Lakefront Shipping Container Tiny Home Build (with costs)

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----Matt

[lomalinke]

Love shipping, love containers. So, this is the perfect project. Nice to see someone who does NOT know everything beforehand. I watch a lot of this stuff and started to question my existence.

[airbrushken]

Here in Sydney an artist friend of mine wanted a new studio to use from home ... a lot of his work is oil based paints, smelly to some folks. He asked me to help him (I'm 74 years old?) Anyway we built some container offices in the 1970's working for DOD. These units were to be movable from site to site as we were closing down Nike Missile's sites around the state. The first thing I had the engineers do was make a slanted single side roof with insulation. The we built 2 X 2 wood frames and glued them to the inside walls, insulated them and then dry-walled the interior. At the back door we installed a new wall about 6 inches inside with a door and window out of wood. I had them install a center channel to hold 12 volt, 24 volt and 110 Volt power lines. My thinking was if we had a problem we could get to the wires with little effort. We would load these onto a shipping container trailer, Park and level the trailer at the site along with a large Army generator... I left DOD in 1979 to teach in Australia, so I have no idea how long they used them....I used to take a heat gun to remove stickers and then we sand blasted the container ... prime and then coat with DuPont "Imron" polyurethane enamel on the sides and door.

[BadApe]

It was a privilege to watch this video. It's one of the most honest and straightforward account of how to go from start to a livable stage of a container home project.
And it was hugely educational for someone who is planning to put together a container home for me and my son in the coming years. We're looking at twin 40ft + a 20ft in coastal NSW Australia. But the principle is the same. Looking forward to your future projects.

[xoxo-vpww]

I will be buying a very small piece of land to start a micro flower farm. On the land, I’ll be converting a shipping container to use as a flower studio. I will likely have to sleep there some nights so I’ll need it to be fully functional. I’m super excited about this so thank you so much for sharing!!!

[brentheavener]

You are the best guy so far I've seen doing this on youtube. Thanks for being real and not fancy and just a normal guy!

[Estrellalacefield]

Most efficient and concise container build video I’ve seen yet. Thank you a million!!

[rebekkad.]

You explain everything so clearly and concisely. This was enjoyable to watch.

[elmono]

Nice work ! Few details, if I may.... Next time use 7" worm drive carpenter's Skill saw with metal blade to cut through the wall of the container. It cuts as easy as cutting through wood. Faster and you end up with straight cut. Also, steel-clad pre-hung double door at HD run about $600.00 (by Masonite). You save your self so much time and energy installing them. Even if you have to pay $1K for the door as you mentioned - still, absolutely worth it. As far as wall insulation, I would use spray foam insulation for such a narrow wall. Close Cell foam insulation gives you about R-6 per inch of Thermal Protection. So with the perforations in the walls, you could get R-9 to R-13 of Thermal value out of it. Lastly, have you consider metal studs for framing? You can get them in 2 1/2" and they are very sturdy, as well as they will give you more space for insulation. Keep it up !

[GrizzlyFeeder]

Absolutely beautiful! All that gorgeous wood, wow. Such incredible character. And great simple explanation of your process. Amazing video!

[dennisnylander]

Great work.
One piece of advice on isolation. I used foam, which is extremely easy to apply, and it gets into every small gape. 😊

[fabilosa]

Thank you for openly sharing your mistakes and learnings. Saves all of us repeating them. Can't wait to see more!! 🤙

That is beautiful. Whenever I'm wondering how to proceed with our container tiny house, if we're doing it right, I look for videos of how others are doing it and this video is just cool. Beautifully. It gives me the strength to keep going and not worry about whether everything is perfect. You are awesome. Thank you.

[johndesousa]

I was an autobody man for many years. The best way to remove those stickers is with a razor blade. Peel the letters off and then use Varsol to remove the glue if you want to save the finish underneath. If you don't care about the finish underneath use Lacquer Thinner. If the container if very rusty you are better off to buy or rent a sand blaster. Sand blasted metal is the cleanest and primer and paint sticks really well to it. I would use an Automotive epoxy primer on the bare metal.

[Msmaggy-uy]

I love this video, very honest video. I got my container delivered from Wuwi Shipping Container got it cheap for a 40ft Cargo Worthy and paid it upon delivery. Great prices offer very affordable and legit.

[homesteadingusa]

Excellent video. Your description of your processes are wonderful. The wife and I are building a container home here in Texas and you answered a lot of questions in our preparation. Thanks for sharing. PEACE

[marteepee]

Im a fan of recycled stuff laying around the house or thrown out stuffs. We'll done, very satisfying to watch your videos

[Montanho]

Great project! Im a landscape contractor in San Francisco California and we're always demoing and throwing away so much good material, it makes me feel so guilty. I've been thinking for a while to recycle all that and use it, sell it or even give it away to people doing these kind of creative projects. I will be reaching out to people like you soon to talk more and invite you over to see what we can build together. Hitting the subscribe button now.
Thanks for sharing, this is inspiring!

[Juhani]

It's really weird to me that in most of these vids, people don't put an elevated angled roof on top.
That's what I would do. 1. To cool it, 2. For rain catch. 3. Avoid leaks in future. 4. Protect roof of container/prolong life

[joshwells]

Nice job! The only suggestion I would offer is that you should have first wrapped the entire interior with that mylar bubble sheets. Then you could have framed over that. Then, when you spray foamed and foam insulation boarded the structure, you would have created a thermal barrier inbeteewn the structure and your insulation, blocking heat from coming in and or leaving the structure.

[TempleGuitars]

Some excellent tips in this video, and you and your Dad both look like a couple of top blokes as we'd say here in Australia. Thanks for sharing your process.