buddha
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Shipping Container Homes
I would think that in Ensenada there are a lot of shipping containers and they could be purchased cheap to build a home.
Anyone ever seen any shipping container homes in baja?
http://zerocabin.com/
http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
[Edited on 3-1-2011 by BajaNomad]
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buddha
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couple more cool links
http://www.containerhome.info/shipping-container-cabin-retre...
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/articles/containers.htm
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drarroyo
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cool links. Just not cool climate in Baja.
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Bob and Susan
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actually this is a very good idea...better than a cob house
a friend bought some in long beach ca and imported them
filled them with building supplies too
welded doors on and turned one into part of a house
again...interesting ideas
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Buddha, someone in Loreto posted info about cargo containers and their availability. They would make great storage/bodegas also as during summer
some of us are vulnerable to robbery by tweekers during absences. Let us know what you find out. I have one on a ranch in San Diego that has been
very secure and dry--no mice either.  Good luck. Tio
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At first I thought of a sandbag home.
http://earthbagbuilding.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2000-earthb...
The shipping container home seems like a lot less labor and quicker to get built and possibly less expensive.
I would think that there are many containers available in Ensenada or any port.
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buddha
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cool presentation of an earthbag home built in Mexico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6IKMaSR1yU
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| Quote: | Originally posted by buddha
At first I thought of a sandbag home.
http://earthbagbuilding.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/2000-earthb...
The shipping container home seems like a lot less labor and quicker to get built and possibly less expensive.
I would think that there are many containers available in Ensenada or any port. |
intermodal containers are really ugly unless you add roofs, ornamentation, etc. i suppose if that is the look you want for your house....
they are only about 8-ft wide, so limit you to 8-wide shotgun rooms.
you can probably find more economical pre-fab housing in form of a house trailer. even a single wide trailer is wider than an intermodal.
and if you want cheap trailer (seems you are looking for cheap, eh?), you can get used...
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drarroyo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
actually this is a very good idea...better than a cob house
again...interesting ideas |
yyyyeaaa if you wanna fry eggs on your living room floor!
baja heat gettin' to ya?
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40 ft containers run $1400.00 to $1800.00
In effect....they be great microwave ovens to have.....for use in Baja. By the time you get the pre slab poured, modification of the unit(s)
....$14000.00 or better. Plus land.
For a alternative house idea...one can do much better with other sort of methods. Earth bag construction is far superior. The average Mexican labor
will know how to do this with a little on site education. I suggest you deeply investigate this as I did. I plan on using this method in SF and on my
farm this coming late year.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Earthbag_constructio...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKartbOHX9k&feature=relat...
http://earthbagplans.wordpress.com/
Earth bag construction is not a new idea. One can find this subject all over the net.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Bob and Susan
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i thought they would be hot too but they really are pretty cool inside
i've been in several in the middle of the summer
not too bad
they are ULGY
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As for container homes only good for frying eggs, I had a 40' container used as storage for construction supplies when building my house. Painted it
avocado green so it would blend into the estate when the construction was complete. However, during the summer in Riverside county CA., it got so hot
that paint containers were popping open, etc. Then, I had it sprayed with 2 inches of closed cell foam (same as on the flat roof of my house) and WHAT
A DIFFERENCE! A drop of around 30 degrees. However, the doors were left closed and they had gaskets. If doors are constantly opened then I would
imagine the temp would equalize with the outdoor temps. Never tried living in it, had a doghouse for that if warranted... .
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
i thought they would be hot too but they really are pretty cool inside
i've been in several in the middle of the summer
not too bad
they are ULGY |
here's a interesting website on these...
http://www.containerhomes.net/products-and-prices/products-p...
[Edited on 3-2-2011 by mcfez]
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
they are ULGY |
Yeah...who wants to live in a steel box with HITACHI painted across the side.
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