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01/10/2014 at 9:37am
Location: Ayrshire
Outfit: Auto2DSleeper+MHs
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The guys doing the car wash here started out with a container for their mess room, then (whenever business was quiet) they clad it in timber planks (stained s--t brown) and mock stone. I have to say it's not a good look though it's certainly eye-catching. A flat grass roof looks pretty but isn't a clever idea where the weather's wet even if you know your stuff with the waterproofing sealing layers between mud and a material that rusts. Done well, however, it can be attractive and the stuff of magazine articles and TV programs and a great deal of envy. Good luck!
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01/10/2014 at 9:50am
Location: None Entered
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Go on google images and type in" shipping container caravan"
You will find loads of pictures of completed units and some of them look great.
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01/10/2014 at 11:38am
Location: Huddersfield
Outfit: swift conqueror 645+jeep commander
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Quote: Originally posted by Miserly on 17/11/2013
Quote: Originally posted by mickeyb on 12/11/2013I worked for many years in the transport & freight forwarding business and was not allowed to load our containers for certain destinations in the east. This was for the simple reason we could never get them back, they were hijacked and used for dwellings, not holiday homes either.........Mick
Norfolk,Lincolnshire??
For Mongolia you had to buy the containers to send anything and as said you never saw them again
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01/10/2014 at 5:32pm
Location: Bolton
Outfit: Smart but casual.
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Go for it, take no notice of the you cant do that brigade, the world could do with some outside the box thinkers.....that was a pun, your supposed to be smiling now..
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01/10/2014 at 11:37pm
Location: Slaving away
Outfit: Dandy (Magic mushroom) BMW 3 series
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He's been watching too many 'Grand Designs' and that George Clark's Small Spaces!!!
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02/10/2014 at 9:21am
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Impreza - Apart from the attitude, have you any designs/concepts to show that you are capable of building one of these to the standard you talk about? Perhaps with a small website and portfolio you may be taken more seriously.
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Filey - Scarborough
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02/10/2014 at 11:22am
Location: sunny south east!
Outfit: Coachman
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Being cynical many caravan park owners will want older statics vans to be moved on/sold and new siting fees and /or commission from sale price of older vans which they simply would not get with this type of home as they would last too long.....
If already clear it can and has been done elsewehere, its whether anyone "wants" it here is the hard thing to establish I guess
Best of luck with the project, anything new can be a hard sell with anything to do with caravans I am afraid I would guess due to the demographics of caravan ownership
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