Buying a 20ft container?
Oct 25th 2012 | 2:11 am
#1
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From: Sooke, BC.
Buying a 20ft container?
Has anyone purchased a 20ft stackable, registered container for shipping to Canada rather than just rented a unit?
We are looking at that option so that we will have an extra secure storage unit on our land where we are buying a property. Once we get it there we will mount it on concrete plynths, clad it in wood to blend it in with the local environment and live in it!.... only joing about the last bit
Just wondering how much a second hand container would cost to buy outright?
We are looking at that option so that we will have an extra secure storage unit on our land where we are buying a property. Once we get it there we will mount it on concrete plynths, clad it in wood to blend it in with the local environment and live in it!.... only joing about the last bit
Just wondering how much a second hand container would cost to buy outright?
Oct 25th 2012 | 2:58 am
#2
Up Your Kilt
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From: 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights
Re: Buying a 20ft container?
Has anyone purchased a 20ft stackable, registered container for shipping to Canada rather than just rented a unit?
We are looking at that option so that we will have an extra secure storage unit on our land where we are buying a property. Once we get it there we will mount it on concrete plynths, clad it in wood to blend it in with the local environment and live in it!.... only joing about the last bit
Just wondering how much a second hand container would cost to buy outright?
We are looking at that option so that we will have an extra secure storage unit on our land where we are buying a property. Once we get it there we will mount it on concrete plynths, clad it in wood to blend it in with the local environment and live in it!.... only joing about the last bit
Just wondering how much a second hand container would cost to buy outright?
Better to bury the container and have the grow-op under ground.
Oct 25th 2012 | 5:51 am
#3
Pea Brain
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Re: Buying a 20ft container?
http://numendevelopment.com/photos
Oct 25th 2012 | 7:33 am
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Re: Buying a 20ft container?
Has anyone purchased a 20ft stackable, registered container for shipping to Canada rather than just rented a unit?
We are looking at that option so that we will have an extra secure storage unit on our land where we are buying a property. Once we get it there we will mount it on concrete plynths, clad it in wood to blend it in with the local environment and live in it!.... only joing about the last bit
Just wondering how much a second hand container would cost to buy outright?
We are looking at that option so that we will have an extra secure storage unit on our land where we are buying a property. Once we get it there we will mount it on concrete plynths, clad it in wood to blend it in with the local environment and live in it!.... only joing about the last bit
Just wondering how much a second hand container would cost to buy outright?
You may also want to check planning and building bylaws to make sure you can do what you want.
http://www.isbu-info.org/all_about_s...ers_buying.htm
Oct 25th 2012 | 8:45 am
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Re: Buying a 20ft container?
Why joke about it? - it's not that uncommon to convert them for living space:
http://numendevelopment.com/photos
http://numendevelopment.com/photos
Plus...we have a house on the land to move into already.
Cost of a container? Blimey... it's not such a hard ask is it?
Actually, on googling it, they cost about GBP 2k it seems.
Thanks for the input all the same. I now kind of wish I'd googled it in the first place, rather that ask on BE.
Oct 25th 2012 | 12:31 pm
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From: Rural Nova Scotia
Re: Buying a 20ft container?
I looked into buying one of these whilst in UK a few years back ....brand new 20 foot was about £1600
Oct 25th 2012 | 8:57 pm
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Oct 26th 2012 | 3:07 am
#8
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Re: Buying a 20ft container?
A bloke I met somewhere south of Vancouver back in the 90s had a few of those on his lot. He'd converted them into grow ops. For mushrooms of varying types. He sold the mushrooms to restaurants in Vancouver.
The smell inside those things was horrendous.
The smell inside those things was horrendous.
Oct 26th 2012 | 5:39 am
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From: Fredericton, New Brunswick CA
Re: Buying a 20ft container?
I'm joking about it because, as a squaddie, in the Falklands that what we had to do to survive... if you didn't laugh you'd lose the plot!!
Plus...we have a house on the land to move into already.
Cost of a container? Blimey... it's not such a hard ask is it?
Actually, on googling it, they cost about GBP 2k it seems.
Thanks for the input all the same. I now kind of wish I'd googled it in the first place, rather that ask on BE.
Plus...we have a house on the land to move into already.
Cost of a container? Blimey... it's not such a hard ask is it?
Actually, on googling it, they cost about GBP 2k it seems.
Thanks for the input all the same. I now kind of wish I'd googled it in the first place, rather that ask on BE.
Oct 26th 2012 | 7:07 am
#10
Sawdust making harpy
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Posts: 11,291
From: Alberta
Re: Buying a 20ft container?
it's quite a common thing to do actually (rent / buy storage containers and use them as - well storage err containers).
Cheaper than a shed and waterproof
Cheaper than a shed and waterproof
