Building a Shipping Container Home | EP02 Moving, Cutting, and Framing a Container House
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- In Episode 2 of How to Build a Shipping Container House we will go over how to move shipping containers with a crane and place them onto the concrete foundation. I will show how I cut openings for doors and windows in the shipping containers and then welded in different types of steel reinforcement. We started the process of installing the plumbing in the floor of the container and show how we had to cut away some of the steel beams to make room for the pipes. I will also talk about how the structural requirements for reinforcing shipping containers and outline the wood structural system we installed in the container.
The PDF plans are on the website for this Container House Project:
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Buying the Shipping Containers:
We purchased one trip condition hi-cube containers. California requires that shipping containers used for homes have documentation showing that have not had toxic or radioactive materials in them. This normally means that you need one trip condition containers with appropriate certificates. I bought my containers from
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and paid $4800 each for the 40-foot hi-cube containers and $3250 for the 20-foot hi-cube container. Hi-cube containers are a foot taller than typical shipping containers.
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I bought a container last week for $2300 from Wuwi Shipping Container to build a small house out of it and this video is very much helpful. Thank you!
Nice! i bought mine at wuwi shipping container too. a bit pricey but they were bnew and they were offering COD as payment method. will use that as a storage
You should let us know how it goes
From the start, Ryan was very helpful and is continuing to be helpful about his ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxGqOCINHE0Z0E5gxzSdNi9NWGugRY5Hm2 Plans . Also, they have answered all the questions I have asked & I got outstanding support from his My Shed Plans full package.
One of the most detailed DIY shipping container house videos on YT. Worth the subscription.
This is great, and for those that are unaware, the timber frame stops heat transfer in to out and out to in. Great project!
This has pretty much cured me of ever wanting a Shipping Container House ! Thank you.
Same here.
Agreed. The recycle, reuse, and repurposed principle was defeated by having to insert wooden framing effectively building a wood house inside the container. The film maker was not allowed to weld scrap steel as supports. Oddly, multi floor apartment buildings have frames made entirely of steel beams and sheet metal.
Maybe, the containers can be cost effective as shops not dwellings.
its mostly california bullshit your seeing/
@@flounder2760 The container builders from several states reported the same wooden framing requirement. The building and fire codes are standardized by private groups and purchased by the states, e.g. NFPA.
Insulation is a big issue. There is no easy way to insulate and make an interior finish. Also, the steel shell is a vapour barrier on the wrong side of the wall. Framing on the outside might be better, but still ridiculous.
Reefer containers might be good, but would still have code problems.
Going illegal is probably the only sensible way.
Cutting costs and saving time is not everyone's objective. From what I understand, Ben is more interested in experimenting with different materials and methods, in learning from those experiences and sharing it with others. I believe that was the original goal of the channel. Plus it's sponsored by a major company, so it's a win-win for everyone. Thanks for the detailed videos Ben, always look forward to your uploads.
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F. I. N. A. L. L. Y. someone ACTUALLY takes a few minutes to go into DETAIL on how they framed the windows and doors!! I have been looking for this for a few days now! Thank you so extremely very much! ❤
Appreciate the detail and effort put into this video. Understand containers may not be the ideal home project for all, but, for those of us thinking about it videos like this are really helpful.
This is how I would build mine. I have seen so many shopping containers on UA-cam and I’m like “what are you thinking!” Finally I found someone who would build like myself. Love your videos.
Thanks Modern Home Project folks! This is hugely informative! My partner and I (with helf from some very kind souls) are starting our home build right now. Your corner steel window frames looks fantastic, will probably borrow that idea! Keep it up, so inspiring
Love the simple design! We are working on building our container home right now and I thought welding in 80 degrees was tough! I can’t imagine what it was like welding in 100+ degrees!
Good luck! You will hate it before you love it
After 15 seconds, I am amazed!!! This is one of the few videos on UA-cam with DECENT VOICE!!!! BRAVO!!!! I'm voting thumbs up now, without even watching more.
Now I understand why containers don't work from an engineering standpoint. I really enjoy the site and your excellent and thorough explanation!
The video transitions so well it's easy to overlook the sheer amount of effort you have put in to document the build. Awesome video.
Oh my word! Is this the complicated complex version of building a container house? Your detailed documentation is tops.
Thank you so much for aharing this, i learn a lot from your videos!
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This is hilarious. Essentially what you ended up with is a method to build a house outside inwards. Built it backwards. Cladding first, then framing. All for the container aesthetic. I can't deny they are cute, and that limitations beget great designs but this is all driven by this romantic ideal of apparent "cheap efficiency". Which this clearly is not and is what anyone who actually builds with containers finds out real fast. Still, I love this project. Money be damned it's cool.
