Posted: 2/13/2009 2:15:09 PM EDT
| I am planning on buying a house with some land, on my property I plan on getting a 20ft shipping container and partially burying it.. Would this be good for a armory? I can insulate it and run power to it so heat and ac would be available. I think its a good Idea I would like to actually bury it completly and make a entrance to it using storm doors like the old school bomb shelter. |
| I have a container. above ground. (poor man's shed) They treat the wood floor with some nasty smelling chemicals from what I've seen in dozens of containers on the job through the years, including mine. Finding an MSDS sheet on the shit is nearly impossible.Ventilation would be needed if buried or not. |
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I have a container. above ground. (poor man's shed) They treat the wood floor with some nasty smelling chemicals from what I've seen in dozens of containers on the job through the years, including mine. Finding an MSDS sheet on the shit is nearly impossible.Ventilation would be needed if buried. creosote? Don't get fire near that stuff. 
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I had a little fantasy a while back about half burying a container in a hill, like your idea. The doors would be open though, and I'd fill the back with dirt like a backstop. I'd run shop lights with a cable along the top. I figure with the doors all the way open I wouldn't have to worry about ventilation.
That would be my covered short range. But first I need land to do it. 
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If you want a container for any other use than just cheap storage...
Look into a CHU (Container Housing Unit - what we use for barracks rooms in Iraq) or one of those contractor-style office-containers.... Don't bury it.... If you want it hidden, camouflage it with above-ground items (plants/vines, etc)..... |
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I have a container. above ground. (poor man's shed) They treat the wood floor with some nasty smelling chemicals from what I've seen in dozens of containers on the job through the years, including mine. Finding an MSDS sheet on the shit is nearly impossible.Ventilation would be needed if buried. creosote? Don't get fire near that stuff. It's for preserving the wood and kills vermin too from what I've heard. Nasty chemical smell. I've set enough power poles to know what creosote smell like. It ain't creosote. |