Top 10 MISTAKES I Made While Building My Container Home! 

My Grandfather did drywall for 5 decades, he taught me lay a thin coat of mud, put tape over the seam, and then the trick is use a paint roller to roll the tape flat and mud in the joint. Then after it drys you can re mud or roll on your mud depending on the texture you want to have on your walls.. Also if you buy a 5 gallon of joint compound he would add about 2 oz of dawn soup to it, and mix the it. It allows the mud to lay smoother on the wall.

With this video you just did what a lot of other RU-vidrs will not do and that is show your mistakes. Looking at many of these other RU-vidrs you would think that the husband, wife, newborn and family pet team are master builders.

You know what, even though you made some mistakes, you built this home and there is something to be said about that. Cool of you to have the courage to make this video as well. Congrats on your home, I hope you are enjoying it!

Would love to see a two floors with 6 containers stairs going up ,and a container garage with pool and front deck /self sufficient farm homestead 💪🏾😂🔥🙏🏽😍💯

Around 50 years ago I worked for DOD as the head of the sheet metal shop (Bump and paint) plus any custom metal construction. We were the support maintenance division for every US Army, plus we did support work for every military unit when needed help in the state of Michigan.

I’ve built three houses for myself and selling .. my list of things I wish I did different would be endless. 😂

For no build experience you did a really good job- especially if that's all the big issues you have! The problems you do have, many of them are due to lack of experience and some of them aren't really even problems, like the joist hangers- it's normal to only attach one side, put the boards in and then attach the others (you get a better fit that way into the hangers that way), and the drywall mudding was a bit loliful, I've done a LOOOT of that and it's just one of those things that with experience your problem isn't really even a problem, but that problem is just visual and it's an easy thing to redo as many times as you need to until you're happy- so easy to fix in the future if you even want to (I'd leave it if it were mine, I don't care much for form, more so function). I remodeled, flipped houses and built brand new Houses for about 25 Years but I no longer can- I basically don't have a left arm/shoulder anymore, any time I lift something heavier than about 15 pounds I get major pain the next Day- good for every day stuff but I can't lift anything anymore (I gotta say it's a curse and a blessing, I love rock climbing and can't anymore but People don't bother me to help them move stuff anymore either- that's great!).

Love that you came back and show these errors!❤

From South Africa 🇿🇦 much appreciated you sir,I’m so much humbled 👌🏽

Really great walk though, I know it might not have been easy to want to show off the learnings, but we all appreciate it! Great work!!

Big respect to you for your build and your video... I see a big dedication to accuracy and precision in both... I'm hoping to build a shipping container home, money time and energy permitting!...

So many gems in this video!

You inspired me in my early youth years ~10 years or so ago, I appreciate your work, good to stumble across you again.

Thank you for sharing I am looking for alternative home ideas.

Good stuff. I was wondering how you were making out with everything! Awesome job on landing all of those customers. Dream it, Live it!

That how we learn by mistakes. Overall you did good. Congratulations

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Big companies that build out these containers still swear by using a cut off wheel for the cutouts instead of a plasma cutter. Plasma is faster for the cut, BUT, you then still have the cleanup to do after which takes just as long. This can actually take longer and be much more expensive (plasma nozzle, gas, and consumables get expensive quickly). Also you risk many problems with the plasma cutters curf and your cut angle if your not experienced with them, resulting in too larger or small an opening.

AWESOME VIDEO THANKS, very useful.

Looking at the structure there looks to be a good amount of roof space as well as utility space under the living areas. I would want to use that to fit solar panels on the roof with battery storage underneath. In that way you would not need to give up any living space to the system apart from a maintenance and control panel. A setup like that would allow you to go fully off-grid saving you those ever rising electricity bills. I am presuming you somehow have a mains connection currently as I don't recall you stating how you got power to your home.