Why shipping container homes are overrated

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The ukranian refugee containers are not repurposed shipping containers. They are specifically made for this purpose. They were used in europe also as vaccination and covid test centers. You just lay them somewhere on the parking lot and voila you have a covid center. That said, they are accually affordable because from day one they are made for their purpose intead of renovated and adjusted which makes the shipping container houses less affordable.

I dont think anyone expected to buy a used container for 4k and not have to do a bunch more work.. even if you end up paying 15k for everything, that's a LOT cheaper than a house. Even with how small it is, it's a functional home they own, and for a lot of people that's amazing.

As a mechanical engineering undergraduate. It’s not really that impractical. They really aren’t that problematic just because you need to reinforce it if it’s modified. Literally every structure needs specific reinforcements when it’s changed due to the change in force application. Spending 4K per shipping container and a 2k welder you could get a lot done compared to standard housing costs. Architects aren’t engineers, so don’t rely on them so much for engineering specific questions. Usually architects are more into the form than function of a structure, while they still keep function in mind it’s not as pedantic as engineering analysis.

Every house needs "reinforcements, a foundation, plumbing, & electric". If these are considered drawbacks then every modern house ever built is considered a "drawback".

It would have been interesting / useful to see some price comparisons to other methods of building small homes.

I thought it was generally accepted that shipping containers are really only effective as the frame of a house or room. You aren’t just dumping one in a backyard and moving into it without major modifications.

Putting 400 grand into a house and then paying mortgage for years after isnt as easy as it seems either right?

There is something skeezy about a landlord who is running an air bnb behind an abandoned house in an overgrown lot and they drive up in a BMW.

As architecture professional, I would say that anything that gets converted from non-habitation into habitation will take a lot of extra work — hence will then be classified as “overrated” when ubiquitously hyped by the senselessness of mass media.

i really like how the owner of the airbnb admits that shipping containers take a lot of money to turn into a “home”

This video just proved everything I already knew and was ready for I’m absolutely all in for shipping container home

I lived in a container for 3 months because of renovations. I liked it, it has enough space and honestly, if this was permanent I could decodate it nicely. If there is no alternative for me in the future, I would absolutely choose this as a place to stay.

I'll admit, after living in a studio apartment, these shipping container houses don't look so bad!

Turning an intermodal container into housing is impractical, but building emergency housing in the footprint of a container is a good idea. Makes transport and deployment much easier and cheaper.

In the right hands, with a good architect, a shipping container home can be quite nice.

These are still cheaper than regular houses? I don’t think most people think you can just move into a shipping container without doing any modification, and if they do, they simply haven’t done any research. This argument did not prove its point.

I lived in one for a good few years back in the Netherlands and honestly it was great. The insulation was top tier, it had a heat pump, and it was extremely affordable. If I'd had to live by myself again, I'd happily move back into one

I would've liked to see the per unit area price comparison between building a shipping container house and a traditional one. I'm not convinced by this video that it's more expensive, just that it's less inexpensive than people who haven't done enough research thought.

You have to frame a home so I don’t see why you can’t do that to a shipping container.