DIY 40' Shipping Container Swimming Pool Build Full Size

hi everyone Paul from K and Woodworks here in this video we're going to do a little bit something different than woodworking we're going to be talking about how I created this 40 foot long shipping container pool we're going to go through the steps of digging the hole getting the container sandblasting some of the rust pouring concrete on the inside of the container fabricating the shallow end which is actually in the center of the pool and finally epoxy pool painting reinforcing with fiberglass hooking up all the pool components a standard filter pump UV light so hope you enjoy the video thanks for tuning in okay let's get to it so we had to dig a hole fortunately we have a mini excavator on site with the lumber company so no issues there the deck is about five feet tall so we needed to dig the hole about three feet three feet a little bit more we decided to add a bunch of aggregate on the underside that way the container wouldn't be like sitting in water I guess when it rained at least am I thinking my theory so uh this went pretty well then we had to move the actual container I had already purchased this container and had it dropped off here and it sat there for a long long time and finally uh this is Ken he moves a lot of our lumber and I said next time you're around and we move into some of our lumber if you could please move the shipping container into the hole he's like what are you talking about what are you doing um I told him I'm doing a pool foot shifting container with the help of Titanic Trailer Services there's Ken the man himself look at that it's on the trailer all right success we've made it we've driven down a little ramp I didn't know if I had it angled enough but I guess everything's all good they're just disconnecting it from the trailer now and then we're going to be tilting it and dropping it in the hole touchdown [Music] wow all right so here we are progress update the hole was dug we put in about eight inches of really large aggregate then about another inch or two of smaller but one inch stuff the first stop was around six inch thinking if water goes in the hole at least it won't like fill up all the way up to the shipping container before it has time to just naturally drain away we didn't do any drain tiles anything like that we had the container dropped in there from a friend of mine that moves these containers for a living we then went ahead and poured a three inch thick layer of concrete we do have steel mesh in the concrete now here is the problem this is a full-size 40 foot shipping container full height as well most shipping container pools that you see are not the full height they cut them down halfway or they're also 20 Footers so the problem is this wall this is an open top so I didn't have to cut this top off it already comes like this no top added really nice bulkhead on the top also but the issue is the the wall here can bow very easily because there's not too much strength in it so you can see we still have this one stretcher that goes across this came with all these stretchers that go on these Nubs and then a tarp goes over the top that's how they would use this now obviously I want an open top so you could swim across the whole top and I don't want any things across so we decided to do a shallow end right in the center of the pool and it will be about 10 feet long and about three feet down I have some marks right here where this will be the top of the shallow end and then these are the parts we went with a three inch by three inch angle iron this will be on the inside and that'll be flat against the wall like this and the bottom will come out like so and at first I was just going to weld it right to the side but then I was worried about the weld just holding just because this is the material is not crazy thick so we decided uh we're gonna bolt right through and on the opposite outside face we have a quarter inch thick eight inch wide plate just to kind of disperse the pressure so we're gonna obviously mimic that on the other side as well and in between the two will be three inch by three inch square tube four pieces really a nice thick stuff I think this angle irons quarter inch also it's a quarter inch tube and then some decking on top of the tube the tube itself will be welded sealed the ends will be fully sealed to the angle iron and uh that's it sounds simple so that should hold the pressure from the water uh buckling out the sides this was the test with the sandblaster we have a pressure washer that's the pressure washer there 4000 PSI it does have a heater on it as well it can do like steam pressure washing but I'm not using the the heater and we got the sandblaster attachment for it from Easy Clean this here is the sandblaster attachment of course already Rusty but this just goes on the tip of the wand and then it has an end here that goes in the bucket of sand or some type of vessel that's you know holding your sand so you can wet blast with this see I tell you right here sandblast kits so I figured out the height I want the angle iron and basically I've marked every spot I'm going to be drilling a hole and I'm just going to drill a smaller pilot hole which goes through the angle iron and through the flat plate the flat plate will be on the outside of the container and the angle will be on the inside I'll then hold the angle iron up on the wall where I want it Mark those two holes those two pilot holes the small holes and then I'll increase all those holes up to half an inch that way I should be able to bolt the two pieces through the shipping container just like that and then from there I can drill all the remaining ones horizontal here everything kind of attached foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so the three inch by three inch angle iron um basically pre-drilled a hole here and one at the opposite end right on the ground and then match it up to this drilled through here it was also matched