Tiny houses!

[Anonymous No.1278307]

Can we get tiny house appreciation thread going?
Bonus points for unique and inovative solutions like containers!

[Anonymous No.1278323]

>unironic container threads

fill it with imitation crabmeat and bury it underground

[Anonymous No.1278325]

This makes my double wide look luxurious

[Anonymous No.1278329]

Japanese tea houses ftw

[Anonymous No.1278331]

>>1278323
>preppers
>>>/k/ is that way!
this is for poor millenials who need to justify to themselves that they arent homeless and that its ok to value only a desk with a computer with good internet connection

[Anonymous No.1278333]

>>1278329
But where is the 1ft tall loft bed with a rockclimbing grips ladder?

[Anonymous No.1278345]

>>1278307
Cuck sheds really have come a long way

[Anonymous No.1278352]

>>1278307
thumbnail made me think there was an inferno inside and black smoke out the front top.

[Anonymous No.1278353]

>>1278307
Tiny houses are bad and you should feel bad.

[Anonymous No.1278395]

>>1278352

thats what you get for browsing on your phone, iFag

[Anonymous No.1278402]

>>1278395
If he was on an iphone it would just be image.gif, no actual filename.

[Anonymous No.1278422]

Hey faggots, is a 10m2 enough for a livable area?

[Anonymous No.1278450]

>>1278422
Yes. Housing in cities in the Soviet Union had an upper limit of nine square meters per person in a household until the 80s (though that number didn't include communal toilets). You could probably make it work today if you had a loft bed or futon and limited your kitchen equipment to a toaster oven, microwave, and a hot plate.

[Anonymous No.1278560]

>>1278422
It should be, but its defo pushing the lower limit.

[Anonymous No.1278563]

Is "tiny house" just a buzzword for "cabin"?

[Anonymous No.1278729]

>>1278307
Thumbnail looked like a house fire which triggered me.

[Anonymous No.1278732]

>>1278329
My neighbors have one of these in their garden, they seem to spend more time in there than in the house (it also has power and water).

[Anonymous No.1278734]

any two story tiny houses?

[Anonymous No.1279194]

>>1278732
Just wait til they get it signed a s a "secondary dwelling unit", move into it and rent out the big house.

[Anonymous No.1279196]

>>1278729
Which part? The part that it looked like it was on fire, or that it looked like a house? :^)

[Anonymous No.1279694]

>>1278307

[Anonymous No.1279960]

>>1279694
Perfect!

[Anonymous No.1280324]

>go to big box store
>get TWO boxes that refrigerators come in
>find ghetto location
>lay boxes down, side by side
>now have duplex

PROFIT!

[Anonymous No.1280475]

>>1278307
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[Anonymous No.1280477]

>>1280475
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[Anonymous No.1280479]

>>1280477
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[Anonymous No.1280485]

>>1280479
Why so many windows?

[Anonymous No.1280493]

>>1280485

View of the wilderness.

Its just 4x 3x5ft cheap home depot windows on one side.

[Anonymous No.1280508]

Containers are easy to work with but make better shops than houses, though I'd not hesitate to live in one if my conventional home burned down.

You want a "one trip" container which are basically brand new, and you want a 40-foot or longer High Cube for the high ceiling which is nice for storage, HVAC or whatever.

Do NOT make the mistake of buying a rusty shitbox. You want at least "WWT" = Wind and Water Tight, but Cargo Ready is better and of course "one trip" is best. I use a one tripe High Cube as my ride-through motorcycle garage and fabbed storage shelves which hang from the interior tiedown loops. You could hang bunk beds or anything else this way to keep shit off the floor. Of course you can clip a hammock to the tiedown loops for instant use if making it into a cabin.

I welded rings of scrap pipe beneath the wall side of the shelf for easy air and drop cord placement. There's no point in hard line pneumatic connections so I don't use them. It's super easy to add tees and chucks this way. Compressor lives in my garage next door.

