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A new play on shipping container homes - NorthernRaider - 7 July 2012

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/04/tech/box-home-eco-shipping/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - TOF - 7 July 2012

I think these non traditional houses are great, can you imagine the hoops your local council would make you jump through to get planning permission? That's if you'd get it.


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - NorthernRaider - 7 July 2012

I was chatting to a shop owner up Teesdale today and she lives in a static caravan round the back of her parents house up the the hills some place, I expressed concern as to her heating bill costs and how she stayed warm in the winter even in a caravan fitted with a winterisation kit. She said it was easily sorted , each october her dad stacked the bails of hay used to feed the animals like a false wall around the sides of her mobile home. She said no wind gets past a haybail wall !!!


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - TOF - 8 July 2012


There's some great ideas for alternative building materials out there. Using tyres filled with earth, straw bales, sand bags. I just wish instead of giving these money grubbing building companies the opportunity to build substandard or expensive 'executive' homes the councils would give the average Joe Bloggs the chance to have his own house built in materials of his choice! But then I s'pose they wouldn't get their nice foreign holidays would they?
Oh silly me.... that's sense talking can't have any of that.


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - NorthernRaider - 8 July 2012

OOOOH dont talk about rammed earth houses Smile, My dream girl movie start from my misguided youth was Kaki Hunter ( Wendy Williams out of Porkies) and she now builds rammed earth home for a living in Utah, In her 50s now and still beautiful.


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - Skean Dhude - 8 July 2012

NR, I remember her but I liked Kim Cattrall. She is the same age and still yummy too.


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - NorthernRaider - 8 July 2012

(8 July 2012, 20:00)Skean Dhude Wrote: NR, I remember her but I liked Kim Cattrall. She is the same age and still yummy too.

Kim Catrall???, Kim Catrall you mean LASSIE Smile Owoooooooh


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - Navigator - 29 October 2012

Are pics allowed? Just wanna say this dood seems to have got his shite together nicely, i think it's Canada-
[Image: cab062.jpg]


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - bigpaul - 29 October 2012

(29 October 2012, 11:40)Navigator Wrote: Are pics allowed? Just wanna say this dood seems to have got his shite together nicely, i think it's Canada-
[Image: cab062.jpg]

bloody nice..i want it!!


RE: A new play on shipping container homes - NorthernRaider - 29 October 2012

Theres a company only two miles from me who have these winterised ISO container site cabins, I'll have to check it out more.