Build a house for less than $5000

Re:Build a house for less than $5000 by rdl on Monday February 13, 2012 @03:52PM (#3587291)

From 2004-2010 I lived in both shipping containers (refitted) and trailers (basically 12' wide knock-down structures) and wooden shacks (and houses).

There are things I'd do with shipping containers to turn them into livable housing, but they go beyond a basic conversion -- it's cutting them apart and basically using them as a source of sheet steel and study frames. Normal steel structures or tilt-ups accomplish basically all of this already.

Prefab modules for things like kitchens/bathrooms, combined with inexpensive ways of enclosing space, is the way to go.

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Re:Build a house for less than $5000 by twelvechairs on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @12:37AM (#3588789)

Thanks. Rare to hear from someone who has done this. Much more sense in the last line particularly than most of the rest of this thread.

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