A Fair Critique of Shipping Container Homes

Plasmatic said:
Are the 19.5 x 19.5 units even available yet?
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Not sure. They have been stagnant. Funny, I watched that animation video again and had the thought "Opportunity Zone in a Box!".

Ugh. That may have been part of the business plan.

I think they only have that little Casita unit advertised. Who knows. Maybe Musk is buying the company.
 
ive looked into this, mainly to build a vacation house and go in it with a couple buddies. To actually do it right is too expensive and at that point you might as well just buy a normal place.
 
Coolest container house Ive seen was on the side of haleakala volcano in Maui near the bottom of the hill on a steep slope propped up on the downhill side by a stack of used tires. When you just need some wind/rain shelter and that's all, containers better than a tent.
 
As a bunker? Yea sure, cheaper than concrete. As a home? :lol: Wtf is considering this?

Everything is still required for construction, but now your home is a giant fucking heatsink for the sun. To make proper living spaces, you'd have to cut some open and extend them, which means adding proper support (and a roof).

The list of negatives is insanely long. The positives are... you get a basic frame set up quickly that you still have to modify significantly?
 
Mitchdubai said:
Don't you have any of these in Bumfuck, Nowhere Billybob? Thought it would be a nice thing to have in rural ass-backwards shitholes, unless nobody can afford them :shrug:
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they have many of them and they r all filled w/ grain (rather than disgusting middle class white people w/ no legit job skills) b/c the usa isn't a cropless wasteland like britain
 
Only 100 years ago...

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Here is one of those homes today... I think this one was a Vallonia or something.
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Under 2G for all the materials.
 
Reggs said:
This is what goes into a shipping container home from scratch. This series of videos goes over pretty much everything you can imagine start to finish:

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:rofl: I watched two videos of this nonsense.

These people are fucking insane. The amount of work to get a shit metal box to work as a home is fucking astounding vs any other wood/block home. Wow.
 
Validuz said:
:rofl: I watched two videos of this nonsense.

These people are fucking insane. The amount of work to get a shit metal box to work as a home is fucking astounding vs any other wood/block home. Wow.
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Most 40's i've seen are trimmed out for about $35k, and that a very livable place for one or 2 people. Its pretty much a single wide trailer. If you put two highboys side by side and connect them, that makes a decent little structure to start with. There are a ton of places selling containers down by the port. Most of them will even pre-cut openings for you.

There are a lot of really nice examples of container homes out there. But like anything else, cool has a price tag
 
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