Container house building strategies from suzhou tiandi color steel by Jon Keytoe

Container House Building Strategies and Stories From Suzhou Tiandi Color Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

By Suzhou Tiandi Marketing Team

Part One 12 Container House Building Questions and Answers 1. Why do you need to build container houses? Container houses can used for different purposes. For example, many people build them as their homes to experience a unique lifestyle. Some build them into shops, cafes, or stands to sell different kinds of products on the streets. And still a large number of people build them for their construction workers when they work in the wild without real houses to live in. So, now are you clear of your purpose? Build a home, a shop or a living space for special purposes? Now, make a decision. 2. Check out the local laws that regulate container house building. Nowadays no matter what kind of building you are going to build, you need permissions from the law. Make clear of this before you build. Otherwise, you may get into trouble even without your realization. Land using is an important part of it, and please take special attention to it. 3. Find out the basic and important information about containers, container houses as well as container house building. You may search Google to get information about containers, container houses and container house building, or consult those who have built houses like this before. The trick is you had better pay more attention to container houses such as their usual sizes, their specific functions, their advantages and shortcomings and so on, and to how to build them, such as the process of building a common container home, the process of building a prefab house for construction sites, and the requirements of building a street shop with shipping containers. 4. Specify the container house type you want to build. After learning your essential purpose, the requirements of the law and the basic and important information about container houses, you can decide the type of container house you want to build. There are two situations about this. One is you should know whether you buy containers to build a home, a shop or a mobile home at a construction site. Different houses need different materials. For example, building a common home needs shipping containers, and building mobile houses needs prefab containers. Two is you had better be sure of the size and style of the building made of containers, because different materials have different prices. 5. Take notice of the budget you can afford. Building any house needs your attention of the budget you prepare. Generally speaking, building a container home is usually cheaper than building a steel and cement house. However, your special requirements and decorations will cost your money. Besides, the size of a home will also cost you much money too. In addition, building rows of prefab container houses needs lots of expense too although building each small room is not expensive. Thus, being clear of the budget you can afford is very necessary. 6. Consider buying containers from the builder near the coast. If you decide to buy containers from overseas, you had better choose a container house builder near the coast, because if it is not, the shipping cost will be higher, and you will have to pay more for the shipment.

Besides this, if you live near the coast, you will save shipping cost too. 7. Design your own container house. First, make a general plan about the container house or container houses you want to build. Usually the supplier and manufacturer will ask for a design plan from you, so that they can do their best to accurately meet your demand. During this process you need to know the number of containers you want to use according to container type and size you require. Second, you may tell the supplier the detailed information about the containers you need. The more detailed, the better. The backup option is, when you don’t have plans, you may ask the supplier to design a house for you. Some may charge extra fees, others may not. It depends. 8. Contact the seller by phone or email. The best way to get the detailed and accurate information is to call the seller. You may clearly describe your condition to the seller, who will answer your questions one by one in detail at once. As for pricing, you can also directly negotiate with each other. Or you may email the seller, but you cannot expect the response immediately. The more practical way is to call the seller first and learn the basic information and then exchange detailed information through email. By email, you may visit the site to check its containers and the sample pictures the site displays. 9. Choose the most suitable location to install the house. Before you make the final decision, you had better choose an area which is flat, convenient for the installation, far away from the foot of a mountain in case of landslides, without too many rocks, and more importantly, most suitable for your taste and other concerns. 10. Consult an expert for installation. Although you have enough workers and machines like cranes and bulldozers, you still need at least one expert to guide you to do the job. In average conditions, each container seller will be able to help you do that as long as you need this help. “Tiandi Color Steel’s flat pack containers settle in Kenya” is a typical example of expert guide commercial container house installation. Or if you can find a local expert, that will be much more convenient. The bottom line is you had better support your container houses with some specially made seats if your area rains often and has so much moisture. 11. Never ignore pluming and piping, and water proofing. Pluming and piping is always very important but very challenging for each to-be-built container house. Never belittle this part of housing! It is suggested that you ask for pluming and piping experts to do the job. Apart from this issue, the other problem is you should make sure your container house is always dry. So, you need to make each of your containers waterproof. If cracks are found, you had better deal with them using special methods immediately. 12. Consider buying container houses from China. Although China is not the most outstanding container house manufacturing nation, it is a country which builds containers with cheap labor, excellent technology with lower price, enough raw materials, and many container house manufacturers for you to choose from. Also, it is a country famous for manufacturing flat pack and prefabricated container houses.

