Shipping containers are only used for their main job – transporting goods around the world – for between 7 to 10 years. They can last far longer than that, with some experts estimating that they can live for 30 years or more. At Gateway Container Sales we think 30 years may be a little conservative…
Shipping containers can last for decades. Some of the ones that were first made in the 1960s when the standardised ’20 Foot Equivalent Unit’ (TEU) was first devised are still sitting where they were left many years ago. There is a well-known oversupply of shipping containers around the world because they can be made so cheaply,…
If you are to spend any time in your container building as an office or living space you should always consider insulating the shipping container or containers. This can be done in a number of ways depending on your requirements for the container building and what kind of climate it will be situated in. 4…
Most shipping container homes are built using either 20ft or 40ft shipping containers, a standard size agreed many years ago, and often described in terms of Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs). The USA and Canada, however, have been using 53ft long containers for road and rail transport since 1989. A 53ft high cube container has…
So you’re set on building a new shipping container home? You have an idea of what it looks like and roughly where you want to put it. It isn’t a case of simply buying a number of containers and plonking them into place though – there are a number of things to consider in constructing…
Proving that shipping containers have entered the popular imagination, we look at a number of museum curators that have recycled shipping containers into art spaces. In these instances the flexibility of shipping containers is utilised to the max, including a mobile shipping container museum that has travelled through French North Africa, a temporary add-on space…
So you’ve ordered a new shipping container from Gateway? Congratulations! From ordering your container, you now need you need to think carefully about where and how you are going to place your container when it arrives at its destination. While it is advisable to use a transportation company who are experts at the transportation and placement…
In the last year Gateway Container Sales have published over 40 blogs on container building projects, and had thousands of readers. Here are the 10 most read blogs that we published in 2015, based on readership and comments. Our Top 10 Shipping Container Blog Posts of 2015: 1. The secret to laying successful foundations for…
One of the great things about using shipping containers as building blocks for a home is that they can be built in any direction – horizontally or vertically. The outcome in recent years has been a huge variety of apartment complexes being constructed out of shipping containers, and really they are only limited by an architect’s…
Many boating types have considered a shipping container home that floats. The sea changes in colour and mood almost by the hour, and of all views you can get in this world there are few so dynamic as one of the water. On a flat calm day the sun just needs to move 10 degrees…