Schnitzel with noodles - what made you smile today?

[shmook]

I need a house, and a garden, and 5 ton of steel, 15 ton each of concrete, hardcore and topsoil...

Don't forget the hover bike garage...

[amateurstuntman]

I can get you the construction materials but not the steel.

Also, you are carrying the cement bags yourself.

[Tinkerton]

Can you get me the diggers and stuff as well? That'd make carrying the bags easier...

[shmook]

Dig pit, insert shipping container/s.

 

Saves on fabbing it yourself

 

 

Edit, don't buy one, hire it. They are a few quid a week, and the company doesn't need to know what its use is

[amateurstuntman]

Shipping containers will rot away under the ground.

 

You need to prep it for the ground water.

 

Paint it with the appropriate lead/zinc paint and wrap it in plastic before you bury it.

 

I cannot get you the diggers since the people giving them out are civvies now not army.

 

I can, however, operate any piece of kit you can hire.

[scorch]

Time to build an arnies compound in the mountains?

[shmook]

Shipping containers will rot away under the ground.

 

You need to prep it for the ground water.

 

Paint it with the appropriate lead/zinc paint and wrap it in plastic before you bury it.

 

Obvs...!

[DarkLite]

Bloody hell, containers aren't that cheap. A grand a pop for old rusty ones? Ffffffuuuuu

[shmook]

Yep, it can tot up if you want an underground complex built from them...

[DarkLite]

I was thinking stacking a few of them up to make a two-story building complex above ground, but *fruuuuitcage* that's a lot of money.

[shmook]

Cheaper than a house though.

 

The yanks do it, mainly preppers. Planning permission may be tricky here!

[Skarclaw]

London has effing loads of *suitcase* made out of containers though its a bit silly as the land cost dwarfs construction costs.

 

In any case I have heard lots of bad things about buried shipping containers - the weight of the earth above can cause them to collapse in. I guess if you buried it very shallow?

 

Say you could get planning permission etc etc I'd be minded to get a grain silo and do that up. 

 

edit:

 

I say all this as a person with a bunch of pallets sat in his garden because I collected a load to try and build something with them, before realizing that I needed more than I could realistically obtain  (pinch from skips) myself...

 

edit 2:

 

if you are interested in self build: http://www.wikihouse.cc/ is interesting. but as I mentioned the barrier to cheap housing is land & debt but that is another matter for another time... cheers 

[Alias1983]

Don't forget the weight of the earth will make the container fold like a piece of paper.

 

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[DarkLite]

I'm just wondering if there's any sort of way to make decently strong buildings quickly, cheaply and without having to use loads of specialist tools.

 

I'm pretty sick of single board chest high walls. Want me some proper compounds to assault and defend.

[shmook]

I say all this as a person with a bunch of pallets sat in his garden because I collected a load to try and build something with them, before realizing that I needed more than I could realistically obtain (pinch from skips) myself...

 

You're down south aren't you?

 

I know of a big pile of them going free if you ever get up to East Lancashire way...

 

Edit, DarkLite, at our last location, we built a good few buildings out of fence posts and wriggly tin. Time consuming, but relatively cheap. We had work party days whereabouts of us would pile to site and graft all day

[Lone_Bullet]

I think in Colombia they started using recycled PVC to make large plastic bricks. No mortar or adhesive needed, you hammer them on eachother. Try google it

[shmook]

All you need is a recycling plant, a manufacturing plant and tons of waste PVC then.

 

And a hammer!

 

[scorch]

I've seen fortifications done from double skin wriggly tin propped between scaffold pole pins then filled with concrete.

 

Not the cheapest, but very robust. You wouldn't want to run into it.

[DarkLite]

You're down south aren't you?

 

I know of a big pile of them going free if you ever get up to East Lancashire way...

 

Edit, DarkLite, at our last location, we built a good few buildings out of fence posts and wriggly tin. Time consuming, but relatively cheap. We had work party days whereabouts of us would pile to site and graft all day

 

Been trying to get my local site to start doing this but no joy so far. :C

[hitmanNo2]

I come back from being away for a few days and I see Chris Evans has been kicked off Top Gear.  Made my day ha ha.

[shmook]

Been trying to get my local site to start doing this but no joy so far. :C

Ours isn't a business, it's run by members so everyone can have a say. It helps with jobs like this, easier to get numbers!

[Tinkerton]

Dig pit, insert shipping container/s.

 

Saves on fabbing it yourself

 

 

Edit, don't buy one, hire it. They are a few quid a week, and the company doesn't need to know what its use is

 

but what about when they want it back!?

 

 

I was thinking stacking a few of them up to make a two-story building complex above ground, but *fruuuuitcage* that's a lot of money.

 

You looked at prices of houses? I'd happily pay 50k for a 30-container complex. That's almost a third of the price of a 'house'.

 

I'm just wondering if there's any sort of way to make decently strong buildings quickly, cheaply and without having to use loads of specialist tools.

 

I'm pretty sick of single board chest high walls. Want me some proper compounds to assault and defend.

 

There's a thing called ICF - Insulated Concrete Forms. One of the main companies appears to be Fox Blocks.

 

Essentially, it's some polystyrene held together with some plastic supports. You stack them up a bit like lego, use rebar to tie them all together, and fill them with concrete. 

 

wires and pipes are easily installed as you just chase the polystyrene before putting plasterboard over it, and because it's made by doing cavity insulation, it's hella warm.

 

Plus ITS JUST LEGO! FILLED WITH CONCRETE!

 

I reckon in a weekend three of us could build an epic kill house complex for airsofting in. 

[shmook]

but what about when they want it back!?

 

 

 

Meh. Say it's a 10 year hire and hope the paperwork gets lost

[Gunmane]

Rather *suitcase* day of painting but all worth it when the package came to the door.  Cyma PP-19 after all these years of wanting one since the old bf2/ghost recon days.

 

Now if only I could take it out to the backyard to shoot!

[tquilha]

What made me smile today? Hummm, 2-0!! Bye-bye Wales...