03-16-2014, 08:04 PM
I thought I would chime in here, I am in the starting processes of building my container home.
There were a couple reasons behind this.
Containers are steel and therefore wont see termite pest problems like stick built homes.
Per square foot the cost of a container home is less than stick built or steel framed houses.
Using elastometic sealer coating the containers can have some moderately inexpensive water and temperature (thermal) barrier. The difficult part is that the containers need to be in good shape heavy wall damage will be a structural fault you dont want cropping up down the road. You can cut a fair amount of walls out on the inside, but you will have to span beams across for support, especially if stacking.
Perhaps one advantage is with steel containers it could be possible to break them apart and move them to another site easily if the lava were coming down the mountain.
If considering building always try to find the high cube 9' containers. John at http://www.affordableportablehousing.com/ is the most informed person to deal with as well as price on getting containers in Hawaii. If your planning on containers for your home/office/workshop he will cherry pick the good ones. He also will help people step by step from drawing up the plans/architect stamp building permit etc.
The cons of building a container home..
no matter what you do, its still going to look like a cracker box.
There were a couple reasons behind this.
Containers are steel and therefore wont see termite pest problems like stick built homes.
Per square foot the cost of a container home is less than stick built or steel framed houses.
Using elastometic sealer coating the containers can have some moderately inexpensive water and temperature (thermal) barrier. The difficult part is that the containers need to be in good shape heavy wall damage will be a structural fault you dont want cropping up down the road. You can cut a fair amount of walls out on the inside, but you will have to span beams across for support, especially if stacking.
Perhaps one advantage is with steel containers it could be possible to break them apart and move them to another site easily if the lava were coming down the mountain.
If considering building always try to find the high cube 9' containers. John at http://www.affordableportablehousing.com/ is the most informed person to deal with as well as price on getting containers in Hawaii. If your planning on containers for your home/office/workshop he will cherry pick the good ones. He also will help people step by step from drawing up the plans/architect stamp building permit etc.
The cons of building a container home..
no matter what you do, its still going to look like a cracker box.