Shipping containers are being used to make residential pools. Why not? They’re leak-proof metal, and already the shape of a lot of pools out there.
When we think of shipping container homes, we usually think of square blocks with their original corrugated metal walls, but the range of residential uses for shipping container homes has really increased, and has been for a while. The shipping container home trend is becoming a significant part of architecture and design, for everything from sheds and storage buildings to offices, guest houses, cabins, tiny homes, large mansions, apartment complexes and a lot of others.
Recently we’ve been looking at shipping container buildings — especially residential — more because of the sometimes lower cost of building with them. When you buy shipping container bins used, its for a couple of thousand dollars, and there is a big variety: some are fully bins, some have doors, some have ribs instead of walls, some have roofs, and so if there’s supply appropriate, they can fill in big parts of a building’s material needs.
We also found a company that has been collecting shipping container builds and putting them together in a collection (a pdf book called “Shipping Container Homes”). They’re called Container Home. Here’s one of the houses they’ve collected from the Taylor and Brooke Wagen in Texas. They used one type 1A HC container, and the cost was around $22,000.
“Self-built by Taylor and Brooke Wagen this domestic swimming pool has been constructed from a modified type 1A 40’ shipping container. Most rectangular swimming pools are about twice as long on one side as they are on the other, with an average depth of around 5.5 feet.
“From a dimensional point of view a shipping container pool is reminiscent of a purist lap pool. A typical lap pool measures between 40 – 75 feet in length and 8 – 10 feet wide. This shipping container swimming pool conversion is 40’ x 8’ x 6’ deep. A typical swimming pool has a deep end and shallow end – using a modified container means that the swimming pool will be of a single depth.”
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