Container Home: Finishing Up the Earth Tube Cooling System - 25 October 2015

A lot was accomplished this last weekend. I finished connecting the culvert piping. I used cement for the large gaps and then covered that will aluminum tape. Finally, I cut small portions of the piping and put over the aluminum tape so that weight of the ground would be distributed...

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Container Home: Telephone Pole Installation - 18 October 2015

This weekend, we got the telephone pole installed. Since there will be no electric utility hookup, I had to install my own pole, or pay roughly $2,000 to have one installed. Luckily, my neighbor had a pole laying around and brought it down and gave it to me. He also helped...

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Container Home: Earth Tube Cooling Installation - 11 October 2015

This weekend, I started on the earth tube cooling system. I purchased 12 inch culverts. There is 85 feet for the air to travel through and cool down. We dug it 6 feet down.  Here is a pic of starting the dig. Here is after the first trench was dug and we initially...

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Container Home: Coal Tar Epoxy Application - 07 October 2015

I took the past two weekdays off of work to come over and work on applying the coal tar epoxy to the end of the container where the geothermal cooling pipes will be run out of. The wall had to first be completely free of all rust. I did this by using a wire brush on my angle grinder....

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Container Home: Installing First Window - 04 October 2015

This is the second weekend in a row in which it has rained, thereby leaving me unable to apply the coal tar epoxy to the exterior wall. In order to continue with the build, I decided to go ahead and install the first window. I took my time doing this because of several reasons....

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Container Home: Welded Containers Together - 20 September 2015

This weekend, I welded the steel plate over the seal between the two containers. The plate will protect the seal in the event a limb falls on it and it also provides a second barrier to stop water from coming in. I also painted the plate with undercoating paint and then sealed...

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Container Home: Vertical Support Beams in Place - 13 September 2015

I finally made it back to work on the house after three weeks off. I got the vertical support beams welded in place. This is such a relief because it was the most dangerous part of the entire project. Getting that horizontal beam up to the ceiling was a challenge unto itself,...

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Container Home: Installing Ceiling Supports - 22 August 2015

Here is putting the i-beam in place across the ceiling. The i-beam is necessary to support this end. We did not want any posts inside the living room, so we are using the i-beam. This was a very tedious process that required a lot of work. I first had to cut the i-beam down,...

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Container Home: Walls Completely Cut Out - 08 August 2015

Here is the latest picture of the inside as I have cut out the inner walls and welded the support beams in the back. The 4x4s are temporary until I can get a welder out there to cut and weld the 8" I-Beam to the ceiling along with the two vertical support beams on either end...

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Container Home: Cutting out the Center walls - 01 August 2015

Once those support beams were in place, I began cutting out the inner walls from both containers. This portion will be the master bedroom and bathroom, which will be 13'x16'. For the water supply, we will be using two 275 gallon totes. These are FDA grade totes used in...

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Container Home: Installing Vertical Supports - 18 July 2015

Once I got that sealed, I cut a small portion of the inner walls out so that I could weld the two vertical support beams in place. These are 2"x2"x.25" beams that can support up to 2.5 tons of weight. ...

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Container Home: Lining up the containers - 11 July 2015

When I came back to begin work on connecting the containers together, I realized we had not completely pulled the container together. Luckily, I had built a very strong bumper for me Jeep. I connected a 6 ton steel cable to the d-ring and then ran that around a tree in the...

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Container Home: Delivering the Second Shipping Container - 13 June 2015

We had the second container delivered and this one was tricky to get in place. We had to use the scoop and get some dirt out of the way on the left corner there so the container could be pulled into place. Here is after we got the second shipping container moved into place....

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Container Home: Delivering the First Shipping Container - 16 May 2015

Here is a picture of the first container being delivered. This was right after the container was slowly lowered down to the slab. After the container got put partially in place on the slab, we used a backhoe to pull it into place. Here is a video I took as...

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