How To Put Siding On A Shipping Container

I m in the design phase of building a shipping container house.

How to put siding on a shipping container.

Installing board and batten siding. Rustic for a rustic look wood cladding can provide a cabin like feel to your shipping container. You ve probably seen examples online. Check out my 10 000 shipping container home.

If you are using the container as a cottage or home away from home this may prove to be the perfect. The house and current garage are spanish style stucco parapet roof with tiles along the rim edges. Shipping container home exterior siding for 1 500 duration. Containing luxury 48 998 views.

Our use of board and batten siding demonstrates one of the many finishing choices you have when you insulate a shipping container with insofast. The cutouts and removal of steel from the shipping container will need to be re supported if the size is very large and you plan on using the roof to stack another shipping container or create a roof top deck. For the siding process you will have to add about 2 feet to the height of the container. Such a container is 40 feet long 91 2 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

Let us consider a 40 feet high cube shipping container. Zoom out for a look at the modern exterior. I d like to hang a garden tool rack on the inside of the doors and a florescent light fixture from the ceiling. We chose it to complement the weathered steel on the lower portion of the shipping.

There is a specific method to calculate the dimensions of the exterior siding of a container. I m planning on placing two 20 containers side by side in my back yard in the space currently occupied by this garage. We have a lot of new and creative b. Today we cover exterior insulation and begin to install the cedar siding for the backside of the shipping container home.

You can also use vinyl and metal siding to get the same effect. 33 exterior wood siding material shipping container design photos and ideas filter. I just got a shipping container for use as storage workshop and need to figure out how to attach things to the container walls and ceiling without causing it to leak. By using steel siding you are mimicking the look of many commercial buildings.

It is visually clean and crisp and will have a timeless look as it weathers. From your dream house to cozy cabins to loft like apartments to repurposed shipping containers these stellar projects promise something for everyone.