One of the trends in sustainable design of the past few years has been the re-use of shipping containers in order to create the structure of a building. Due to their convenient size, shipping containers are well-suited for use in houses and their appeal lies in their apparent simplicity: you get a room delivered in one piece, and you can stack them together to make multiple rooms or join them up to make larger rooms.
There is 7 tips you should know before building a shipping container house.
1. Read Up On Your Local Rules
Every country has its own sets of rules and standards. This means a container house in US does not look like a container house in Denmark. That is something most people do not think about. The container is a generic product, but climate, fire regulations etc are not.
2. Find A Contractor That Can Do It All
The best solution is find one contractor to help the whole process versus haveing one for getting and modifying the containers, and another to finish out the interior.
3. Know Your Shipping Container Market
There are some containers that taller than 8 foot.
4. Understand The Shipping Container's Structure
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Understanding how the structural integrity of them works is very important- i.e. the two long walls are both load bearing and bracing so if you were to cut a hole in one it needs to be compensated.
5. Minimize The Required Welding
Welding takes a long time and is expensive, so try to keep it to a minimum.
6. Know How To Insulate
We ended up soldering elements on the walls and then sprayed them with a foam anti-fire insulation to insulate the shipping container. You need to ensure you have proper insulation to protect against condensation in cold countires.
7. Plan Ahead For Plumbing
One thing that would have made a big difference would have been to have all of the plumbing chases cut out of the container floors and ceilings to easily run pipe once they were stacked.
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