Container House – the hottest new housing trend sweeping the western hemisphere – may hold the answer to our garbage and over pollution problem. The basic premise seems simple enough: converting abandoned shipping containers, the kind you might see in the hold of a Maersk freighter, into new apartments, condominiums, and communal living spaces. It sounds like something you might see in a post-apocalyptic drama, but trendy cities around the world are starting to retrofit old containers.
They come in many different sizes and excel in many areas that traditional-built houses don’t have. If you are pondering of choosing a container house over a conventional house building, here are the seven reasons why:
Affordable
A container house costs cheaper than the traditional-build house, undeniably. One 40-ft. shipping container costs around $1,800 to 4,500 and provides a living area of 320 sq. ft floor space that is suitable for a single family. Buy three, put them together, and you’ll get 960 square feet of living space for less than $15,000. If you’re looking for a smaller option, the choice is down to 20-ft shipping container that costs around $1,500 to $3,000.
Durability
Made of steel, a container house is highly strong and durable and expected to withstand extreme weather both on and offshore. When you think about it, the containers are manufactured to be tough and expected to withstand strong wind up to 100 mph and bear up to 50-ft. of waves. Even with some parts of the steel are removed for windows and doors, the building structure is still capable of maintaining its original structural strength.
Eco-Friendly
Having a container house is another great step to help the environment. Every year, more than 500,000 units of shipping containers are abandoned, which makes an awful amount of construction waste. With the recycled building material, you can reduce the carbon footprint, and by that, not using other construction material that can harm nature.
Easy Maintenance
The main reason why a container house is popular these days is that of its easy care. Since the construction is made of steel, you can care less about pests and bugs and rats to ruin your house. In the traditional-built house, the main problem is termites that can damage the structural design of a house. With a container, no rats’ teeth will be able to cut through it.
Speed to Build
Having a container house allows speedy construction that other house types cannot offer. That is because most of the building construction is prefabricated, which makes it even easier and faster to assemble. In general, even a 6,000 sq. ft. shipping container house can be finished to be assembled in 2 days.
Highly Portable
Your shipping container building may have had traveled all around the world, and so can you. The importance of having this type of house is easy transportation so you can move along with your house from cities, countries, even continent. When transporting goods are possible, you can ship anywhere but remember to keep the cutting to a minimum to prevent stacking while being transported.
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