eco house - shipping container eco house / home

[ashqelonsunset]

Bet this is real popular in Alabama.

[TheAllResort]

I think it is a great idea.

[MischievousKittie]

My problem has been is to find a container and delivered to my home.

[ilovenh1]

Its like a more durable smaller mobile home, if you welded two of them together side by side or on top of each other you would have a good sized place that's self contained. You could literally drop one of these somewhere by truck or helicopter and call it done.

[jayde1ash]

I think is great using these  as homes... we have SSOOO Many Of these stacked at our sea ports... I think of doing this one day.

[Call1800POO]

Does 'Architectural Digest' know about this place?

[ILOVE0ZMOVIES]

@Call1800POO Spoken like the yuppie larva you are.

[Call1800POO]

@ILOVE0ZMOVIES you stupid lazy batch, you watch movies all day and never contribute to you-tube by adding your own.

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Go buy a camera you lazy thing.

[ILOVE0ZMOVIES]

@Call1800POO I bet you want to see my peen on camera. PREVERT!

[drackar]

A non-insulated shipping container is much like a old non-insulated log cabin, minus the air leaks. Thus it's got a bit of an improvement over that form of traditional low impact housing. And they are quite easy to insulate inside and out.

A pre-insulated model is nice, but i'd rather get a traditional container and frame it in, that way you don't loose any surface area when you go to cover the metal walls.

[low72]

i love the guy's tie dye shirt and straw hat lol

[mike23363]

is leagel in kansas usa

[Horathgar42]

I wonder how good these containers would be for making a subterranean home or at least berm.

[1UPwrangler]

@Horathgar42 a lot of people use them for underground shelters, wine storage, or just basements.

[udollsbabygirl1]

Since these containers are made of metal would it not be dangerous to live in one during a thunderstorm?

[HitNail]

@udollsbabygirl1 No, not if the container is grounded.

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[jonsey2626]

@udollsbabygirl1 , i think it acts like a faraday cage so the lighning goes around it

[AbuAvital]

My dream home would be an old time railway carriage

[elainebmack]

@AbuAvital . What a great idea!

[drjones0007]

cool video, heard you on TSP

[centervilletn]

i want to build a shipping container home...im already designing multi functional small furniture, rain water collection, biogas heating, solar water heating , and LED solar lighting system...the idea is to finish the inside of the container with only the very best building materials, granite counters, cherry floors, ect...thus making it very high end yet inexpensive, comfortable and long lasting. Maximizing outdoor living spaces for a larger feel

[Clybrad1]

Thank you Paul!  Good Video. TSP listener

[dezainaa]

YES it's a great idea to help the dislocated in tohoku earthquake exc.ysmr.com/top_e/

[veufcliquot]

folks have a real hard time wrapping their little brains around the fact that you can turn a s/c into a house, use your imagination and the configurations are endless. just like a normal house you have to put systems in so that it is functional and livable. what really bugs me of this video is the guy promoting a web-site that explores the very idea of creation dwellings but is opiniated about this one ???? really bad coments on his part.

[IanCanefire]

@veufcliquot you are correct. I just had a meeting with a captive audience and discussed shipping container dwellings and the people could not imagine or grasp the possibilities.  When I discussed that it would be a great way to have temporary shelters for homeless people, or people struggling after a natural disaster, the comments were "not in my backyard". I was very dissappointed. It is going to take a few years. People like "braggable" homes.

[BelizeMacarena]

Come to Belize ! I sell property and folks would LOVE these !

Smiles from Belize Rainforest Realty and Macarena !!

[ursushoribilisron]

We lived in a shipping container in Alaska for 5 years while we built our house also.

It was wonderfully warm and toasty.

Congratulations on your creativity and resourcefulness.

No building codes where I live.

[TheDarjeelingZen]

Excellent! Sign me up for one for use as a cabin. I don't think I'd want to live in one full time but as a cheap vacation cottage or as a non-rustic cabin or something, this would be great. How did they insulate it? My guess is that it is a refrigerated shipping container for goods that need to be kept cold, so the whole container is pre-insulated to keep in the cold of a refrigerator unit.

[TheDarjeelingZen]

Excellent! Sign me up for one for use as a cabin. I don't think I'd want to live in one full time but as a cheap vacation cottage or as a non-rustic cabin or something, this would be great. How did they insulate it? My guess is that it is a refrigerated shipping container for goods that need to be kept cold, so the whole container is pre-insulated to keep in the cold of a refrigerator unit.

[dutchwake17]

where is this?

[Jackson70368]

1:02 apple stickers

[zorgmonkey]

How do you know if a shipping container is insullated?

[blazin421]

@zorgmonkey Refrigeration Containers are insulated. 

