Steel Building Frame FAQs
What are the advantages of buying a prefab steel building shipping container home?
Great question! There are so many to list, but I’ll try to explain the major ones. Shipping containers are readily available and structurally sound steel boxes which are designed to withstand the humidity and corrosion associated with long ocean voyages. This makes them excellent building materials for buildings as well as for shipping and the abundance of containers lowers the cost. They can be found for as little as $1000 and even less for heavily used ones. When insulated properly they are more efficient than a typical wooden framed house and they are basically bomb proof. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural phenomenon don’t affect the structural integrity of the container making them one of the safest places to be during a natural disaster.
Steel shipping containers can be combined together to create unique forms and interior spaces and windows can be added almost anywhere. They can be small emergency shelters, backwoods cabins or modern luxury apartments.
Aren’t steel buildings very hot in the summer and cold in the winter?
Any building with no insulation and ventilation will have an uncomfortable interior environment, steel buildings and shipping containers are no different. When coated with NASA’s ceramic insulating paint or regular foam insulation they can be just as cozy as a log cabin. The paint is less expensive than interior insulation and works just as well freeing up space inside the building or container. A furnace and air conditioner can easily be hooked up for comfy environments year round.
Steel shipping containers seem so ugly, why would I want to live in one?They may not be the most visually pleasing of building materials, but most building materials aren’t in their unfinished form. They can be made to look like traditional stucco or adobe homes, they can have wood paneling inside and out, they can even be layered in stone and glass. It has become almost hip to keep the containers in their natural exposed form however. This also lowers the cost. I would seriously consider building with these containers on all my future projects due to their low cost, incredible strength, and modularity. It would be easy to start with one container and add containers one by one as necessary.
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