Cassette Walkman They robbed him of precious space he paid for! Now it's ridiculously cramped, whereas before it was a decent, livable area.
California, home of cuckoldry. Only those that wanna be ****** in the *** would live in such a Bolshevik gloryhole 👌🏻
@All_Roads They should all stay away from "Commiefornia" lol
In The Netherlands container housing has been used for student housing which is way more cost efficient than actual buildings..
So it's not a romantic idealism, it's happening in The Netherlands in urban areas everywhere.
In The Netherlands there are almost no conventional buildings being built anymore, they're all pre-fabricated (with show bricks on the outside)
They even make these containers look like they're made out of bricks on the outside to fit the regular buildings in the surrounding areas...
And cramped they are not, and that's just an American bias of wanting massive turds of houses..
@@foxsux6000 On the other hand, The Netherlands doesn't have the same insane level of regulation, like sprinklers. Also, no earthquakes there, so you can stack containers without an issue (though, in reality, you can stack containers where there are earthquakes, but without the stupid bureaucracy).
We do have earthquakes caused by gas extrusion, and fracking actually causes all houses except container based ones to fail..And we're the most regulated place on earth due to the poldermodel, why do you think we value the life of every dutch person to be 1 million dollars and we have the delta works (We're more bureaucratic, than you obviously know)
The Netherlands definitely has more rules & regulations than the US, sorry to shatter your beliefs that you have more regulations destroying opportunities but you're just wrong... (You're 100% less regulated)
Oh and due to all these regulations we have a much higher food safety rating than the US.. (With your constant salmonella and e.coli outbreaks)
Wonderful stuff, I love the feeling of building something yourself.
A little hint to save a lot of time cutting with the 4 1/2 inch grinder. Use a skillsaw with a metal cutting blade, it is MUCH faster and will cut a lot deeper and cleaner so you can make one clean cut all the way across from the inside or outside on the walls. They use a 7.25" blade or a 10.25" blade on some if you need a deeper cut! I started using a 7.25 to build dune buggies and boat trailers over 50 years ago and it worked great and was a great time saver tool. Thanks for sharing these videos I really appreciate them. Great work!
Love that you’ve documented this - cannot imagine the hell involved in the edit but thanks for this series :)
still editing!
Much appreciated on this end :) keep up the stellar effort
Horrible video! And worst place to build a container house is in the desert! Thia guy could have built it in a low in come area of Los Angeles where there is affordable land...
This has to be one of the best tutorials I have seen on how to efficiently and effectively drain a bank account. Bravo! Kudos, mate! Ya nailed it! _(No pun intended)_
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Consider foundation anchors that can later be mounted to with adjustable welded or bolted metal supports. That was good to work with and promote other people’s crafts. Shipping container makers may even consider offering designs for home builders. A cool option is a horizontal sub-terrain container that is connected to the surface with a vertical container spiral staircase. Multi-levels connecting with vertical containers is cool. Thanks for sharing your craft.
This is the most useful video I have seen. I have been thinking of building a house out of shipping containers, but that looks like an enormous pain in the AZ! You have convinced me to use traditional materials like bricks and wood. Very interesting video though, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the detailed video, proving that container boxes are simply a trend. I do tilt-up walls with all parts in place on the ground, and stand them up with an electric winch...*by myself*. By the time you pay for all that labor, and double-building, you could have built twice the square footage using traditional tilt-up stick framed panels. If you really want that metal look, use metal siding, which you can cut more easily and get all the trim parts for. That stuff comes in snap-clip or roll-crimp standing seam.
i LOVE LOVE LOVE this video. i'm saving up to get a 40 hi cube so i can have a studio and workspace and watching this gets me hyped about mine.
The view is heavenly from all angles but seeing it after a cut out is just dreamy.
Love those 20' Containers -- Great for Tool Shed and an Art Studio!
Cant wait for the next video. Im absolutely loving this
Me too!
Congratulations & thank you for posting, this was an awesome project, challenging, and educational. I learned a lot from your posting and your commentators, a lot of negatives comments but also a lot of educational tips. 👍😎👍
hello, great job soon fitting out the floor, congratulations.
Amazing content, very much appreciated.
wow, that's a lot of useful, in-depth information. good work.
