What is it with their obsession with trying to use shipping containers as houses.
Why do none of them realize that something that was designed to the bare minimum standard of not destroying products would be a good thing to live in.
There like, actual materials designed to be used to build homes, maybe fucking try using some of them instead of trying to recreate what was supposed to be a crazy dystopian example of housing.
This is like the dumbasses that keep reinventing a train.
Take a shipping container, but you have to ventilate it and have heating and cooling.
Oh and you’re going to have to have some kind of plumbing sos you’ll need some internal walls and some penetrations
Wow I just had a great idea you could actually put some wheels on it and you could easily move it to any available lot.
Annddd it’s an rv or a mobile home.
Why do none of them realize that something that was designed to the bare minimum standard of not destroying products would be a good thing to live in.
Under capitalism, laborers are a product.
Also they act like a Faraday cage so you can’t use wireless devices in them without connecting to a router inside
Additionally, you can’t repurpose a used shipping container since it’s nearly impossible to determine if and/or what hazardous materials have been shipped in one over the course of it’s life. So all of these concepts rely on net new containers, which completely nullifies the whole point.
Everything is “pre engineered” that’s just called design.
And they’re not engineered for habitation they’re engineered to transport goods that aren’t sensitive to temperature, humidity, or oxygen levels (unless you’re talking refrigerated ones but I don’t know a lot of people who want their house to be 38 degrees)
Wooden shipping pallets are also portable and pre engineered that doesn’t mean you should build a house out of them.
Wooden shipping pallets are also portable and pre engineered that doesn’t mean you should build a house out of them.
We should totally build houses out of pallets and force the rich to live in them though
Everything is “pre engineered” that’s just called design.
Counterpoint: Groverhaus
My comment was meant to further the conversation. Yours was meant to stop the conversation.
I can build a shipping container house that will fit on a price of leased property. I cannot build a pallet house at all.
I have gone back and forth on container homes. At the moment I see a place for them.
TO BE SHIPPING CONTAINERS
you can’t modify them in any way without compromising the structural integrity of these things. that crinkle isn’t just for fun, its part of what makes the whole thing rigid enough not to fall apart. If you start cutting into that, you have to come up with a whole new support structure and might as well just build it normally.
Actual prefab buildings though? That’s workable.
dedicating 1/3 of extremely limited floorspace to stairs to fit the fucking garage
Truly brilliant.
Way more sensible than just adding an awning to the side of it for $40 and parking under that.
Shipping container houses are one of those things that seem like a great idea unless you know literally anything about construction or think about it for more than 30 seconds.
Case in point the genius telling me that the internal temperature reaching 125 degrees in “some situations” (the sun being out) doesn’t have any effect on living conditions.
For like… 700$ US you can get a “car port” and just bolt the metal supports to the concrete pad.
i dont know where the idea a covering for a vehicle is obligatory even comes from, theres not much of a rule to provide parking period, nevermind covered
people don’t like getting rained on when they gotta take stuff in or outside
No kitchen
Minimal storage
Liable to crush your car with you inside
Love the idea!
Unhinged car brain on display here
All these attempts to make inexpensive, affordable housing like this completely ignore the fact that it’s not the house itself that’s so expensive. It’s the land.
True, though I feel like this kind of “cheap and easy to build housing” is exactly the kind of thing that appeals to the near-sighted ‘real-estate developers’ of today.
Why spend so much time and money building a duplex, when you can plop some shipping containers on a lot and start leaching in a fraction of the time and with a fraction of the investment?
