S2E4 Caribbean style windows installation on Tiny Home St Croix USVI
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Caribbean style hurricane proof window installation on shipping container
Nothing is better than working with my boys...
Nailed from the inside with 2-inch roof screws with rubber washers leveraging treated lumber wood with Loctite PL Premium 10 oz. Polyurethane Construction Adhesive (Up to 3 times stronger than traditional adhesives, I am told).
According to some tests performed on UA-cam, Loctite PL Premium holds 272 pounds.
Tiny Home vacation spot right on the beach
Cane Bay, St-Croix, USVI
stopped in at your container this week - great progress on both!
Thanks - I do my best trying to build the legacy for my 4 boys
That's awesome! I hope you don't get hit with any nasty storms.
I hope not, but it will be hit eventually, so I am preparing for the worst. Once I have the cistern connected and an additional slab parallel to the ocean in the front, it should sustain a cat5. The container is welded at multiple places, which should be OK already.
Looking good buddy. I really like St. Thomas this past December and want to see st croix next. I’ve been entertaining idea of a container home and you did it. Im thinking of building here in states and shipping there. So I see that they are a exceptable for building codes there? Any info or link to suck info would be great
Building code for shipping containers is more straightforward since the structure is already made. Obviously, if you start putting more than one, it might get a little more tricky. Otherwise, you follow the standard building code, and to be honest, you do even more solid because of the hurricane. Come visit and let me know 113CaneBay@gmail.com
The only thing is time to get something approved here, but you can get that ahead of time and ship your container already made, as you said, as long as the shipping company can do it. Not sure if you have an existing window that might get damaged during the move or the shipper won't allow it? I don't know... You are golden if you do the inside and only cut the window once onsite.
They want to inspect plumbing and electricity so better keep the shiprock once on the island.
So with the lumber used on the inside, and the lumber used on the outside, plus of coarse the labor involved for cutting windows etc. etc. etc. and lets not forget the container cost, and the crane to lift it onto the concrete columns , it might seem a fair question as to who is kidding who here?
You are right, and, in most cases, it makes no sense to use a shipping container. In our case, we are on an island and needed to be on stilt with hurricane-proof building. The average cost per square foot is 350$ on this island. Local companies charge you even more when they realize you have landed on the island. We were quoted 90,000 just to build the post and cistern for one container (one house). So, for an auto-construction with my boys, having the structure in place and building around it with minimal trades required (Electrician, Plumber) makes more sense. The rest I can handle with my engineering background, growing up with a father that taught me everything construction and many friends and family (&UA-cam) teaching me along the way. Container - you take, drop, and voila, your structure is there.
If you ask everyone to do shit for you and not stepping up yourself. Agree not much difference.
Another method that I considered was ICF, so you can build the foundation yourself, but I didn't see myself putting a styrofoam block 10 to 20 feet in the air with the wind and constant hot sun. Concrete on the island is also expensive and not the best quality because of the salt that end-up getting into it.
Glad you ask the question - I will do a video on it.
Thank you
Like it house Paul Christopher Hollis
@Dreamsted I've been thinking about doing this so very long, glad to see it can actually be a reality in the Caribbean! Did you have any costly setbacks during the process?
The only advice is to be there when contractors do things for you. DPNR/CZM wants to help you, so follow their rules, and you will have no problem getting permits. UA-cam will become your best friend if you are a DIY like me. If you can do this project with someone you trust, that is even better - bouncing ideas and frustration with a business partner and forever friend is ideal. Just do it...
How hard is it to get shipping container there
Sometimes, you can buy local, but otherwise, you go to Miami, buy one there, and get it shipped empty (for a discount) to St Croix. We use Paradise Freight.
Can I ask where did you purchase the container and what was the total cost?
In Miami - MyshippingContainers.com, we use Paradise Freight and ship it empty for a significant discount so PF can send stuff to other people on the island. Often they ship cars.
A scar on the face of Cane Bay. What a dump. It’s a disgrace this was approved.
Thanks for subscribing to our channel and watching the progress
Them dum houses just ruined me and my mom chill beach
Drink more Cruzan rum, my friend... Life is too short of having a ruined vacation because of someone's property.
I can’t believe this was approved to be built on beautiful Cane Bay. I’ve been wondering for years if this was abandoned. It’s so sad that this is ruining the most beautiful beach on the island. Motivation to increase policy change and community involvement in these processes.
I know it felt like abandoned isn’t? That is why we got a good price.
Honestly, the world is subject to change and clearly for the years before this beautiful project, cane bay in this area was simply a parking lot so instead of shying away from a developing community down at cane bay you should embrace it.
I would disagree. The beach is still there, safer cleaner and without the cars parking and less trash it is looking way batter and the nature recovering
@@Nights-Station spot on
@@AMGUA-cam I was there last week, the cars are still parking there, right next this. This ugly container makes no difference in that, so I don’t understand your point? If you think the locals shouldn’t be parking to visit the beach, how should they be getting there? Sounds ignorant to me. Agree to disagree.
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