I hope Mayberry don't mind me expanding on his post here.
When you think outside the box that society has placed you in since birth.
A whole new world awaits.
First let me give You some of my Bonifides. I've worked for close to thirty years in construction. All phases, residential,commercial and industrial.
I've built straw bale and cob structures, not to mention a few yurts.
I carry certs for everything from plumbing to wiring to You name it.
I've built pole barns and steel buildings. Can't ain't a word in my dictionary.
I still get calls for tough jobs.
Shipping containers as a resource
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Link:Container Houses.
Link:Ryanishungry ,Container additions
Yurt resources:
Link: Suburban Yurt
Link:Sustainable Living: Yurt
Link: Sustainable living Yurts
Link:Instructables Yurt
Straw Bales
To be continued:
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I like the container idea. Might be something I should look into for the family plot.
Wooden floors of containers are soaked with dangerous pesticides.
http://tinyurl.com/3kwnoa
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Three observations on shipping containers. According to the tags on the doors, the timber component (the floor to most people) almost invariably is treated with serious pesticide. There are multiple purposes to the pesticide treatments - a) to prevent transplantation of harmful insects around the world, b) to protect the structure of the floor, and c) to protect the contents from infestation
and damage. The treatments are serious both in quantity, being roughly in the range of 1 to 10 pounds of pesticide in the wood, and serious in quality. Even 5 lbs is enough to kill a staggering number of insects. As often as not, these pesticides have been banned in the US (and frequently Europe too). Some cause cancer (e.g.., DDT) while others cause testicular atrophy (e.g., Phoxim). Some take hours of diligent searching to track down on the internet either because of trade names or cryptic abbreviations. Pesticides are at least somewhat volatile and almost certainly will permeate the contents
Vlad, It's pretty straight foward to replace the floor.if you doit inplace just rip out the floor and use concrete.
I would recommend installing some type of venting and it's my experience that the roof of one of those containers can hold 3.5 inches of reinforced concrete.
with all mods made . Doors windows ect... use shotcrete or papercrete on the outside walls.
The inside walls could be finished with a shot on plaster stucco...heavy on the portland, of course. just my two cents,Dragon
Awesome Dragon! The more ideas I get floatin' around in my head, the better!
anuther alternative link:
http://tinyurl.com/329smt
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