This has pretty much cured me of ever wanting a Shipping Container House ! Thank you.

From the start, Ryan was very helpful and is continuing to be helpful about his ukposts.infoUgkxGqOCINHE0Z0E5gxzSdNi9NWGugRY5Hm2 Plans . Also, they have answered all the questions I have asked & I got outstanding support from his My Shed Plans full package.

I bought a container last week for $2300 from Wuwi Shipping Container to build a small house out of it and this video is very much helpful. Thank you!

One of the most detailed DIY shipping container house videos on YT. Worth the subscription.

Cutting costs and saving time is not everyone's objective. From what I understand, Ben is more interested in experimenting with different materials and methods, in learning from those experiences and sharing it with others. I believe that was the original goal of the channel. Plus it's sponsored by a major company, so it's a win-win for everyone. Thanks for the detailed videos Ben, always look forward to your uploads.

Now I understand why containers don't work from an engineering standpoint. I really enjoy the site and your excellent and thorough explanation!

F. I. N. A. L. L. Y. someone ACTUALLY takes a few minutes to go into DETAIL on how they framed the windows and doors!! I have been looking for this for a few days now! Thank you so extremely very much! ❤

A little hint to save a lot of time cutting with the 4 1/2 inch grinder. Use a skillsaw with a metal cutting blade, it is MUCH faster and will cut a lot deeper and cleaner so you can make one clean cut all the way across from the inside or outside on the walls. They use a 7.25" blade or a 10.25" blade on some if you need a deeper cut! I started using a 7.25 to build dune buggies and boat trailers over 50 years ago and it worked great and was a great time saver tool. Thanks for sharing these videos I really appreciate them. Great work!

Love that you’ve documented this - cannot imagine the hell involved in the edit but thanks for this series :)

I envy you. My girlfriend and I purchased land in 2016. Designed the house in 2017. Probably won't build for a few years cause of the obstacles ahead. Fortunately we didn't do ours in California so they aren't nearly as strict here. Unfortunately we bought land without utilities so that is gonna have to come first and it isn't cheap. Thanks for posting videos so I know what to try out and what to look for. Very well made.

Oh my word! Is this the complicated complex version of building a container house? Your detailed documentation is tops.

This is how I would build mine. I have seen so many shopping containers on UKposts and I’m like “what are you thinking!” Finally I found someone who would build like myself. Love your videos.

After 15 seconds, I am amazed!!! This is one of the few videos on UKposts with DECENT VOICE!!!! BRAVO!!!! I'm voting thumbs up now, without even watching more.

Appreciate the detail and effort put into this video. Understand containers may not be the ideal home project for all, but, for those of us thinking about it videos like this are really helpful.

Thanks Modern Home Project folks! This is hugely informative! My partner and I (with helf from some very kind souls) are starting our home build right now. Your corner steel window frames looks fantastic, will probably borrow that idea! Keep it up, so inspiring

This fortified me wanting to create a shipping container home. I would like to see a video of someone putting multiple containers together, cutting out the sides completely to have a huge floor surface and framing it out.

One of the most transparent and informative videos on shipping container homes.

i dont know why is this in my recommended videos but i like it, great video cant wait for part 3

This is great, and for those that are unaware, the timber frame stops heat transfer in to out and out to in. Great project!

BEST DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO ON CONSTRUCTING CONTAINER HOMES. CLEAN CONSISE AND ASSUMING THAT US DUMMIES NEED EVERY DETAIL ALONG THE WAY.

This has to be one of the best tutorials I have seen on how to efficiently and effectively drain a bank account. Bravo! Kudos, mate! Ya nailed it! _(No pun intended)_

Thank you for talking me out of ever building an ocean container home.

The video transitions so well it's easy to overlook the sheer amount of effort you have put in to document the build. Awesome video.

These guys are doing a far more professional job than most builders in Vancouver.

Thank you for the detailed video, proving that container boxes are simply a trend. I do tilt-up walls with all parts in place on the ground, and stand them up with an electric winch...*by myself*. By the time you pay for all that labor, and double-building, you could have built twice the square footage using traditional tilt-up stick framed panels. If you really want that metal look, use metal siding, which you can cut more easily and get all the trim parts for. That stuff comes in snap-clip or roll-crimp standing seam.

Building a shipping container house. First step-move out of California.

I was thinking of building a containers house. 3 minutes into the video and I changed my mind

Love the simple design! We are working on building our container home right now and I thought welding in 80 degrees was tough! I can’t imagine what it was like welding in 100+ degrees!

That box begins to get pretty narrow when you start adding 2x4's for framing. I think I would want to attach two of the boxes together and blow out part of the inside walls, then put a beam across the top of them both for structural support.

Wit each minute of this video I am more and more convinced that traditional framed building would have been better :D

Thank god for you Judy once again! I say this on almost every video now lol! But seriously wouldn’t have found out about CIRS without Judy and at just the right time too! Only a few weeks into the prococol and will just trust the process because i know itll take some time because my health has become so extremely poor… but i have hope! Praise Jesus 🎉❤

Consider foundation anchors that can later be mounted to with adjustable welded or bolted metal supports. That was good to work with and promote other people’s crafts. Shipping container makers may even consider offering designs for home builders. A cool option is a horizontal sub-terrain container that is connected to the surface with a vertical container spiral staircase. Multi-levels connecting with vertical containers is cool. Thanks for sharing your craft.

