Shipping Container Ideas and Articles
Storage Containers
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It's time to start thinking about winter storage again, and a new or used shipping container is a great option. Shipping containers are large enough to hold everything you can think of, and weather tight and secure enough that you can lock the doors and not have to think about it until the spring time. The three most common uses of shipping containers over the winter are toy storage, firewood encl ...
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Shipping containers are regularly used as storage units, and in many cases they are purchased or rented to be used as mobile, or portable, storage units. If you plan on buying a shipping container and moving it from site to site at a later date there are a few things to keep in mind prior to doing so. The simplest way to move the container, the size of the container that’s going to be moved, ...
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Storage facilities are a popular business model and constantly growing in need, but you don't necessarily need to rent the expensive garage if you have a little extra room. You may even be able to make a little extra money in the process. Converting a shipping container into a mini storage unit can be done inexpensively with only a few simple modifications and additions like roll up doors, custom ...
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It's getting very common for companies and people to buy a shipping container and convert it into a storage unit, but what is required to convert a container into a good storage unit? Well, that’s a pretty broad question to answer and it really depends on the specific storage needs of the person or company that’s using it.
Residential Storage Container
People store just about everythin ...
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Spring is just around the corner, hopefully, and it's time to start thinking about clearing out the garage/shed/barn of all the things that have been collected over the past year. It's not hording, it's just not throwing away things that still have useful life left in them.
Winter Gear Storage
Unless you live in Florida or another year round warm southern state, everyone has a supply of "winter" i ...
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Double door shipping containers are a semi-common “specialized” type of shipping container, and they’re growing in popularity for both storing normal things that people put in shipping or storage containers, and storage many types of vehicles including cars, ATVs, and snowmobiles. The most popular reasons cited for buying a double door shipping container are the ease of use, avai ...
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Everywhere you go, everyone is looking for more storage space. People seem to be buying more, throwing away less, and all of this stuff has be stored somewhere. Depending on your needs, and the time span long or short term that you need the storage space, shipping containers make excellent storage solutions for whatever your needs may be.
Long Term and Short Term Storage
Let's be honest, if you mo ...
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Winter storage for everything and anything can be an issue, and it’s normally not considered until there isn’t enough time to build a shed our other type of outbuilding, or if there is time the costs involved with it aren’t feasible. These two reasons alone are why shipping containers can make great storage units for the winter, and even the summer times. The question that has ye ...
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Used shipping containers sometimes require a layer of paint to clean them up and make them blend in with the surrounding area; and depending on what shipping line owned or managed the container the colors will vary and it may or may not fit in where you plan to place it. But how do you paint a shipping container so that the paint will last and you won’t have maintenance issues in the future? ...
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Shipping containers, new or used, are great places for aging and storing firewood. While at the end of November (the time this article was originally published) it’s getting a little late in the season to get this type of project started, there’s still a little time if you don’t need to dry the firewood. To get started using a shipping container for drying green firewood and stor ...
