All aboard my new home! (Shortened)

Daily Mail ^ | 10/9/13 | Mark Duell

[Kartographer]

They are more commonly seen being transported on ships and at ports around the world. But with the addition of flatscreen TVs, en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning, these shipping containers are now being billed as a solution to London’s housing crisis.

The containers come from China and are transformed into studio apartments in Britain which can be stacked on top of each other - and are available to rent for only £75 a week.

The scheme looks set to take off after the council granted planning permission to the Forest Young Man's Christian Association (YMCA) to establish two sites in Waltham Forest, north-east London.

[ryan71]

I wonder how many FEMA has? Instant concentration camps. Just add economic collapse.

[MacMattico]

Everyone realizes that picture is of two different homes, right? One on top, one on the bottom. Way to small.

[Godzilla]

There are quite a number of articles on prepper sites regarding us of shipping containers for cheap housing at one’s bug-out location.

[Old Sarge]

Me Likey...

[Tijeras_Slim]

They have a branch in TX, if I recall correctly.

[SVTCobra03]

You could put one in the ground as a tornado shelter as long as it could handle the weight of the soil.

[McGruff]

And they make fun of rednecks in doublewides.

[Kartographer]

First you have to get close enough (without someone reaching out and giving you a preppers touch) second 5 gallon isn’t going to burn for long so if you use the right inslulation you ain’t going to feel it. And lastly it would most likely be a waste of a valuble commodity (gasoline).

[Kartographer]

Like Redneck Preppers’ are used to being made fun of and need to be used to the idea that when shtf they will be hated by non-prppers as or more than Rednecks.

[McGruff]

We got a bunch of FEMA trailers we'll sell cheap.

[Army Air Corps]

Yes. The YMCA used the smaller units to create low-cost housing for people who need a cheap place to live. There are much, much bigger shipping containers available.

[tacticalogic]

Specs for a shipping container look to be 2mm for side and end panels, and 1.6mm for the roof. IMHO, that’s not nearly enough to qualify it as “fortress” material.

[knarf]

As I understand it ... not anymore ... they let them all sit and rot.

[ProfoundMan]

Relatively bulletproof, and depending on the furnishings, darned near fireproof. Structurally strong enough to NOT collapse during earth tremors or earth movement, and an ultimate fortress in serious times of anarchy or civil unrest. And it is entirely modular.

This is a little misleading. There's an early Doomsday Prepper episode where a guy puts a hole in one with a 10/22. There's a Mythbusters episode where they prove as little as 4 inches of dirt on the top collapses the roof. The framework around the container is strong as that's what supports the stacking of them but the sides are really quite lightweight - by design. They are for shipping after all.

They are an affordable solution for many applications but they are not a fortress by any stretch. Just so everyone knows.

[KosmicKitty]

What about plumbing?

[Army Air Corps]

One could address the roof and wall issues that you mentioned and do so with modest effort.

[Kartographer]

You install it like you do in any house you build.

[Kartographer]

As I remember no the .22 did not penetrate the cargo container.

I also found this from FR:

ISO containers are constructed of thin Corten type steel with corrugations to give strength. Typical container walls will stop a .22 Long Rifle, and perhaps weaker pistol bullets. Most rifle bullets will easily penetrate the sheet metal of a container. Even the corner posts are just 1/4 inch thick square or rectangular steel tubing, which a decent rifle will penetrate.

While I agree the walls aren't bullet proof you have to agree that they would beat the hell out of a sheet of dry wall! ;-)

[PLMerite]

“I wonder how many FEMA has? Instant concentration camps. Just add economic collapse.”

Just add Zombies!