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Posted by Wallace Hunter on October 05, 2011

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Electrical line fixed, returned, and ready for the electrician

What is a container home?

I wanted to take a few minutes today to explain to those out there who might not understand what type of home we are going to be building. I also want to give credit to a few sites that I have been watching like a hawk for the last year. These sites have helped to give me the confidence that I can do what they have done. I just want to put my own little spin on my version though. I am sure that coupled with the architect Candid Rogers' design, we should create quite the amazing abode in Dale, TX. First we have to explain the type of home we plan on building. We are going to use very non-traditional building materials. The plan is to create a home based off the 40' ISBU shipping containers. Here is the wikipedia link. = = > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container At this time we are in the plans of determining how many of the containers we are going to need. It could be as few as 2, but possibly 3 or 4. We have a friend who built their house from 9. They are very mu

Topic discussion - WALL STRENGTH

WALL STRENGTH: Todays topic is going to be wall strength. This is something that Alan discussed when we visited, and gave strict advice that I found very helpful. He explained to us that if you remove any part of the wall, that the wall would lose quite a bit of core strength and become somewhat weak. He explained that the wall would wobble and not be able to hold it's original form. He stated that it would bow out. What Alan did was to build the frame on the side of the box and tack weld the wall to the frame using L brackets. This seemed to be a great resolution to the problem. On the other hand I spent a good time that day after we left thinking of what I could do to stop the problem altogether. I decided that I would build the frame first, then tack down the wall to the frame. Then after that is all in place, we could cut out any doors or windows that we needed. My other thoughts were that since we planned to have floor to ceiling windows at the ends of the container

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