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 up, and try not to make too big a mess of it all or kill ourselves with power tools we’ve never used before.
But we hope that as we learn from our ineptitude and missteps and improve our skills, we’ll pick up steam and then one day awaken, in our jaw-droppingly lovely shipping container home, from a slumber made peaceful from the satisfaction of a job, if not well done then at least…done.
For now, however, our areas of inexperience and potential ineptitude include but are not limited to:
- Concrete
- Metalwork
- Woodwork
- Welding
- Framing
- Flooring
- Doors & windows
- Drywall
- Electrical
- Plumbing
- HVAC
- Utility companies
- Shipping containers
Donald Rumsfeld, who was President George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, said in 2002, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
That’s a pretty good assessment of Calvin and me and our shipping container project.
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