Part Two Tiandi Container Houses’ Features and Parameters First, an introduction of Suzhou Tiandi Color Steel’s containers designed for humans. These containers are also called container houses or container homes. The truth is they are still containers, but they have been tailored into those with windows, doors, balconies and other characteristics a house features. Tiandi’s container houses are shown as follows: 1. They will never get damaged after having been loaded and unloaded for many times. 2. Their exterior is beautiful and the main color is gray white. 3. They are made from laminboard and hot galvanizing steel, both of which combine can be windproof, insulate sound, insulate heat, be anti-knock and so on. 4. It is flexible to piece together these containers and other components. You can assemble them either horizontally or vertically. 5. The interior outlay is designed and arranged according to each customer’s requirements. Second, the parameters and specifications of these containers made for human living. Parameter

10ft container

20ft container

30ft container

40ft container

Size

3028*2438*2896mm

6058*2438*2896m m

9086*2438*2896m m

12116*2438*2896mm

Area

7.5m2

15m2

22.5m2

30m2

Weight

900kg

1,800kg

2,700kg

3,600kg

Lifespan

25 years above

Girder

3mm steel girder

Pillar

4mm steel pillar

Wall

laminboard

Door

aluminium alloy

Window

mobile plastic steel window

Floor

fiber-cement board

Part Three Flat pack container houses of Tiandi Color Steel shipped to Kenya and installed In May, 149 flat pack container houses of Tiandi Color Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (a container manufacturer from Suzhou, China) were successfully shipped to the capital of Kenya--Nairobi and installed in an orderly manner in the city. This seems like an ordinary deal between a business and a customer, but the reality is somewhat different. This story began with the communication between a flat pack container buyer from Kenya and the company’s foreign trade chief inspector. The chatted first, then talked deeper, and finally reached an agreement. This sounds easy but means a lot because their negotiation was enlightening. The company’s inspector quickly responded to the customer, tried her best to make a suitable container house design for the customer, clearly stated the profits the company offered, told her customer the important features of these flat pack containers, and more importantly, served her customer with sincerity. The customer trusted her and made the deal with her. It was trust that bridged a buyer and a business together. As for these flat pack containers, there are some prominent features that every buyer needs to learn. Each container house can be packed to ship and this saves money. Compared with shipping container houses, these products are not high in cost, which may attract lots of buyers. These containers are easy to install and their installations won’t cost you too much money, energy and time. According to Tiandi’s standard, four skilled laborers can finish installing one container in only half an hour. They can be installed as long as the ground is flat. Apart from these container houses, Tiandi also manufactures modified shipping container houses and prefabricated houses, both of which are sold in different prices and appreciated by different groups of global container house lovers. Tiandi’s containers are now shipped to most continents of the world.

