious.
Living in a steel box, no insulation, no real power or plumbing. Realistically by the time allowances are made for those "upgrades", on could have built a conventional structure that doesn't look like shipping containers. Thanx but no thanx!
ReplyDeletecutting, joining, welding that (I've done it) is the lung-wrecking work of Satan.
ReplyDeleteback again. the steel is extremely hard, maybe cor-ten, the interior is coated with what seemed to me a butyl-odorous thick paint.
DeletePro's and con's in the cabin issue, see a shower: supplied by what? Toliet, where is it? insulation in the ceiling: should have been done first with dry wall going up. Power? has lights must have a generator somewhere, over all is it kept locked up or if someone in an EMC needs access can they?
ReplyDeleteLooks cool and secure, but a lot of modification to get there, and I would wonder about condensation.
ReplyDeleteDuring the first Gulf War NATO put a lot of assets into Turkey in case Saddam decided to expand the war northward. This meant lots of extra AWACS crews that overwhelmed the lodging facilities on the Turkish airbase, so crews were put in a hotel in a nearby city.
But this made them vulnerable to terrorist/commando attack, so NATO looked for a solution to get them back on base. The Germans offered up a bunch of metal mobile trailers they inherited from the former East German military.
Aeroflot (yes the Russkies) was contracted to fly the trailers to Turkey. Once some of them were in place it was found they condensed copious amounts of water on the inside, and were wired in some odd Soviet military electrical voltage. The Aeroflot plane broke down and it took six weeks to find and order the needed parts from somewhere way back in the former Soviet Union.
So the trailer idea was abandoned, and the crews stayed in the hotel for the rest of the war without incident.
“Without incident,” that is, until the NATO troops’ wives found out that a Russian “exotic dance” troupe touring Europe had been performing in the hotel ballroom when the war kicked off. When the dance girls found out the hotel was going to be filled for the foreseeable future with a 100-200 airmen (and a few airwomen) away from home and on per diem, the troupe cancelled the rest of its tour and stayed to prop up NATO morale. :) Wives complained, but the arrangement held until the end of the war.
I noticed that there is no bed. But if it was me, I'd have a separate, free-standing roof over the top of that thing, and probably some more windows.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a nice enough hunting cabin. From the comments though one would think someone was planning to move in forever and raise a family. I got a kick out of the regional construction office in Chinhae where they made themselves a nice enough 3 story office out of shipping containers back when they were building another 30 or so buildings at CFAC. I suspect it's long gone by now.
ReplyDeleteIn the last photo, it looks like the floor is pretty wet. Might not be watertight.
ReplyDeleteGotta be awkward to shower when you have people over!
ReplyDeleteI'd have to question the wisdom of cutting 40' worth of vertical support from the middle two(four) walls and relying on just the 4x4 pairs to keep it from sagging under a snow load, heavy rain or a bear.
ReplyDeleteDumbest trend in building
ReplyDeleteAs I recall the guy that built it had it up for sale probably 15 years ago. These pics are from its original site. Never heard what happened to it.
ReplyDeleteShipping container housing: By the time you're done, if you did it right, you could have saved money with logs, cinder blocks, or stick-built, and gotten more house for less trouble.
ReplyDeleteConex boxes are sometimes okay if you're building a workshop, but for a dwelling, not so much.
Critters will be habitating under the decking platform.
ReplyDeleteIll bet its LOUD in there.
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