Shipping Containers as garages/workshops and homes?

[kstrutt1]

I picked some wheels from a guy who had made a wokshop out of 2 welded together side by side and cut most of the wall between them away, it looked pretty good he had lined it with ply and fitted a new roof over the top of the two.

[rich.]

i stored a car in one for a while, wooden floor & it seemed to be free from condensation

[megadethmaniac]

Local mechanics had a couple of these which they used as storage. They left a gap between the two, big enough for a couple of cars, and covered over the top and the rear of the units. Nice reasonably weathertight workshop it made so I hear.

[Martin Evans]

One of the problems is when you get a cold spell, followed by milder and damper weather. The cold items "Sweat" ; in other words, the milder damp air condenses on them. You can get that in anything and I'll never forget the year I built my garage. It has block walls and a slate roof. That first Winter, it was hard work but the next year, I got a plasterboard ceiling up and that made all the difference (Don't ask me why). I also got the electricity connected up (I remember that day fondly.....first thing, on the armoured cable, was a socket, which enabled me to drill the holes to mount the fuse box and one wall socket and as they say about acorns and oak trees...), so I can have some heating out there but even without this, I don't get the problem of things sweating. I think with steel buildings, you need to line the walls and roof, with something that doesn't hold the cold.

[Maaarrghk]

Correct Martin.

Thing about my tropical location is that even the rain is warm, so I don't expect much in the way of condensation.

I might take a few sacks of silica gell and keep weighing them if there is no visible condensation as it can be quite humid out there.