Archives: 2010 February

Thanks For Coming Back ! To whom it may concern, My name is Jimmy Lee and I own ContainerHomes.Net, located in San Ramon, Costa Rica. Our Professional team constructs homes from recycled shipping containers and we then export them throughout the entire planet. Our company is currently researching the proper channels that are required to [...]

Actually, the title of this blog post is “How we did it!! What I will be writing about in the next few blogs will be the following: 1. “How to sand, prime and paint a shipping container” 2. “How to transport, unload and install a shipping container” 3. “How to create a door, window, bathroom [...]

The pros and cons of building a home in Costa Rica Using shipping containers as the main building block for your home is not a “cheap” method of building. When you are working with steel building blocks that require transportation, heavy metal work, framing out with wood, insulating and then installing with a crane, the [...]

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 on [...]

Why 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 [...]

There is no doubt that shipping containers are tough. Built tough from weathering corrugated steel, these incredible tough building blocks of international trade are designed to withstand stacking, stuffing and strapping and are reused over and over again. There is an estimate of over 18 million of these containers floating, riding and flying around the [...]

Well it is now September in Costa Rica and the shipping container home building business is preparing for its newest container home model. After the completion of our last shipping container home, we went back to the drawing board in order to come up with a different model, with out the opening of the deck. [...]