The Modern Home Project shows how to build small affordable modern designs one house at a time. We will begin buy showing how to build a house out of shipping containers. We built this shipping container house in Joshua tree California and documented the entire process from buying land, getting building permits, selecting materials, building, hooking up utilities, and furnishing the finished home. This project is a mix of do-it-yourself and hiring professionals to do critical tasks that require specialty equipment or specific expertise. These videos contain products and materials from sponsors and should be considered as branded content with integrated advertisement. The Home Depot sponsored parts of this project and has an ongoing business relationship with Ben Uyeda and HomeMade Modern. Disclaimer: These videos are intended for entertainment and inspiration only. Construction and making stuff is dangerous. Always seek professional advice and training before using any power tools.
Hello Ben, first off, thanks for all the detailed instructions. You're answering questions before I get them. 🤭 I may have overlooked, but do you have a blueprint or a plot plan showing exactly where all your underground pipes are? Ain't nothing like trying to find an extra underground, without marking it on the prints 🫨
I just got my containers delivered from Wuwi Shipping Container yesterday. I am planning to make a two-story container house i thought it would be expensive and surprisingly Wuwi Shipping Container sells cheap containers i got my 40ft Container for 1800 each and i even paid it upon delivery. I am from Texas by the way.
Really? Why not just build a square flat-roofed stick house and put corrugated siding on it? The appeal of container houses is cheap and easy! Plop it down and move on in. LOL
Nice! i bought mine at wuwi shipping container too. a bit pricey but they were bnew and they were offering COD as payment method. will use that as a storage
I absolutely loved this video!! It was so informative and you took the time to go through every single step. I am thinking of building a container apartment abroad ( The Dom Republic)… wondering about the super hot weather and insulation?? Thank you so much… I’m so excited to do more reasearch!! I was wondering if you have any videos with 2 or more stories container buildings. Thanks so much for the inspiration!!! 😊❤😊
This is great. I particularly liked the detail in the foundation construction. I live on the east coast and when building on a sloped site, we struck a large continuous seam of rock. So we decided to anchor one corner of the house basement on this bedrock, poured the slab , built up the walls and used floating “I” beams to act as a dish type bearings to support the weight of the house on top, in case of earth quake. It was actually cheaper to build like this and people thought I was crazy. 2 earthquakes later, the house has settled nicely into the sloped site. In a container this would simply look like a single independent pedestal post under each corner with a cast iron dish and a corresponding twist lock with a cast iron ball. The whole structure “ floats “ on the four corners.
Thanks so much for the how to's. I plan to build an off grid home on a tropical island. It must be as DIY as possible. It must also be CAT V ready. CAT V = EF 3 x 30 Mi. wide. (don't believe me?) I'm mostly concerned about cutting out a 8' x 20' opening in the sides of two adjacent 40' high cubes. How to bridge the span? Go ahead, call me clueless, I've already beaten you to it. Clueless in the Caribbean.
Why not just insulate the outside of the container with spray foam and build out your 4 inches on the outside and finish with wooden or batten siding? The inside just glue wooden strips on and paint or leave. If this is due to building codes in California, then choosing a container home in that state is not the way to go at all.
Sorry, but if you insulate shipping container from the inside: only PUR foam is correct solution.Otherwise, under those insulation panels you will have condenced water which will get frozen in the winter. I'm building my shipping container house and I know what I'm talking about... However, I made a mistake installing tube steel frame instead of angled steel - I found my mistake while I was installing windows... Your idea with angle steel is way better and looks better too.
how in the world will a metal structure collapse unless there is something on the roof to justify internal wood structure. Just overdoing and not knowing the structure strength
Have you been watching grand designs with kevin mc cloud he did a episode on the same thing yrs ago so its not new to me and others plus he is british and the first to see it done lol ? James
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