Compact and bijou - the slums of tomorrow?

Kavanne

If the living room can't fit a 3 piece suite, it's not worth it!!

Annpan

ad9898 That was a good film. Soylent Green is people. What a shock for Charlton Heston (was it him?)
!!!!!! I think you could do a lot with those containers. Bolted and welded together and insulated you could have a very contemporary pad. Just need a plot of land to sit it on. I wonder what the containers cost?

obsessed_saver

Annpan wrote: »

Just need a plot of land to sit it on.

If you also buy a crane, maybe you can just suspend your container and live without needing a piece of land. Just pay road tax for the crane.

Generali

According to these guys, a new build 40ft container is £2500 and a used (character?) container is £1275. Both prices are excl VAT.

obsessed_saver wrote: »

If you also buy a crane, maybe you can just suspend your container and live without needing a piece of land. Just pay road tax for the crane.

That wouldn't work in London as you'd not get a resident's parking permit so would have to stick it in the NCP so buying a house would work out cheaper.

Guy_Montag

I paid £2100 + £200 (for painting it white) + £50 delivery for my last container. (2007)

£900 second hand, but you wouldn't want to live in one.

After 5 years they need re-certified every two years if you use them for shipping (i.e. moving house).

Edited to add: That was for a 20ft container.

Generali

Guy_Montag wrote: »

£900 second hand, but you wouldn't want to live in one.

According to a program I saw on Channel 4, if you'd painted it magnolia and put down some laminate flooring you could have sold it on for a tidy profit.

mewbie_2

Generali wrote: »

According to a program I saw on Channel 4, if you'd painted it magnolia and put down some laminate flooring you could have sold it on for a tidy profit.

Yeah, I used to watch that program - NotSoGrand Designs, with Kerry Katona.

dad-of-4

Guy_Montag wrote: »

I paid £2100 + £200 (for painting it white) + £50 delivery for my last container. (2007)

£900 second hand, but you wouldn't want to live in one.

After 5 years they need re-certified every two years if you use them for shipping (i.e. moving house).

Edited to add: That was for a 20ft container.

this time last year i was living in a 20 footer with 5 other lads on Durban Harbour for a couple of months. upper floor of a six man up six down with a nice balcony overlooking the ship repair basin.:beer:

wymondham

amcluesent wrote: »

New homes in England are being built smaller than almost anywhere else in Europe, a new exhibition reveals. Are the gleaming new apartment buildings of the past decade the inner-city slums of tomorrow?

Well worth a quarter of a million...or is it?:rotfl:

So long as people keep buying them, they will keep building them....

There must be a demand for these otherwise why build them??

fc123

They were built for the 'investors'.
They all forgot that the purpose of the investment was that someone had to live in it.