Part Four Prefab House of Tiandi

1. Three cheap but comfortable prefab houses suitable for construction sites Are you still looking for cheap and comfortable movable houses for your construction site? No doubt, the houses you are looking for are prefab houses which can be cheap and comfortable, as long as you already have a clear plan in your mind and can find a suitable prefab house builder. The first thing we discuss is the plan you have designed in your mind. A few people want to experience a unique and fantastic lifestyle and so they are searching for prefab houses that look stylish, beautiful, attractive, shining and comfortable, so that they can fully enjoy themselves. However, these houses are fairly expensive and need so much time and energy to build. Yet, those who long to build these houses may only wish to experience a different life and don’t care too much about expenditure if the houses they want are really nice. For a construction site, however, the thing seems quite different, because you consider more of house mobility, comfort, quality and price. You don’t need to make each house look gorgeous, you don’t have to decorate each room like the bedrooms in your home, and you don’t need to make each house exterior or interior stylish so that you can fully experience the beauty of life. Why? The houses you need are those that can accommodate workers, provide a good environment for lodging and cooking, and be easily dismantled when the project is over. Now here are three cheap and comfortable prefab house samples, which may meet your demand. No. 1. Oman prefab houses These prefabs cover an area of 3,100 square meters which contains dinning rooms, storehouses and washrooms. They don’t touch the ground but are supported by brick seats. The components that build up these houses are all white. Hope to consult their cheap prices, please visit 2013 Oman prefab house 3100m2. No. 2. Prefabricated living houses on an island These prefabs are made of white boards and red steel structures and roofs. Different from Oman prefab houses, they touch the ground and look more beautiful. Hope to learn their cheap prices, please visit Prefabricated living houses on island. No. 3. K type prefab houses They are made of white boards and blue steel structures. They not only touch the ground but also have two floors which can accommodate more workers and are comfortable. These prefabs are often seen on construction sites. Hope to learn their cheap prices, please visit K Type prefab house. Indeed, these house styles are not as beautiful as those that are appreciated by style goers, while they are useful, comfortable and cheap and can surely satisfy those who want to build mobile houses on a common

construction site for workers. Believe or not, they can be built by Tiandi Color Steel Manufacturing from China, a company and manufacturer specializing in producing commercial prefabricated houses.

2. Build a low cost prefab container house Since you want to build a mobile house to follow the fashion, you can either choose shipping containers or prefabricated materials specially made for prefab houses to build a house you love. Which one is cheaper? The most reasonable answer is “prefab house”. Can building this house become even cheaper? Sure. To slash the cost of building such a house, the first thing you need to do is to make some sacrifice. Sounds ridiculous, right? Sacrifice what? A prefab container house can be beautiful and can be commonly-looking. No matter what house you want to build up, the fundamental purpose of building it is to live. The house doesn’t have to be luxurious, stylish or fashionable as long as it is comfortable for me to live in, that’s enough. Then, decoration and use of materials will save you so much money. This one will surely look not as a fairyland but at least a home. Apart from decoration and material using, another very important way to save money for you is to build a smaller house. If you just have a family of 2 to 4, you might not need to build a house of 200 square meters unless you have extra money to do so. Now for the sake of saving your cost, you can try to consult the prefab house suppliers or manufacturers and learn what size is really enough for your whole family. Don’t wast too much space, and don’t build a house with too many rooms you don’t need. Or sometimes some people may only need a very small one concerning the payment they can afford. That will be one of the best choices. The two examples described above are ways to reduce cost when building prefab houses. From them we may deduce that these mobile houses are only made for families. If not, what other functions are they really used for? At least, prefab (or prefabricated) houses can be used to accommodate workers who work far away from home and need mobile houses. Materials for this type of building is comparatively lower. Indeed their materials are somewhat different. But as long as they are safe to make people stay for a few days or months, that’s enough. You may not consider reducing your cost by building a house like this, but building these houses for special conditions is indeed a wise choice. To make this cheaper, you had better seek suppliers from China or India. If you are willing to build prefab house for workers, you can search for container house makers from the two countries. And the better choice is to seek Chinese suppliers and manufacturers. In fact, Indian prefabs are even cheaper than those from China, while their products are even more problematic than those of China because of relatively low tech and poorer quality materials. This is not good news. Although China’s prefabs are not the best, nor are they the worst. In fact, they are decently excellent products and you don’t have to pay so high to buy them as you always pay for those from the West. However, don’t make yourself be obsessed with low price! A very price can make you cry or kill a project. Some often say: cheap is expensive. This is something meaningful. So, the final suggestion is you choose the most suitable prefab house supplier from the most suitable nation you have discovered which offers you

suitable prices with decent qualities at least. Then, your house building cost will become lower.

Part Five Tiandi Color Steelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Container House Designs 1. 20ft container home layout

2. Big office room container

3. 20ft office container with bathroom