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Shipping Containers homes really an affordable means of housing?
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There is a great grand designs show with an Irish chap and three or four containers on the slope of a hill. He made a lovely home for himself. Two together make quite a nice space.
Might get a bit chilly though come winter.
That house was one of the best they ever had on Grand Designs.0 -
There's quite a few shipping container homes and offices around.
Of course they aren't really much of a solution for anything, except perhaps quick installation, as there are plenty of cheap prefab building technologies around, especially timber-based. Even conventional brick house isn't that expensive to build.
The cost of the structure is really not an issue when it comes to housing. As pointed out by Mistermeaner it's the land and more importantly the planning permission that stand in the way here in the UK.0 -
This is the episode in question for those that haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynA8hPDIxZM0
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It comes down to the same old issues. Container or 2nd hand mobile home which can be bought cheap off-site and plonked down. Same issues: land, planning permission, services.....
How you build isn't the hard bit .... the hard bit is getting the land, getting permission and getting services to it.0 -
If you are building a home made of containers, then by adding wheels underneath, you can turn them into 'trailors' which do not require PP to be placed on the land.
A good coating of spray-on insulation foam along with a stud wall shoud make them as thermally-efficient as a moden house.Never Knowingly Understood.
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They've been around for a while, I used to drive past one on a regular basis on the way to the beach nearly a decade ago
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-41.3347087,174.7576553,3a,75y,210.01h,81.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqJ1hIt6c1YhvwmhzBRMCHw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
They are, and will always look, a bit crap, but if you can't afford anything else they could be a solution.
They were used as a quickfix in Christchurch, NZ, after the earthquake to provide some cheap shop space
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