I envy you. My girlfriend and I purchased land in 2016. Designed the house in 2017. Probably won't build for a few years cause of the obstacles ahead. Fortunately we didn't do ours in California so they aren't nearly as strict here. Unfortunately we bought land without utilities so that is gonna have to come first and it isn't cheap. Thanks for posting videos so I know what to try out and what to look for. Very well made.
Forrest White look into making it off grid, collect and purify your own water, set up a individual sewage system (there are some economical options) and go with solar/wind power. It’s cheaper if the lands far from town and never run out of power during a storm.
@@thexvault the county restrictions in my area make it mandatory to have those utilities installed before you can build the house. Composting toilets arent allowed, and the plan was to harvest and recycle rain water but water lines are required anyway or else they wont let you build anything. And for solar, I was interested in that since 2011 so thats definately gonna happen but costs around $14,000.
@@Lesservector- There seems to be some "lock down" mentality either in the demands they´re imposing you or your interpretation of the same.
If the site is remote enough to be unreasonable or economically difficult regarding installation of regular utilities. It usually is also more flexible regarding it´s use.
Water supply from town network, in normal circumstances, is advisable, but not mandatory. Since the use of own source (rain collection, well, etc.) can be logically considered. Off course under regulations and inspections.
Sewage, it´s way more than simply composting toilets. In fact it´s an entire system that when properly designed and set into place. Can be a source of benefits rather than troubles.
Just make sure your glass is half full, not half empty. ;-)
Best of luck
Cheers
This is one of the finest educational programs I've seen on sea containers you really did a wonderful job I disagree with keeping that floor in there because you don't know what chemicals have been on those floors and unless you do know that but that was one of the warnings I understood that there could be toxic chemicals that have had penetrated those floors so you either buy a brand-new container knowing that what was shipped in it or remove that but you did a beautiful job and I'm very the script how you did it thank you
That Window Frame Jig is Bad Ass !!!! Job well done 👍🏻, Freakin Genius
Building a shipping container house. First step-move out of California.
Around here, I can build a shipping container house this size for about the price of all the permits. I'm currently planning it out.
Maybe throw in the lot price for some equipment.
Yes! Please! Don't let the door hit you in the ass!
@@tootsla1252 Don't get cocky because when your government pension check doesn't show up, you'll regret shooing out the tax paying middle class.
@Tootsla 125 has shit on their shoes and heroin needles stuck in their ass!! Yep great place to live in!!!! Such a beautiful state that has become a shit hole because of people like you!!! Once the door hits me on my way out, I’ll be sure to weld it shut to keep people like you in there so that you’re not able to pollute the rest of our Great Country as you did California you pice of shit!!!!!
@@MrAdolfmanson amen
i dont know why is this in my recommended videos but i like it, great video cant wait for part 3
Because it's sponsored by the Home Depot and they probably paid quite a bit to have it and everyone's suggested videos
great job. it was unreal to view the first vid. you guys are a great inspiration.a real dream come true.god bless.
Wow, great crew and insight on how it’s done. Thanks for sharing
building a house inside a shipping container .thats the best title for this
That's exactly what I was thinking. What a waste of resources and material.
yes new episode
Beautiful job:) greetings from Poland ❤️💪
BEST DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO ON CONSTRUCTING CONTAINER HOMES. CLEAN CONSISE AND ASSUMING THAT US DUMMIES NEED EVERY DETAIL ALONG THE WAY.
District 9 is taking shape, gj!
Love the idea. I think it should be under ground it would stay colder and warmer. The $25,000 permits is just insane.
fucking California!!!!
RUST
Has been done but requires a great deal of work to prevent the metal from degrading. Concrete roof was poured over the top with lotsa rebar added. Hard to tell they existed
Hard work bring joy in the end
This would be one of the best how build a container I have ever seen. Really appreciate your guidance from down under
Thank you for talking me out of ever building an ocean container home.
If you are outside of California (or US for that matter) it's cheap and easy. The thing he's building is an abomination.
Exactly, this is going to cost 4 or 5 times what some other, nicer, ones did.
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I thought it looks like a cool project. I guess some people don't really like working or physical activity.
Another great video, please keep up the awesome work!
Thank you men, it's step by step.
Mate, this is a great UA-cam video! Super interesting, and you are not scared to let us know when you messed up! Well done, very clear and precise!
I really appreciate the time effort and care spent on documenting this project. Thank you
This fortified me wanting to create a shipping container home. I would like to see a video of someone putting multiple containers together, cutting out the sides completely to have a huge floor surface and framing it out.
There is a video called: (Container home start to finish) by Hudd homes inc on UA-cam, they connected 3 shipping containers into one big home.
Awesome! Thx!
