Shipping container house.

[iGas]

I was looking up alternative method on house construction and I ran into this house that I worked on a couple years back.

 

[nerp]

That's pretty awesome, actually.

 

[todpod]

Seems like a decent use and cost effective if you want to live on the cheap, but once you start really fixing them up they can be as pricey as a real house.

 

[pontifex]

didn't Jackie Chan live in a house made from shipping containers in one of his movies?

 

[iGas]

Originally posted by: todpod
Seems like a decent use and cost effective if you want to live on the cheap, but once you start really fixing them up they can be as pricey as a real house.

I think a good portion went into getting the novel construction material passed city & engineering inspections.

The house have a full basement with over built foundation due to the insane city & engineering requirement for such a construction. It would be much cheaper if the house didn't have a basement and no crawl space (post construction). The finishing is of high valve materials to a 1000 sqf house therefore the cost weren't spread out as compare to a larger home, hence the cost ended up to be $180 sqf that is in line with the average mass production house. Overall it is cheaper to construct when compare to other custom homes.

I would like to see what the over all cost would be when use 40' containers instead of the 20' contains that used in zigloo house.

My hunch is that a 3000-3200 sqf home with out the foundation can be built for less than $160K USD which is about $53 a sqf. While the cheapest modular home with out foundation that look like a mobile home start at $60 USD per sqf.

 

[alkemyst]

How is $150 sq/ft economical for this? I am assuming that is no lot.

It's about the same as traditional construction...

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
How is $150 sq/ft economical for this? I am assuming that is no lot.

It's about the same as traditional construction...

Where do you live?

 

[alkemyst]

I live in Palm Beach County a higher priced area than average..at $150 a sq/ft that would make for a 1500 sq ft home cost $225000 not counting the lot. I am not sure if this video was during our boom though and that would then be more reasonable.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I live in Palm Beach County a higher priced area than average..at $150 a sq/ft that would make for a 1500 sq ft home cost $225000 not counting the lot. I am not sure if this video was during our boom though and that would then be more reasonable.

I agree with alkemyst. $150 a square foot sounds quite high.

 

[paulney]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I live in Palm Beach County a higher priced area than average..at $150 a sq/ft that would make for a 1500 sq ft home cost $225000 not counting the lot. I am not sure if this video was during our boom though and that would then be more reasonable.

I agree with alkemyst. $150 a square foot sounds quite high.

It's Canadian dollars most likely.

 

[iGas]

I live in Palm Beach County a higher priced area than average..at $150 a sq/ft that would make for a 1500 sq ft home cost $225000 not counting the lot. I am not sure if this video was during our boom though and that would then be more reasonable.

I agree with alkemyst. $150 a square foot sounds quite high.

$150 CAD a sqf ($120 USD) is high in most places, but it is relatively low for this area. Average price for a home in June 2006 is $573,415 CAD, and median price is $500,000 CAD. Housing price here have dropped about 4% from 2007 to 2008, and currently housing price is slightly above 2006 level.

 

[foghorn67]

I always wanted to build a house from an old airplane. Like a scrapped DC-10 fuse.

 

[alkemyst]

what is this area? But yeah $150 USD even would be cheap in many high end areas. However most in the US would not approve this construction.