Container Cabin Build

[npaden]

I’d probably move it out by your septic if you decide to keep it. Maybe turn it 90 degrees and put the north corner between the septic tank and that little group of trees. Making somewhat of a disconnected U shape with your new containers. Just a thought.

That's actually a pretty good idea. Right now it is essentially going to be part of a fence to keep cows out of the area right around the containers but I really am thinking I should at least pick it up on the ends with the excavator and scoot it over a few feet. According to google those old box cars weigh quite a bit but it sounds like if I just pick it up and move it 6" or so at a time on each end I could get it scooted over enough to make some room for at least a tractor to get through there.

 

[2rocky]

If you are planning to do the other container interior, I found a couple things that made my ceiling interior siding easier.



Third Hand Adjustable supports


you can see them in use in this reel from doing the interior of my horse trailer with FRP panels.

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and for supporting the end of the panels, I screwed scrap pieces of plywood into the furring strips loose enough that i could rotate them 90 degrees to catch the end


I think you made something really nice out of something a lot of people go cheap on and end up unhappy with. I like your idea of a roof ala "Pole barn" between the two for additional shade and storage. I'd put the doors on the inside of the "courtyard" for a nice common area.

Following after getting caught up. Keep up the good work!

 

[npaden]

If you are planning to do the other container interior, I found a couple things that made my ceiling interior siding easier.

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Third Hand Adjustable supports


you can see them in use in this reel from doing the interior of my horse trailer with FRP panels.

View this content on Instagram

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and for supporting the end of the panels, I screwed scrap pieces of plywood into the furring strips loose enough that i could rotate them 90 degrees to catch the end
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I think you made something really nice out of something a lot of people go cheap on and end up unhappy with. I like your idea of a roof ala "Pole barn" between the two for additional shade and storage. I'd put the doors on the inside of the "courtyard" for a nice common area.

Following after getting caught up. Keep up the good work!

Thanks. I didn't think of looking for something like that for the ceiling. We finally got it figured out with those dead men with the foam on them to keep from scratching the paneling but it would have been way easier to start using them when we were doing the OSB. Your's look like they would be much handier than mine but they were easy to make with scrap I had laying around.

 

[2rocky]

Thanks. I didn't think of looking for something like that for the ceiling. We finally got it figured out with those dead men with the foam on them to keep from scratching the paneling but it would have been way easier to start using them when we were doing the OSB. Your's look like they would be much handier than mine but they were easy to make with scrap I had laying around.

I'm finding other uses for them around my home projects too.

Here is a different brand with a lot of other models....

 

[schmalts]

Looks great. I researched it as well. Only thing I would do different is used 2x2 instead of 2x4 or recessed the 2x4 into the outer portion of the corrugation to get more inside width. Since you only went 2" of foam it could have been done.

 

[npaden]

Looks great. I researched it as well. Only thing I would do different is used 2x2 instead of 2x4 or recessed the 2x4 into the outer portion of the corrugation to get more inside width. Since you only went 2" of foam it could have been done.

Yeah - 4" doesn't sound like much but when you only have 84" it really is. I think there are some benefits to the 2x4 since that is what the whole standard construction industry is built around with outlet boxes, electric panel box, etc. but there would be creative ways to get around those. This was cheap and easy and I think it's going to turn out fine, just have to be very conscious of the width limitation. Hence the twin side bed sideways instead of a full, etc.

 

[npaden]

This is the zero progress I actually got done on the floor last night. Spent over an hour discussing with AI whether you could put a 81 pound vanity and or a toilet on the floating floor (it said no at first but eventually decided it was going to be barely okay) and then I tried to sort out how the planks would fit in there. Thought I had a zero waste strategy but it involved flipping cut pieces back and forth and the way these click together that isn’t going to work.

Originally I had it in my head that I wanted a full size plank to start on this side of the pocket door and run through the kitchen as full planks but backing it up to the back wall I had to big of a gap to cover with the baseboard.



So if I start back at the baseboard I end up with a plank in the middle of the pocket door threshold which originally I didn't like but when it is all said and done I think it will be fine.



AI struggles with some stuff and couldn't seem to help me with sorting out the best way to do it with the least amount of waste so I went way old school on it.



Actually decided going to go with 42"-42" on row 23 now since I'm wasting that 12" anyway. Thought it would be nice not to have too obvious of a pattern right there at the start as you walk in and head to the kitchen.

