Shipping container homes are a fantastic way to live off the grid and have a virtually maintenance-free home.
This guide is filled with detailed instructions and illustrations, and it will teach you everything about planning, designing, and building your own custom shipping container home from scratch, from floor plan to your finished project, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated instructions.
By reading this book you’ll learn:
- A General Overview On Container Homes, thanks to a dedicated chapter filled with useful information that will help you a lot when starting your first project
- A clear Step-By-Step process to guide you in any aspect of the project
- How To Effectively Plan Your Project, so that you’ll be sure to choose the right new or used container, determine the budget, and check all the zoning laws and permits, to be always compliant with the law
- The Best Way To Prepare Your Site And Foundation, so you’ll be able to understand how to have everything perfect and ready to start building a container home that will last you a lifetime, and even more
- How To Choose A Good Shipping Container, And How To Place It, with a chapter that will tell you all the different container types, their prices, how to determine the condition of a container, and how to have it shipped and placed, so that you can make sure to invest your money in the perfect container for your needs and never waste a single dollar
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Instruction On How To Clean, Prepare, And Isolate Your Container, so you will have it ready for the next step that you will learn, which is installing all the utilities: Electrical System, Water Lines and Drains, Telephone Line, and even Alternative Energy Resources.
- Many Floor Plan Ideas, that you can use as an inspiration to create almost infinite layout projects, to create your perfect, incredibly nice, and cozy home
- … & Much More!
This guide will make your dream of owning a container home come true, even if you don’t have any previous building experience.
…What are you waiting for?
Thanks to this book you’ll be finally able to live in a custom-designed space that’s all yours, off the grid, and sustainably.
Chris Cruz –
Perfect book for those like me looking to build a dream home with containers!
Debbie Barron –
Great floor plans with very useful costing information. Installation is described in a simple and easy to understand way. This book also explains how to heat and cool container homes.
laura armstrong –
This was a great book for someone wanting to find out more information about building a container home. I highly recommend!!
laura armstrong –
This was a great book for someone wanting to find out more information about building a container home. I highly recommend!!
Amazon Customer –
used this book to find out how to convert container for home
Lynn –
Building a shipping container home can be done using this guide. How to purchase one, how to get permits and how to set up the basic concepts to live there comfortably are some of what you will learn in this book.
Chris –
Great if you want an idea of the cost to create a shipping container home from the simple to the more complex.
Roby –
If you feel like you are capable of building a container home yourself, then you must dive into this book to know what kind of equipment you need and what kind of material you should use. the information, be it technical or non-technical, is written in this book in detail.
Claudia –
Building a container house is possible and in this book there is the demonstration of how it can be done. In fact, many indications are collected that help you to do it also and above all in compliance with the rules of energy saving.
Chris Kometz –
Don’t buy this book. There is absolutely no useful information regarding building anything. Very repetitive and theoretical. Way more information available online.
Andrew T. Kolb –
Even though I ultimately decided against a container home, this book is great. Lots of good information.
Corina –
I love the book,it’s very easy to understand what you need to know about building your container house.I recommend it!
Maximilian Thornhill –
Good for a beginner who doesn’t know where to start