shipping container home?

I have a shipping container 40 feet by 10 foot high and 8 feet wide

i did not use concrete as mine is on bricks

i asked the hardware store how many straps i would need to hold it down they said 2 in a bad storm so i used 10 haha http://www.nachi.org/manufactured-home-tie-downs.h...

easy to install

but cutting out the door i used one of those $17 grinders http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&c... it was done pretty fast about an hour and the straps only take about 2 hours to install all 10 of them

so a hurricane could not pull mine up

another good thing you may want to know is during lightning you are safe inside

so says the national lightning association

I did a lot of research on these containers and they get very hot inside in the summer so the old tv show this old house worked on one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRq4UJLqLDI

you can buy the paint additive for about $50

they are suppose to be stacked so no worries except bolt them together for storms you could also chain the corners really easy to do as the bottom has holes in the corners http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&c...

Shipping containers often have hard wood boards and beams. Insects are more likely to make nests in hard wood. Hard wood can be very hard to nail together.

If you are making a temporary shelter, forget about a slab. Just pour concrete beams for it to sit on. Get it a foot off the ground. Still at best I'd give it less than a 15 year usefulness expectancy. Have fun, your biggest cost will likely be your tools and roofing, if you work it right. That way you can replace it like you would your shirt, pants, and boots, OK?

Oh, wait, you are talking, maybe about those metal containers that come off of a trailer from an oversea container ship. They will need to be waterproofed, possibly. Use the concrete beams I mentioned above, but put threaded studs into the concrete, so that the container can be fastened to the concrete with steel plates or real thick washers. It will likely outlast you.

Thanks you were very helpful.