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I just want them to start making shipping containers such that at their end of life they can be turned in to housing without a bunch of work. No toxic materials
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
I just want them to start making shipping containers such that at their end of life they can be turned in to housing without a bunch of work. No toxic materials for the floors. Window and door spaces pre cut and bolted over rather than needing to be cut out after the fact, access panels to run electrical and plumbing. A whole system that is designed to be used first as a shipping container and later as a modular home.
- lelandbatey 4y agoShipping containers just structurally aren't that great at being houses, I feel like. They're pretty much cardboard boxes made of steel; very minimal and purpose built. The basic structure isn't that vital to a house being a house, usually it's everything else (insulation, plumbing, flooring, etc.) Not sure pre cut holes would help a lot.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoSteel seems a terrible material for a building shell because it conducts heat so well.
- WheatM 4y ago
- dougmwne 4y agoI assume that a shipping container is only at end of life one it starts rusting and loses structural integrity. Not sure anyone would want to live in it at that point.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoYou can buy lightly used containers for like $6k so if it was modular housing you could put a few of them together cheaply.
- towaway15463 4y agoYou’d never recoup the extra cost