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Shipping Containers to Call Home

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Category: Home | 7951 views | Created: 11/28/12
Empty steel shipping containers, the kind stacked eight to ten high on cargo ships, are increasingly being used as building blocks for emergency housing following natural disasters, eco-friendly homes and multi-family dwellings.
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Michael Nadeau
2 months ago | Reply |
Better than my apartment.
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Michelle Shyman
4 months ago | Reply |
Alternative architecture, too cool.
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Sandhya Santanam
5 months ago | Reply |
Ann ,
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Raphi Kammer
5 months ago | Reply |
someone definitely thought outside of the box to come up with this ....... or did they
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Paul
5 months ago | Reply |
Does anybody know how safe they are during lighning storms?
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Monkoo
4 months ago |
Probably the ebst place you could possibly be during lighting - It's a giant Faraday cage! See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
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Crystal Morgan
5 months ago | Reply |
How easy is it to get one of these shipping containers? I see there are tons at ports around the globe, but can anyone just purchase these?
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Marcelle Sussman Fischler
5 months ago |
Anyone can buy them. Here's one site offering containers. http://containerauction.com/
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Trish Pilon
5 months ago | Reply |
Saw it on a news special...how cool if u move u can take it with u
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Bogdan Alin Ghitulescu
5 months ago | Reply |
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ggIl-dA27i8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DggIl-dA27i8&gl=RO
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Bogdan Alin Ghitulescu
5 months ago | Reply |
Isn't there a possibility to just replace those wooden floors with fresh ones?
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Jim Jacobson
5 months ago |
Also you could stop licking floors.
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Lee Cole
5 months ago | Reply |
Sorry newbie on keyboard , I just finished welding windows for a 40 footer for a friend of mine a cabin but I worry about the years of pesticides soaked in the wood floors ?
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Lee Cole
5 months ago | Reply |
I just finished building windows for a 40 foot
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Susan Connor
6 months ago | Reply |
In Australia there are a lot of underground emergency shelters found on private land. The shipping containers as a structure make the shelter attainable, comfortable and practical.
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Chandler Stone
6 months ago | Reply |
fuck shipping containers
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Vivian Kerr
6 months ago | Reply |
how do they insulate these things?
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Jim Jacobson
6 months ago | Reply |
I think my biggest concern -- aside from the noise when it rains -- is how metal creaks when it corrodes a bit. If you live anywhere with ground vibration, it could be A Thing. I see that the ventilation issues highlighted by The Wire have already been alluded to. ;)
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Crystal Morgan
6 months ago | Reply |
I bet these things are really loud when it rains!
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Kurt Oian
6 months ago | Reply |
it's been on my list of things to do for the last 3 years. first I need the property
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Tyler Wilcox
6 months ago | Reply |
Crazy. I've been a little wary of shipping containers since the second season of the Wire. But these look nice.
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Crystal Morgan
6 months ago | Reply |
I've never heard of this! Interesting

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