to the flat bar that's on the outside eight inch wide flat bar on the outside and now we're just drilling the next holes and basically this is what I literally I'm one of those guys I have a drawer of drill bits we've got the pilot hole drilled here so we're just going to keep going up in sizes so I go whatever size that is whatever size that is whatever size this is and then finally half an inch definitely a workout we're just using a hand drill nothing magnetic nothing fancy just your Dewalt drill I'm going to put a bolt at each one why not right all the stresses on those bolts so there we go a whole bunch of holes to drill and then it'll be rinse and repeat on the opposite side oh fortunately this is my ceiling half inch bolt half inch washer hopefully start again to get it on camera half inch bolt half inch washer over top all right homogeneous jump in let's throw some laps no what do you think so far yeah that's right good review five star all right so here we go progress has been made we got the three inch by three inch angle iron bolted uh right through the container at each one of those ribs where it uh contacts see there's a gap here so on the outside I have a piece of eight inch wide quarter inch flat plate that all these bolt through so identical on both sides and now we've cut this three inch by three inch tube uh to length this is pretty thick I think it's quarter inch it might even be thicker and then we're gonna have probably HDPE or some sort of composite as a decking for the shallow end so here we go I'm going to start welding these ends and I don't want any uh water getting into the end of the tube so I do want it fully sealed all the way around the boat's got it all cleaned up just have a standard just have a standard you know Canadian Tire special Lincoln Electric what is this a MIG pack 180 I do have the gas on it's not windy today and I have the doors closed in the container so we should be good it's gonna do a couple test welds right here and then I'm just going to get to it really and uh we're looking good let's get right in there that is definitely what I'm after nice penetration nice heat fully sealed up getting dimes I don't think so though hey so I'm gonna uh got a lot of welding to do [Music] okay second side's been welded definitely great penetration nicely sealed up no complaints all around um I haven't welded in a long time and I didn't know how it was going to work on this like really long extension cord the welder but she's doing really good and like I said it doesn't have a huge duty cycle so I don't think I could just hammer down on every single one in fact in my opinion once I'm done even while in this full end I kind of notice a bit of a difference when it comes out to the last weld but overall she's doing a good job so I'm gonna clean up the end of another one get it in position and then I will uh weld that one also okay getting a little Knack at the welding now speed and all that kind of stuff uh this side here I went up the weld all the way around there but then on this side I actually went down the weld I actually stopped right close to the bottom just to see what was going on it was definitely harder to see but the well does look better all done all welded on we got the three inch by three inch square tube going across um fully welded on this is why we did the angle iron because of the amount of welding surface at first I was just going to weld the angle iron onto the container but I thought bolting it through would be much stronger connection so we have a piece of Steel on the outside that these bolts go through kind of make a sandwich of the container and basically when the water goes in you know this wall is pushing this way this wall is pushing that way so in theory the pressure or the you know the strain on the container actually evens itself out because this one wants to go that way that one wants to go this way so I think as long as these are strong enough which I believe they are um there should be no issues so we're all welded up all right let's see what's going on this is the pressure washer we used with a sandblasting attachment and after doing a bunch of reading I basically sandblasted all the sketchy Rusty spots and then that was uh uh Rusty basically and then I applied the epoxy pool paint to just those spots I also sandblasted the bottom basically six inches as well as the concrete and we are reinforcing this bottom seam with um I guess fiberglass mat that's compatible with epoxy so you can see down here you can see the piece of mat the prettiest but I think after a few more layers of epoxy it won't be too too bad I'm just really concerned about the expansion and contraction of the steel to the concrete so I really felt like we needed some sort of reinforcement there this was done yesterday and things are looking nice nice nice nice and um yeah you can see we're pretty blue we're pretty blue okay here's the top view of the shipping container so you can see the red on the outside versus the blue that's on the inside obviously the blue is that epoxy pool paint and this is an open top 40 foot shipping container now the person that I bought it from was already using it as a pool with a liner and the issue that he came across was once you fill it with water the center the center of the super container here and here wants to buckle out in fact it actually broke in the center instead of leaking water on them so I knew I wanted a shallow end and yes normally a shallow end is at one end of the pool and then you have a deep end but I needed to brace the center of the container from basically ripping itself apart and just breaking in half here and here I put an eight inch wide flat bar quarter inch and we're bolted through the angle iron on the inside and this way I'm dispersing all that pressure and theory is you know that side wants to go this way this side wants to come this way so they should just counteract the forces I did use like extremely beefy steel down here the