Shipping Container Homes: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners to Building Your Homemade Eco-Friendly Home, Including Plans, the Best Techniques, FAQs, and More to Make It a Masterpiece.

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SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMES: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners to Building Your Homemade Eco-Friendly Home, Including Plans, the Best Techniques, FAQs, and More to Make It a Masterpiece. By: Robert Price Independently published Print Publication date: 25 May, 2021 ISBN-13: 9798510081107 ISBN-13: 9798730673670 Language: English Format: ePub, PDF, 138 pp Book Description You already own a house, and you want a cheaper one to put where you want? You can't buy a house because the prices are too high and you don't know how to do? You like to create things with your own hands, and you want to build something solid and to last that you can exploit together with your family? Shipping Container Homes is an interesting option if you look for a low-cost turnkey solution with good indoor and outdoor quality standards. Combining the modules guarantees the construction of housing structures of different sizes built very quickly and respecting the environment. Shipping Container Homes have huge advantages compared to traditional ones. The quality, the time required for construction, and flexibility are higher than those of a classic solution. In addition to that, a container home costs 20 to 30 % less. All without the comfort being questioned. This complete guide will help you building your brand-new Shipping Container Home from scratch, starting from the project up to the finished product, step-by-step and easily. In this book, you will discover: Why Choose a Shipping Container Home; take a look at all the benefits you can get from building your new home in a container, starting from the cheaper costs to construction speed and eco-sustainability. How to Start the Project, helping you choose the desired location, budgeting, size, water access, type of soil, and whatever it takes to build it. Useful Advice and Practical Solutions to Problems that can arise building a container home, such as the walls' thermal insulation to prevent moisture and mold. The Rules to be Obeyed in terms of permits needed to build this type of house to ensure that you are following the law and not accused of building abuse. How to Properly Cool And Heat The Container Home. Containers are large steel boxes, and for this, they absorb and transmit heat and cold very well. This means that controlling the temperature inside your home can be a challenge. You don't want to live in an oven or a freezer. … & Lot More! Thanks to recycling these containers and converting them into real housing units, it is possible to eliminate a large amount of waste and, at the same time, realize interesting projects of sustainable architecture. In this book, you will know anything about container homes, including where to buy your containers cheaply, how to plan the design of your container home, what contractors to hire, and a step-by-step guide to the actual building process! Table of Contents Intoduction Chapter 1: Why Choose a Shipping Container Home? Chapter 2: How to Start the Project Chapter 3: Site Preparation Chapter 4: How to Select Good Shipping Containers Chapter 5: Planning: 12 Building Plans Chapter 6: Foundation Chapter 7: Insulation Chapter 8: Receiving the Container Chapter 9: Services: Electricity, Plumbing and Phone Line Chapter 10: Roofs Chapter 11: The Interior Chapter 12: Flooring Chapter 13: Framing and Ceiling Chapter 14: Interior Design Ideas Chapter 15: Working on the Exterior Chapter 16: Top 10 Common Questions Chapter 17: Advice and Practical Solutions to Common Mistakes Conclusion About the Author Robert Price was born in 1975 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ever since he was a boy, Robert has been fascinated by sustainable housing, which he sees as a way to express his creativity and be free from the system. He decided that in addition to building his own home, he would do everything in his power to learn and spread green building techniques across the country. So, at the age of 18, he moved to Chicago, where he graduated with a degree in building engineering, specializing in the use of environmentally sustainable materials. Robert currently pursues his profession as an engineer and holds seminars across the country to spread the word about the best sustainable building techniques. In his spare time, Robert enjoys traveling with his wife and two children and gardening on his property. Robert's mission is to help all people who have the desire to build their own home in an environmentally sustainable and self-sufficient way. Through Robert's pages, you will find techniques and practical advice developed over 20 years of experience in the field.