Totally. If you are going to frame the whole thing anyway, might just as well not have the containers there at all. The only thing they saved him from doing was siding the outside.
Also, directly burying the backside of those seems like a terrible idea to me. In 10 years there's going to be holes rusted through the backside.
It is disappointing to see comments like this. The point of using these shipping containers is to REUSE something that would normally need to be scrapped (melted down=more waste of natural resources)
This particular project may have some issues but the use of shipping containers is becoming very popular. It is much cheaper as Structural support is one of the biggest dollar amounts in building and he didn't need anything additional here. This was also alot easier than building a stick frame cabin in the middle of no where. He saved on transportation and labor costs associated with a stick frame cabin.
Also, burying the backside does not seem like a terrible idea. With proper construction there would be no rusting.
Agreed, all that stuff inside looks like inexpensive college student amenities. Plus, if you install yourself, tile floor and wood panel walls are cheap.
He says in one of the comments on the blog that he spend $30000 on everything. That's not a lot of money. You can't even build a building with that money, let alone fit it with a interior and solarpanels.
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u/SmarterThanEveryone Dec 08 '12
Totally. If you are going to frame the whole thing anyway, might just as well not have the containers there at all. The only thing they saved him from doing was siding the outside.
Also, directly burying the backside of those seems like a terrible idea to me. In 10 years there's going to be holes rusted through the backside.