Container homes

[Anonymous No.2440363]

They're a meme, right? Is there any legitimate reason to build a container home over just a regular home?

[Anonymous No.2440376]

>>2440363
It's a meme here because of the audience of totally ignorant adult children who hate their lives and dream of a comfy hugbox of the corrugated sort.

Serious people don't ask about container homes, they fucking STUDY. If you need /diy/ for container help you're too stupid to breathe but we have many dreamers who dream shell cost is building cost.

They're fools, their lives are jokes and they will never build it. I invite you to learn as these threads pop up then ridicule the dumbfucks who unironically (or otherwise) post them.

[Anonymous No.2440381]

>>2440363
Once you start cutting pieces of a shipping container up to make doors/windows/whatever, you have to reinforce the structure and bring things up to code. If you were going to live in a shipping container without any amenities it would be economicly feasible to do. But you'd have subpar living conditions.

[Anonymous No.2440429]

>>2440363
Is that even a shipping container house? The left half is covered in PBR and that garage door looks too tall for a container. Right side looks closer to a container's dimensions but lacks any other identifiable traits. Then you have all the lumber top edge trim and roof.

Using containers as the base for this build would cost more in materials/labor and deliver worse thermal performance and just generally suck. Next time use an example that at least somewhat embodies real container homes.

[Anonymous No.2440475]

>i kind of want to live in a trailer but i don't want it to have wheels
>that's just trashy

[Anonymous No.2440501]

>>2440363
I've lived in shipping containers for some pretty extended periods of time in my life, its an utterly fucking miserable experience. Why anyone would put themselves through it willingly when there's plenty of cheap, easy to make pre-fab shit out there is beyond me

[Anonymous No.2440503]

They used to be literally free that's why they were a bit of a thing for a bit. Then they got trendy, then lifestyle vlogs shilled the shit out of them, now they're an utter waste of time thanks to their prices

[Anonymous No.2440534]

>>2440363
>build home in desert
>tons of glass
>paint everything else black

[Anonymous No.2440576]

>>2440376
>It's a meme here because of the audience of totally ignorant adult children who hate their lives and dream of a comfy hugbox of the corrugated sort.

It's also a meme here because of the audience of totally ignorant adult children who hate their lives and are devoted to contarianism for the sake of feing some tiny shred of control and authority, and as a means of showing off their alleged knowledge.
Not saying you're one of them; I dont disagree with what you posted...
but using shipping containers for anythi g but shipping is a perrenial favorite of the fundamentalist contrarian edgelord "this is always 100000% bad no matter what FITE ME" contingent.
So much so that it also excites the "everything is bait" crowd too.

[Anonymous No.2440662]

>>2440363
I've noticed these promos always feature a large plot of rural land that's far too expensive for the kind of poorfags these pods are being marketed towards.

[Anonymous No.2440741]

>>2440363
so you can be the biggest faggot in the neighborhood

[Anonymous No.2440771]

>>2440363

Well aside from present cost of lumber, with every other build cost of supplies being still sky high... ex: see toilets...
/source: am about to build a house.

If you can get 2 medium 'weatherproof' containers, in good condition, for maybe 10k total...
yea, you'll spend another 20k minimum retrofitting to make it livable and visually decent...
land + foundation pour + septic + electrical ...

Regardless of your location in US (assuming..) you're still probably 6 figures to do this and make it work.

Doable? Yes. Aesthetically pleasing?
Personally I could live in a lean-to or yurt and be happy.... because I can tolerate that, and love nature. The wife however...

[Anonymous No.2441210]

>>2440363
Me and a couple pals bought some acreage in middle of fuckkin nowhere Wyoming and I'm currently in the process of buying one to use as a low maintenance hunting cabin. But would I live in it? Fuck no.

[Anonymous No.2441265]

Don't see the advantage of using a container as a house but if you live near a port or other intermodal facility where there are excess containers for sale for cheap, they could work well as an accessory building.
Recently saw a post on Facebook Marketplace for a swimming pool someone made out of a container. The amount of work he had to do to build up that part of his yard, put in decking, landscaping, etc. appeared to be more than just having a legit in-ground pool built. He said "I just want enough out of it to cover what I've put into it" but most of that money went into site prep. Doubt anyone is going to pay even 10% what he wanted for it.

[Anonymous No.2441334]

>>2441210
How does the price compare to using a pre made shed or pole barn?

[Anonymous No.2441406]

>>2441334
According to this video, they would have paid $12k to build an equal size shed with lumber, plus all the labor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw9g7yyLh3A&t=524
They paid $4660 for the container, including delivery.

[Anonymous No.2441498]

>>2440376

[Anonymous No.2441930]

>>2440363
Be sure to check out my YouTube video:
"How to build a shipping container out of wooden pallets."

[Anonymous No.2443206]

>>2441334
If you have to pay someone else, you don't need a container.

[Anonymous No.2443790]

>>2440501
Without knowing how they were outfitted your post is not informative.

[Anonymous No.2443799]

>>2441498
I lold
I hated the original

[Anonymous No.2443803]

>>2440363
its shit if its from an actual shipping container
if youre not a manlet you will want a custom made taller container and at this point you might as well get a small premade house
also if its a real shipping container can you really be sure it was never used to transport pesticides or used condoms with aids?