This is hilarious. Essentially what you ended up with is a method to build a house outside inwards. Built it backwards. Cladding first, then framing. All for the container aesthetic. I can't deny they are cute, and that limitations beget great designs but this is all driven by this romantic ideal of apparent "cheap efficiency". Which this clearly is not and is what anyone who actually builds with containers finds out real fast. Still, I love this project. Money be damned it's cool.

Next in series: Recladding the exterior.

This is the most useful video I have seen. I have been thinking of building a house out of shipping containers, but that looks like an enormous pain in the AZ! You have convinced me to use traditional materials like bricks and wood. Very interesting video though, thanks for sharing!

We all share your vision, I bought one 40 footer, but using it for storage only. I will share this with my children. God Bless you

building a house inside a shipping container .thats the best title for this

Love the idea. I think it should be under ground it would stay colder and warmer. The $25,000 permits is just insane.

This is one of the finest educational programs I've seen on sea containers you really did a wonderful job I disagree with keeping that floor in there because you don't know what chemicals have been on those floors and unless you do know that but that was one of the warnings I understood that there could be toxic chemicals that have had penetrated those floors so you either buy a brand-new container knowing that what was shipped in it or remove that but you did a beautiful job and I'm very the script how you did it thank you

The view is heavenly from all angles but seeing it after a cut out is just dreamy.

An hour and a half to cut a window out.... jeeze. Your tolerance is astounding. I would have spent an hour going to get a generator and 9 inch grinder before I stood there for 1.5 hours cutting a simple window out.

Thank you so much for aharing this, i learn a lot from your videos!

Wonderful stuff, I love the feeling of building something yourself.

15:10 "...l've had a lot of people ask why any additional sort of (wooden) structure (supports) are needed..." Those asking the questions are correct in their assessment. I work with shipping containers too and those wooden support struts are unnecessary. These containers can hold tonnes of goods and be stacked up 8 storeys or higher atop each other, then placed on ships that roll with the waves on high seas full of saIty spray and strong winds. The rigidity of these containers is from the box FRAME, not the side corrugated metal sheets, so as long as you do not cut into or compromise the rectangular skeleton, cutting holes for windows only marginally reduces its structural strength. However, the wooden frames could be useful to hold insulation boarding panels, hide wiring or plumbing lines or simply as placeholders for cupboards or shelves etc. later on. The less unnecessary structures you build-in, the more living space you will eventually get out of it. Keep the original paint on these containers and paint over them if needed, and your box will never rust for a long time. For the windows and door frames, you should have simply used wooden frames plus rubber or steel washer adjusters instead of welding that steel frame into the walls. Metal expands and cools significantly based on climate, and thats why your windows will crack or your doors get stuck, even if you cut your angle steel perfectly. Wooden frames has more play and flex and will not expand / contract as much as steel due to temp variances.

I have to wonder if it would have been cheaper and easier to just build a wooden house. I like the idea though.

Cant wait for the next video. Im absolutely loving this

great job. it was unreal to view the first vid. you guys are a great inspiration.a real dream come true.god bless.

This would be one of the best how build a container I have ever seen. Really appreciate your guidance from down under

With the code requirements it seems like it would be cheaper and faster to do traditional construction.

i LOVE LOVE LOVE this video. i'm saving up to get a 40 hi cube so i can have a studio and workspace and watching this gets me hyped about mine.

I really appreciate you I’m thinking to build a restaurant in Ethiopia and I was doing my research and your videos contribute a lot 🙋🏾‍♂️ thank you

Love those 20' Containers -- Great for Tool Shed and an Art Studio!

I was in the military and we lived in some of these containers in war zones. We would set them on the ground, level them the best we could and then stack sandbags all over the top and sides for insulation and mortar protection. Containers are designed to support a stack of 6-8 containers loaded with cargo. Containers are very strong in their corners, due to this strength in the corners we would just build a timber frame over the top and then we added sand bags to the roof. This build is overkill to say the least, this house would be standing after everything else was shaken apart in an earthquake. It's important to understand that the structural limits of containers are formulated under the assumption that hey will be moved while loaded and loaded onto each other on a moving vessel. Needless to say many of us are still here because we slept in these things. ISO Standard 1496(1) states that the corner posts of ISO Series 1 containers should be tested to a load of 86,400 kg (190,480 lbs). This is the load applied to the posts of the bottom container in an 8-on-1 stack of 24,000 kg (gross weight) containers (20 Foot) The side walls and end walls/doors have to withstand loadings of 0.6P and 0.4P respectively, these values equate to 28,746 lbs and 19,164 lbs based upon the payload given above. The side wall area in contact with the load is 146.56 sq. ft. giving a pressure of 196 lbs/sq. ft. Corresponding figures for the end wall/doors are 51.78 sq. ft. and 370 lbs/sq. ft. These figures are well in excess of the 20 lbs/sq. ft. wind load required for structures less than 50 ft. high. A wind of 100 MPH produces a pressure of only 30 lbs/sq. ft. The roof load test is 660 lbs over an area of 2' x 1' applied to the weakest part of the roof. The load is usually applied at the center of the containers positioned with the 2' dimension aligned longitudinally. Thus the roof is able to support an imposed load of a minimum of 330 lbs/sq. ft. The design is easily capable of supporting the basic snow loads of 30 lbs per sq. ft. evenly distributed. The floor is design to pass a concentrated load test of 16,000 lbs over a foot print of 44 sq. inches. The floor has also been designed to pass a test at twice its rated payload capacity of 47,895 for a 20 container and 58,823 lbs for a 40' container when evenly distributed. The boxes are suitable for earthquake areas of seismic rating of up to the California standards.

