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Has anyone here made a home out of a shipping container? Would it be better than a house and with 9 inches of concrete it wouldn't get crushed ny the weight of the dirt underground

>> No.1625898

This thread again

>> No.1625919

When you paint it add a shot of black so they know you’re a pro.

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>>1625883

>> No.1626114

thought about it, could make some interesting combos with few containers but thanks finlan and retarded building codes! So i ended up making trailer house

>> No.1626237

>>1625883
KYS

>> No.1626283

>>1625883

These things are overrated now. Get a 53' dry van trailer. Older ones can be cheaper than 40' shipping containers, they are easier to transport in many cases, more space, and generally haven't been treated with chemicals and shit that you have to do for overseas transports. I've seen plenty of hunting cabins made out of 53' trailers. They work pretty well. You can either make a porch with steps or you can dig a hole and back the trailer into it to make the ground above level with the back door.

>> No.1626308

>>1625883
If you stuck it far enough in the ground, reinforced it, and waterproofed it, you could make a pretty neat bunker. You'd be safe against storms, tornados, bombs, whatever.
Just don't be like that reddit retard who put one of those underground and gave absolutely no thought to safety, essentially making a self-contained jew oven if a fire ever caught in it.

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>>1625919
Based imitation crab meat eater

>> No.1626923

>>1625883
I built a shipping container out of wooden pallets...

>> No.1627146

>>1625883
If you're going to add 9 inches of concrete what's the point of the shipping container? Why not just build a regular basement out of concrete?

>> No.1627461

>>1625883
you can't in america because it costs $45,000 to get the permits to lay the foundation to stick a box on. you HAVE TO HAVE ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FOR IT

>> No.1627466

>>1625883
shipping containers are expensive, designed to only bear weight from the top and relatively hard to fit out.

the only advantage is that you can use them and move them afterwards- which is why you see them as farm storage etc.

It's well known that if you bury them they can collapse under the weight of even a small amount of soil, this I believe is because the sides can "flex" inwards

>> No.1628456

>>1625883
Like mentioned beforehand, while your preliminary subterranean would provide safety say from natural disasters, without proper and possibly expensive preparations it would cause more issues than solve. Why not just build above the ground, either create a houselike structure by combining multiple of those or just separate containers forming required units for home, sleeping quarters, workshop, garage etc.