Posted: 6/4/2015 9:13:29 AM EDT
| I'm getting a 20' shipping container. What would be a good base to put it on? The spot its going to be is all ready level ground. It will be there for the next 5 to 10 years. I was thinking solid cement blocks but don't want them to sink into the sand. He container is dry with a solid floor. For $1800.00 delivered. Seems like a decent price , could I do better and not end up with a POS unit ? |
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I'm not an expert but I would think that how many and what type of supports would depend on how heavy the container will be when you fill it and also on what type soil that you have. You also might want to think about high your property is and if there's any danger of flooding. Personally, if it were me I think I'd go with a low mound of gravel about a foot high. Gravel is cheap if bring in a truck load and that should give it plenty of support and drainage. OTOH a concrete pad would be nice but it wouldn't be cheap!
FWIW I've seen people buy those pre-made wooden sheds and they let the seller set them up, usually on one block about every 6 or feet and they quickly sunk into the ground when they started filled them up with a lot heavy items. A nearly empty shed or container probably wouldn't be a problem but you need to give some SERIOUS thought about what you might eventually put in there and how much it will weigh! FWIW 2 I've set garden type sheds (~10X10) up on concrete blocks but always had trouble with them. |
I turn a 20 enclosed trailer into a shed. It was free and would have cost me $2,000 to make it roadworthy. Its been sitting on concrete blocks in a flood zone for three years. No sinking. Just make sure the ground under the blocks is free of vegetation and packed down hard. Place block every six feet.
Pics of container please.  I need another shed.
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RR, I would use rail road ties. 4/5 evenly spaced. in the Army we use them as sheds more or less. In Mez there was one used at a covered bridge, pretty cool. they cut the doors off and the back end off. So it should not need to much bracing under it. I am jelly for your score. |
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Load of asphalt millings makes a nice base to put cargo boxes on.
Don't put it up too high, makes it a bitch to step in and roll equipment in. $1800 about right for a nice box. Keep the roof painted, the only weak spot on them. Most older boxes have caved in roofs that will pond some water. |
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RR, I would use rail road ties. 4/5 evenly spaced. in the Army we use them as sheds more or less. In Mez there was one used at a covered bridge, pretty cool. they cut the doors off and the back end off. So it should not need to much bracing under it. I am jelly for your score. I got to do the math . found B grade ties for $15.00 each. If we end up going with the ties they will be placed all the way around the base. To keep the critter's out from under it. If I ever get around to it. I got room for my own indoor range too. 
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Load of asphalt millings makes a nice base to put cargo boxes on. Don't put it up too high, makes it a bitch to step in and roll equipment in. $1800 about right for a nice box. Keep the roof painted, the only weak spot on them. Most older boxes have caved in roofs that will pond some water. Yep that would work too , except if later we get rid of it there will be a pile of shit to rake up and haul away. |
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Quoted: I got to do the math . found B grade ties for $15.00 each. If we end up going with the ties they will be placed all the way around the base. To keep the critter's out from under it. If I ever get around to it. I got room for my own indoor range too. Quoted: Quoted: RR, I would use rail road ties. 4/5 evenly spaced. in the Army we use them as sheds more or less. In Mez there was one used at a covered bridge, pretty cool. they cut the doors off and the back end off. So it should not need to much bracing under it. I am jelly for your score. I got to do the math . found B grade ties for $15.00 each. If we end up going with the ties they will be placed all the way around the base. To keep the critter's out from under it. If I ever get around to it. I got room for my own indoor range too. animals will still find a way in trust me. I lived in a Conex for 3 months and they are not bad. Hell they can be NICE. Just go inside and close the doors during the day time and look for rays of light. Take care of the holes. If you plan on going in there is summer they get HOT. So plan for that.. Post photos please |
| IM me a phone # and I'll send the pics via text. Been working on the house for a little over a month now weekends and after my day job. I hope to have that done in two to three more weeks. Which was way more than I planed on but got held up by the painter for two weeks. Well that and the wife decides that since I'm coming in under budget on it that the kitchen needed to get done now too instead of later in the year. |