This is a wooden frame house with corrugated cladding.

Cool project. Although, the more videos I see about shipping containers turned into rooms, the more I think it's easier to build them from scratch.

hello, great job soon fitting out the floor, congratulations.

This is without a doubt the best container building info out there ,Awesome clear and concise .Thank you so much

Congratulations & thank you for posting, this was an awesome project, challenging, and educational. I learned a lot from your posting and your commentators, a lot of negatives comments but also a lot of educational tips. 👍😎👍

Wow, great crew and insight on how it’s done. Thanks for sharing

This video and narration is fantastic and thorough! Thanks!

When welding large frames, lay out the square, weld small dots in each corner, check if it's still square, than weld it complete. Your technique puts a lot of strength/ stress on the angle. You can bent you're angle and the square won't be square;) but nice project, greetings from Germany

Not maintaining the paint doesn't matter. Shipping containers are corten steel, which forms a surface rust barrier as a means of protection.

Good job.with housing shortages around the world it's the best solution to provide houses.municipaties should relax rules and restrictions to accomodate these structures.

Working on a Container Office Project , your Video Really Helped. Thanks.

District 9 is taking shape, gj!

The rooms are so small by the time you add the internal framing that they look like corridors; I can't help thinking that you really needed to join two containers together in order to get a decent sized interior space for each unit- I've seen that approach before and it works just great.

people who are complaining about how much work this is and how complicated the process is, what did you expect?

Amazing content, very much appreciated.

wow, that's a lot of useful, in-depth information. good work.

I love how detailed this is. Well done, man. Looking forward to part 3.

That Window Frame Jig is Bad Ass !!!! Job well done 👍🏻, Freakin Genius

Thank you for this episode - super helpful!

We've learnt to do continuous welding on the 100x50 external frames and spaced welding for the internal frames on the New Life Children's Home project here in Witbank, South Africa. Also these containers are designed to carry approx 21 metric tons and be stacked about 10-12 high that's over 200 metric tons in the bottom container. On a single story structure I think additional structural work is a waste. Just don't cut unnecessarily and frame everything effectively. The box does the rest of the work.

Welcome to the future of bulletproof container homes. lol ... this would be great in da hood. xD

Beautiful job:) greetings from Poland ❤️💪

Amazing!!! Your videos and instruction are such good quality! I want to learn to do stuff like this --

Thank you for this project! I am looking at building one in Canada but all the other videos I have seen have not been this detailed. Including what tools you need (like the type of welder) I look forward on learning more from this project with hopes to build my dreams from gaining knowledge and confidence from your videos. Cheers!

You've taken all the disadvantages of an RV but none of the advantages. Amazing!

Hard work bring joy in the end

best container framing video I've seen on youtube yet. Super pro.

Another great video, please keep up the awesome work!

yes new episode

Awesome bro. I like how you used the battery angle grinder.

thank you for this series

Great videos, guys. I am willing to bet you a few dollars that the building regulations here in Japan are even stricter than in California. You have to have a permit here even to put a trailer / caravan on ground that is not 'residential' zoned in some cases. I am checking out this kind of stuff so I can build a small school. Interesting to see how it's done in other parts of the world. Thanks.

I really appreciate the time effort and care spent on documenting this project. Thank you

This is a pretty good solution for an agriculture land, where you are not allowed for a typical brick house construction,

This video was extremely helpful thank you so much

This is so interesting! Your explanations are concise and easy to follow along with. When is Episode 3 coming out?

My god... we put up a concrete house with red clay blocks and plaster way faster for probably less than this... At this point, the modifications needed to make these containers livable long term are taking more time than building a traditional home.

Mate, this is a great UKposts video! Super interesting, and you are not scared to let us know when you messed up! Well done, very clear and precise!

Thank you for sharing this! Amazing stuff!

Seems like a very very cost ineffective project.

This guy must be an engineer, he has found the most over-complicated way to accomplish this project.

The editing and camera motion skills are Superb!!!! as well as the container home.....my next project

Nice work, really looking into these.

He finally gets his praises on a fine job done so far.

I can't imagine how loud it got inside with a welder and angle grinder going at the same time.

My best tutorial ever nice video and straight forward

Love how you explain