Whether you’d like a cellar, prepper space, a ‘man cave’ or just an addition onto your home, shipping containers are quite a good start for above or below the ground shelters or rooms.
The first video gives some good detailed instructions for building an underground shelter. The second gives great ideas to create a hidden passage into an addition room in your home using shipping containers.
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Underground housing…no air conditioner needed!!! 🙂
They can make decent tornado shelters.
Having read up on them they dont want them used underground. The ground pushes in the sides for one and there are worries about ventilation and mold for another. Besides that if water floods in you might be trapped and if its a sealed unit the thing will float and push its way “UP” like a cork or bobber maybe even pushing a house or trailer out of its way? That said- I would like to try it my self! 🙂
I wish!
Addition to home !
Spray in water Insultion will stop that. Even avail at wall mart
William, very true! This container caved in with only 18 inches of dirt on top.
and if it floods?
Build it into a cave rather !
Some have popped up out of the ground like a quark only to settle half exposed set in mud. May be good- Maybe not. 😉