Friday, April 3, 2009

Neal's containing ideas

I know the Family doesn't hear too muchh out of me, but when I give an idea it should be really great and something that most everybody would agree with. Here is my idea for a simple cheep and very "GREEN" idea...from MR. Goldburg. Now I saw this on the HGTV back in the states before I had to start pay a TAX to watch TV...And it to me seemed like it would work great for what we would like to do up at the falls. okay enough of the delay. we could build a non-residential building or Family lodge with a conex or shipping containers!!! the best part of all is that they are actually really cheep too buy! depending on the size and location that you buy them from. The average cost per container is about $1,500-$2,000. You can even order them off e-bay http://shop.ebay.com/items/Shipping-Containers.
I have it all laid out in my head how it would look, but i do not have any program that i could use to draw it up. but it's very simple;
just pour a solid foundation (a 50ft x 30-40ft or depending on the length of the containers) stack 2 in each corner or 2 on both ends( if you went with say a 20ft or 40ft) (also if you stack 2 then you can have a cheep second floor and turn the corners into rooms/lofts) and walah!!!you have the main foundation and 80% of the "family lodge" built. the front and back sides could be sealed to the (water proof) conex with a simple garage style walls that connect the two ends. and even a garage door could be used. Are you guys seeing this from my heads point of view yet?. here is another link that has several other links on it, so you can see what other people all over the world have done with this. http://www.shedandshelter.com/conex/conex.htm
even if nobody else wanted this I still think that it would be a good idea for a garage/shed for all of the CFLLC stuff like tractors and other such things that would want to be kept stored and safe. but the great thing about building this is it wouldn't be hard to updat and refit with plumbing if the time ever came to were you could do so. again they are cheep, thousands of configurations, very eco/green and it just looks really cool. This is just my idea and want to see what the rest of you might think about doing something like this.
love neal.

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