Building a decorative entrance on a shipping container

alright Levi come here come on yeah let's go upstairs upstairs [Music] all right so I want to do a little more work on my building it's been a while since I've done anything what I want to do here this is the bridge container which comes out upstairs on the third floor you can see all right so what I want to do is do a nicer door here these shipping container doors are a little annoying because you can't open them from the inside if it's locked and I don't know it just it just doesn't look that nice so what I want to do is like one single door and and make it look a lot more decorative you know put a couple lights up I want to finish it with bluestone make it look more like some kind of castle door or something right so I kind of figured out what I want to do here so I'm going to start out these are 6x6 square tubing on the edges and they're kind of they're just for looks because I think I'd look weird without it and then on the top here these it's more 6x6 square tubing sticking out because eventually I want to do a whole top on top of this Purcell concrete pour up here and everything so that's kind of in preparation for that just like on top of my tower it's got the the six by six pieces sticking out to support that so the same thing is going to happen on top of the bridge but that's not right now so this this is going to be stone bluestone here the door I'm going to make it 40 inches wide by 82 feet long 82 inches high that's a little bigger than a standard door and I'm going to make that out of some two by 12 oak boards that I have and some steel banding and that should look pretty cool I got some nice door hardware for it then I'll probably do you know I'm gonna do like a light here alright so I think the first thing we do is build this door let me get started on that because there's no sense cutting this all apart when I don't have a door for it okay so for a while every time I took down a big hardwood tree I would bring it and get it cut into boards alright since everyone's always asking me about these projects cost I and I never can answer that question because I never keep track let me try to answer that on every stage of this project so here's the receipts when I had these milled I mean I don't see to buy whatever so I mean here five dollars a board there for a one by twelve by fourteen so let's just say I paid five dollars each to have these milled so all together lumber on this door I'll probably have 2530 dollars into it now keep in mind these are trees that these are oak trees that I pretty much got paid to cut down in the first place if you went to the lumberyard to buy oak boards like this it'd be probably considerably more than five dollars a board but I so starting out thirty bucks so far [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] you [Music] you you [Music] all right so I'm all set to hang this door I'm going to use this piece of metal to shim it that doesn't stay there and mount it flush with the inside of these 2x4 steel steel tubes you [Music] all right I mean I made this door too thick for the standard lock set I didn't think I did none of the screws are long enough this thing here isn't long enough and this thing here isn't long enough [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you you all right so I'm all set to start doing the Bluestone so I'm starting this pretty late at night but uh you know it's nice and warm out right now so I'm looking at the weather supposed to be cold in the next few days so let me see what I can get done I got a few bags of stone veneer mortar trowel wheelbarrow to mix in water and I brought over a couple wheelbarrow loads of this bluestone so pretty much good is just veneer this on the side like a puzzle I'll use the angle grinder to you know do the occasional trim but you know not too much [Music] [Music] all right and this shoe I ran into making this door extra thick when I make this thing so it's 2 and a half is the locks they don't reach through like this this piece here is too short [Music] all right see how that's that make it make it into this thing so I got to extend that thing there so these two pieces will slot together and it's the same issue with the the handle to this piece here it's just too short to make it it just doesn't make it into the thing [Music] so this well brought kind of slots in there so I guess I could use a piece to that to extend it all right this is pretty small material to be welding but let's see what I can do [Music] [Music] but that turned out as bad as good as it could I'm happy with that and now the easy part is just kind of sleeping this over it so I kind of did some measuring before it looks like it needs to be any it look like this needed to be 3/4 of an inch longer so [Music] [Music] okay it's kind of the same deal with this door I got the longer screws this side is fine on the inside I don't need to do anything to this this thing is too short but I don't know if I could just cut this and walled it because it's got that plastic that's gonna burn out of there so all right I don't think I can cut that off over there to extend it so really all that is is like a piece of pipe cut in half so got this conduit that's roughly the same size so I'll try to just mimic this piece add a conduit [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so yes I could do that no it's too bad all right so I got to bend it a little bit tighter [Music] [Music] and that's about the same well all right now I gotta cut it a little bit smaller [Music] [Music] [Music] alright that's about the same so I could probably clamp that and wall that right there [Music] alright that's working good alright that works pretty good [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Andrew Camarata

Views: 892,683

Rating: 4.9526858 out of 5

Keywords: shipping container, container castle, modern castle, wood work, steel work, welding, plasma cutter, off grid home, sea container, connex box, connex house, container garage, DIY

Id: cvf8cDdCp8U

Length: 27min 36sec (1656 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 17 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Puddfiend]

He’s building Fort Kick Ass!!!

[u/FarkMcBark]

Someone questioned the cost-effectiveness of container homes, and it's an interesting and valid point. But I also think it's a bit besides the point.

This guy is definitely an extreme example, he's a contractor having lots of heavy machinery, experience and tools and also has access to free lumber and even those really nice blue stones that just seem to be growing on his property. He also didn't insulate most of his container castle, only one container is made "livable".

He probably paid a tiny fraction of what it would cost to have a contractor to build this "stick framed" even including the price of his own labour. And I'd think having containers delivered and put down is much less labour than having lumber delivered and build a frame out of it.