The bounce house fan is attached to some 1/8" scrap sheet with elevator bolts. Elevator bolts (picture a stud on a quarter) are handy to tack anywhere you want to bolt something. I collect bounce house fans because they are sweet for moving air in a shop. The sheet they mount to is free floating. It sits in the angle beneath the wood shelf. To move or remove, shove shelf wood upward and have at it. My machine shop container is done similarly.

3M 5200 is the goo of the gods. Don't bother with RTV or any conventional silicone to seal power connections, weatherheads etc. RTV doesn't bond well. 5200 is for thru-hull boat fittings.

[Anonymous No.1280510]

Forgot pic. Not awake yet..

[Anonymous No.1280527]

>>1280493
One big, wide window would look much better imo

[Anonymous No.1280564]

>>1280527
A big wide window is much more expensive and requires more interior bracing due to the nature of container sides. Containers use beams and corner fittings to take loads, while the corrugated sides help maintain the shape. If you remove too much then bracing is necessary.

A million dollar field stone house would look better too. If you don't care for utilitarian structures containers aren't for you.

[Anonymous No.1280567]

>>1280479
Looks comfy and a container is perfect for high rainfall forest areas.

[Anonymous No.1281845]

>>1280508
how did you go about buying it and what was the cost after shipping?

[Anonymous No.1282163]

>>1280508
This, containers are gud so long you dont need to insulate them.

[Anonymous No.1282422]

>Tiny houses
>Containers

Or you could spend the same amouny of time, effort and money and build, you know, an actual small house. Gotta get dat meme house though I guess.

>mfw some cunt is trying to sell a tiny house for 120k in my country

I could build a 100m2 fucking house for that.

[Anonymous No.1282452]

>>1282422
you get around two major issues tho: land ownership and building code

[Anonymous No.1283766]

Nice cuckshed, FAG.

[Anonymous No.1283779]

>>1281845
Google. That easy. Delivery varies by location.

My 20 was 2400 in very good condition and cargo worthy. My two 40ft High Cubes were ~2400 each in WWT condition but I had to coat the roofs after a few years as a precaution due to minor corrosion. Not a problem but do NOT use hardware store coating. See Sherwin-Williams etc for industrial coating or at least use Rustoleum which holds up well. I hit mine with their red primer and left them for a year to see how they'd do.

My 40ft High Cube with doors on each end which was basically brand new (a one trip container) was 5500 delivered.

All worth it.

>>1282163
They aren't difficult to insulate. Copy success. Copy industry. They already solved every fucking container problem in multiple ways. That's why they are so popular with industry and the military world wide.

[Anonymous No.1283926]

>>1283779
How do you copy industry when it comes to insulation? Thought the go to way was to frame a 2x4 wall inside and spraying it to shit with closed cell foam.
Which is fucking stupid imo since at that point you can p much scrap the whole container bit and frame up a proper cuckshed because by then the container acts just as an expensive siding.

[Anonymous No.1283953]

be honest guys, how hard is it to build one of these?

[Anonymous No.1284147]

>>1283953
Are the roof panels diy'd or bought as is?

[Anonymous No.1284156]

>>1283953
>be honest guys, how hard is it to build one of these?

By the time it's as good as a conventional structure it's as much or more work, which is why nobody does it except for the rare eccentric who gets a kick out of doing something the hard way. There's a fantastic home made of about 8 house trailers stacked this way and that, and while it's a feat of engineering, it's pretty stupid in every other way, just like your pic.

[Anonymous No.1284162]

What do you guys think of container house as rent house or those airbnb thing?

It still a new thing here so I'm wondering if you see them a lot in your country.

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[Anonymous No.1284242]

>>1284156
ummm arent those just ramps welded together

[Anonymous No.1284266]

>>1278307
>unique and innovative
>containers
It's not 2007 anymore. Also containers look like shit and need serious work done to them to suit habitation.

