These One of Kind PREFAB HOMES are a Housing Solution People have been Looking for!!
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- Last month I stopped by Steel and Spark to check out their ADUs and discovered they're up to much more than I originally thought. One of the interesting models they currently have available is called the X-wing, an innovative housing solution that is 100% solar powered. In this video I give a behind the scenes look at Steel and Spark and an X wing they currently have under construction. Watch to learn more about Steel and Spark, a prefab company in Phoenix building innovative housing solutions out of shipping containers.
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I like the fact that each of the doors in the X Wings (on the drawings) are opposing. It gives a sense of privacy. Huge pat on the back to this company on many levels.
Great point!
Good to see you getting outside of your *cough*, studio.
Your videos inspire me in my goal for an ADU on our property.
lol! yeah studio is a stretch
THIS is the kind of innovative "out-of-the-box" thinking the world needs a whole lot more of RIGHT NOW!😊
100%
Really interesting concept, and I can see how useful it would be after a disaster or for homeless folks.
Thanks for watching 😃
Great design they’re thinking ahead. Just one thing kind of stuck in my mind, they are designed to be hosed down inside after the occupant leaves.
The X-Wing concept is really fantastic. Cheers!
Glad you like it
Using what is to create what can be! Excellent idea. Thanks, Kerry!
Thanks for tuning in John!
Innovative design !
Thanks for the info, Kerry 👍
Thanks for watching
They're definitely serious about their shipping container design! I'd be curious to know the cost of the ADU version. Interesting business and video... Thanks Kerry
The ADU is 185k
Kerry, I anticipate in short order you will in fact be the smartest guy in the room about prefab homes. You keep pulling together details and have great conversations that add significant value to this industry. So may I thank for that. You could be construed as the Wikipedia of PreFab. I've learned aspects I hadn't thought of previously in literally every single video. That mighht be just cuz I'm dumb or maybe because you elicit quality information. You can take your pick.
Thank you… appreciate that 😃
Interesting. I'm assuming the sandblasting removes all the toxic chemicals from the container's anti rust coating
I would hope so. I wonder how they dispose of the anti-rust coating and ensure their workers are not exposed to toxic dust.
Their innovation in that area (shipping container conversion) is impressive.
Agreed
Very cool!
Glad you like it!
Cool but very expensive. Thanks Kerry Gold
Thanks, Kerry! Nice deep dive.
Thank you!
This company is amazing 🎉🎉🎉❤
Thanks for watching
Love the solar on the X wing!
Great!
❌🪽 = 🏅👍
All it needs is a mini/micro fridge and a cook top. A fold down toilet that’s connected to local sewage is one idea but I think they’re trying to avoid plumbing. So I guess they’d use some public port-a-potties for each X-Wing. 🚽
Nice follow up Kerry. 😎
Hey Billy. Great ideas!
A composting toilet in each unit might solve that problem. Most people don't (or refuse to) understand how they work though.
Thanks.
Thank you!
High techie! Cool!
Yeah!
Kerry, did you already show the shared bathrooms for the X wings? Vitally important to the possible future residents of these for safety reasons.
What I love about shipping containers is the possibility to cut down on transport cost (I assume they can be shipped via train?)
I’ve read about the problems with insulation & moisture but hope the robot use will make container living affordable.
SOON.
I have questions about the insulation/condensation as well. Phoenix in 125°F? Portland, Maine when it's -40°F? Solar-powered heating and cooling is great, until it can't keep up with the power demands due to the temperature outside.
Nice ,great ideas mahalo
Thanks!
🍀👍🍀🤔nice segment.🔬
Thanks!
I've been looking for a solution similar to the x-wing for a dormitory I want to build. The bathroom (with shower) issue is a deal-breaker, but if that got solved, we'd be in the right neighborhood.
I can see these being very appealing to those with basic/utilitarian needs but don't really see them outselling other tiny home options. They're also a bit pricey, considering bathrooms (of all things) aren't included. Plus, based on their large size and weight, it looks like they could incur additional (substantial) shipping/placement costs, which would add to the purchase price.
So many prefab/modular places out there. Too bad most of their homes aren't actually available to buy.
These apparently are according to their website. Homes for the non-homeless run $70,000 to $230,000.
nodding my head like i get it. me just waiting for a finished product and plans
If you're not solving the cost of owning a home, you're not really bringing a solution, you're just repackaging the problem.
This looks like a start
How well are those x-wings insulated? Can they be used in Phoenix in the Summer or Portland, Maine in the Winter?
I wonder about the practicality of using shipping containers. The end product life cycle of a shipping container is as a steel box which can be re-cast. By adding various construction adhesives and spray foam insulation, the end product life cycle is significantly more complicated as those cannot be present when re-casting. I wonder if there are more sustainable and cost-effective options than shipping containers. This is especially true in Arizona where the metal would require more thermal management. Shipping containers by their design has a limited life span, so they wouldn't exactly outlast a standard building construction.
