shipping containers
shipping containers
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- letterhead12
- would love to see pics of yours when you have itYakuZoku
- contemplated this same thing. we opted to build a shop. Would love to hear your pros / cons of the experience.imbecile
- Very cool!instrmntl
- Is the fireplace to code, or are you going rogue? Looks great, btwGnash
- Love this design. Nice one. Wanting to do something very similar at some point in the near future.bogue
- Looks good, I hope it smells better than the shipping containers I've been inspot13
- I'm super pumped about it. Once it's all set up I'll report back in this thread and post some real pics.letterhead
- is this a prefab company? what do they charge ballpark?_niko
- @_niko they build them in their own space and deliver them to site. This will set me back ~$55k. Cheaper than a house addition.letterhead
- Is that cheaper than just building it out of wood?scarabin
- Yes wood is super expensive these days. Containers are 2-4k used or 5k+ new.AQUTE
- did you look on aliexpress or alibaba?AQUTE
- what company did it?Hayoth
- thanks Letterhead! good luck and share pics when complete!_niko
- show offshapesalad
- Nice...where is the toilet?utopian
- WIll this be set on a concrete pad / foundation? Is it your responsibility to have that completed before delivery?imbecile
- No toilet or running water, that would require more extensive permitting. The company installs the unit using diamond pier footings.letterhead
- thanksimbecile
- lovely. yes pleaseMrT
- https://youtu.be/Ef7…i_monk
- Where did you get this from? Got a link?riteshpatel
- this is so damn good for 55kinteliboy
- Wood just plummetted, construction numbers are not what they were a few months ago...and it's going down.formed
- sickprophetone
- looks amazing! would love to have the same in our garden but we live in a conservation area so would have to settle for something a bit smaller ;)microkorg
- i wanted one of these things soooo bad..
but we went with a pool instead... now theres no room for something like that...
pretty happy with the pool tho ;)exador1 - Build it elevated over top of the pool. You can do cannonballs off the topmonNom
- Gardener2
- "i have some old LPs down the back if you fancy a look?" <faint muted screams of bearded middle-aged men> "err, what's that smell?"kingsteven
- what-an-amount-of-sh... lolmicrokorg
- milfhunter0
Random youtube suggestion:
- i_monk5
- wowmoldero
- sickinstrmntl
- those are really expensive looking sky-lightsGnash
- yup, an expensive, albeit cool, sculpture thingformed
- the interior is sick as fuckmoldero
- HOW do you buy the land in the first place?! That is in the middle of nowhere...Electricit... gas, water?! Solar panels?grafician
- nvrmind, all answers in the article...grafician
- mekk1
You can also invest in those things.
I have bought some shiny new shipping containers, an external company handles the leasing to shipping companies, 6% safe interest, fixed surrender value after five years.
- really? that's kinda coolGnash
- How is this working you for you, mekk?Nairn
- ^ It's been total shit. I invested nearly 70k € with P&R in Munich, which turned out to be one of the largest investment bankruptcies in Germany.mekk
- Nearly everything gone, got a lousy sum back from the bankruptcy assets.mekk
- Did you get a container at least?Gnash
- Oh God, I'm so sorry - I wish I'd not asked, Mekk!Nairn
- No, I didn't buy containers directly, just invested in some kind of fund that owns these. Rumors are nearly 60% of the claimed containers never existed.mekk
- It was going on for more than 40 years and was dependent on new investors, kinda like a Ponzi Scheme. Even carried a lot of trutstworthy consultants with themmekk
- as a lot of them got sued. I'm glad I'm still young and can earn that money back but yeah it's a big loss. I learned to spread my investmens better acrossmekk
- different risk levels and different industries/investmen... products. Haven't experienced a loss since then.mekk
- https://www.handelsb…mekk
- Day3
- utopian3
A really good article on "Prefab Architecture" prefabrication vs. shipping container construction and design.
- dopeprophetone
- [at least] $200/sf puts this price in custom home territory and doesn't save a penny off of site built...the ongoing problem with prefabformed
- $150-$200/sf Prefab vs.
$300-350/sf Traditionalutopian - $300-350 for a sfr is insane, that'd be costs for multimillion $ virtually no expense spared. $200 gets you what these homes have.formed