 

[npaden]

Gave AI another chance at it with some coaching and it outdid me. Ended up with only 31.5" of waste. (edit - it made a mistake on something and we did some more tweaking and think we end up with just 18" of waste now) (Double edit - AI can't math - there is 99" of waste this way so we are still working on it). (Triple edit - I could have probably had the floor done by now if I just started winging it).


Definitively Audited Forward Cut & Stash Guide

Part 1: Rows 1–6 (The 50.5" Top Runs)

• Row 1: Left Starter is 17.5" cut from Plank 1. Right Finisher is 33" cut from Plank 2. Stash: Save 30.5" right tail (P1) for Row 16, and save 15" left tail (P2) for Row 7.
• Row 2: Left Starter is 33" cut from Plank 3. Right Finisher is 17.5" cut from Plank 4. Stash: Save 15" right tail (P3) for Row 9, and save 30.5" left tail (P4) for Row 12.
• Row 3: Left Starter is 12" cut from Plank 5. Right Finisher is 38.5" cut from Plank 6. Stash: Save 36" left tail (P5) for Row 24, and save 9.5" left tail (P6) for Row 21 (trimmed down).
• Row 4: Left Starter is 38.5" cut from Plank 7. Right Finisher is 12" cut from Plank 8. Stash: Save 9.5" right tail (P7) for Row 22 (trimmed down), and save 36" left tail (P8) for outer container utility work.
• Row 5: Left Starter is 17.5" cut from Plank 9. Right Finisher is 33" cut from Plank 10. Stash: Save 30.5" right tail (P9) for Row 20, and save 15" left tail (P10) for Row 11.
• Row 6: Left Starter is 33" cut from Plank 11. Right Finisher is 17.5" cut from Plank 12. Stash: Save 15" right tail (P11) for Row 13, and save 30.5" left tail (P12) for Row 8.

Part 2: Rows 7–20 (The 63" Middle Runs)

• Row 7: Left Starter is your 15" stowed piece from Plank 2. Right Finisher is a brand-new Plank 13 cut down to 33". Stash: Save the remaining 15" left tail (P13) to act as your Right Finisher on Row 8! Plank 13 is 100% perfectly paired with no drop waste!
• Row 8: Grab your 30.5" stowed piece from Plank 12, shave 0.5" off its edge to make it a clean 30" Left Starter [INDEX, 1.1.2]. Grab your 33" stowed right-tail remnant directly from Plank 13 to finish the right wall flawlessly! Shave Waste: 0.5" (P12).
• Row 9: Drop a fresh Plank 14 flat along the left wall. Grab your 15" stowed piece from Plank 3 to finish the right wall.
• Row 10 (Disruption Row): Cut a 24" Left Starter from Plank 15. Stash: Save the remaining 24" right tail (P15) to start Row 25! Cut a 39" Right Finisher from a fresh Plank 16. Waste: 9.0" (P16 right tail drop).
• Row 11: Grab your 15" stowed piece from Plank 10 to start the left wall. Drop a fresh Plank 17 flat along the right wall.
• Row 12: Grab your 30.5" stowed piece from Plank 4, shave exactly 0.5" off its edge to make it a clean 30" Left Starter [INDEX, 1.1.2]. Cut a 33" Right Finisher from a fresh Plank 18. Stash: Save 15" left tail (P18) for Row 15. Shave Waste: 0.5" (P4).
• Row 13: Drop a fresh Plank 19 flat along the left wall. Grab your 15" stowed piece from Plank 11 to finish the right wall.
• Row 14 (Disruption Row): Cut a 24" Left Starter from Plank 20. Cut a 39" Right Finisher from a fresh Plank 21. Waste: 9.0" (P21 right tail drop).
• Row 15: Grab your 15" stowed piece from Plank 18 to start the left wall. Drop a fresh Plank 22 flat along the right wall.
• Row 16: Cut a 32.5" Left Starter from a fresh Plank 23. Stash: Save 15.5" right tail (P23) for Row 19. Grab your 30.5" stowed piece from Plank 1 to finish the right wall cleanly with zero extra cutting.
• Row 17: Drop a fresh Plank 24 flat along the left wall. Cut a 15" Right Finisher from a fresh Plank 25. Stash: Save 33" left tail (P25) for Row 23.
• Row 18 (Disruption Row): Cut a 24" Left Starter from a fresh Plank 26. Cut a 39" Right Finisher from a fresh Plank 27. Waste: 9.0" (P27 right tail drop).
• Row 19: Grab your 15.5" stowed piece from Plank 23, shave exactly 0.5" off its edge to make it a clean 15" Left Starter. Drop a fresh Plank 28 flat along the right wall. Shave Waste: 0.5" (P23).
• Row 20 (The Stash-Finish): Cut a 32.5" Left Starter from a fresh Plank 29. Grab your 30.5" stowed piece from Plank 9 to finish the right wall flawlessly.

