Installing Windows in a Shipping Container - No Welding Method

Even thought I think framing your tiny home conventionally is smarter :) I had a viewer ask me to make a video about installing windows in a shipping container, so here you are :)
Se my other video about why shipping containers make no cents here • Shipping Container Hom...
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[@MorninTripper]

Excellent video Tony... thanks. Appreciate your easy-to-understand style of teaching common building standards and common sense construction methods.

[@ArtisanTony]

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[@Don_Dries]

This is an amazing video

[@ArtisanTony]

Thank you, I am trying to get the pros and cons of shipping containers out there because few people share the cons :)

[@Don_Dries]

@@ArtisanTony the SketchUp models make it very easy to understand! The biggest thing im breaking my head over is thermal bridging & insulation vs space

[@toddtomaszewski4626]

Thank you for sharing this with me.😁👍

[@ArtisanTony]

Thanks for watching!

[@NicosProjects]

😍😍 great! Thanks for the Video!!!!

[@johnjenkins6118]

Thanks for video. I followed it and installed a window into my shipping container. And it worked out perfectly...

[@ArtisanTony]

Oh man, send me some pics and I'll show them in a video :) If you decide to you can send them to [e-mail] Thanks!

[@johnjenkins6118]

@@ArtisanTony Awesome... I sent the pictures to you. Let me know if you got them... Thanks so much for your amazing knowledge.

[@ArtisanTony]

@@johnjenkins6118 Yes, thanks! I might have time this weekend to feature them in a video. Thanks again! :)

[@kjgfkigkh]

This was a wonderful video. Thank you 🙏

[@ArtisanTony]

Thank you :)

[@billlevassiur5891]

Great video. Much to take in.

[@ArtisanTony]

Thanks :)

[@RJM1011]

Nice work. :)

[@ArtisanTony]

Thanks Richard!

[@pcofranc]

Always appreciate your videos and sketchup designs. So many fake idiots that use SU for interior design or to fool around with but I find it's a different story when you take actual measurements of existing structures and put them in and where accuracy is needed because you will be actually building something. Shipping containers are joke except for limited situations. No load on on roof? Tell that to my local church where they buried the job site shipping container and lined it with some kind of sealant and it is being used to store rain water. He put cones around it so no drive on it with a vehicle and fall in!

[@ArtisanTony]

I was saying the roof was not designed to carry a load. They will carry some load

[@Maurice1151]

Got giddy watching all that 3D modelling!

[@ArtisanTony]

haha, we do it in real life too :)

[@jameskelly6970]

How is the 2x4 framing structure on the inside attached to the container or when you build the whole framing inside is it a standalone structure inside the container?

[@ArtisanTony]

Typically you would have framing members across the top to holding the side walls in place so it's kind of a friction fit :)

[@HM-ji7le]

There’s already a limited amount of space in side the container, is there a way to do the framing and tyvek on the outside of container?

[@philiptaylor2567]

I don't know if shipping containers are a fad or not. I doubt they'll be as popular in 20 years as they are now, but I still think people will be building them for a number of reasons. For me it's about cost, and convenience. I've never built one. Have helped build a timber house, and just watched a ton of videos of people building container homes. The fact that you have a closed in water tight space that can be built on a hand full of concrete pillars is what appeals to me. My idea for a long time has been to build one from a 53 ft container at 450 Sq ft. A 40 ft container is too small to live in. I would also want to attach a 20 ft container on one end, arranged in a L shape, literally by just building a doorway between the two. That would serve as a bedroom. That would be the cheapest, easiest, fastest way to actually get a decent space at 610 Sq ft. But when people attach multiple containers in elaborate ways it defeats the purpose. Those things cost just as much, and take as much time to build as a timber house with all the structural work required. If I could build a 610 Sq ft timber house as cheaply as the container house, I would just do that. Would be easier to find land in that case, easier to get a loan, and probably a better long term real estate investment. But since I'm poor, I think I'll have to be a cliche millennial and build a "shipping container home".

[@ArtisanTony]

I have another video where I build a material list for a building that is 12 feet and 40 feetlong and the materials were about the sane and you get more building by building it yourself. They are good for storage of whatever but not the best for living in.

[@bashinicharles5391]

what drawing software your using ?

[@munsonmusclefitness]

He is using sketchup

[@TheJamesNigra]

Work with doors too?

[@ArtisanTony]

Yes, doors should have head flashing too

[@keeganwrathmall]

Is there not a benefit to building in a shipping container considering it is a moveable object like a caravan ie. When you sell the property you can uplift the house and move it and dont have to get architects, planning, etc.

[@ArtisanTony]

I can also move my tiny house I built conventionally for half the price of altering a shipping container :) You realize that 99% of the buildings moved are not shipping containers :)

[@keeganwrathmall]

@ArtisanTony what would be the weight of a shipping container sized tiny home of conventional construction? If it is movable for cheaper than that of a shipping container then that would be a big benefit. On a side note, I personally couldn't make a tiny home as structurally strong compared to that of a container, I would need to employ a builder and there in lies the problem. In my opinion I could carry out most of the shipping container work myself. Not so for a tiny home. Maybe it's not too complicated but I'd need to do some reading.

[@ArtisanTony]

@@keeganwrathmall you have a false impression of shipping containers and if they were a viable source for housing, every spec builder in this country would be using them. You don't have to learn from pros like me if you don't want to . I have been in the business for 45 years. Go ahead, buy a shipping container and live in it lol

[@kumark214]

@@ArtisanTonywhy can’t it be a viable source of housing?

[@JP-yl6on]

Before installing windows in a shipping container, you should weld in a 2x2 or 2x3 mild steel tube frame or angle iron to add structure. Then a buck for the window and add the window, lexel sealant, flashing tape and etc.

[@ArtisanTony]

The point of this video was to provide a no weld option. Hence the title of the video. The framed wall adds the structure without welding.

[@pcofranc]

The more I watch the shipping container as it is being modified esp for the window opening it's just begging for leaks. The irregular corrugated surfaces, the expansion gaps they amount of work to cut the metal. Krazy Shipping container fad.... The roof is like car roof but weaker. Dreadful - start with a narrow opening on the container and then watch it shrink as you add framing, dry wall etc. The right way is just imaging you are working inside a shipping container and just build away with the benefit that there is no metal to cut and when you are done no one will know.

[@ArtisanTony]

I agree with you :) thanks for the comment!

[@kumark214]

Not true. The roof is much much stronger than a car roof. Roof has specific ISO tests for loads. They are deep drawn 2mm thick corten steel. And all the issues you point out are issues with the design not with the container. A stick built can’t compare with a container structure strength. A well designed build and layout will make this quite viable.