Camper to Container Home

This is the post I am the most intimidated to write because it has to do with all the details my hubby and the other brains behind this operation have been thinking about, while I have just been excited to see the overall progress. 😃 Today I'm going to share with you the specifications of the concrete supports on which we placed the containers and the engineering reasoning behind it all. We wanted to put a "basement" container in the rear stack for a storm shelter, so we had to pour columns to support the front two containers and bring them up level with the two in the rear. (Hindsight, it would have been cheaper and easier to use another container instead of the concrete columns.) So we poured 6 foot high columns for the front stack and dug down and poured footers in the back that are even with ground for the rear stack. The amount of weight soil can support depends on the type of soil. Clay can support about 2,500 pounds per square foot, sandy loam abou...