Shipping container homes

[Silas Lambert]

Does anyone have any experience on turning shipping containers into homes or multi-family homes?

[Gilbert Dominguez]

I don't know how long ago you posted this question but i am an architectural designer and ex general building contractor. I just finished selling out 40 homes made from two 40 foot high cube shipping contsiners.

This is in the country of Vietnam. I connected with a shipping container supplier out of China that got me the containers delivered to the port in Ho Chi Minh City at an average cost of $1,100.00 per container.

Then it cost me an average of $375.00 per container to have them delivered from the port to the construction site. Paid $300.00 per day for a crane.

Used supertherm spray on insulation then added a small A/C unit to each home. Ended up with living units approximately 16 X 40 = 640 square feet but slightly less because of the wall thickness.

Anyway short story is each living unit was $10,000.00 all in cost. They sold likr hot cakes at $40,000.00 each. In fact i was sold out before the construction was finished.

I did not really need to finish the interiors because the supertherm works like magic but for asthetic reasons did anyway will drywall and tile floors. Plywood floors did not neef to be ripped out because they had not been treated with any chemical pesticides.

Except for steel reinforced concrete piers at each corner foundations or slabs were not required.