Cargo Box Homes
Everyone has seen these stacked up high as hotels by city airports or heavy industrial areas usually left empty after visiting and traveling around the earth carrying anything from furniture to any other household goods.
However, the next time you see one of these shipping containers, it may not be at or near the airport. Try looking in some neighborhoods ! Yes, shipping containers will be serving a better purpose for which it was never intended: Container Housing.
Originally intended and developed as an art experiment, shipping container homes are steadily venturing toward mainstream audiences while many architects and builders are seriously starting to realize the economic and environmental positive attributes and benefits of working with these huge toy-like corrugated steel boxes.
We are not talking about a group of crazy lab rats engineers messing around in a garage making these buildings but highly skilled individuals who understand the economics and stress the environmental benefits.
Every new year that approaches, millions of these shipping containers destinations land on American coast lines. Due to the expensive of empty and deserted containers to make a return voyage across the ocean, it is estimated that usually half will NOT make it back to the original starting point. Some industry experts roughly calculate that the number of shipping containers that are NOT being used and could be available for reuse is around a half million to 800,000.
As people start to educate themselves on Cargo Box Homes, the demand will increase over time. When housing prices continuously rise along with taxes, most people will start to turn toward more affordable, efficient homes to live in.
Even though builders and architects have been experimenting with shipping container homes for some time now, inquiries regarding structural integrity and legality have increased resulting in more understandable answers.
Below is a link to answer some questions regarding the Structural Integrity of Container Homes
Structural Integrity of Container Homes
But, DeMaria said, a home he designed for a family in Redondo Beach, Calif., last year changed the landscape for his company and others in the field.
Its completion demonstrated that a container-based building could conform to local building codes, he said, and proved that “it isn’t going to fall down, rust away. The technical, functional issues have been put to bed.”
Hello from ContainerHomes.Net,
We have completed our book on shipping container home construction.
The book is “what we did”, not “how to do it”.
It is filled with lots of photos and designs.
Here is a general outline:
1. A brief History of shipping containers
2. How to buy a shipping container
3. Inspection
4. Unloading
5. Foundation
6. Internal Designs
7. Prep and paint
8. Cut Outs
9. Framing Cut outs
10. Frame out
11. Sealing
12. Windows
13. Steel bars/Shutters
14. Doors
15. Locks/Security
16. Electricity
17. Water
18. Wallboard/Insulation
19. Floor
20. Deck Construction
21. Bathroom
22. Kitchen
23. Maintenance
24. Merging and/or stacking two containers
The price on the book including all taxes and shipping is: $37.
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