As an emergency shelter, its deployment is limited to areas with road access. Considering the temporary nature of emergency shelters, lighter options may make more sense.
If you watch the video he did on the apartment building they made, I think you get a better idea of why - at least for as long as we manufacture and use shipping containers - there is a market for repurposed shipping containers. Gotta use what why have, ya dig?
cool is there any issues with smells or contamination from what was shipped in them over the years ?
Sandblasting will take care of that?
@@jos_t_band3912 thanks
Feels like the building in the middle of the xwing should be a container..
The cost comes out to around $440 a square foot. They have to make these affordable. If building a traditional home is much less expensive then what would drive someone to spend more on these? 160 sq ft. For $70,000.
I can have a 675 sq ft. Cottage built for $40,000.
I know! Just have a cottage built and don’t worry about how much these cost! But it just bothers me that they’d rent more affordable. Hence, the reason we don’t see more tiny house villages popping up or cities making changes to local laws to accommodate them.
I guess people like the esthetic of the containers. Recycling etc. The idea of it.
@@jos_t_band3912 Definitely love the aesthetic. Just wish it were more affordable to recycle containers as opposed to building from scratch
True. Cost per square foot really limits solutions like this. It's great that they will have a market and make a living, but for many people it's about affordability not style. It's about owning something and not being squeezed dry by a high mortgage or renting from a greedy landlord. (Private equity are the new pirates in the rental market.)
Have to admire the creativity, engineering and technology that are demonstrated here. I wish them well!
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Kinda like a newly designed prison with a view 😉
good idea but i aint sharing a bathroom
I’m curious about the cost, would they be good for homeless communities?
Yes that is one if the purposes they’re designed for
28MIN: COMPUTER IS FREEZING UP, HAVE MACS SINCE '78, NEVER THIS ISSUE. ALMOST MISSED YOUR POST LOOKS LIKE CONTAINERS!!
At least you’re out of youtube jail
Honestly, can't imagine why people don't just put up a row of bungalows, or little square box houses(least where it's easy code-wise or people on board). There's not nearly enough. They should just turn standard lots into two small homes, something like that, spread the people out to minimize things people don''t like for their prop. val.
Honestly, if they turned every renovatable (is that a word) "abandoned" building in my city into Affordable Apartments, it would solve our Housing Crisis here completely. But the city doesn't want to solve the Housing Crisis. There's 1 owner who has about 15 large, vacant apartment buildings in the city of Omaha. He won't rehab. them, the city won't confiscate them and renovate them, so that's 100's of apartments that exist, but nobody can rent them.
Area 51 living at its finest. 🤣
Totally silent "production" floor is not inspiring for growth.
I'd be interested to know how they ensure the containers are not contaminated, as this is a fairly large and undocumented problem when buying the containers.
Lastly, it's surprising to see an Arizona company 100% relying on solar panels. We already have multiple instances where mild hailstorms completely destroy solar panels or entire solar fields. With insurance companies and solar companies not assisting in replacements this would render these units useless in the AZ summers.
I don’t understand why such a smart person would need containers. Use laser-cut-and-assembly frame instead
Recycling. Also, why are they using cutters with blades that can get stuck? Why not use laser cutters on the steel containers?
Or plasma cutters?
But homelessness doesn’t occur next to acres and acres of afordable land. Cities need some more density than that.
A housing solution 20x the cost of a traditional apartment housing and they don’t meet building codes. You need to look at total cost per sq ft. Including land cost. The land cost makes any building under 3 stories uneconomical.
quick to market...how about keeping profit to less than 1000 dollars per unit...that would help more to reduce cost than anything...open your accounting books...show us the true cost to build....then explain your pricing scheme
metal water air time...tell me three things abundant on the planet that work together to destroy your home
I wonder if next POTUS DJT (and/or his team) is giving this approach to housing a serious thought (Agenda 47 implementation) regarding the major homelessness problem in the U.S.?
Shipping containers are not a substitute for quality homes. I hate this trend...
Thank you for the feedback
There's no "dignity" if you don't even have a private toilet. I can see a homeless site having shared showers but sharing toilets is really inhumane, especially for disabled people. & I have lived in homeless shelters, what junkies do to toilets is f-ing disgusting & nobody else should be subjected to that.
100% solar? Who are they trying to kid? No heat, no A/C, no computers, no cooking, etc...What bullshit.
why would you paint a metal structure any color other than white ? it's a forest gump moment...stupid is as...
I wonder why some people feel homeless people don’t deserve the respect of having their own bathroom.
Stop it. In Seattle, our homeless are going in their pants, on the street (b/c they’re high) or in alleys, alcoves & parking garages.
And if you think even half of these people will ever be self sufficient……… I can sell you a bridge……
these containers will NOT last beyond 30 years