Container Homes

TweetContainer Home Construction Book – Primary Building Blocks The  building CD  “Container Home Construction” is a book about the method of exploring, buying, delivering and constructing a dwelling from the beginning employing a steel-shipping container as the primary building block. There are 1000s of steel cargo shipping containers littering the ports just about everywhere on [...]

TweetLet’s analyses what green living or becoming green genuinely is: If you go to the grocery store with your own bags rather than acquiring new plastic ones every time, that’s becoming green. If you switch off the water when you’re brushing your teeth, that means you are becoming green. Taking your Hummer or SUV gas [...]

TweetContainer Homes – Are They Fire and Tornado Safe? Many people ask us about Container Homes being both fire and tornado safe. This question is very important since having one as a home, the obvious can be frightening. In this brief article, we try to explain some important notes on this subject to eliminate any [...]

TweetWhy do homes in Costa Rica have to be secure? One big reason:  Costa Rica has an enormous home robbery rate. Now , do not let this discourage you. If and when this happens, it is only when you leave the home vacant. There is not one single Country that does not have an area [...]

TweetBuilding homes and offices with used shipping containers has made a gigantic leap in progress over the past few years. As time passes on, we are hearing more news about container homes and even container home kits to actually build yourself. Regarding the plummeting economy, most people are double checking prices and keeping a sharp, [...]

Tweet Remember those days when you were younger and loved to build pretend homes and forts usually made out of cardboard or blankets? As a grownup, the Container house era is growing because there are hundreds of thousands of shipping containers in places all over the globe. Usually in docking ports, when you drive by [...]

TweetGetting Government grants for just about anything these days can either be a headache or it can be easy. Perhaps you are the type who would love to start investigating and researching and even modernizing alternative energy applied science and you’d prefer to be set up as a not-for-profit establishment or entity, you’ll need to [...]

TweetSteps to Purchasing a Shipping Container Home The accompanying selective information will help the reviewer to better understanding certain stepwise processes for requiring and constructing a Cargo ISO Shipping Container Home. Difficultness: Thought-provoking-and Challenging Instructions Matters you will require: * Shipping Container (used or new) * Many Tools which will be required * Constructor/Builder You [...]

TweetWhat is Earth4Energy All About? Among the segments within Michael Harvey’s Earth 4 Energy e-book covers solar power and renewable earth friendly energy for residential housing. I realize that Earth For Energy has been around for some time now so I decided to reiterate some strong points that may be of interest to you if [...]

TweetCreating a door for a shipping container house can be done by the cut out of the door itself or done from the beginning. The dimensions of the shipping container door is not that important. The size can be as large as you would like. All you have to do is weld more hinges to [...]

TweetThe Advantages and Disadvantages of Bamboo Flooring Designing and building with bamboo has of late just began to surface onto the green construction methods for environmentally safe building and re-usable resources. Bamboo flooring construction has its “goods and bads” when comparing to your standard construction methods of today. More benefits outweigh the negative in the [...]

TweetIf you would like to discover the master welder’s “insider” mysteries on how to weld and cut metals like the high-paying professionals…and to discover precisely how to begin bringing in serious income in the high-paying area of welding…and if you would like to discover all this from the comfortableness of one’s own household…without the time [...]

TweetGreetings from ContainerHomes.net !! The reason for this latest post is to inform the public about our future construction  which will be located and managed in San Ramon Costa Rica, commencing during the month of April 2011. Our company be constructing a container house utilizing 3 20ft- cargo-shipping containers. Our container building labor-intensive projects are [...]

TweetThe method of constructing a shipping container house calls for numerous measures. You’re planning to construct a home. Even though it’s a shipping container home, it’s a home nevertheless. Similar to any home you’ll require to collect all the proper legal documents, designs, permits, and so on. These documents differ from every commonwealth, state and [...]

TweetConstruction using bamboo is not only environmentally friendly but a smart choice for efficiency. Any homes or building units constructed out of bamboo or natural materials instead of man made can be identified as “natural buildings“. One large reason that bamboo is classified as an environmental friendly material is because of the incredible fast growing [...]