The newest craze in eco-friendly building is shipping container homes. These unique houses use new or used cargo containers as their primary construction material. And since these shipping containers are cheap and plentiful, you can build your very own shipping container house for a surprisingly low cost.
But before you make the choice to construct your very own container home, there are a few things you should consider. Just because container homes are becoming very popular with the green building set doesn’t necessarily mean that you should make the plunge yourself. You need to think about your personal needs, your financial situation, and local building codes before you make the investment of building your own container home.
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Shipping containers are useful, but are cluttering our ports. Without them America wouldn’t function as the America we all know. Goods and merchandise would arrive into our hands by very different means and likely a much higher price! The containers that carry our goods and vehicles into this country are stacked very high at times along the ports in order to make more room for new arrivals; and the containers continue to be stacked up more and more–it’s clutter! An innovative and green approach is to use these containers as homes. Yes! As homes…
The idea is to convert the rectangular boxes into viable homes. The benefits are that they are extremely sturdy and surpass all building codes in terms of rigidity and strength. They can withstand hurricane force winds and are excellent tornado shelters when placed underground. The main concerns would be getting the plans past the building department. There is a new uniform building code for shipping container homes beginning to work its way around the industry though, so passing code could be more easily achieved.
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