I found a post about a prefabricated conex tiny house you could buy on Amazon, but it isn't available anymore.
This page lists 15 different tiny houses for sale and the cheapest one that wasn't obviously a 10- or 20-foot conex was
Custom Container Living Allegedly they start at $27,900, but
this 20-foot conex tiny house starts at $36,900.
This is the loft version, which looks like they welded half of another conex onto the top, although it says that it was made from a single container, so they used new corrugated metal?
Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of reusing conexes?
That one goes for $51,900.
The first one made from a 40-foot container is $93,900.
The house that just sold was 144% bigger for 78% more cost and included almost 7,000 square feet of land and the connections.
I thought we had already discussed this, but searching for "conex" didn't result anything although I did mention that they tend to cave in when buried and freebeard mentioned expansive soil.
I didn't search for "Shipping container" because I have better results with one word at a time.
I wish that I knew why!
Okay, to summarize
Curbed: permits are complicated. "According to an
ArchDaily report, the average container eventually produces nearly a thousand pounds of hazardous waste before it can be used as a structure."
Oh bother! I thought this had more information! The last important thing I saw was "Shipping container homes are often faster to build than traditional stick-built houses."
According to
this page a commercial Noobhobo conex house would cost 11% more than a traditional house the same size, although those numbers have changed dramatically recently:
Clearly I need to go back and specify "DIY."
They also have a boring table version.
is the first breakdown of the cost to build a 40-foot conex tiny house, but he is a general contractor that I could find:
Conex shipped: $2,500
Impact windows and doors: $3,200
Insulation: $1,000 1" foamboards
Interior framing: $700
Electrical: $1,500
Plumbing: $1,800
Drywall: $720
Vinyl flooring: $750
One mini-split: $900
Cabinetry: $2,200
Countertops: $700
Millwork: $600
Miscellaneous: $500
Paint: $250
Total as a contractor:
$17,300
This is without any exterior work, site preparation, land, connections, etc.
Here he built a nice one: