House

[Anonymous No.1763070]

Has anyone ever built a house in a shipping container?

It seems easy enough.

Can you do it with only hand tools?

[Anonymous No.1763077]

>>1763070
>black metal box in a desert
Is this some sort of suicide box?

[Anonymous No.1763081]

>>1763077
I guess it could be. I figured all that metal would keep the heat out though?

[Anonymous No.1763116]

>>1763081
I thought OP was just standard shiposting, but now I'm convinced you're simply retarded.

[Anonymous No.1763117]

>>1763077
If your water tap is leaking a bit it's a diy sauna. Neat.

[Anonymous No.1763121]

>>1763070
>Can you do it with only hand tools?
Of course. Most of the hard work is already done. You just need to make the foundation for it to sit on and add some stuff to the interior. I suggest using foam insulation, even if it is a little more expensive. That way you'll have more room inside than using fiberglass insulation for the same R-value.

Make sure the roof is well coated in sealant, otherwise, you'll need to build another roof over it to prevent leaks. Since the roof is already flat, you can easily build a deck on top and increase your usable space. Though, you may want a roof over that or over half of it at least.

Due to how nice and square these things are, you can easily get another or 3 and increase the size of the house later on. If one box is well insulated and accommodated, the rest sorta don't need insulation unless you'll be spending lots of time in them. Like in my house I have the main living area well insulated, but the rest of the house isn't which also isn't heated or cooled. My energy bills are like $35 each/month for electric and gas.

To bad most of these house are completely nonsensical in design 90% of the time.

>>1763081
Metal conducts heat really well. It'd be a solar box oven and your AC energy bill would be sky high; in the black house in the OP image, even with great insulation. It is better to have a home painted white to help reflect heat away. Heating a home is easier than cooling a home. You can even design it so that you have a porch roof over the sunny side that allows sunlight on the house during winter when the sun is low in the sky, but not in the summer when the sun is high.

[Anonymous No.1763122]

>>1763121
Terrible post, stop enabling retards.

[Anonymous No.1763163]

>live literally in the middle of nowhere
>bro dude build a TINY HOME

[Anonymous No.1763168]

>>1763070
>Can you do it with only hand tools?
Can you cut a hole into the side of a shipping container with only hand tools?

[Anonymous No.1763179]

>>1763070
could one, in theory, bury one to make a bunker out of it?

and how would one go about it?

[Anonymous No.1763192]

>>1763070
>Can you do it with only hand tools?
>>1763121
>Of course.
You're going to cut windows and doors in a shipping container with hand tools?
It would be easier to fell trees, mill the lumber and frame a conventional house with hand tools.

[Anonymous No.1763206]

>>1763192
>You're going to cut windows and doors in a shipping container with hand tools?
It is just 14 gauge sheet metal. What the hell do you think a hand tool is exactly?

[Anonymous No.1763208]

>>1763179
Nope not at all. A crushing death awaits people who do that.

[Anonymous No.1763271]

>>1763206
a hand tool is not a power tool.
Sure, it's possible, and i think i'd rather go at the shipping container with hand tools than go for his overblown tree-felling example, but only by a tiny margin.

[Anonymous No.1763277]

>>1763271
Oh for fuck sake, zoomer. It'd take like 30 mins to cut out a window.

[Anonymous No.1763283]

>>1763081
>I figured all that metal would keep the heat out though?

This has to be a joke. It just has to be. If you are serious, you will cook to death in that thing.

Your best option is to build a second roof over the top of it to both shade it from the sun and to also extend the buildings life by better protecting it from the elements. It's still gonna be hot as fuck. So you're gonna either need AC or cut a lot of big windows.

>pic related

[Anonymous No.1763289]

>>1763277
Is this a troll? Have you ever used a saw for more than a minute? Handsaws fucking suck and wreck your shit

[Anonymous No.1763319]

>>1763070
Very easy. Just set up a cot, bucket to piss and shit in, solar panels on the roof, rechargable battery bank inside, fridge, hot plate. Good to go.

[Anonymous No.1763320]

https://youtu.be/boLyUE3wbjw
Is it really that bad?

[Anonymous No.1763324]

>>1763289
>wreck your shit
anon if you are a wuss who cant operate a manually powered tool thats your own issue, dont project your weakness onto others
how do you think people cut things before powered handtools?

[Anonymous No.1763408]

>>1763289
Holy tap dancing Christ, anon. Get your limp-wristed tranny ass into a god damn gym and start working out more than just your asshole. If a fucking hand saw scares you away from something like what the OP wants to do (god forbid you are the OP) then you really don't belong anywhere near /diy/ entirely.

[Anonymous No.1763757]

>>1763208
Wouldnt slapping in some box steel and weld relatively negate that issue? Although realistically you would need a fuckload to make it "safe" I imagine

[Anonymous No.1763760]

>>1763289
>Handsaws fucking suck and wreck your shit

Jesus anon how much of a flaming faggot can you be.

[Anonymous No.1763764]

>>1763757
just build a proper frame from stock you lazy fuck

[Anonymous No.1764059]

>>1763277
how is this better than a regular hacksaw?

[Anonymous No.1764209]

>>1764059
allows for deeper cuts

[Anonymous No.1764215]

>>1764059
You can keep cutting in a straight line through a very wide sheet. A hack saw's spine is too thick to fit into the kerf.

[Anonymous No.1764249]

>>1763168
I'll take breast drills for 200 please

[Anonymous No.1764344]

>>1764249
There's actually a nibbler attachment for drills you can use with a breast drill. Search "Doubled headed sheet metal cutting nibbler drill" to find them. You won't be able to use them with normal hand drills, unless you adapt them so their handle attached to the drill so they don't just spin, but with a breast drill you can. You can cut 14 gauge sheet metal with these. It'll be faster than >>1763277 but more cumbersome.

[Anonymous No.1764374]

>>1763070
it is easy, it's the retarded building codes and jews that fuck it up

[Anonymous No.1764378]

>>1763277
What's the point of all that metal on top of the hacksaw blade?
>>1763289
you should use a fresh blade if the old one is tiring you out.

[Anonymous No.1764380]

>>1763070
>Has anyone ever built a house in a shipping container?
answers own question with image.
>It seems easy enough.
anything you don't understand must be easy.
>Can you do it with only hand tools?
how else would you do it?

[Anonymous No.1764381]

>>1763168
>Can you cut a hole into the side of a shipping container with only hand tools?
ever heard of a sawzall?

[Anonymous No.1764410]

>>1763070
>$96,000
>for a fucking shipping container
fuck off

[Anonymous No.1764416]

>>1764378
>What's the point of all that metal on top of the hacksaw blade?
Durability and usability when cutting sheet metal.

[Anonymous No.1764450]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdZ00_6Xqb6i3Jb39HIx6so7D2SYiLQEY
this guy did it but the price to build a simple home wasnt really worth it.

[Anonymous No.1764463]

>>1764416
It's still holding it at corners so probably doesn't prevent the wobble while cutting

[Anonymous No.1765057]

>>1763070
>(((Mary Meisenzahl)))
I WILL NOT LIVE IN THE POD
I WILL NOT EAT THE BUGS