If I was gonna build a house from scratch, I'd just weld it

[Hickey]

This is a man after my own heart.

 

[MikeGyver]

Well he doesn't have to run an earth ground wire when he does the electrical

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ​

 

[YROC FAB.]

This is a man after my own heart.

Love Andrew's can do attitude and funky beats he edits in his videos. If I had sone land like his I'd definitely build a castle.

 

[Hickey]

Love Andrew's can do attitude and funky beats he edits in his videos. If I had sone land like his I'd definitely build a castle.

He's certainly got a beautiful chunk of land.

 

[jeeper]

My neighbor sold his house yesterday and is moving to Idaho. He’s building a container house on their lot. And then some small container homes for vrbo stuff. I think it would be fun.

 

[Unimog]

Pretty cool, but I think container houses are overrated. By the time you cut up a container, you lose all of the weather-tight abilities it had and it is just a space-limiting, hard to insulate building block that will rust and must be maintained like any other construction technique - more than most building methods. I do like that guy's plot of land!

 

[Greg]

All that steel has to get pretty effin' hot in the Summertime!

 

[Hickey]

Container homes really only make sense if you have an ultra cheap source for said containers. That means living near a port city. I can buy them for about $1k each in Long Beach, but the fuel and time to bring them home doubles and even triples the cost.

 

[Greg]

I think the idea of a container shop/storage area is neat, a couple of high cube containers placed 40' apart, put some trusses on the top them and frame in the ends. Storage in the containers on the sides and a 40x40 shop in the center.

We use a ton of shipping containers at work for storing tools, material, etc. They SUCK to enter in the heat of Summer. Some kind of insulation or thermal barrier would be wise.

 

[Herzog]

Before I moved last I took a serious look at having a steel building (warehouse style) put up and just building out a living quarters in it. I think I'm gonna take another look at it again. I was browsing property in SD a couple weeks ago and noticed quite a few people do this and it actually turns out really nice.

 

[Hickey]

Before I moved last I took a serious look at having a steel building (warehouse style) put up and just building out a living quarters in it. I think I'm gonna take another look at it again. I was browsing property in SD a couple weeks ago and noticed quite a few people do this and it actually turns out really nice.

Yeah that's a nice way to go for guys like us who need a big shop. A radiant floor heat system would be so nice in a shop in the winter.

This guy used some precast concrete floor panels over his containers that look pretty interesting.

 

[Spork]

My sister's house is made out of steel but looks like a normal house, outside walls are thicker and no wall down the middle in the basement for structural support because the steel can span it. It went up similar to these machine buildings you see but looks like a regular house

 

[glockman]

I think the idea of a container shop/storage area is neat, a couple of high cube containers placed 40' apart, put some trusses on the top them and frame in the ends. Storage in the containers on the sides and a 40x40 shop in the center.

We use a ton of shipping containers at work for storing tools, material, etc. They SUCK to enter in the heat of Summer. Some kind of insulation or thermal barrier would be wise.

My uncle did this with a friend. They stored atv's/sleds in their respective side and their camp trailers under the roofed portion. It was awesome.

 

[SnwMnkys]

Been following Andrew for a while. Really like his videos and his I can fix/build/destroy anything attitude. Cute he brings his old pup with him everywhere.

 

[Pile of parts]

A radiant floor heat system would be so nice in a shop in the winter.

Oh.... it is!

 

[Hickey]

Oh.... it is!

BRAGGERT!

 

[comingdown]

I wonder how that works with the thermal expansion. I know when we do curtain wall systems we have to account for 1/2” minimum of steel expansion. Wonder how it compares on a small house all welded together like that.

 

[Hickey]

I wonder how that works with the thermal expansion. I know when we do curtain wall systems we have to account for 1/2” minimum of steel expansion. Wonder how it compares on a small house all welded together like that.

No idea. I expect he's in upstate New Yark based on the accent, so maybe less heat and more humidity.

 

[comingdown]

No idea. I expect he's in upstate New Yark based on the accent, so maybe less heat and more humidity.

Yeah I did the same work in San Diego and it was close to the same tolerances here. Just wonder how it holds toggling term at that size, probably just fine I’d imagine.

 

[SnwMnkys]

I wonder how that works with the thermal expansion. I know when we do curtain wall systems we have to account for 1/2” minimum of steel expansion. Wonder how it compares on a small house all welded together like that.

Thermal expansion for mild steel is .0000059". If you wanted to calculate it, the formula is: (expansion rate) x (inches of steel) x (degree of temp. change F.)=Linear Expansion

40' shipping container with a 50 degree temp change would expand .1416 inches.

But the panels are ribbed so the expansion doesnt follow a linear path.