Shipping Container Living Roof

2 simple shipping container home.

Shipping container living roof.

On each side of the container roof attach a wooden beam into the steel plates. To install a shed style roof on your shipping container weld right angled steel plates across the length of the shipping container on both sides. Installing a successful green roof means that you ll have to minimize that as much as possible. Having spots of bare soil can be quite an eyesore.

The long sloping roof also lends itself well to solar panels. But you ll still have to spend. 2 seal with bitumen and cover with heavy duty dpm. After all green roofs provide container homes with better insulation and a whole lot of aesthetic appeal.

Screw the trusses into this beam. Western shelter is an authorized distributor of podroof container kits. 3 construct wooden frame around edge of the roof ours is 225mm high made from decking timber on the outside and bitumen coated battening timber on the inside. This green roof was created on a shipping container in mytholmroyd june 2019 1 clean and de rust the roof.

If you re looking for a cost effective means of providing permanent cover over a large area a container roof kit can be an excellent solution. A shipping container comes with a flat metal roof exterior walls and a metal frame that can double as a foundation these elements are often cited as cost savings.