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How did this container home trend start?
Did some guy who needed to unload his surplus of shipping containers start this?
It makes not sense to do this.

>> No.29195503

>>29195360
Imagine building your home out of trash corrugated steel.
Enjoy your stagnant air flow, gas deposits, and leeching

>> No.29195513

>>29195360
You can get used containers pretty cheap

>> No.29195519

I guess it can be seen as a form of creative recycling... But the real culprit is central banking money printing manipulations jacking up the housing market.

>> No.29195648

>>29195360
These are a meme your better off just building a house out of simple concreate bricks. These containers require safety regulations, by the time you make one functional you wasted more and these homes don't go up in price much

>> No.29195843

>>29195360
you WILL live in the container

>> No.29195963

>>29195843
KEK

>> No.29196026

soldiers came back from afghanistan and Iraq after living in CHUs for months and years.

soldiers want to start their own homestead, chose what they lived in overseas.

>> No.29196047

I dunno man we made buildings out of these at some small fobs in Afghanistan and I would never want to live in one.

>> No.29196070

>>29195360
looks comfy

>> No.29196072
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>>29195360
I used to think this was such a genius idea of using these strong mass manufactured items and dreamt of constructing a giant compound out of shipping containers. But when I looked into it more I realized it's actually pretty retarded and you run into a lot of problems and expenses due to the fact that they're ultimately designed to be closed containers stacked on ships to transport cheap chinese shit around the world.
There's a reason why developers don't build with them and instead choose to build a proper building structure.

>> No.29196137

>>29195360
i bet that fucking deck is made out of planks from discarded pallets too.
gay ass hipster shit and probably not safe whatsoever. who knows what they treat all that shit with

>> No.29196168

>>29195360
if you do it up right they're pretty solid; I don't understand the whole doll it up thing; if I were going to build one I would bury a few and only have one or two plain looking ones on the surface

>> No.29196298

>>29196168
Some guy tried to do an underground bunker with these containers. They started to cave in pretty quickly.

>> No.29196418

>>29196298
imagine it caves in while you're underground
but you don't instantly die or suffocate you just get trapped in an air pocket
it's pitch black and you have no food or water
no one even knows that happened because you put your set up in the middle of a 50 acre plot of land in bumblefuck northern idaho

>> No.29196472

if you buy a lot to build a house it's a cheap solution for shelter while you get it done. I lived in one for ~4 months in an Alaskan summer with a grill it was pretty based.

>> No.29196509
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>>29195360
First it was tiny houses, then container houses. im calling it now: the next big meme house trend will be super adobe

>> No.29196522

>>29195360
The housing market is so fucked that zoomers are too poor to even buy trailers. Let that sink in.

>> No.29196609

>>29196522
the trailer isn't the expensive part, it's the fucking jew lot fees if you want to set it up somewhere that already has utilities. if you want to get your own utility lines it's going to be 100x more expensive

>> No.29196631

>>29196472
literal grill. Like for cooking.

>> No.29196682

>>29196509
it's hempcrete

>> No.29196717

>>29196631
based. i was about to call you a faggot

>> No.29196847
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29196847

>>29196682
>rammed earth

>> No.29196881

They're probably haunted by whoever died getting smuggled over to US in them.

>> No.29196910

What's the worst thing that could be memed into becoming a home-building material?

>> No.29196962

>>29196847
that looks pretty sick, ngl

>> No.29197014

You can get used mobile homes for like $20k, and they're actually made to be lived in.

>> No.29197106

>>29196072
based artist

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29197134

>>29196509
If Sod houses made a come back, what do you think they would call them? Is it possible we go back to living in literal mudhuts again?

>> No.29197170

>>29195360
container homes are based

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>>29195648
How much would it cost to build a brick house and would it even be complicated? Wouldn't it just be you slamming down cement and bricks over and over again? Seems like the only problem would be whether or not you could physically do it.

>> No.29197225

>>29196910
Crushed car cubes? Like what happens to cars when they junk them. You just stack them up, wrap them in chicken wire, and spray stucco on them. Leave one surface exposed for maximum instagram hipster appeal. Its recycling, and recycling is good.

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>>29196609
It's probably just cheaper to go off grid. Just do solar, water tank and use an composting or incinerating toilet so you don't need a black tank at all. Also good for the coming collapse of western civilization.

>> No.29197257

>>29197182
>These containers require safety regulations
>don't build a house with containers, use CMUs!
might be the dumbest thing itt

>> No.29197271

>>29197134
What happens when it rains???

