Lots of people come to our site and see shipping container homes and fall in love with how incredible they look and also how affordable they are. But they always want to know if living in a shipping container home is safe.
We get emails from mothers asking if a shipping container home is safe for her family to live in. We also get emails from people who want to build a shipping container cabin to use in the wilderness and want to know if it’s safe from people breaking into it.
So today we’re going to look at exactly how safe shipping container homes are and whether you should be thinking about living in one.
Do Shipping Container’s Contain Harmful Chemicals?
The most common safety question people ask is whether shipping containers have harmful chemicals? I think a lot of these concerns come from a well-written article by Brian Pagnotta at Arch Daily on the advantages and disadvantages of living in a shipping container home.
The article highlights two key concerns:
- Wooden floors used in the majority of shipping containers are treated with hazardous chemicals such as pesticides
- Some shipping containers are coated in paint which contains harmful chemicals such as phosphorous and chromate
Brian rightly raises these concerns. But, like most things, there is more to this than first meets the eye.
If you are purchasing and building your home with new shipping containers, and you’re ‘ordering them direct’ from Asia, then you don’t need to worry about these concerns. You can just specify to the manufacturer that they don’t treat the floors and don’t coat the shipping containers with hazardous paint.
However, using new shipping containers to build your home does increase the cost. It also depletes the environmental kudos you would gain through constructing with used shipping containers.
For more information about the article visit: https://www.discovercontainers.com/are-shipping-container-homes-dangerous-to-live-in/
Other useful links related to shipping containers:
- https://subrion.org/members/info/custom-portable-cabins.html
- https://www.mifare.net/support/forum/users/custom-portable-cabins/
- https://www.funadvice.com/custom-portable-cabins-malaysia
- https://froont.com/custom-portable-cabins/custom-portable-cabins-in-malaysia
- https://my.archdaily.com/us/@best-singapore-vet
- https://my.djtechtools.com/users/1198723
- https://www.youracclaim.com/users/best-vet-singapore/badges
- https://best-vet-singapore.dreamwidth.org/profile
- https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/users/best-singapore-vet/
- https://www.vingle.net/posts/3115842
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