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Shipping Container Homes: The Ultimate Guide To Building Shipping Container Homes For Sustainable Living, Including Plans, Tips, Cool Ideas, And More! Paperback – October 31, 2016

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Shipping container homes are once again becoming popular trend in the midst of today’s most recent home innovations. This is because there are still plenty of people who opt for a sustainable lifestyle.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 31, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1539857670
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1539857679
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.23 x 9 inches

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mcjack

It's a start....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2020

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Practical and common sense to get you started but didn't really contain any good plans or a variety of plans as hoped. but now getting most of the information on line at various websites on going through with building our first container rental.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2017

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After watching 1000's of YouTube videos, checking out countless websites and numerous building plans along with looking at land, my head was swimming with too much unorganized information. I finally decided to get a book that had some basic information. This book helped give me better insight on what I need to look at beyond how my home shipping container home will be designed. Have much more clarity. I only wish that I had taken the time to write down the resources mentioned in the book because this book does not have a cheat listing all the various things needed at the various stages of building. But I think its definitely worth a second read and gives great insight into the do and don't of shipping container homes. Greatly appreciated!

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Jens

worth the read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 27, 2016

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Lately I've been very interested in small and moveable homes. I really like the part with “success stories”, it really made me want to move into one of those container apartments.
 I feel like this is a really good start if you’re thinking about getting a shipping container home, it can be overwhelming to think about where to start, so it’s great with cheap and small books like this one with conveniently packed information that tells you what to look for from start to finish.
 I think this was worth the read. But I'm still not sure if I'll choose the RV or this. I'll have to investigate further.

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Not Anywhere Near An Ultimate Guide

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2016

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There is nothing "ultimate" about this.

128 pages of big, poorly formatted, type, without a single, solitary picture or diagram.

The first couple chapters had some specific information about shipping container homes but most other content was curated by the author by quoting and relating others who had actual experience.

Chapter 8 is entirely useless quoting completely nonsensical crap including a 9 page story about a girl talking to her elementary school teacher- I am not making this up!

Chapter 9 (Recommendations)- provides such wisdom as to list cloth storage boxes, rust converter, hangers (2 pages), and temporary screens...

(Both Chapters 8 and 9 are so useless as to make one think their only value is to make a minimum page count in order to get published.

2 stars for the 25% of the information which was actually helpful, and although still in a grindingly horrible format, actually relevant to shipping container homes.

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Josh Carlson

introduces a cheaper yet elegant way of building a house.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 26, 2016

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Building a house is really an important part especially when having a family however, without proper budget, it's hard to put it into reality. This book introduces a cheaper yet elegant way of building a house. With the use of shipping containers, one can build a comfortable house with a minimum cost. This book is an ultimate guide for building shipping container homes. This book also tells us how to plan and design our very own shipping container home and some alternative ways to use the shipping containers. This has really given me a better understanding of shipping container homes and everything involved in building one.

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good book to make an informed decision about shipping container home purchase

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2016

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Shipping container homes have many advantages and disadvantages, and you've gotta make your own research before getting this type of home. Otherwise, some dishonest sellers may take advantage of your naivety. Most of people I know, have no idea about this type of accommodation, and its multiple other potential uses. There is no friend to ask an advice. It was great to get this amount of information for this nice price.
I never thought that it's actually very expensive to transport shipping container home from the port. The author is making real life examples and calculations which helps a lot in estimation. So if you live in remote area or far away from the big port, container transportation may actually cost more than a container itself. Well, this is just an example of how good the author understands the subject. I felt he loves what he is writing about. However, he is not trying to sell it to us or to persuade us to make a certain decision. This is just an information from someone who knows a lot about the container homes, and who impartially explains all pros and cons. And we are the ones who should take the informed decision.

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Historyin

Waste of money; an obvious cash grab.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 2, 2017

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I rarely write product reviews, but I wanted to take the time to warn any potential readers not to buy this book. It is essentially simply information lifted from the internet (admittedly, I suppose). Did you know there's a site called Shipping Container Homes? Well, now you do, and most of this book appears to have been compiled from random articles located on the site, so I've now saved you the trouble of paying to read it.

The book is cheap, and while there may be a place for a book that compiles information, this book doesn't even do it well enough to provide value for money. It's full of information that is obvious (measurements of containers), contradictory (shipping containers may have toxic chemicals in them - but they make great playhouses for children!), and really just nonsensical. The longest chapter in the book is a series of random quotations from people I have never heard of dealing with everything from self-help to a critique of the educational system, none of which has anything to do with shipping container houses. An obvious and insulting cash grab, skip it.

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Bobbie Parsons,Jr.

Extremely educational! If you are thinking about building a ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 25, 2016

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Extremely educational! If you are thinking about building a shipping container home then this book is an essential resource. The author goes into details that I never thought about. I have watched shows of the "preppers" that have used containers for their housing needs and I have learned that a lot more research needs to be done after reading this book. If you are planning on building a shipping container home in the near future, then this is a book you need to read!

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MrKandid

Not Ultimate, Misleading, No Graphics or plans, avoid.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 28, 2016

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These other reviews are definitely NOT for the Book that I received; maybe I got a book with the same cover but something different inside. I was looking forward to a decent book on Container homes BUT THIS IS NOT IT!!!!. I am never this critical about books I buy, and I buy many on many subjects, but this book is a special exception. There is nothing "Ultimate" about this book. It says its got plans but there are NONE; at least not the graphical kind. At one point there are pages and pages of container measurements, really? This books seems to be someone's notes or blog posts that got cobbled together and wrapped in a nice cover. The pictures (of any kind), diagrams (Of any kind), ONLY exist on the cover; there are none in the book. I appreciate that producing a book can be difficult but the content of this book is nearly completely vacuous. When I got this book, I went through it and within 30 minutes I was on Amazon's website getting a refund and return. Make your own decision about the book; it may be helpful to anyone who has never spent 20 minutes Googling container homes.

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WASTE OF MONEY - TERRIBLE

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 3, 2017

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This is absolutely the worst book I have ever read concerning alternative building and DIY projects. The contents to me seems as if it is a compilation of information from the internet with absolutely no personal experience of the author. The front page describes the contents of the book (to be honest that is why I purchased the book) but the contents is not there!!! No floor plans, no instructions how to connect containers, no information on condensation, NOTHING!! Really this book seems as if it was written by a grade school student as a project - that is how good it is. The author forgot to invest into proof reading of the contents, so at various points in the so called book you find the exactly same paragraph that was a page back etc. WASTE OF MONEY. Not going to spend any more time describing the uselessness of the book. TERRIBLE

MR EC ALDER

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 2, 2017

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Okay for the price.

Lou

Not a good book for the basics

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 10, 2017

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Not a good book for the basics, it just talks about issues with no real specifics. There are better books out there.

Teena Smith

One Star

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 4, 2017

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It is hard to believe that this got published. Very disappointing...not even well edited.

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