I shouldn’t have complained about the wet ground last spring, when it complicated the hole-digging for the Container 2 piers. The digging then was easy — for Mr. Sammy, his… Read More »PREPARING FOR CONTAINER #3 (October 2023)
(October 2023: This post is WAY overdue, in part because of some back-end WordPress issues and in part because I’ve been lazy.) July.Southwest Mississippi.Steel box.Sounds like fun!(Management decreed after about… Read More »CONTAINER #2 SET IN PLACE
The primary purpose of framing in a shipping-container house is supporting drywall. That, and having something to attach electrical boxes to. So we aren’t burdened by the need actually to… Read More »HOW TO FRAME THIS THING?
I said in the last post that when the first container was set down on its concrete piers, I was glad to see that “everything was exactly where it needed… Read More »A GOOF
“You can learn anything on YouTube” is my motto. It’s where I’ve found inspiration for many facets of shipping container conversions, including how-to tips. (I’ve also found the people who… Read More »FIRST WELDS
Something I had to decide before pouring concrete was how to connect the containers to the piers. A 40-foot high-cube container weighs a bit under 9,000 pounds empty—lots more with… Read More »PIER CONSTRUCTION (PART 2)
Given our inexperience at the launch of our project, we expect to be saying this a lot. We expect to goof up, cause delays, waste money, re-do things we’ve screwed… Read More »“DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU”