So You want to Bury a shipping Container?

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:lol: that's exactly what his other brother suggested.
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grenfell wrote::lol: that's exactly what his other brother suggested.
Great minds eh ? :roll:

Other than as a flight of fancy I've no plans to build any shelter, it would probably be quite good fun to build one though. Maybe building above ground and covering with earth, now if only I could find 11 or 12 skips full of earth.....
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Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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Deeps wrote:
grenfell wrote::lol: that's exactly what his other brother suggested.
Great minds eh ? :roll:

Other than as a flight of fancy I've no plans to build any shelter, it would probably be quite good fun to build one though. Maybe building above ground and covering with earth, now if only I could find 11 or 12 skips full of earth.....
Firms building estates often have to get rid of lots of soil to level ground, if theres one local they may be happy enough to tip a few loads by your house as it'll save them time moving it miles.
My father did this years back to level out our old garden which had a big dip in it.
Hard work shifing it though... ;)
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have a look at this stuff . seems to cover what you need .

http://www.u-pol.com/uk/en-uk/products/ ... coating-uk
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We want to do this when we buy our next house. The new neighbors will surely think this to be a great first impression.
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Bringing an old thread back, as I saw an article in Yahoo News this morning :)
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wont-believe- ... 00692.html

Not what you're expecting! Not buried, for a start.

Also, does anybody ever go past East Croydon? There's a new two-story "food court" there, just outside the station, built entirely from shipping containers. Burying them is still problematic, but using them as premises seems to be fine :)
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Deeps
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Funnily enough, a mate sent me a link to these guys the other week. It was 'flight of fancy' stuff for him but some interesting options.

https://www.container-housing.co.uk/
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It is rather timely.We have three shipping containers at work.Two for stock storage,and one that can also be turned into a fridge.That will be handy tomorrow when the damned turkeys turn up.So much fuss over the ugliest creature the creator put on the planet!

Shipping containers are big though.Its a hell of a feat to bury one.
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Seen loads of markets made out of shipping containers in poorer parts of the world. Work very well indeed. Usual pattern is two "layers" of containers, bottom one serving as a shopfront, top one as storage, on hardstanding and with rudimentary utilities hooked up alongside.

Wasn't there a Grand Designs episode on a lad in Northern Ireland building a house out of containers too?