I spent £4k building dream home in shipping container – they’re luxury cabins… but trolls just ‘wish I used wood’
TWO builders making luxury cabins in shipping containers have revealed the cost and effort they go through building them.
Coolhurst Lodges buys the containers for £4,400 and then converts them adding insulation, windows, and electricity and plumbing.
They say the container cost them £3,250, delivery was £400, and with VAT the total cost was £4,380.
The rookie builders have revealed in a TikTok video they have faced a steep learning curve in making the huts, learning you need to use the right screw and learning how to use a laser level.
“Finding the correct screws can literally save you days of work,” they say.
Coolhurst receives the shipping containers with no work done to them and has to make them hospitable themselves.
But, over the last year, they have chronicled their journey on TikTok and appear to be selling the cabins.
They are also planning to also set up their own luxury vacation site where holidaymakers will be able to go and stay.
The containers are for sale now, but Coolhurst doesn’t reveal the purchase price on their website, but similar conversions can be priced into the tens of thousands of pounds.
Commenters on one Coolhurst TikTok revealing the container price said they could look at other materials for a cheaper price.
“You could buy timber for that money and make it any size or shape you wanted,” said one commenter.
“You paid 3k for empty container that’s just broad day robbery,” said another.
“Plus concrete foundation, power supply, drainage, sewage, broadband, windows, doors, flooring, walls, insulation and a roof,” remarked another on all the extra word that would needed to be done.
Other commenters revealed the builders had bought the containers for a high price and if they had got in earlier could have got them for far cheaper.
But, Coolhurst said the metal framing of the container saved space, it was strong and durable, and it is fire resistant.