angle irons really really nice because you got a lot of weld points on here so this is gonna be the shallow end I'm still deciding on what decking I'm going to use obviously it's going to be underwater as a woodworker we use HDPE for epoxy stuff and I have three quarter inch sheets of HDPE which I'll probably use as the decking all right now we are in the pool it looks really nice when it was blue it seemed like a never-ending project when this was still red but as soon as we started getting this thing blue we were moving along nicely we started applying that fiberglass mat right here along this back Edge which does have a much uh much more drastic corrugated Edge versus the side and at first um dummy me I know I've worked with fiberglass cloth before um when we left it as a long strip it really bunched up so you can see here punch punch punch it's all bunched up so we started cutting strips so right about here we stopped with a single like piece this was a sinks inch white piece that kind of you know you poke it here and it moves over here so it's kind of a disaster so we cut strips out of it and now you can see how much nicer the fiberglass went down and the reason being we poured a three inch thick Concrete in the bottom of the container that's going to isolate you from the very bottom plywood that's like you know there's chemicals in that plywood so that's sealed from the plywood also probably watertight as well obviously we epoxy painted it but I was worried about this steel flexing you know when the water goes in also heat changes stuff like that probably right at this seam uh water could eat pretty easily get underneath which I really really did not want to do so we can get right in here we can see the strips and basically we painted on the epoxy we then put the fiberglass cloth and then painted on a little bit more epoxy next day I did do another coat of epoxy over it so uh it's uh it worked out really really well um I'm super interested to see how this worked I did fully sandblast this metal uh where the where the fiberglass cloth was attaching so we'll see hopefully that holds up well that worked out really well better details of the shallow end so we have three by three angle iron which this is three by three tube which gives you a lot of welding surface which is really really nice these are thick too I don't I think this is 3 8 even definitely quarter inch might even be 3 8 I think this is quarter inch um and then these are the bolt heads that go right through to the opposite side so uh fairly simple on the shallow end although it seemed like it took me forever to uh get this all fabricated actually get going on it and as we walk to the other end soon I'll be swimming right here swim swim out oh I just hit my head oh that was the worst one yet oh see if I cut that out of the video so it has been raining here so I've been having to shop back the water out so that's why this is in here and I have a big giant fan that helps dry the surface especially at the door now this is obviously the most complicated area where it's going to leak and we have a wide Center seam here which you can see the fiberglass cloth so this is how wide it was six inches and same thing paint on the epoxy pool paint put your fiberglass on and then paint that fiberglass let it cure over these seams I did do two layers of cloth so we're looking you know this was about an inch wide I'm fairly confident um it's also not fully cured that this is going to hold well and also because oh man now I bump into the fan um the person before that owned this container he did he didn't weld the doors or anything and they held fine with the water that was in it so they did leak the way he had it but so the strength of the door I'm not concerned about maybe there'll be a little bit of flex so we'll see how this holds up we also did uh this seam as well basically all the seams like we had to seal up all these seams with the fiberglass cloth a little bit of a nightmare up here again we just use strips but about uh we would cut so you can see this mat six inches wide we would cut strips about here here and we'd Supply one strip at a time it is definitely slow going and a lot of work but obviously water will find any little pinhole especially as you get lower in the pool you're gonna have all this weight of the water pushing down so at the bottom if you have a pinhole it's gonna just you know I don't know it'll be like a little sprinkler outside I suppose so obviously the very bottom seam was super super important so I really really um made sure to seal this up we got two layers of fiberglass cloth down there so epoxy cloth epoxy epoxy cloth epoxy I'm gonna wrap this video up here this is going to be part one possibly part two part three coming soon as you can see we did get the pool fully filled with water I got all my filtration installed shallow end was finished we got a little deck railing ladder solar blanket now that I say it out loud it's a lot of work from digging the hole to putting the shipping container here to finally swimming in it it was a lot a lot of work and I gave you a little bit of a spoiler alert I got some small leaks that uh in part two we'll talk about we'll talk about how I've tried to fix them and moving forward with uh the second season with the shipping container pool thank you so much for following along thanks for uh checking out the video maybe you want to subscribe to my channel maybe you want to like this video maybe you want to throw a comment all those things you're supposed to do so please do it everyone have a great one

Channel: Canadian Woodworks

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Keywords: Canadian Woodworks, Legacy Lumber, Paul Lemiski, Woodworking, How To, DIY, shipping container, container pool, diy pool, shipping container pool, epoxy pool paint, swimming pool

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Length: 20min 21sec (1221 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 29 2023