Container House: Pros and Cons

What good is the house from the container? Quick installation and inexpensive arrangement of the internal space. All that is needed to build such a house is a sea container, some money and a desire.


Advantages of container houses

By making a home in a container, you save money. It's cheap in building such a house. And you will save on the basic building materials for walls, such as wood, brick, aerated concrete, etc. The container is placed on a frame of crossbars or bars. There are ready walls for the house. And having a clear and simple rectangular shape of the container, it's easy to plan the design of the interior space. This is a good and economical solution for holiday homes or shelters, guest houses or security rooms. The price ranges from 1000 €, for which you can build a house with an area of ​​30 square meters. Combining several containers, you can get 100 square meters. In addition, you save time during construction. After all, no other house so quickly you can build.




Disadvantages of houses-containers

Containers for transportation of sea cargoes are not always environmentally friendly and are often dangerous to health due to harmful substances carried in them, such as pesticides, arsenic or chromium. Since they were prepared for various objects or grains, the materials from which the containers were made were impregnated with substances against insects, rodents and other pests. Therefore, containers often emit harmful matters, which means that they can not be used for permanent housing. It is necessary to carry out a number of measures to eliminate harmful substances in order to make it suitable for people. In addition, the use of heavy equipment for the construction of a house - the transportation of a container, the transfer of materials and objects is quite expensive. It should also be taken into account the fact that containers do not tolerate low and high temperatures. It is necessary to make good thermal insulation. Inside and ventilation. And this is also a considerable amount of money.




Recently, modular buildings have become popular, which is characterized by mobility, speed of installation and commissioning, while not differing from the standard buildings. An affordable option for use as residential block-modules are cargo containers. The process of conversion includes welding, painting and finishing works, insulation, installation of electrical wiring, heating and running water. In it, at the request of the client, any number of armored doors, windows, installed built-in cabinets and shelves can be made. 




The most popular building is a house made of sea containers, as they are very durable and cost effective compared to their counterparts. The main advantages of such modular buildings can be considered strength, ease of transportation, the ability to build a multi-storey module, thanks to the presence of regular fasteners. It should also be noted that the building from the block of containers the price is more affordable than the total amount of traditional construction. This is due to the fact that second-hand containers can be used for conversion, which are much cheaper, but not inferior in quality to new modules. Buy a container-house from a sea container is quite simple and profitable. There are houses from containers 20, 40 feet, two containers and so on.




The rough term of container houses only means that the basis for such designs built and sold, are metal, universal block containers. From them, as from children's cubes, houses of a various configuration, dimensions and a functional purpose are built. Whole construction towns and mini-villages, shopping pavilions and sales offices, administrative buildings, hotels, warehouses, dormitories were built using modular technology. Buy a container house today is easier than a mobile phone, by which you just need to call the specialized company and place an order. Fifteen days, but you did not misinterpret, maximum after 15 days your new house will stand in the place designated by you. Manufactured in accordance with the selected project and completely ready for permanent residence.




Modular houses, as a sign of the economy

Remember the famous expression of Leonid Brezhnev: the economy should be economical. How called it today, more than ever, as we all need to save. To economize on the cost is not always justified expensive building materials, laid on "the century" cumbersome foundations, on stretched for many months of construction work, on energy carriers.What should not you save - it's on quality and comforts necessary in the 21st century's!




A mobile, more practical and more versatile modular homes, given their characteristics, it is difficult to find today:

  1. Their walls are insulated with environmentally friendly basalt cotton wool, with thermal conductivity 10 times higher than brick floors of similar thickness! And this saves more than 50% of heat and electricity in the winter.
  2. The price of a finished house on a turn-key basis, with all communications, plumbing, electrical and lighting is only 150-200 USD per m2.
  3. You are given a choice of dozens of types of materials for interior and exterior decoration of the house, and hundreds of color solutions.
  4. The metal all-welded frame of such a fast house is resistant to serious external and internal loads. The roof can withstand up to 100 kg of snow, and the floor - up to 400 kg per m2 (the frame, if desired, can be strengthened for even greater loads!), It allows to build objects up to 3 floors.
  5. It is possible to build such houses even in seismic zones, due to a relatively light and sufficiently strong frame.
  6. Modular homes are easy to reschedule and complete in case of need to increase the usable area, the number of rooms and even floors.
  7. The house from the block of containers with all external and internal communications is easy for disassembling, moving to a new place and assembling anew, having spent for this literally 1-2 days.
  8. When building modular houses, there is no need to coordinate with municipal licensing authorities.




Using the imagination, you can turn a modular structure into a full and comfortable house, and the availability of canopies or verandas will give it extra comfort.


As you can see, container business is far not boring. The question of eastate is topical for all people, and making it affordable is an important point for modern society. Share your opinion in our chat and subcribe to our channel to stay tuned about new and  palpitating posts.

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