[Anonymous No.2443805]

[Anonymous No.2443870]

>>2441498
>be me container "house" owner
>have to go to the toilet late at night
>it's raining and i have to use the outside stairs
>myneighboursfacewhenheseesmefalldownthestairs.jpeg

[Anonymous No.2443876]

>>2443803
High Cubes are an international standard not requiring custom ordering. When you do not know, shut thy hole.

[Anonymous No.2443931]

>>2443870
It's raining. Just go on the stairs and let the rain wash it away.

[Anonymous No.2444167]

For a short while you could get them for free minus cost of delivery, because it was cheaper than disposing of them or shipping them back to china and way more were coming in than going out.
But a combination of word getting out increasing demand massively, and natural economic forces moving to correct an imbalance means it didn't last long. If you just need a big lockable weatherproof container to drop somewhere and store stuff in, that's what they're good for and can be worth buying, because building something similarly secure and durable would be expensive and time consuming. If you have to put a bunch of money and time into customizing and outfitting it anyway it stops being worth it pretty quickly compared to just building something. And you usually get a worse result at the end of it.

[Anonymous No.2444174]

>>2443931
>be me container "house" owner
>have to go to the toilet late at night and it's raining
>nearly broke my leg last time
>have an idea
>go on the stairs and pee, let the rain wash it away
>the neighbours kids saw me
>thecopsfaceswhentheycometoarrrestmeforbeeingasexoffenderandtheyseemy"house".jpeg

[Anonymous No.2444197]

>>2444174
The toilet in jail is in the cell so now the problem is solved.

[Anonymous No.2444228]

Late 00s/early 2010s thanks to a variety of factors such as the economy dying for several years they were essentially free as long as you paid some trucker to pick it up and haul it to you because nobody wanted them and it cost the ports money to dispose of them otherwise. Once it became a meme they started charging for it and it's just not worth it after that.

[Anonymous No.2444234]

>>2443790
>arrive after everyone else on last plane innafuckinganistanagain
>no where to live like poor, heavily armed hobos
>dig large holes with bulldozer
>stick sea boxes into hole with bulldozer
>bury it in dirt about 2/3'rds deep with L shaped slit-trench and sandbag entrance
>cover roof in sandbags to keep the mortars out
>fill it with vast amounts of radio gear, kit, tools, guns and ammo with room for two rack camp beds

About the only upside was we didn't get deliberately targeted much as I think they took pity on our existence. It was very shit

[Anonymous No.2444523]

The fad hit its peak when pic related was built.

[Anonymous No.2444542]

>>2440363
Pictured: Steel and glass facing the sun in the desert.

[Wayne Lambright !!XUvGmrfvTTp No.2444620]

>>2443805
lol

[Anonymous No.2444631]

>>2444234
You got screwed. They sell units they care about comfy insulated, properly equipped container shelters. OTOH it was safer than a tent.

That is why I joined the Air Force as other services besides the Coast Guard do not care at all about their personnel by comparison and that has never been different. Fortunately the Nam and Korea vets I grew up around ensured I chose wisely as they'd been spat out by da green machine.

Condolences...

[Anonymous No.2444632]

>>2444523
Of course it used condemned containers not one-trip boxes so the contractor made out like a bandit.

[Anonymous No.2444636]

>>2444542
A. You don't know the orientation of those buildings to the sun's path
B. That part changes significantly with the seasons
C. That change is commonly used to maximize solar heat gain in desert homes, where overnight temps can and do freeze in winter.
D. That's not even the desert.

[Anonymous No.2444641]

>>2440363
If they were dirt cheap, I could understand them being a strong starting point. They aren't dirt cheap, so there isn't a point.

[Anonymous No.2444643]

>>2444641
They are, if you live close to a container port and if you buy during a down turn in the global economy and if you call the right person a the right time.

If

[Anonymous No.2444659]

>>2440576
I agree with you that this site is full of contrarians who will disagree with you about dumb stuff just to get a rise, but this is not one of those things. Container homes are for idiots and deserve all of our scorn.

[Anonymous No.2444710]

>>2440381
LOL POST ONE ITTY BIT OF FACT PROVING YOUR SPECULATION

[Anonymous No.2444741]

>>2444632
Doubt they serve as anything other than cladding. Probably traditional construction with a trendy shipping container skin on it and matching industrial design inside.

[Anonymous No.2445143]

>>2444641
My point was a very storm-resistant machine/welding shop whose gasketed storage keeps out vermin and whose humidity is easy to control with a cheap dehumidifier to protect my equipment. My second point is comfortably sheltering my mc collection I would never store in a wooden stickbuilt firetrap.

https://canadamotoguide.com/2021/09/22/after-devastating-fire-top-motorcycle-museum-will-re-open-next-month/

A gearhead who already knows how to exploit industrial space and has a sense of humor like Andrew Camaratta can have their dream but stairs kill and maim (everyone will be old in five minutes, ranch style is life) so I don't stack 'em.

4chan /diy/ has a fascinating mix of genuine mental illness of the sort that's not at all self-aware. A box in dirt has heavy sexual symbolism, a return to Gaia's musky root cellar of a cunt, an unbirthing, a retreat from a scary world. That makes useless shit more attractive than useful is is why all the "house" questions but few "shop" questions.

[Anonymous No.2445166]

>Is there any legitimate reason
I like alligators.