Shipping Container Homes: Steps And Strategies To Building Or Buying Your Own Dream Shipping Container Home

By Terrence Garnett

When you read Shipping Container Homes - Steps and strategies to building or buying your own dream shipping container home, you'll discover everything you need to know about this unique and exciting way of life.

If you want to explore your creativity, revitalize your finances, and live a life of adventure and freedom, shipping container living is for you!
 

Here's a preview of the step-by-step instructions you'll get in this book:

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• Planning A Shipping Container Home
• Navigating Building Codes
• Budgets & Structural Plans
• Making The Most Out Of The Build Site
• Laying The Foundations
• The Core Envelope
• Modifying A Shipping Container
• Interior Fixtures
• Much, Much More!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Farrington
• Release date: Aug 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386347422

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Introduction

Thank you for taking the time to download this book, Shipping Container Homes.

This book covers the topic of Shipping Container Homes, and will teach you how you can own one yourself.

At the completion of this book, you will have a good understanding of the container home movement and lifestyle and be able to make the right decisions in building or buying your very own container home.

This book is full of fun facts and important tips for those who are considering owning a container home To be specific, you will get to know the container house movement and the origins to this way of life. In addition, you will be given the pros and cons of this lifestyle, so you can set realistic expectations. You will also get an overview in ensuring you tick off all the necessary steps in the planning stage to ensure a smooth build.

If you do decide to build your own, an entire chapter is dedicated to helping you get an overview of what you will need. Following this is information providing ideas and insights to the exterior treatment options to your container..

It does not end there, though. You will also gain plenty of fun and practical space-saving hacks and furniture ideas to make your tiny house comfortable, stylish and convenient to use. The book then ends with a chapter, which answers the most Frequently Asked Questions regarding container living.

Living in a shipping container home is ideal for those who wish to become financially free, environment-friendly, and self-supporting. You can begin taking the steps to become a part of the Container Home Movement right now. All you have to do is start with Chapter 1!

Once again, thanks for downloading this book, I hope you find it to be helpful!

Chapter 1 - How We Use Shipping Containers

They’re pretty much impossible to miss, no matter where you happen to be in the world. All you need to do is get onto a major road or a highway, and you’ll soon find yourself traveling with trailer trucks. Just make sure you’re in the right lane because these trucks, which haul shipping containers or intermodal containers from one place to another, are almost always as massive as the actual containers that they’re carrying.

Where are all those shipping containers going? Again, they’re pretty much going all over the world. It’s true that you’ll find large numbers of shipping containers at your local port, particularly if that port is designed and outfitted to handle hundreds upon hundreds of shipping containers per hour. But because of the standardized sizes and capacities of these shipping containers, they’re also easy to find at all the places where cargo can get transferred from one mode of transport to another.

And, yes, only a limited number of shipping containers get loaded into airplanes. So, why are they still present everywhere at the airport? Any cargo that does get shipped by air can be transferred upon landing into shipping containers for ease of overland hauling.

A Product of Necessity

The shipping container is, in and of itself, a revolutionary idea. Before those massive steel boxes became commonplace, it was a tedious and labor-intensive task indeed to load cargo onto ships, trains, trucks, and everything else. After all, teams of people were needed to sort and stack all the different goods. After sorting, the items to be shipped would be packed into various crates, barrels, and sacks, or whatever else could be found that was safe to use as a container on board. More people were needed to laboriously carry, drag, or otherwise load the containers onto the ships – and these same people would need to make sure that the containers were loaded properly.

Difficult as that process was, it was used