[Anonymous No.1284284]

>>1284242

what are you calling a ramp.

larger pic

[Anonymous No.1284309]

>>1284284
I mean that the trailers themself are just placed there and do not play any functional role for the structure itself

[Anonymous No.1284328]

>>1284309

yes that has to be true. I just meant that it was amazing that some nut would get a huge crane and go to all that effort to create a pile of junk.

I wonder if he rents the units out, or uses all of them himself, or is it just a work of art in his mind. there's another enormous house made of scrap wood, and I think it's built around a huge tree, or part of it is.

[Anonymous No.1284334]

>>1284328

another view

[Anonymous No.1284350]

>>1283926
You don't get it. A container eliminates the need for a full foundation because loads are supported by the end fittings. I used steel beams beneath my joined pair (I'm always on lookout for heavy steel) but you could just stick or FCAW them at the corner fittings after shimming level atop railroad ties which is a common method.

A container provides an immediately usable floor suitable for heavy machinery. A slab that size is more money and a shitload more work.

A container is sealed so no uninvited insect or arachid guests. No fucking daubers in my machinery pleases me greatly.

A container can take far greater wind speeds than stick built structures. If we have another Hugo I'll be in my shop.

A container is rainproof unless you get one with old door gaskets. If you do, weld a piece of dowward-facing angle between the corner fittings and above the top door gasket for clearance. No more leaks for a few minutes work.

Container inside corners have tiedown loops suitable for supporting shelves (shown in my pic) or anything else you like.

I would copy industry by using internal or external foam sandwich panels depending on what I could conveniently score. My bro uses internal plastic insulation mats for easy removal for wiring mods in his machine shop. I leave mine bare because I'm still adding equipment and I really don't need insulation in South Carolina.

Sea Box uses custom interior insulation kits to convert vanilla ISO containers. Furring strips etc work but that's not really a hardcore industrial solution.

http://seabox.com/cutsheets/SB3352.pdf

Again, if you want a CONVENTIONAL structure then build one. If you don't understand what containers can do for you, you don't fucking need one. Not everyone has the same use case, a thing chantards aren't capable of understanding.

>>1284156
>as good as a conventional structure

You fail to define "good". If a suburban McMansion is your goal build that instead. "Good" means nothing without CONTEXT.

[Anonymous No.1284370]

>>1284334
on the topic of hackjobs, here is my fav:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHt57JVDE48

[Anonymous No.1284371]

>>1284370

That is awesome.

[Anonymous No.1284373]

>>1278563
Yes. You say tiny house if you are hipster. You say cabin or shed if not.

[Anonymous No.1284377]

>I've built several Tumbleweed Tiny Homes in Colorado Springs.
Other that the trailer being fitted with steel belly pan, and all thread anchor points. Everything else can be purchased from Lowe's, or Home Depot.

[Anonymous No.1284391]

>>1284373
>You say tiny house if you are hipster. You say cabin or shed if not.

not in my world. no matter how small a house is, if it's "normal" and in town, nobody would ever call it a shed or a cabin. also, the term cabin is typically associated with a somewhat rustic structure usually out in the woods although it could be in a developed area.

I agree that the whole tiny/small house thing if taken to extremes is a purely hipster affectation, but on the other hand almost everyone who owns a mcmansion with 5 unused rooms would have been far better off building a nicer smaller house; easier to heat, cool, maintain and can be built of nicer materials for the same overall price.

I paint houses, and we ask them to unlock the windows on window painting day, and it's not unusual for them to miss at least one because they don't even know their own house.

[Anonymous No.1284393]

>>1284350
>corrugated steel is a rigid foundation for machines
if you say so Mr. Bench-top lathe. is it even a 30" bed?

[Anonymous No.1284405]

>>1284393
>containers having corrugated metal floor
do you even containers m8?

[Anonymous No.1284406]

>>1278402
Wat

[Anonymous No.1284420]

>>1284393
The base isn't corrugated you nitwit. The SIDES and ENDs of ISO containers are corrugated while the roof is stamped differently for stiffness, which is why the complete assembly is rigid enough to support several LOADED containers above it in rough seas.

