/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1605698]

What's the point in buying a shipping container for a small house when people still go through all this work framing it? Containers aren't cheap, wouldn't it be better to just do the exterior like you would for a normal house?

[Anonymous No.1605714]

>>1605698
Hey, someone woke up to the meme. Now you understand one of the many reasons people shit on them so much. The only time they were ever really worth it is when you can get them cheap/free. Most people can't do that, which is why they are fucking useless most of the time.

[Anonymous No.1605871]

>>1605698
"shipping containers" only make sense in volume, and even then only the form factor makes sense because you can fit it on the trailer of an 18 wheeler without problems.
If you want to build a large apartment complex in a short amount of time, all you need is a factory, a fleet of trucks, and a crane.

Refitting existing shipping containers into a house is a retarded idea for anyone that isn't getting these shits for free.

[Anonymous No.1606084]

>>1605698
The USA imports more stuff than it exports.
Because of this, if you live near a port,
or a train yard that gets lots of stuff shipped in,
Freight containers can be cheap to purchase.
Freight containers are also standardized, so they’re easy to ship and move around, at least if you live in an area with the equipment.
Even brand new shipping containers aren’t that expensive, if you consider the amount of time it takes to manufacture them.
If you’ve never priced out prefabricated houses, the size of a typical shipping container, the prefabricated houses are usually significantly more expensive than a typical shipping container.

As far as why you would use a shipping container.
The cor-ten steel that is used to manufacture shipping containers is relatively corrosion resistant and forms a protective layer of rust if left exposed to the weather, preserving the steel’s structural integrity.
Shipping containers have been thoroughly engineered, including for numerous modifications, so as long as you move and stack them using standard plans, you don’t need special engineering approval or variations, and you can just basically pull the needed specs out of a book.
The steel construction is welded, and is easy to have modified by a licensed welder. Licensed welders are usually readily available in most locations.
The shipping containers are made to be waterproof, and vermin proof, so storage of supplies while finising other house sections can be done relatively securely, both to theft and weather.
Steel containers are designed for Ocean travel, and are therefore much sturdier than basic US woodframe contruction, and the mounting brackets on the corners give secure points for anchoring the shipping containers structure to underground pilings for security against extreme storms.

[Anonymous No.1606125]

>>1605698
What's the point in starting a shipping container thread when there is already one live? Threads aren't cheap, wouldn't it be better to just check the catalog like you would for a normal board?

>>1605145

[Anonymous No.1606138]

>>1605698
you can get a container for like $2k, and you frame it so you can insulate the fucking thing you god damned moron... unless you like it to absorb all that heat in 100f+ and all the cold in -20f, but that sounds really inefficient and defeating the whole purpose of providing shelter imo

[Anonymous No.1606165]

>>1606138
so don't buy the container
ok?
bear with me
1) don't buy the container.
2) build the frame
3) add the insulation
4) use the 2k to clad the outside.
5) use the spare money from the 2k however you wish.

happy to help.

[Anonymous No.1606274]

>>1605698
if you don't use a container how will you look hip and trendy on the youtube small house/container meme videos?

[Anonymous No.1606279]

>>1606165
ummm are you retarded or maybe just drunk?

[Anonymous No.1606482]

>>1606279
No why?
Problem?

[cummy No.1606485]

>>1605698
Seems like this exterior would hold up to the harshness of the Mojave desert better than anything else really, steel and paint, doesnt get much more durable than that.
A standard double wide would fall apart in 10-20 years with no maintenance, that container wont break down for a couple hundred years.

[Anonymous No.1606581]

Buy a dozen, use yurts as connector nodes. Congratulations, you now have a hipster mansion.

[Anonymous No.1606582]

>>1606485
Buddy, ain't no one living in the mojave inside that solar cooker. You could slap R45 around that anchove tin, but then it's gonna need protection. You could fit the inside with insulation, however wasn't the whole idea to use it as living quarters?
Out here in the high desert those style dwellings would need to be constructed outta multiple containers for anything approaching elbow room. That "tiny" footprint horse shit won't fly with the temperature extremes.

[Anonymous No.1606597]

>>1606165
this would be the normal approach but then it would just be a expensive shed and not a hip tiny home

or just say its a container underneath and get all the likes you empty soul desires

[Anonymous No.1606601]

>>1606485

[Anonymous No.1606604]

>>1606601
Literally says
>(in shipping service)

You realize that's being smashed around on the seas/on trains, or whatever bullshit, right? As in the container wears out and can't be used anymore in service and so is sold as a shed or whatever.

While he's stupid for saying 'hundreds of years' or might have been meeming, I swear people just google their point, copy paste it as if it's some QED

[cummy No.1607512]

>>1606604
>>1606601
Huh?
I've come across sheet steel mining cabins that are over 100 years old in the desert, they are still standing fine with zero maintenance, no holes from rust or anything.

[Anonymous No.1607648]

>>1606582
A shipping container would be a good structure and “mold” for an adobe exterior.
Basically, you find some appropriate large rocks or boulders, or maybe pour some large contrete footings for the corners,(nort as good as basic stone but better than nothing).
The steel shipping containers work as the normal timber or wood structural supports would.
You make the adobe bricks, or compress wet mud in gaps between multiple shipping containers, and build up outside walls using mud brick, you run mud brick over the tops of the shipping containers.
The mud adobe bricks act as insulation from the sun, and cold during the night.
Heavy rains and flooding would still not critically damage the structure, because the steel would act as more secure structure than the typical timber used in normal adobe buildings.
In the case of an earthquake, you would not have to worry about the adobe disintigrating and crushing you, although the steel containers might get damaged in a really bad earthquake.
The adobe covered steel would be far more bullet resistant than regular adobe or steel containers by themselves.

[Anonymous No.1607785]

>>1606084
why would they sell a perfectly good container for cheap though?

[Anonymous No.1607806]

>>1607785
>why would they sell a perfectly good container
They probably don't. They pick through the inventory, keep the best ones for return cargo and unload the rest on /diy/.

[Anonymous No.1607924]

>>1606165
Literally this every single time.

Ooorrrrr
To appease the autists,
Buy a shipping container
Use exact measurements to frame a tiny house next to the shipping container
Sell the container at cost
Use the money from selling the container to finish your exact replica tiny house

[Anonymous No.1609371]

>>1605698
code

[Anonymous No.1609450]

>>1609371
You don't get to avoid compliance with the building code by living inside literal trash. That's not how the adult world works.

[Anonymous No.1609454]

Shipping containers have leaded paint and pressure-treated wood floors, which all need to be removed very expensively and carefully to avoid poisoning yourself. That's why they sell for so cheap, they're biohazards which can't be cheaply recycled.