>"I love your tiny house, you can even stand up in here"
>"I love what you've done with the space, it feels so open"
>"It's so easy to breathe in here"
Those aren't things you're expected to point out while visiting a house. This shit is some kind of coping mechanism about how miserable they are from paying even more than a regular house just to live differently.
It's pod propaganda. Always has been. Real estate developers looked at places like Tokyo and Hong Kong and thought "How can we convince westerners this is a good thing?"
>It's pod propaganda. Always has been. Real estate developers looked at places like Tokyo and Hong Kong and thought "How can we convince westerners this is a good thing?"
What an utterly moronic take. People in the US who build with shipping containers with very few exceptions are trying to avoid traditional developments/developers, tract housing, planned high density, etc. and are often forced out of urban/suburban locations into unincorporated areas without the kinds of regulations that favor what real estate developers *do* create, regulations that those developers like just fine and use to stifle competition from alter alternative housing and construction methods.
If there's any single propaganda factor driving use of shipping containers it's knee-jerk hipster contrarianism towards real estate developers and what they actually do.
The only situations where developers care at all about small high density residential housing is if there's government incentives attached whether it's direct money or tax credits or variances that allow them to capitalize on land that wouldn't be buildable without special carveouts.
Otherwise they build as big as they can and lobby against relaxing rules about containers, prefab, repurposing, and similar alternatives to a developer built residential structure.
Bullshit. Shipping container houses are built by hipster neckbeard redditors formone reason only - to attract attention to themselves.
Maybe 10 years ago yeah but now that it’s gone critical mass you’ve got manbuns lining up to get a pre-manufactured building in a lot full of other pre-manufactured buildings that costs 4x as much as it should because it’s “quirky”.
Leave it to millennials to reinvent the trailer park.
>a pre-manufactured building in a lot full of other pre-manufactured buildings that costs 4x as much as it should because it’s “quirky”.
there are no such places being built for profit in the USA by real estate developers at any scale that would support the original claim regarding shipping container houses and some grand conspiracy by said developers to promote them.
Even the "tiny home" thing that you seem to be conflating with shipping containers is not happening at any scale despite media efforts to create the illusion that it is.
Most places still treat them like the RVs that they technically are and aren't in any hurry to make it easier to live in one as an auxillary dwelling unit to existing housing with plenty of land, let alone relaxing zoning and other codes to help them proliferate in trailer parks. And even wherecthat may be happening, IF a real estate developer is involved you can bet your ass he's getting some sweetheart deal in the form of variances or tax credits or publicly funded subsidies designed to incentivize projects that developers wouldn't touch otherwise.
And even then its not shippping containers being used- most let urban areas wont even let you use one for storage and have codes specifically written to discourage building with them unless you make them indistinguishable from traditional residential builds.
>there are no such places being built for profit
Of course they aren't. Like most if not all grand conspiracies you'll see touted on the Internet, they exist only in the imaginations of idiots.
it's not a conspiracy it's just good business. and it's happening at all the major public builders and developers in the US. do a little research, pal. Pods are the future.
>it's happening at all the major public builders and developers in the US.
It's literally not, and you can't cite anything to support this stupid claim.
>"oh wow, that's so cool that they just keep stacking more pods on top of yours...it's like an infinite supply of new friends!"
Wouldn't be very good as a regular house, but I'd love to bury one and live in it like bunker and it carries the added benefit of actually being more secure.
>bury one and live in it like bunker
the walls are not strong enough to withstand the force of dirt against them. they are designed to be stacked and take the weight of the container on top without buckling, because the 4 corners of the containers carry the load of the next container and give the container itself rigidity. the walls... are shit for structure since these are designed to stack and be on ships and delivered all over. they are not waterproof. if they fall off they can flood. they are not insulated. shit can get real hot inside or cold depending on where they are at. you would need to beef up the structure inside to do this. the walls and roof will collapse. pic related. do your research.
Its true that basic containers aren't up to being buried as is, but this-
>they are not waterproof. if they fall off they can flood. they are not insulated
-is not universally true and watertight containers are not only a thing, they can present a hazard to navigation-
106 shipping containers floating in Pacific Ocean following bomb cyclone, cargo ship fire
https://www.q13fox.com/news/106-shipping-containers-floating-in-pacific-ocean-following-bomb-cyclone-cargo-ship-fire
Shipping containers floating in Wellington Harbour
Insulated containers are also a thing, and are available used-
"Insulated Containers
Interport’s insulated steel shipping containers, technically non-working refrigerated containers, are airtight and fully insulated on all sides."
https://www.iport.com/containers-for-sale/insulated/
With proper reinforcement and ventilation there's absolutely no reason a shipping container can't be used as an underground bunker, people do it all the time-
Buried Shipping Container: Applications, Benefits, and Challenges
https://www.mobilemodularcontainers.com/blog/buried-shipping-container
https://coastcontainers.ca/blog/how-to-build-an-underground-bunker-using-shipping-containers
>-is not universally true and watertight containers are not only a thing, they can present a hazard to navigation-
They're not watertight, they have air bubbles sufficient for them not to sink which is not the same thing.
Nothing a few internal arches like they put in tunnels to reinforce the rock wouldn't fix. The earth itself is an excellent insulator too. Obviously, straight shipping containers only are a bad idea, and depending on the size and depth some air ventilation might also be necessary, but it's a good template.
Corten does rust and containers are water traps. How many have YOU built anything with?
There should be an automatic guntstab function for everyone who has not personally built X that expresses an opinion on it.
>internal arches
if you read up on how the successful underground ones are done they reinforce them externally both to notvlose interior space and because its easy to tie the reinforcement into the corrugated sides and the corners by welding angle or I beam or similar structural profiles longitudinally to handle the side loads. Another trick is to place them upside down so the floor that is designed to support the weight of the contents when suspended becomes the ceiling/roof and that extra strength will actually be doing something...might still need significant reinforcement if you go really deep but each foot of fill dirt on a 20' container is about 6 tons and the cargo weight capacity that hangs on that floor when they are lifted is just shy of 30 tons.
Or copy success which means military bunker designs. Containers excite spergies but they don't know why.
>Containers excite spergies
But not nearly as much as a chance to be a knee jerk doom-and-gloom naysayer excites contrarian wannabe authorities on PrepHole who live for the chance to assume the worst, especially when the C word gets mentioned.
Use enough extension cords and you won't have this problem.
What if you stacked two containers on top of eachother? That way one would crumple and the lower one would be okay.
You'd have to put one on each all also, since they crumple too. Probably the same with the ends also. You'd need at least 6 containers to have 1 that didn't crumple.
Freeze the crab meat and it will not permit crushing.
>Insulated
Freezer containers exist; also 2nd hand containers are dirt cheap at any container terminal.
Nice workshop box. Would cuddle and weld to my others.
The problem with PrepHole is dumbfrick larpers who failed at life and think low shell cost can gibs them a place to live while not realizing the skills to make that would would also unfail their shit lives.
Containers make fine workshops. Use accordingly. Burialhomosexualry is mental illness not cold pragmatism.
>>"I love what you've done with the space, it feels so open"
This one is understandable as you wouldn't expect a tiny house to feel open, so any feeling of openness is noteworthy.
Carr has a take on this