Container house-step by step- a great blog

[barfife]

This blog shows another approach to inexpensive housing. Good pics.

http://seacontainercabin.blogspot.com/

[goatlady]

Really great! I can relate to pictures/step-by-step like that. Wondering how he got that 400# arch out of the container? Cut into more managable pieces maybe?

[CLT46910]

Really great! I can relate to pictures/step-by-step like that. Wondering how he got that 400# arch out of the container? Cut into more managable pieces maybe?

Looks like it might have fit though the front doors after they got the opening cut out.

[Grand58742]

Very nice ingenuity. I've seen some folks building cabins and retreats out of single units, but never two. Endless possibilities.

[eeyore]

I know it was about a year ago, there were several article about buying containers directly from the shipping yard for a very low price the article said that they would not ship the containers back to China, because it was cheaper for China to build new one. Never found a shipyard where this was true. But i never looked hard, don't have the place to use them yet.

[CLT46910]

A few years ago I did some work for a stateside company that was Chinese owned. A lot of parts they used was made in China and shipped in containers here. They always shipped the containers back to China.

[Grinnan Barrett]

Containers are readily available and can cost up to $5000 depending on source. I have seen them for under $2000. The problem is getting them to your BOL for example. Shipping them and unloading them can be a real treat. Always factor in the cost to get them to the site and position them. Once they are down it is not easy to move them around. They can make a great base for a shelter or new home. Imagination is the key and money is the thing you better have as well. We are still considering use of them on our property.

[Klayton]

Just one comment, the last pictures of the arch door, they sure are taking alot of that wall out, makes for a pretty darn weak point in the container design. Those ridge style walls are not there because they are pretty, those ridges act as extra reinforcement. All my best to them, hope they know what they are doing. :)

[barfife]

Just one comment, the last pictures of the arch door, they sure are taking alot of that wall out, makes for a pretty darn weak point in the container design. Those ridge style walls are not there because they are pretty, those ridges act as extra reinforcement. All my best to them, hope they know what they are doing. :)

If you read within the article, he addresses that by welding additional horizonal steel framing/supports.

[HDM]

Very interesting. I am going to look into this. Thanks Barfife.

[eeyore]

A portion of the article, it was from 2006 the Washington Times

NORFOLK — The hundreds of empty containers stacked beside the rails near the Norfolk Southern Corp. Portlock rail yard in Chesapeake look ready to board ship here and head back to China, but they are going nowhere.

China is shipping so many goods to the United States that the Chinese often find it cheaper to build new containers with low-cost labor and leave their empty ones in the United States than send them home empty.

“These containers are here to stay,” Portlock trainmaster Brian Stanley said, pointing at the piles.

The empty containers reflect the changing shape of the U.S. economy as manufacturing goes overseas. Shippers, railroads and real estate companies are scrambling to deal with the fundamental question of how to deal with an increasing flow of shipping containers.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jun/15/20060615-122003-3483r/

I wish i had had a place fro them at the time i would love to had ten or more

[Klayton]

Thanks barfife, no I didnt read it, just scanned the pics quickly. My time is limited :)