Bib Overalls
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Machine shop on the left, wood shop on the right, and mechanical work/car parking in the center.
http://imgur.com/gallery/Mi1DU
http://imgur.com/gallery/Mi1DU
Could You Build A Garage This Way?
- Thread starter Bib Overalls
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If I was single I'd live in a creation like that, but would prefer a large 40x72 with living quarters in one end.
I believe there is a member here that used some shipping containers to build a shop like that.
A+ for ingenuity, not sure the neighbors would like it.
LB-1911
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Sure could...
The basic premise of what he did is fine. But that dudes a complete fn *****. all that money and effort wasted. Had he poured footings and tied the structure down to them properly as well as plated the second story boxes to the ground level ones it would have been fairly sound. At the point it's just a matter of time before it falls apart. I hope for him and his neighbors sake they don't live in tornado or hurricane territory.
Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico.
cat06
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building codes will be your biggest obstacle
Rrumbler
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One certainly could, and many have, whether they have crowed about it or not. We had a complete fabrication shop built on a jobsite back in the eighties from containers - six eight by eight by forty footers, with openings cut so that they bolted together to form a large, relatively open building. One of them was still closed except for a six foot wide set of doors on one side, and it had shelves full length down both sides for storage of parts and equipment, and four of them were open for 36 feet on the sides, the last one open only on one side, with a 36 inch entry door on the outboard side at one end. The opening were framed with four inch c-channel, and there were gaskets glued to the mating surfaces, and half inch through bolts to draw them togther. They had 2 inch 20 ga. channels welded to the ribs of the walls, were insulated with c-a-foam, and had drywall on the inside, screwed to the channels. All of the wiring was in EMT, surface mounted, and had junction boxes and jumper sets made from liquid tight flex that connected the wiring from one container to the next. We did a pretty level rough grade on the site, set 42 re-bar reinforced concrete piers with a 30 inch base, a 24 inch top, and 8 inches thick on a grid pattern eight feet on center, and used shims and wedges to level the units. That thing got moved from big job, to big job, and some years after I retired, I saw it, or one like it on a jobsite that I drove past one day.
lakeroadster
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This is why I picked a home in a community that has zoning regulations.
Talk about throwing good money after bad.
Plus, metal shipping containers, in a high salt environment... no problems there, right?
Talk about throwing good money after bad.
Plus, metal shipping containers, in a high salt environment... no problems there, right?
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ibedayank
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no insulation... boy the power company is going to love him
zcar751
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I would do something like that in a minute if I was in the market. I have seen a truck company in Memphis that built a shop out of eighteen 40 footers to give them a 40x80 work area. Of course around a shipping port they are a dime a dozen.
Nor'Easter
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Could? Yes.
Would? Heeeell no.
Would? Heeeell no.
speed bump
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Unless you can get the containers for basically free I don't see why you would build with them. Temporary storage or small work areas sure, building a shop no way.
nadogail
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I agree with the hurricane concerns. As I recall there have been hurricanes in the area and there are likely to be again.
IMHO, it would make sense to incorporate design and construction measures in a project like this.
IMHO, it would make sense to incorporate design and construction measures in a project like this.
dreamingmuscle
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Don't see any real cost savings in building it that way. I've played with the idea of two forty footers with a covered carport/shop between them. But couldn't get passed the sweating problem of the containers for the storage.
Glen
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Well I got to take back a little bit of my bash. Earlier I saw this on my phone and didn't catch where he drilled 10' deep piers. I wonder if he did a bolted insert or a embedded weld pad?. As for using these as a base structure, they're very sound and far more stout that a wood structure even with shear paneling. If you can learn to live with the constraints of the inside dimensions, they work great for a shop. But living in a 8ft wide room would make me nuts.