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Isn't a shipping container + insulation on both sides + plywood on the outside + siding pretty cheap and easily able to survive a winter as long as its placed o
by tabeth 9y ago
Isn't a shipping container + insulation on both sides + plywood on the outside + siding pretty cheap and easily able to survive a winter as long as its placed on a concrete slab?
- protomyth 9y agoDespite the hype, shipping containers are a bit of a problem because of some of the nasty stuff they coat those things with to get them across the ocean. I haven't seen a commercial vendor who offers a safe one that can deal with a northern winter. I would love to be wrong on that.
- marak830 9y agoHonest question, why not just sand blast it to remove the paint and recoat it?
- arkades 9y agoWhy not just skip the shipping container and throw up a simple wood frame? All the rest of the ingredients of a common American house are already there; the container doesn’t seem to add anything.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoBut why start with a heavy windowless box that needs to have its toxic coatings removed? Something like an Earthship[1] is made out of free trash (like bottles and used tires) and dirt... (which may not even need to be trucked in to the build site).
- jdonaldson 9y agoLink assist! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
- haldean 9y agoI think you forgot this: [1]: http://earthship.org/ http://earthship.org/
- protomyth 9y agoI'm not sure I want to have that conversation with the local government safety inspector, never mind the disposal costs.
- tinco 9y agoReplace the shipping container with some wood beams and you have a standard American house. There's no real reason to prefer a shipping container over simple timber framing that I know of.