Amazing!!! Your videos and instruction are such good quality! I want to learn to do stuff like this --
Thank you for sharing this! Amazing stuff!
Great videos, guys.
I am willing to bet you a few dollars that the building regulations here in Japan are even stricter than in California.
You have to have a permit here even to put a trailer / caravan on ground that is not 'residential' zoned in some cases.
I am checking out this kind of stuff so I can build a small school.
Interesting to see how it's done in other parts of the world.
Thanks.
These guys are doing a far more professional job than most builders in Vancouver.
really cool! can't wait to get started
This video was extremely helpful thank you so much
That box begins to get pretty narrow when you start adding 2x4's for framing. I think I would want to attach two of the boxes together and blow out part of the inside walls, then put a beam across the top of them both for structural support.
This is the best way to do it. ua-cam.com/video/srWhBxJIgFM/v-deo.html
Only an egomaniac thinks there is a best way to do something like this...But a vertical walled Quonset hut with a sprayed on insulation (preferably Hempcrete) would have been far cheap, and more efficient to build ....Since it ended up having a full perimeter foundation and a slab
Where are you going to add a beam to support 16 feet ceiling span? It is already 8 feet high ceiling in this box. Maybe building outside metal structure to support ceiling? 😀
Madness why not just build sans box by the time you.fk about cutting welding venting etc etc sealing the box steel. Better off just.framing out more head space note all the preparation work.
Happens regularly
I love how detailed this is. Well done, man. Looking forward to part 3.
This video and narration is fantastic and thorough!
Thanks!
best container framing video I've seen on youtube yet. Super pro.
Next in series: Recladding the exterior.
Removing the steel exterior and use a better insulated material for outer wall.
Cassette Walkman Season Finale: Building a Biodome around what's left on the container due to California's Chihuahua Endangered Species Act 👌🏻
And the episode after that they extract the shipping container from between the exterior and interior.
Ha. Anyone who knows the fable of nail soup should be laughing at that!
With all that metal exterior he is gonna cook in the summer 😂
When welding large frames, lay out the square, weld small dots in each corner, check if it's still square, than weld it complete.
Your technique puts a lot of strength/ stress on the angle. You can bent you're angle and the square won't be square;) but nice project, greetings from Germany
Also when welding, weld the metal filament into the metal, not alongside it. So a push- rather than a pull-motion.
Working on a Container Office Project , your Video Really Helped. Thanks.
Very informative. Thank you!
An hour and a half to cut a window out.... jeeze. Your tolerance is astounding. I would have spent an hour going to get a generator and 9 inch grinder before I stood there for 1.5 hours cutting a simple window out.
usually done with a plasma cutter because that would take 10 minutes. I can't imagine over an hour spent cutting a single window.
I was in the military and we lived in some of these containers in war zones. We would set them on the ground, level them the best we could and then stack sandbags all over the top and sides for insulation and mortar protection. Containers are designed to support a stack of 6-8 containers loaded with cargo. Containers are very strong in their corners, due to this strength in the corners we would just build a timber frame over the top and then we added sand bags to the roof. This build is overkill to say the least, this house would be standing after everything else was shaken apart in an earthquake. It's important to understand that the structural limits of containers are formulated under the assumption that hey will be moved while loaded and loaded onto each other on a moving vessel. Needless to say many of us are still here because we slept in these things.
ISO Standard 1496(1) states that the corner posts of ISO Series 1 containers should be tested to a load of 86,400 kg (190,480 lbs). This is the load applied to the posts of the bottom container in an 8-on-1 stack of 24,000 kg (gross weight) containers (20 Foot)
The side walls and end walls/doors have to withstand loadings of 0.6P and 0.4P respectively, these values equate to 28,746 lbs and 19,164 lbs based upon the payload given above. The side wall area in contact with the load is 146.56 sq. ft. giving a pressure of 196 lbs/sq. ft. Corresponding figures for the end wall/doors are 51.78 sq. ft. and 370 lbs/sq. ft. These figures are well in excess of the 20 lbs/sq. ft. wind load required for structures less than 50 ft. high. A wind of 100 MPH produces a pressure of only 30 lbs/sq. ft.
The roof load test is 660 lbs over an area of 2' x 1' applied to the weakest part of the roof. The load is usually applied at the center of the containers positioned with the 2' dimension aligned longitudinally. Thus the roof is able to support an imposed load of a minimum of 330 lbs/sq. ft. The design is easily capable of supporting the basic snow loads of 30 lbs per sq. ft. evenly distributed.
