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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 11:22:38 GMT
Shipping containers have always fascinated me, going all of the world in all sorts of weather. They can be stacked twenty high on the container ships, and of course sometimes they fall off, like that recent incident with all of the lumber in England. In recent years, quite a few containers have come home to stay, and it really seems like an excellent idea to me, at a time when so many people have trouble finding housing. Quite a few student residences have been built in Europe using containers.   They can also be converted into complete homes, cheaper than a mobile home. And there's nothing stopping from people stacking them into imaginative apartment blocks. They'll never be luxurious due to the format limitations, but there are times in my life when I would have loved to live in such a thing. |
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 5, 2009 12:14:28 GMT
Looks cool ! But wouldn't they get incredibly hot in summer ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 12:21:23 GMT
From what I read (there are a lot of sites that talk about this), as long as they are properly insulated, it is no problem. That last photo is from Australia, I think, and they would certainly worry about the heat there.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 12:23:49 GMT
I don't know if the rail shipping containers are the same size as the maritime ones. If they only use the maritime ones for conversion, I don't think you'll be seeing too many of them in Switzerland no matter what!  |
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Post by palesa on Feb 5, 2009 12:37:34 GMT
Here we convert them for class rooms or spaza shops (tuck shop I suppose), and other little shops in our townships
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 5, 2009 12:51:53 GMT
You've got a point there Kerouac But I actually think they are the same, don't they put them from the ships onto the rail ? It would only make sense. I think they look great once they are painted in a fancy colour. |
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Post by onlymark on Feb 5, 2009 13:57:00 GMT
There are five common standard lengths, 20-ft (6.1 m), 40-ft (12.2 m), 45-ft (13.7 m), 48-ft (14.6 m), and 53-ft (16.2 m).
Standard containers are generally 48 ft (15 m) and 53-ft (rail and truck).
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2009 20:48:54 GMT
Having lived on a 13 meter boat, I can state that a 40 foot container would probably be more comfortable, due to the squared sides. How wide are the containers? That boat had a fiberglass "roof" (floor of the deck above) with teak on the inside & was miserably hot. We insulated it, & it became quite comfortable.
When I first visited Mexico in the early 70s, there were homes all along the railroad track made from abandoned rail cars. It makes so much more sense to recycle these containers than to discard them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2009 22:39:36 GMT
Didn't they live in a railroad car in the movie Harold and Maude or am I mixing it up with something else?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2009 21:40:40 GMT
Along the West African coast, many people live in ships that have washed on shore and been abandoned. There is more space than a container, but the ships are almost never flat so it is not convenient. But the residents do not mind. It is a sturdy dwelling.
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Post by BigIain on Feb 9, 2009 23:05:09 GMT
My current client is the biggest supplier of such containers and site offices in the UK. Kerouac would be able to have great fun in the storage yards where they are stached 4 high in many rows.
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Post by BigIain on Feb 9, 2009 23:06:35 GMT
I forgot to say that you can but a used 30 foot one for around £600 (euros590?!!!!!!) at the moment.
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 10, 2009 6:43:56 GMT
Didn't they live in a railroad car in the movie Harold and Maude or am I mixing it up with something else? I think you are right there. Maude lives in a railroad car. GREAT movie by the way. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2009 11:55:12 GMT
I forgot to say that you can but a used 30 foot one for around £600 (euros590?!!!!!!) at the moment. That's a good price. I'll order half a dozen as soon as I clear some land in the Bois de Boulogne. |
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Post by BigIain on Feb 12, 2009 21:45:12 GMT
I can rent you a 9m container for £12 per month
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Post by welle on Feb 13, 2009 4:29:06 GMT
I forgot to say that you can but a used 30 foot one for around £600 (euros590?!!!!!!) at the moment. Beats building a house... just make sure it was used for grain or so and not fish! That's really cheap. And HT, yeah, I love Harold and Maude. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2009 2:33:53 GMT
A great deal of money was spent here without such great-looking results. Still, it's another interesting use of shipping containers. I like the deck and the west Texas stars.  |
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 2, 2019 19:25:49 GMT
Meanwhile, shipping containers still in use sometimes have problems -- Mega container ship lost 270 containers in North seaThose that have already washed up are being collected by beachcombers in the Netherlands, who are picking up mostly plastic toys and sandals. Unfortunately, the flat screen televisions are now worthless. |
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