.ElJefe1971 said:MJman - you said "like a basement in the winter" why not pour some footings and forms and do a basement? Much better in every aspect, no?
MJman said:.
I can buy a container here for about $1500. Plus, the cabin on top is only going to be maybe 12x18. There is no way that I could have a basement poured for that price, in the size the container is, and it would involve a lot of outside people.
thats pretty cool, how does he hide the entrance to his grow bus?framingman001 said:i doo know someone who burried a old school bus, and still grows out of it.
he started with a van. I did ask him about snow melt and such and he said just like any other grow ventilation is key. Out here in MT. high in the mountains it snows alot, and snow is a insullator, he said theres no real snow melt problem.
The only heat issue is the vent. He used to vent it out buy his burn barrel where he would burn his garbage.
Now he has one of those out door boillers to heat his house, and vents it next to that.
But then again he dose own his own backhoe with a good chunck of land so he dose it all himself.
Pretty inpressive to see.
The Hemp Goddess said:The trouble is that you cannot just drop a $1500 container into the ground. These have no real structural integrity. Not only will they not take any weight on the top, they will not take the weight that the earth will exert on the sides either (most building foundations are 6-8" of solid concrete). They are not watertight, they will rust, etc, etc. It will most likely take thousands and thousands (and thousands and thousands and...) of dollars to even get a container in shape to bury. To escape detection, you will need to be several feet down. What are you going to tell the excavator, plumber, electrician, crane operator and everyone else that would need to be involved in this why you are burying a storage container? If you build even a small cabin, you are going to need to get inspections to get water and power to it. I am in construction and this seems incredibly problematic. Just as an example, I cannot think of any way that you could possibly vent through a wood stove with a fire going...
You might want to do some more investigating before you get too far with this. Pouring a basement might seem like a cheap way to go when everything is said and done. As a first step, figure out what kind of stress load the container is capable of and then figure out how much you will need to reinforce it for it to be a safe structure. If you plan on building over the top of it, you need to take the weight of the cabin and its foundation into the equation.
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