Building a home today is not difficult. To do this, there are a lot of special materials that are quite practical in use and operation and are endowed with certain technical and quality characteristics. Despite this, now you can often find a house from a sea container. This building is distinguished by its originality and extraordinary functionality.
Characteristics of shipping containers
As a rule, these designs are used to transport any cargo on ships. Now you can build houses from shipping containers. Their photos are quite diverse, as is the design.
So, such designs are based on a metal frame made of shaped pipes with parameters:
- 20x20mm;
- 40х20 mm.
The frame itself is mounted on metal channels or I-beam pipes. It is for this reason that containers have a high rate of strength and reliability. Sheets of metal are used as a coating. As a rule, they are corrugated. Their thickness can be 2 or 3 mm. In some cases, this parameter of metal sheetsalso found in 4 or 5 mm.
Note. Due to the fact that the structure is made of durable and reliable material, the sea container house will have similar characteristics.
Parameters and shapes of shipping containers
At the moment there are two forms of such constructions:
- square;
- rectangular.
Their sizes are various. Square designs have length:
- 2 m;
- 3 m;
- 4 m;
- 6 m.
The width is 2m or 3m. Rectangular containers are 12m long and the width is the same.
Thanks to this size, building a house from shipping containers is quick and easy. For this, his project is being initially developed.
Varieties of houses based on such structures
At the moment, a house from a sea container can be:
- single-storey;
- two-story.
Important. Experts do not recommend constructing buildings with a higher number of storeys due to expensive reinforcement work during the construction process.
It is also worth considering that the houses of their sea containers can have not only straight and standard shapes. You can create modern architectural creations that are unique in your style.
There are also modular houses made from shipping containers. What it is? Himself byThe container itself is a separate module. Accordingly, modular houses are buildings from several containers that are securely fastened together and finished.
Construction cost
At the moment, not every person who owns a suburban area can build a house on it from modern materials. This is due only to their cost, which is beyond the reach of many of us.
Why are shipping container houses so popular? All this is due to the cost of funds for their construction. Firstly, the price of a container varies between 5-7 thousand US dollars. And for a functional full-fledged house, you may need up to 2 pieces of such structures. Secondly, the delivery of containers is fast and easy. Its cost reaches 80 thousand rubles. Buying them is also easy.
Finishing the house in the future will also not be expensive, as there are a lot of modern tools that can be used on a metal surface.
Stages of building a container house
Initially, you need to decide on the amount of required living space. Sometimes one construct of this type may be sufficient, and in some cases several may be used.
Important. Preliminary it is necessary to make anti-corrosion treatment of containers.
Used for this purpose are special tools that are applied to the surface of a metal structure. All this contributes to the protection of the future home from variousimpacts.
Building a house from sea containers involves the implementation of certain stages of work:
- project development;
- construction of the foundation;
- fastening containers;
- strengthening load-bearing structures;
- building insulation;
- exterior and interior decoration.
All this will require a minimum of effort and time.
Building a building design
Projects of houses from sea containers can be anything. You can draw up a building plan yourself or seek help from professional architects. Although there is no difficulty in doing everything with your own hands. Most importantly, functional rooms must be considered:
- living room;
- bedroom;
- kitchen area;
- sanitary rooms;
- utility premises.
At the same time, their dimensions directly depend only on the number of containers used in construction. Bedrooms can be two or three. Their number is based on the number of people living in the house.
Foundation for a house
It is worth noting that a house made from a sea container has a fairly large mass, and one cannot do without building a fairly solid and reliable foundation. As a rule, in most cases a monolithic foundation is made.
For this you will need:
- sand;
- cement grade 400;
- water.
Advice. Special hardeners or other appropriate additives can be used to increase the cure time of the base.
Preliminarily, a wooden formwork is being built along the perimeter of the future building, which will be needed to pour the concrete solution. A reinforcing mesh is also made and placed in the formwork. The solution is mixed in a concrete mixer until a homogeneous mass is formed.
Note. Do not immediately pour all the components of the concrete solution into a mixing container. Everything must be done in the process of kneading gradually.
Container fastening
In such works, special metal corners or simple pipes are used. They are mounted both inside and on the outer surface of the structure. The walls that are not needed in the layout of the space are preliminarily removed from the containers.
It is also worth considering that you need to strengthen the entire structure if it contains more than one floor. For this, channels or profiled pipes of large size and a wall thickness of at least 2 mm are used, which are fixed on the bearing walls.
Advice. Such work is also carried out inside and outside the future building.
At the same time, windows and doors are cut through. You can do this with a grinder. All cut edges are processed with special tools.
Building insulation
As a rule, any building requires special insulation andisolation. This only has a positive effect on the microclimate in the premises. In some cases, such work is not necessary. If a residential building is being built from sea containers, then insulation and insulation work is recommended.
All this is due to the fact that metal is an excellent conductor of sounds. That is, if you do not isolate the walls of the building from such an impact, then during the rain it will not be possible to be in it. In addition, metal is considered a cold material, and even with an optimally selected home heating system, the rooms will still be cool. Moreover, the metal heats up perfectly under the influence of sunlight.
Advice. In addition to internal and external insulation, experts recommend that you first consider the ventilation system of the entire building.
Use to insulate the entire structure:
- mineral wool;
- foam;
- polyurethane foam.
The first tool may lose its technical characteristics over time. As a rule, the term of its operation is no more than 10 years. Another thing is polystyrene or polyurethane foam. These are sheet materials that are quite easy to install due to the density of their structure. Also, their service life is at least 20 years. In addition, they are used not only for insulation, but also for building insulation, unlike mineral wool.
Attach any of these products to special glue or plastic pins. They are pre-screwed into the walls of the container. overmaterials are covered with polyethylene film.
External and interior finishes
Preliminarily, a number of preparatory work must be carried out on the surface. In addition to insulation, they also construct a crate made of wood or metal. Sheets of plywood or OSB will be mounted on it for further finishing.
In works on external design, it is used:
- natural or artificial stone;
- decorative plaster;
- block house;
- plastic;
- siding.
Sometimes they amaze with their originality at home from shipping containers. Photos of some of them can be seen in the article.
Each of the above materials has excellent quality characteristics. Mounting them is easy and simple. Only in this case, certain technologies are used.
Natural and decorative stone is attached to a primed surface with a concrete mortar or a special adhesive. The plaster is applied with spatulas of different sizes on a flat surface. As a rule, it has the original structure after drying, and it is not necessary to process it with sandpaper.
Block house, siding and plastic are mounted on a wooden crate, which is varnished to protect the wood structure. They use special self-tapping screws, guides and other auxiliary tools in their work.
In the interior decoration, work is carried out similarly to the exterior. Initially, an evensurface and only then finishing agents are mounted on it. Only instead of plywood and OSB, you can use drywall, which is perfectly exposed to wallpaper, plaster, paint, and so on. It should be taken into account that the height of the ceiling in a house made of shipping containers will not exceed 2.4 m. This means that there is no need to use multi-level ceiling structures in surface finishing. It is better to opt for a simple installation of drywall sheets or to make stretch ceilings, which at their cost will be much cheaper than drywall and easier to install. Moreover, there are various options for surface design with their help.
