Used Shipping Containers

[Burdekin]

Shipping containers are fantastic for workshop builds; multiple ways to arrange and join them and you can even have multiple storeys by stacking them on top.

 

[postie jon]

prices up here a good bit steeper , 1 trip 20 foot £2500. all around the same price.

 

[rtbcomp]

A customer of mine sold used crane spares and all his buildings bar the office were containers - no business rates payable.

 

[Jim Davey]

WOW. . What a workshop, half as good as that Jim and I would be ecstatic

It looks a lot more cluttered up and lived in now

 

[500e]

The floor must be extra Jim priced a couple of oversize checker plate sheets for a helicopter landing trailer

 

[Jim Davey]

The floor must be extra Jim priced a couple of oversize checker plate sheets for a helicopter landing trailer

It’s PVC garage floor on a roll from Costco.

 

[postie jon]

if you were to put two say 10mtrs between and roof it in is that a permanant structure?

 

[bigegg]

if you were to put two say 10mtrs between and roof it in is that a permanant structure?

I seem to remember a mention of this before (and might have been in relation to trailers?) and basically, if it can be dismantled with spanners, it's temporary, if it needs cutting apart, it's permanent?

I might be wrong...

 

[Bobtail4x4]

I seem to remember a mention of this before (and might have been in relation to trailers?) and basically, if it can be dismantled with spanners, it's temporary, if it needs cutting apart, it's permanent?

I might be wrong...

basically if its in place more than 28 days its not temporary,

 

[bigegg]

basically if its in place more than 28 days its not temporary,

static caravans with decking/patios?

portacabins on building sites? (I'm thinking double stacked, with external staircases)

both more than 28 days on site, both counted as "temporary"?

not being argumentative for the sake of it, genuinely interested in the answer.

 

[atomant48]

static caravans with decking/patios?

portacabins on building sites? (I'm thinking double stacked, with external staircases)

both more than 28 days on site, both counted as "temporary"?

not being argumentative for the sake of it, genuinely interested in the answer.

I always assumed static caravans had some sort of “temporary” license because of the wheels, otherwise I couldn’t see why you’d leave them on. Im interested in the answer too.

 

[Rig Pig]

4 of them 40 ft,s cladded with timber on a bit of land and you have a nice home

Don't even go there, I lived in one in Yemen for a while, it was lush! No tv or phone but the cockroaches kept me amused for hours

 

[bigegg]

I always assumed static caravans had some sort of “temporary” license because of the wheels, otherwise I couldn’t see why you’d leave them on. Im interested in the answer too.

i thought it was more the bolted on/"temporary" decking which was more relevant.

 

[postie jon]

was led to believe it was counted as temporary ,unless you added a concrete floor ,but maybe no.

 

[awemawson]

But even if movable they are not theoretically supposed to remain for more than 28 days - mine are now on the Ordnance Survey maps

 

[500e]

Nail the Roaches to the underside they will move it, Those big B*****s I saw in far off lands would move your foot when you tried to stamp on them

 

[500e]

@Jim Davey
It looks like cp even blown up, how has it stood up Is it a silver colour or is the photo distorting colour

 

[Jim Davey]

It’s a dark grey, and very hard wearing. Doesn’t like heat though.

 

[Revs1972]

I always assumed static caravans had some sort of “temporary” license because of the wheels, otherwise I couldn’t see why you’d leave them on. Im interested in the answer too.

I remember watching something presented by Kevin Mcloud where he made a very large Eco cabin and installed it in some woods. To get round planning permissions he had wheels put on it, then dug pits in the ground for the wheels to disappear into, allowing the thing to sit nicely on the ground. Something to do with making it mobile , even though it's not. Guess it's the same with the caravans

 

[Bobtail4x4]

static caravans with decking/patios?

portacabins on building sites? (I'm thinking double stacked, with external staircases)

both more than 28 days on site, both counted as "temporary"?

not being argumentative for the sake of it, genuinely interested in the answer.

there is a specific exemption for caravans and cabins when used on a site.