Shipping Container Homes: A guide to shipping container homes, including plans, design ideas, and much more!
By Ross Johnson
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SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES
The idea of shipping containers being turned into homes is relatively new, but it is a growing fashion. It offers cheap, flexible, environmentally sound but stable and practical solutions to the housing challenges faced by many.
This book will give you a clear and detailed insight into this trend. It will help you understand the process of creating your own shipping container home, or for those with a more abstract interest in the topic, it will offer handy information for your consideration.
Inside, this book details the legislative requirements that exist around shipping container homes and informs you where ready-made floors and walls can be sourced. It will consider the myriad of benefits living in a shipping container home offers, but will also present some of the associated difficulties and challenges.
This book will take you through the steps of creating your own home by adapting these readily available resources, and it will give guidance on designing your own internal living spaces in these flexible shells. It will look at matters such as heating, plumbing, air conditioning, insulation, and decoration, plus much more!
By following the guidance in this book, those looking to enter the market for their own shipping container home will have an advantage over others who are scrolling through the internet trying to find relevant information. It will provide a sure and certain account of the processes to follow, which are reliable and simple to use.
At the completion of this book, you'll be more than ready to begin planning and working on your very own shipping container home!
Here Is What You'll Learn About...
What Are Shipping Container Homes
Permits Required
Where To Source Containers & Materials
The Building Process
Pros & Cons Of Container Homes
How Affordable Are Container Homes?
Cool & Unique Design Ideas
Much, Much More!
Ross Johnson
My name is Ross Johnson I am 27 years old. I enjoy writing and love helping people through my writing. I give all the glory and thanks to God and hope and pray that anyone who reads my books are effected by them.
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Shipping Container Homes - Ross Johnson
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Introduction
The idea of shipping containers being turned into homes is relatively new, but it is a growing fashion. It offers cheap, flexible, environmentally sound but stable and practical solutions to the housing challenges faced by many.
This book will give you a clear and detailed insight into this trend. It will help you understand the process of creating your own shipping container home, or for those with a more abstract interest in the topic, it will offer handy information for your consideration.
Like many trends that come and go (although, this one is so clever that we expect it to turn from trend to lifestyle), information about this subject is varied, and located in many different places on the web. This book will put everything under one flat and firm roof, compartmentalizing the information into different rooms, in one enlightening house.
It will detail the legislative requirements that exist around shipping container homes and inform you where these ready-made floors and walls can be sourced. It will consider the myriad of benefits living in a shipping container home offers, but will also present some of the associated difficulties and challenges.
This book will take you through the steps of creating your own home by adapting these readily available resources, and it will give guidance on designing your own internal living spaces in these flexible shells. It will look at matters such as heating, plumbing, air conditioning, insulation, and decoration.
By following the guidance in this book, those looking to enter the market for their own shipping container home will have an advantage over others who are scrolling through the internet trying to find relevant information. It will provide a sure and certain account of the processes to follow, which are reliable and simple to use.
When you reach the end of this book, you will have a detailed and informed understanding of the subject, whether a shipping container home is something you wish to build for yourself, you wish to move into one ready for occupation, or you simply want to develop your knowledge of this growing trend.
Chapter 1: What Is A Shipping Container Home?
Bricks, wood, breeze blocks, canvas, wattle and daub…modern house building can be traced back to the Romans, who developed a way of cementing blocks together which strengthened their structures. Iron age homes in Europe were created by sinking giant posts into the ground, filling the gaps with wattle – a combination of reeds and twines knotted together, and daubed on clay. That process still exists today and was popular in the seventeen and early eighteen hundreds.
In Europe, stone was – and is – a well-loved building tool, but prefabricated houses with lightweight metal frames are also growing in popularity…in fact, the range of options for building a house is extensive. Most recently onto the scene has come one of the most obvious and smartest house-building materials yet.
What could this material be? It’s actually quite an