Comments on: Inexpensive Home Built With Recycled Containers

By: solar heating

solar heating — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:43:34 +0000

What I’d like to see is a photo of the finished interior, but it’s still a neat idea. “The entire house is built with 15 recycled shipping containers. After it is finished, you would never notice that it is built from containers and it has a very fashionable design.”

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:29 +0000

I need blueprints to build house’s /Appts can u give me a price

By: anshani

anshani — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:50:41 +0000

This is not new:
Any shipping port uses containers for accommodation.
Tokyo, London, Amsterdam and other cities have started to build housing complexes with them.

This is just a way of producing low cost housing that can be sold at high prices. Remember that the G20 states are maintaining their economies by gambling on real estate prices.

If you want a mobile home, buy one with wheels. No city is going to allow you to just move around when you feel like it – look at the way they treat traveling communities already.

This is just a cheap scam by people that don’t want to tackle the real problem – poor housing, overpriced land and out of control bankers.

By: LanguageNerd

LanguageNerd — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:54:17 +0000

So cool! Still much cheaper than building a house. All of the problems mentioned above are but small work arounds and look at the size of that thing.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:28:41 +0000

What are the number of bed rooms, bathrooms, kitchen, etc, etc and what is the cost ?. as I would be very interested in building something similar. Due to the high cost of housing here in the Caribbean.
For the one shown here which construction company built this and are their plans available to the general.

By: employee scheduling software

employee scheduling software — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:18:09 +0000

Seeing those pictures made me realize I need a rock climbing wall in my back yard

By: Prescott Barden

Prescott Barden — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:03:06 +0000

Has there been any thought on making homes in Haiti from these Containers? Get a company to donate a trip to the port full of empty (prefabbed) containers. Than have a group of people move them to the city and install them.

Get local doors, windows, etc. As much local workmanship as possible.

Cheap sturdy housing for a disaster area. How would one get in touch with the architects, Drouin and Sanchez? Give them a few weeks to come up with some ideas. I’m sure they could come up with something worth doing.

By: Randal

Randal — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:42:47 +0000

What about insulation? It’s not going to do any good if someone is trying to heat a space with absolutely no insulation. It’s a neat idea but it needs to be taken further.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:07:17 +0000

Oooh shiny, lots of pictures. Um, how about some text, some description, a little information perhaps?

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:25:33 +0000

I love this idea. Recycling is the bomb. Great job. Would love to see pics of the inside.