Finally, the finished phase of the shipping container home project.

They have been loaded and shipped out just a few months ago. This project lasted about 6 weeks.

Check out our Container Home Walk Through of the unit:

Our container home client lives way down south in Costa Rica and the delivery of the shipping container home took about 10 hrs when the units were finally in place. The truck had to drive down to a drop off point in San Isidro de General, Costa Rica.

This took about 5 hrs. When our driver arrived he was instructed to guild a backhoe driver to lift off the containers and place them on a smaller flat bed truck. Each of the 20 shipping containers was brought up the hill separately. This took about an hour up a twisty and turning road. Then the units were put in place on a cement platform. I will post photos of this when we return from our final inspection date.

This container construction project consisted of two 20ft units. We cut out half the inside adjoining wall.
Then we sanded down the two containers, primed the rust spots, along with spot priming any holes. We then used our spray gun.

Home Depot to paint the two shipping containers in less than one hour. After cutting out the holes for the windows and installing both the metal and wooden frames, we put in the glass.

We learned its best to do the windows first, because in container home construction it can get very hot inside. Well after the windows we began to cut out the door. We reuse the cutout from the door to create a new door. The shipping container steel is by far the best and most secure steel on the market.

We then began the construction of the bathroom and kitchen. We combine the two, next to each other for several reasons. One is for the distribution of the water coming into the container homes and the water going out. Also, so we can share the walls. When building a shipping container home we prefer to use the opposite side of the bathroom wall for our kitchen shelves and our electricity.

Well that is it for now. Check out our web site at www.ContainerHomes.net or better yet, come down, or up, to Costa Rica and visit our work site.

Thank You, Jimmy Lee, San Ramon Costa Rica admin@containerhomes.net

Hello from ContainerHomes.Net,

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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

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