Container house in rural area

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Container house in rural area Anonymous 11/12/15 (Thu) 17:59:23 No.1136

Im considering moving to a rural, farming-friendly area.

My idea is to buy a container house, but im not sure how to properly handle this.

are C.H. able to get running water and electricity installed?

Are there any problems with such a house in such a place?

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 19:27:05 No.1148

The only thing preventing you from getting utilities ran into a steel box is your own ability to run said utilities.

As long as you know basic plumbing/electrical nobody can tell you what you can do in that regard.

If you're planning on running pipes into your house though remember to make sure the ground your container's placed on is higher elevation than your septic tank if you plan on putting a shitter in there. For shower/sink drainage I shouldn't have to tell you this but… ROUT IT TO A FUCKING GARDEN.

So help me god faggot if you don't use that greywater to grow delicious cucumbers I'll fucking knife a kitten.

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 19:34:10 No.1149

>>1148

Another thing I'd recommend since you're living in a tiny metal box: Don't bother with on-grid electricity. Setting up a solar bank is easy AF and you probably won't be using that much electricity since your heating/lighting requirements will be minimal.

I only had $400 to set up my solar shit and I'm still living pretty comfy. It's enough to run my computer during the day and well into the night before I have to run my gen. (That being said my fridge is gas powered and I handwash my clothes so my power requirements are next to nothing.)

If you had like $2000 you could probably live with more electrical power than you'd ever need assuming you're not running heavy equipment or anything, And even then that's what generators are for.