>> No.29197290

>>29197134
"earthships"

>> No.29197305

>>29197182
Without reinforcement it will crush you during an earthquake. This is what happened to Haiti. Killed like 2 million of them. This is why strong building codes are important.

>> No.29197326

>>29196881
underrated

>> No.29197327

>>29197134
Yeah dugouts will make a come back when we all need to flee into the woods and can only build structures that can't be seen by drones or satellite.

>> No.29197347

>>29197134
my girlfriend is not a hobbit she just live in a whole in the ground and smokes a long pipe.... wait bitch why you aint the hobbit again?

>> No.29197370

>>29196847
fuck this is gorgeous

>> No.29197380

>>29195360
same way the imossible whopper started. They want you to live in pods and eat bugs.

>> No.29197419

>>29197257
Did you reply to the wrong person?

>> No.29197432

>>29197347
Go back

>> No.29197439

>>29196509
No. They will turn office buildings into pods for young people to live in.
You WILL live in the pods

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29197574

>>29197271
Some people still live in these kinds of houses in Iceland so I can't imagine it's all that bad.

>> No.29197583

>>29195843
Take your ration of bugs water and get back into your container, goy!

>> No.29197588
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29197588

Shipping containers are water proof, tornado proof and earthquake proof.

They are stronger and cheaper . put some nice looking shit to cover the walls and no one will ever know

>> No.29197599

>>29196847
How much is a comfy home like this in Portugal?

>> No.29197607

>>29195360
SHUT UP AND GET BACK IN YOUR GOYBOX

>> No.29197770

>>29197225
On this wall? Yeah it weighs 10 tons.

>> No.29197825

>>29197419
am drinking, was trying to tell you that guy is fucking retarded. concrete masonry units are obviously regulated. If you're really trying to save money on teh permit side, build somewhere unincorporated

>> No.29198085

>>29197182
You need a frame, metal wythes and/or brick anchors. It’s not just 4 fucking brick walls tied together

>> No.29198145

>>29197825
If you're trying to save money from dodging permits your best bet is to just build a bunch of 12x12 shacks as disconnected rooms with 24" overhangs that block all the rain and large fences to block the wind and just don't tell anyone where they are.

>> No.29198167

How hot do those things get during the summer? In the winter?

>> No.29198693

>>29198167

Not if you put some love into it

https://youtu.be/4ia7qLgPSFI

>> No.29198889

>>29196509
bro id fucking love an adobe house you might be onto somethign

>> No.29199974

>>29195503
This is honestly the only real issue I've seen with shipping container houses, aside from the height (which can be rectified by just buying a taller shipping container for a few thousand extra). If there's no treated wood on the bottom, assuming you source the container well to make sure it hasn't shipped anything toxic, and you give the interior and exterior a very heavy coating of paint, what would be the issue at that point?

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29200170

>>29198693
haha ooh fuck my brother-in-law made me watch it yesterday. while i was drunk i thought it's a semi-good idea. i'm sober now and find it super retarded

>> No.29201116

>>29196847
That is fucking nice

>> No.29201577

>>29196847
can't get over how cool this looks. It's like a CS GO map

>> No.29201691

>>29195648
wasted more? kek. these things cost 2-3000 dollars. houses cost literally 100x that

>> No.29201903

>>29195648
This. The amount of work and money to get a shipping container up to code and suitable for habitation usually exceeds cheaper forms of construction.

>> No.29201911

>>29195360
It’s cheap af and looks cyberpunk

>> No.29201961

Amazon is legit selling houses now for fucking cheap

>> No.29202341

these are what section 8 housing and homeless shelters should be made out of

>> No.29202493

>>29201691
You're usually paying more for the land not the home

>> No.29202539

>>29202341
It would solve the homeless problem if they did, but noooo it would be demeaning to them!!!

>> No.29202609

>>29195360
these irradiated tin cans are like 250k to make livable

>> No.29202659

>>29195360
It's a hipster single wide.

>> No.29202888

>>29202539
Some guy built tiny houses for homeless people in California. Then the government just took them away from the homeless because they were against regulations, lmao.

>> No.29202895

>>29202539
>the homeless problem
Most people are homeless because they're on drugs and/or insane, not because they're poor.

>> No.29203128

My cousin who's 35 lives in Scandinavia and rents one. He makes funny jokes now and again, but he's usually the butt of ours.