• Adkml [he/him]
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      651 year ago

      Truly brilliant.

      Way more sensible than just adding an awning to the side of it for $40 and parking under that.

      Shipping container houses are one of those things that seem like a great idea unless you know literally anything about construction or think about it for more than 30 seconds.

      Case in point the genius telling me that the internal temperature reaching 125 degrees in “some situations” (the sun being out) doesn’t have any effect on living conditions.

      • D61 [any]
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        Case in point the genius telling me that the internal temperature reaching 125 degrees in “some situations” (the sun being out) doesn’t have any effect on living conditions.

        You’re just acclimatizing yourself to the future average day time temperatures. free-real-estate

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      301 year ago

      It comes with all the cost saving of not adding a second pair of legs to the container for the low low price of adding 3 sets of staircases to a 40ft container

    • D61 [any]
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      231 year ago

      For like… 700$ US you can get a “car port” and just bolt the metal supports to the concrete pad.

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        161 year ago

        i dont know where the idea a covering for a vehicle is obligatory even comes from, theres not much of a rule to provide parking period, nevermind covered

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            81 year ago

            that’s how i know developers don’t really give a shit about it. this scheme compromises so much for a thing the competition knows ain’t much of a selling point

          • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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            131 year ago

            if you’re able-bodied and have a $10 brush or scraper, you can clear a car in like 5 minutes or less. it’s even a bit fun.

            Many Canadians are doing this trump-yassified

            • @[email protected]
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              181 year ago

              Unless it rained before it started to snow so you have a nice layer of ice under the snow. Covered parking is just way nicer if you have a car.

              • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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                51 year ago

                Yeah, that’s valid. For me, it’s like 90% of my life was spent in a place where we had to clear our cars of snow and ice as they warmed up for most days for 3 to 4 months of the year, so it never felt that wrong. Covered parking was never even on our radar tbh, but I can see how yucky it would be if it wasn’t the usual

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            71 year ago

            but we’ll tolerate it for basic accomidation, which is seriously bungled by this ‘conveinience’ scheme

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    421 year ago

    All these attempts to make inexpensive, affordable housing like this completely ignore the fact that it’s not the house itself that’s so expensive. It’s the land.

    • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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      161 year ago

      True, though I feel like this kind of “cheap and easy to build housing” is exactly the kind of thing that appeals to the near-sighted ‘real-estate developers’ of today.

      Why spend so much time and money building a duplex, when you can plop some shipping containers on a lot and start leaching in a fraction of the time and with a fraction of the investment?

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        101 year ago

        A tall apartment complex is way more tenants for not much more land though, so it doesn’t even work for that.

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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    281 year ago

    The shipping container home thing is similar to making furniture out of shipping pallets. Not functional, not aesthetically pleasing, and probably dangerous (chemically treated wood vs hot metal box that takes too much work to be livable).

    If Amazon was a competent company that was better than its predecessors, then it would have kit-homes like the Sears catalog used to, and no one would bother with this container BS. But instead it’s oops-all-dropshipping.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      131 year ago

      A good modular home design could fit in a couple shipping containers easily (if packed right). Some stuff will still be needed on site like a level surface and a sewage/water/electric hookup.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      161 year ago

      But instead it’s oops-all-dropshipping.

      I keep saying ads for pre-fab tiny homes that are approaching like 90m² pop up. That used to be like a sears catalogue single family home. I think we’re getting there, if not there already

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    361 year ago

    This just reduces floor space inside the container for no appreciable reason. Park the car on that strip of ground outside.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    141 year ago

    this but instead of a car under the container it’s lying flat and there are several, hundreds even, containers in a row, linked together and all pulled along rails by the same engine

    Death to America

    • SSJ2Marx [he/him]
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      131 year ago

      My new gig work idea the “worker train” we travel from city to city doing temp work.

      • spicy pancake
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        101 year ago

        imagine you live in a crappy town and one day a bunch of temp workers roll up to the station and improve the ever loving shit out of everything before piling back into the train and fucking off into the sunset and everyone just looks around bewildered at the fixed up infrastructure and revived businesses and nice landscaping

        • SSJ2Marx [he/him]
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          111 year ago

          Basically a poverty reduction cadre in a communist country, but we put them on a train so it’s extra communist.