The floor is design to pass a concentrated load test of 16,000 lbs over a foot print of 44 sq. inches. The floor has also been designed to pass a test at twice its rated payload capacity of 47,895 for a 20 container and 58,823 lbs for a 40' container when evenly distributed.
The boxes are suitable for earthquake areas of seismic rating of up to the California standards.
Thank you so much Johnny. I learned and had things verified by your essay. hugs, Cat
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Very helpful for my project. Thanks
thank you for this series
Wit each minute of this video I am more and more convinced that traditional framed building would have been better :D
He finally gets his praises on a fine job done so far.
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Thx for video! Very educating! 👍👍👍👍
This is so interesting! Your explanations are concise and easy to follow along with. When is Episode 3 coming out?
One of the most transparent and informative videos on shipping container homes.
yes but so transparent and informative and time consuming that it should open up peoples eyes to see nothing about building a container house is very practical, easy, and hardly wise in almost any case in our country,just sayin ! no hate and more power to ya, but the cost and time is ASS tronomical and for what- to say "i built and live in a container" please just build a old beat up 40'container house for $27000 for me to get picked up @ your build site and ready to ship overseas -thats a challenge and should be the price point for cheap container living. :) TRUTH
@Trucking 101 I thought the same thing. Especially with all the framing and reinforcing they did on the inside. I've built a traditional shed (wood) in my backyard about half the size of a 20' container, and it was about half the price of a shipping container.
Excellent presentation. Thanks!
Wow, what an awesome house. Two thumbs up.
Thank you for this project! I am looking at building one in Canada but all the other videos I have seen have not been this detailed. Including what tools you need (like the type of welder) I look forward on learning more from this project with hopes to build my dreams from gaining knowledge and confidence from your videos. Cheers!
How a box is a dream?
If you need to watch a video to figure out what kind of welder you need to build a container house, you're not ready to build a container house.
I can't imagine how loud it got inside with a welder and angle grinder going at the same time.
use plugs in ears
The editing and camera motion skills are Superb!!!! as well as the container home.....my next project
Nice work, really looking into these.
Haters gonna hate. Ainters gonna ain’t. I love this project. Welcome to the desert!
I have to wonder if it would have been cheaper and easier to just build a wooden house.
I like the idea though.
It's basically a trailer home made out of steel instead of aluminum.
Very informative and with details. Seems like more work involved than one might think.
Wow. Strong and we'll made
I've been waiting so long for this, so excited!!!
The wooden frame doesnt just apply to CA. I saw an episode of building off grid on Discovery that featured a container house. Owners lived in Middle America and the husband did a wooden frame. He did it for insulation, wires, dry wall.
Super informative...thanks👍
Easy to assemble,fun to use
great vid , i am interested in building a house this is really informative. thanks
Welcome to the future of bulletproof container homes. lol ... this would be great in da hood. xD
Bill A That 1/8 inch steel won't stop most bullets. Concrete block works better for that. But I love your humor!
Bill A
Like Chicago.......
Thank you for this episode - super helpful!
Love how you explain
We've learnt to do continuous welding on the 100x50 external frames and spaced welding for the internal frames on the New Life Children's Home project here in Witbank, South Africa.
Also these containers are designed to carry approx 21 metric tons and be stacked about 10-12 high that's over 200 metric tons in the bottom container. On a single story structure I think additional structural work is a waste. Just don't cut unnecessarily and frame everything effectively. The box does the rest of the work.
A few things I learnt: position the containers on flat ground or on foundations before cutting walls. I am using concrete stumps for the containers and even though the container is designed to stand on the corners alone, I put in two extra stumps on the long walls to support the major cut outs (note that the additional stumps need to be 12mm taller than the corner stumps) I also cut the larger holes and extended the frame up to the top rail removing the need to put in a header. Effectively I have built a continuous rigid support from stump to top rail. Window size holes get a steel frame only.
This is a wooden frame house with corrugated cladding.
Built outside inwards.
StepBackAndThink They robbed him of precious space he paid for! Now it is ridiculously cramped, whereas before it was a decent, livable area.
California, home of cuckoldry. Only those that wanna be ****** in the *** would live in such a Bolshevik glory-hole 👌🏻
Right! Looks like it took more resources to build than a bigger house, but it Looks Trendy and he got UA-cam success lol
@@V0YAG3R He chose to make it a shipping container. If he made it a regular stick-frame house, he could have built the tackiest McMansion of your dreams with little issue.
Lol no. A shipping container is tremendously stronger than a stick built structure.
Wonderful home, I hope you have many years of enjoyment.
Thank you for uploading this Amazing and Awesome Video !