My lathe currently is only a 14" x 36" but I'll get a larger lathe when a deal pops uo. I also have a round ram BP, Hammond tool and cutter grinder and thousands of lbs of tooling and equipment in that container. The other container (they are joined at the sides) is mostly welding gear, filler, tools etc. My Miller 340 (not 330 AB/P is 1300lbs alone.

However my bro has a ~3500 lb Economaster in his, also properly levelled and quite stable, along with a Boyar-Schultz surface grinder, a dovetail ram Bridgeport awaiting scraping (he's hardcore and took the Keith Rucker class recently), a LeBlond tool and cutter grinder, and several thousand lbs of workbenches, tooling and more. I know because we hauled it all together.

Now make sure you ignore industrial and military container machine shops along with the many personal shops built in containers. Do you porch primates just look at containers and assume you understand how they are designed?

God tier military version from Sea Box still light enough for C-130 airlift:

http://seabox.com/products/detail/SB866.0.PLSMMS-mobile-machine-shop

[Anonymous No.1284425]

>>1284420
Sizes, basic types and capacities.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/04/1b/ec/041becefdce069a36490a57d2f506d73--shipping-container-dimensions-shipping-containers.jpg

[Anonymous No.1284427]

>>1284420
Standard container fab and why they are relatively light for their internal and external load capacity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7l6AQN1KV0

[Anonymous No.1284442]

>>1284427

cool video. those must be some miserable jobs.

that final sunset with the smog was rather fitting.

[Anonymous No.1285553]

>>1280479
I'm impressed. Can we get a breakdown of costs/time frame for building this?

[Anonymous No.1285586]

>>1284427
sexy, just imagine the smell of that place

[Anonymous No.1285653]

>>1284284

Nobody else looks at this and thinks of Ready Player One?

[Anonymous No.1285671]

>>1284328
>>1284334
looks comfy as fuck

[Anonymous No.1286759]

A
FUCKING
KEKSHED

[Anonymous No.1286782]

>>1284328
>>1284334
been there. It was a church, pretty fun to walk around

[Anonymous No.1286820]

So I am actually genuinely considering doing a sort of "homestead" set-up. Since I'd be spending a good bit of money on septic, electrical, and other expenses would a small pre-fab metal structure or shipping container be a good idea? Something cheap but livable to dwell in until I have the finances to get another larger unit. I really don't want to move out into an apartment or rent out a place with buddies.

[Anonymous No.1287048]

>>1284350
This.
People see the shape of the container but fail to see its physical characteristics. Like being filled, stacked, transported for months, and without damage.

[Anonymous No.1287413]

>>1278352
same!

[Anonymous No.1287420]

>>1278307
Thought the house was on fire.

[Anonymous No.1287685]

>>1286820
You'll need a shop, so place a container as a shop then camp out in it. I sleep in a hammock anyway and if I slept in one of my shop containers I'd hang it from the tiedown loops on the ceiling. You can furnish your container as you prefer. I'd live in one if needed and if my house burned down I'd live in my container shop.

You can dig a pit outhouse and use that, but if you add indoor plumbing run your waste outlet underground to the outhouse pit and no one will be the wiser. My retired contractorbro did his that way (he lives on SSI) and it works fine. That will get the job done until you do a full septic. One human could shit all over his property with no more ill effects than the turds from a couple of large dogs.

Do what I did. Get da permits if required, then place a power pole with a breaker panel and 120v and 240v outlets. You now have power for your tools to do everything else. You can do one pole by your shop location then get a full other service for your eventual house or whatever. It's cheap in CONUS. I have separate shop power and the bill is usually under 20 bucks a month unless I'm doing a shitload of heavy welding.

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[Anonymous No.1287737]

>>1278422
Check out tokidoki traveller on youtube. She lived in 8m2 in The Glorious Nippon. She's got more vids than this one on the apartment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDZKCvpYL4