Shipping container homes: blueprint how to build a shipping container home for cheap and live mortgage free for rest of your life Paperback – October 22, 2015

A truly interesting idea! This is a wonderful and easy to understand guide on how to built your own container home, leave mortgages behind and just live off the grid. This book will has helped me to better understand how my family and I can afford a perfect little dream how by purchasing a container and working to make it our dream home at our own budget. Some really great details in this guide!

Good Information; but book I received had no page numbers on pages; appeared to print-on-demand. Put text was very helpful.

Contains factual errors, for example initially correctly lists the longest standard container as 53 feet, but later the longest available are only 48 feet. Talks about Corten steel but fails to explain what Corten steel is, why it is used in shipping containers and why you want it. Suggests putting a sod roof on your house.. If your steel box is not rusting fast enough for you, try piling wet dirt on it. How much does wet dirt weigh and what is the load capacity of a shipping container roof? Needs to have page numbers. My overall impression is that the author has never actually seen a shipping container home and maybe never a shipping container. Buying and reading this is a waste of time and money. I feel like I know less about shipping container homes than I did before I read the book.

With the description on the cover I would have expected at least a blueprint or plan or two and possibly one or two pictures. It reads a bit like a high school essay. With that said there are a few tips in this books worth knowing.

Visited a friend's house over the weekend and saw that she lives in a shipping container with her 2 cats. I got so jealous on how she revamped the whole thing! I got curious on how to redecorate a shipping container into a living space and I am surprised that there are so many ways to do it.

Well written, this book covers all the aspects of your selection of containers, location challenges, safety during construction and many other details that must be considered. As someone who is interested in the process of building this information was very helpful.

Simple, easy to understand. Describes all of the details needed for anyone with no experience in home building or conex home building.

Very generic, no real specifics like I was led to believe in the title.If you knew nothing about this, this book would help, but most people ,like me, who want to invest in a container home, have really looked into it. Some specifics please: eg. How to get a building permit for a container home, examples of permits and how to fill them out, examples of floor plans etc. Pictures and examples would help. Nothing here I couldn't have googled and got the same info.. $13 bucks down the drain....very disappointed.