Am i insane?

JustCharlie

After watching a rather intriguing episode of Grand Designs last week i've become fixated with converting an old shipping crate into accomadation. I'd love to read other peoples thoughts on this.
Is it worth? and where the on earth would you put it?

david29dpo

well you would need somewhere to put it, done you own any land with permission? years ago i worked for a shipping firm repairing containers. they are strong, sturdy things but the steel ones rust, not surprising when they are lashed with salt water on a ship! the alloy one are good.

Lorian

I know someone who has turned one into a shed, and it's only just adequate for that in my opinion. It has no windows, and leaks a lot.

It looks like this one



Also it's an inverse-TARDIS it looks a lot bigger on the outside than it seems on the inside. It would make a pretty poor house. More like a cave.

roswell

Good insulation should fix that after all it works both ways, You can use insulation to keep an area cooler that the surrounding area (eg using air conditioning) or warmer (useing a heater)

I wpould expect you would need a a few to make the constructiona decent size, but sounds like a nice project.

wnb

I think you would be insane, I remember watching something about this and there was a company that specialised in doing this and at the time I thought it was a crazy idea.

check these links out

http://society.guardian.co.uk/housing/story/0,7890,822178,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/1979151.stm

The last link has photo's of container housing.