[SheldonKawonga]

@zorgmonkey there made of steel, so they very cold compared to brick and wood houses

[6883a927]

Would be interesting to put a few together. I like it.

[nediamnori3000]

very cool i love it

[poweressen]

yeah nice, and buy yourself a ninja sword !

[sobman]

how bout that privacy

[verdemanthe1]

my only problem is how to obtain the land

[pauluminous]

@verdemanthe1

Search for states/counties with no building codes, not really necessary but save a bunch of money and bureaucratic hassle. And go look for owner financed land. Ebay has some to get you started. Ie, Missouri, around 8 acres $16.000 m/l. 50% down, 6% interest, $90/month for 10 years.

[CriterionCoIIection]

@verdemanthe1 what's the problem? you buy it...

[verdemanthe1]

@CriterionCoIIection where do I obtain the money to buy the land,youll proly say "get a job",where do I obtain a job to get the money to buy the land,dont even get me started about my job search,thats a touchy subject for me right now

[averagejoe511]

@verdemanthe1

God me too!!!!!!

[lestat34208]

@verdemanthe1 ebay

[verdemanthe1]

@lestat34208 I would need money first

[TheGamerOnWii]

@verdemanthe1 You buy it?

[verdemanthe1]

@TheGamerOnWii oh im sorry,how to obtain the money to obtain the land.

[TheGamerOnWii]

@verdemanthe1 Get a job! Work! Save up! =D

[JosephStetson]

I like this type of house,i.e. insulated container. Cleaver idea keeping the exterior looking like a shipping container. It would be great for a hunting camp.

[mulligan5474]

@JosephStetson yeah it'd be good for tax purposes too haha

[jmg1957]

nice..

[sookiestackhouse2u]

pure madness.

[elainebmack]

Thia could be an answer to the homeless problem if the inhabitants are up to basic maintenance and care.

[andrewloyd67]

Some insulate external cladding on a standard container welded to concrete piers these homes would serve well has hurricane and flood resistant structures in areas where insurers wont insure properties.

You could even place more insulate on the inside behind the dry wall if need be with drop down awnings cut from the side of the container to insert windows.

With the excess of containers in the US from China the containers should be cheap as chips.

[v12tommy]

I am all for green, but some eco-people are just wierd. I have seen houses built from multiple shipping containers as a good use for a used product, but to live in an actual shipping container is just nuts. Not to mention composting toilets...where you crap on sawdust like wild animals.

[vanzhant]

@v12tommy actually, most of them are very well insulated with nice hardwood floors, insulation, walls, windows, pluming, running water etc, AC and toilets lol. just depends on your budget.

[blooddonor70]

@v12tommy wild animals crap on sawdust? I suppose beavers supply the sawdust for the rest of the animals?

[v12tommy]

@blooddonor70 sorry, by wild animals I was referring to barn animals like cows and horses. Still gross to me. Maybe that is why tree huggers smell all the time too.

[blooddonor70]

@v12tommy Wild Cows is my favorite Rolling Stones song! Do tree huggers smell like sawdust or syrup?

[v12tommy]

@blooddonor70 syrup? Usually they smell like BO, as if they are somehow alergic to showers.

[blooddonor70]

@v12tommy I have a shirt that reads HIPPIES SMELL

[CMLovejoy]

insulated shipping containers are rare.

[fr3d420]

I like this... but... One important question.... HOW IS THE SMELL?

[paulwheaton12]

@fr3d420 there was no smell

[shanemacc]

@fr3d420 what an odd question?

[troybrownrigg]

@fr3d420 I've gt two of them. They smell alright like Cedar the floors are made of it. Smells like fresh cut cedar. I kimd of like it. I use them for tools sheds and storage at the goat farm. Those insulated ones would be great form homes. Bury them under ground and no tornado or weather event will ever bother you! As long as your not in a flood plane!

[jbrooksben]

ahhhhh comic sans

noooooo!!!!!

[Axbent]

put the doors on the ends and ud have a self cooling "shotgun shack"!

[MYECOWORLD]

shipping container home also started in Tropical country - Malaysia, you may check in " Smart Green Home 2010" Video @ youtube.

[pabbananna]

great, why dont more people do this instead of buying regular ship containers and adding the expense of self insulating?? where to get that great of a deal on the shipping container? im in the same area.

please more interior shots, panned very very slowly...i nearly vomited ;)

[brewswain]

Its unlikely to have R-35 insulation

[CleverMagpie]

It's a refrigerator container, so it probably does have that much insulation.

[UbuntuSuperUser]

@brewswain

It's achievable now with spray on insulation paint. It costs a lot more though.

[hooya13]

Bury it 13 feet under-ground and get ready for 2012...

[WorldStove]

sweeeeet

[odin422]

BRILLANT

im gonna do that