Joe
How much to just live in the container?
Gort
Sunday 28th of June 2009 3:40 pm
How much to just live in the container? |
Joe, it is possible to purchase a container and have it delivered. You would want flat, level ground to put it on. I
think you\'d probably pay around $2500-3000. |
20, 40 foot? I would think a non-American company such as Zim would use a metric unit for length. |
will they let her bring her flak jacket with her? How about an explosives detector? People tend to get blown up over
there. |
Mazal Tov on her Aliyah! |
You can also make pretty cheap homes out of them too! That\'s what I\'m doing anyway. Shipping containers really are
pretty awesome. |
I always wanted to make an office or conference room out of a shipping container. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of
not finishing projects and this seems like one of those project where I would buy the giant shipping container, cut a
hole or two in it and then never touch it. The world doesn\'t need a shipping container with a big hole in it, so I
would be sunk. Nice work though Rob. I too am fascinated with shipping containers. |
Can people buy shipping containers and just put them somewhere? You always see people in movies drive out to a shipping
container in the outskirts of town, unlock it, and it\'s full of guns, office equipment, bodies, or other way cool
stuff. |
\"20, 40 foot? I would think a non-American company such as Zim would use a metric unit for length.\"
Feet and inches are the de facto unit of length in many international industries just because a lot of these things got
their start in America. Machine shops everywhere in the world work in thousanths of an inch. |
My parents, aunt and uncle, and whole lot of other people have used containers to move back to the Philippines. My aunt
and uncle had a Jacuzzi in theirs. |
I\'m currently living in a converted shipping container, its pretty sweet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71545011@N00/828112818/ |
\"Can people buy shipping containers and just put them somewhere? You always see people in movies drive out to a
shipping container in the outskirts of town, unlock it, and it\\\'s full of guns, office equipment, bodies, or other way
cool stuff.\"
Yep, they are pretty easy to buy. Hardest part can be getting them delivered depending on where you want them. I\'ve
used them at quite a few remote work sites for storage, machine shops, garages etc. |
EXTERMINATE! |
We (your US military) use the crap out of them in deployed locations. Not just to get our stuff over here but also for
offices and living quarters. We also have prefabbed bathroom and shower containers that we just hook up to power and
water and go. We call the shipping containers connex\'s, don\'t know why. |
Handy to know! I\'ll be moving from Boston to Sweden in a year, I\'ll likely par my stuff down to a few crates. |
\"Her decision to move to Israel was in-part based on a lack of affordable religious education within Sacramento.\"
Amazing. It is cheaper to move your family and home halfway around the world than it is to find affordable and
acceptable education?
After the kids graduate do you move back to San Fran? |
Bad move. Why Isreal, especially at a time like this? |
I\'ve actually done this. I packed my parents\' family home into a 40 foot container. I\'d add the tip of having a
couple of box fans set up at the door of the container to move air around in there while loading, they get really hot. |
That is cool, and I need a place to move to, can I live in the container during the move? |
where\'s twiki in my robot choices?? hello?? is this thing on?? |
They have done amazing things with shipping containers as dormitories in Amsterdam. My friend lived in them for a few
years and she has nothing but fond memories. http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/shipping-container-dormitory/ |
Say, I have that exact same company\'s shipping container! I consider myself the advance force for Invader Zim. (Btw,
why no option to have GIR as my comment robot??) |
do an experiment and see how much styrofoam can fit in a container before too much pressure builds :p |
Had a friend that did this and wondered how much it cost. |
Shipping in a cargo container is not quite so easy. I\'ve had two out of two TERRIBLE experiences with it, despite
researching companies for months before choosing one. I moved from the UK to Missouri in 2001, and Missouri to Istanbul
in 2007. Both times, the estimate for my carefully packed/weighed/measured stuff was $3000, and I was told it would
take 4-6 weeks to get there. Both times the actual cost was $6000, and it took 6-8 MONTHS to get there. I\'ll continue
in the next comment... |
These companies operate via extortion. Once they have your stuff, they can ask for nearly any amount of money they
want, knowing you\'ll pay anything they ask to get back family photos and other irreplaceable stuff. They start out by
slapping on an \"excess gasoline\" charge the second it\'s loaded on the ship--$500 over their estimate. Then once
it\'s in the host country, they charge a bunch of other fees of around $2000 to release it. If you don\'t pay, they
charge a $100/day storage fee. |