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Off Topic => Off Topic - Ideas, humor, inspiration => Topic started by: StinkerBell on November 19, 2010, 01:37:27 PM

Title: What about an elevated shipping container/house?
Post by: StinkerBell on November 19, 2010, 01:37:27 PM
I am thinking this might be a good idea for my back yard, thus giving my hubs an office...Or a backyard house.
Title: Re: What about an elevated shipping container/house?
Post by: MountainDon on November 19, 2010, 02:38:38 PM
Shipping containers above ground make excellent storage units.
Title: Re: What about an elevated shipping container/house?
Post by: peternap on November 19, 2010, 04:32:28 PM
Quote from: MountainDon on November 19, 2010, 02:38:38 PM
Shipping containers above ground make excellent storage units.

Yep...I have a 40 footer. Keep the ATV's and all my tools in it. Buy some real security locks and it's like a bank vault.
Title: Re: What about an elevated shipping container/house?
Post by: Pox Eclipse on November 19, 2010, 05:47:14 PM
My brother poured a 40' reinforced concrete slab and put a container on it.  Works great, but in the eight years he has had it, it has walked almost six inches off the slab, apparently due to traffic vibrations from a moderately busy road about a block away.  He's trying to figure out how to slide the container (and the contents) back into place before securing it.
Title: Re: What about an elevated shipping container/house?
Post by: glenn kangiser on November 19, 2010, 09:39:09 PM
Stinky, reading your recent posts, I have come to the conclusion that you may have a shipping container fetish....possibly an unhealthy fascination with shipping containers.... [noidea' ....  [waiting]