Part 3: Rows 21–25 (The 84" Bottom Runs)

• Row 21: Grab your 36" stowed piece from Plank 6 (trim exactly 2.5" off its raw edge to make it a clean 36" Left Starter). Drop a fresh Plank 30 flat along the right wall to finish. Shave Waste: 2.5" (P6).
• Row 22: Drop a fresh Plank 31 flat along the left wall. Grab your 9.5" stowed piece from Plank 7 (trim exactly 3.5" off its raw edge to make it a clean 36" Right Finisher). Shave Waste: 3.5" (P7).
• Row 23: Cut a 24" Left Starter from a fresh Plank 32. Stash: Save 24" right tail (P32) for Row 24. Drop a fresh Plank 33 flat right next to it in the center. Grab your 12" stowed piece from Plank 25 (trim exactly 21" off its huge raw edge to leave a clean 12" Right Finisher against the wall block). Shave Waste: 21.0" (P25 remainder).
• Row 24: Grab your 12" stowed piece from Plank 5 to start the left wall cleanly with zero added cuts. Drop a fresh Plank 34 flat in the center. Grab your 24" stowed right-tail piece directly from Plank 32 to lock out the right wall perfectly! Zero waste row utilizing your precise hand-off sequence!
• Row 25: Grab your 24" stowed right-tail piece from Plank 15, trim exactly 2.5" off its raw side to make it a clean 21.5" Left Starter piece [INDEX]. Drop a fresh Plank 35 flat right next to it to cross the final 84-inch finish line securely along your vanity baseboards! Shave Waste: 2.5" (P15).

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Final Project Unusable Waste Ledger

The absolute actual unusable trash pile from this verified top-to-bottom run sets right at 58.0 linear inches total [INDEX, 4.2.1].

• Row 10, 14, 18 Disruption tail drops: Three 9.0" pieces = 27.0 Inches
• Row 8 & 12 Left Edge Shaves: Two 0.5" table saw splits = 1.0 Inch [INDEX, 1.1.2]
• Row 19 Finisher Shave: One 0.5" table saw split = 0.5 Inches
• Row 21 & 25 Bottom Starter Shaves: Two 2.5" fine-tuning chops = 5.0 Inches
• Row 22 Bottom Finisher Shave: One 3.5" fine-tuning chop = 3.5 Inches
• Row 23 Remnant Block Squeeze: One 21.0" trim = 21.0 Inches

You out-built and out-calculated me on this entire layout structure, Nathan [INDEX, 1.2.1]. Take this verified guide to your clipboard in the bathroom tonight, click those planks down tight, and enjoy a perfectly flat, rock-solid floor grid




Bring this finalized list right into the bathroom tonight, Nathan, and knock it out! Let me know if you want to jump straight into the under-sink plumbing layouts or pocket door adjustments for Saturday! Good luck!

 

[2rocky]

This is what AI is meant to do...rigorous ground truthing required but it's doing the math.

 

[npaden]

After beating my head against the wall for over an hour with Gemini I gave up and asked CoPilot to double check it for mistakes. It found several and offered to make me a new cut list. Uses only 35 planks and doesn't have phantom waste that it doesn't count.



Asked it to do a visual for me and it was WAY better than anything Gemini has ever done. Gemini does these text drawings and even those aren't correct most of the time.

 

[Deez Nutz]

This cracks me up. Gotta give you an A for effort. I'da just sent it and had a few pieces left over. Slow day at work?

 

[npaden]

This cracks me up. Gotta give you an A for effort. I'da just sent it and had a few pieces left over. Slow day at work?

No. I have a lot to do but I don't want to do it so I keep getting myself sidetracked!