10-foot shipping container with roll up door
This is a custom-built 10ft shipping container with seven-foot wide roll up door on the back end.
Why it's a custom build you might say. It's just a 10ft shipping container with a roll up door. What's the big deal. Right.
This 10ft storage container used to be a one-trip full-size 20ft shipping container and has been cut down to make two custom-built 10ft containers.
By cutting down the shipping containers this way we can pass the savings on to our customers. Check out our 12ft storage container with man doors.
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Cut down a 20ft container into two 10ft sections.
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Frame the ends and install corner castings.
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Install the roll up door.
10ft shipping container with roll up door.
The idea behind the cutting down a 20ft shipping container down to two 10ft storage container came to mind when we got an order from one of our customers for two 10-foot standard height storage containers.
Both 10 ft containers is to be used as an extra storage space. And one of them need a 7ft roll up door at one end.
While neither of the containers will be used for shipping cargo anymore, we don't have to worry about the shipping container ISO rating as long as they are solid and watertight.
Since we are going to create two storage containers from this 20ft container. We took the time to mark the cut so both ends will be ready to be framed later on. So one cut will get the job done.
We used the same technique for creating the 16ft shipping container with a roll up door.
The cut was done using a cutting wheels on a hand-held grinder which gives us cleaner cuts which in return save us a lot of time prepping the steel for welding.
This section on the container just needs to be capped so we framed it with 2 x 4 inch rectangular steel tubing for the verticals and top header. The bottom was framed with 2 x 6 inch tubing and a flange to secure the decking. Each corner takes a steel corner casting.
There was no skip welding. The steel frame get welded all the way around with no caulking at all.
Now we end up with about an 8 x 8-foot opening that needs to be closed up. We added 2 x 2 inch rectangular steel tubing in the center of the opening from the floor all the way up to the top header to make the cap more manageable.
1/8 inch steel panels were cut to fit the openings and got recessed about one inch inside the 2 inch frames to give the wall more strength and a better look.
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2 x 6 inch rectangular steel tubing.
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2 x 4 inch rectangular steel tubing.
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Steel corner casting.
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1/8 inch steel panel.
This 10ft storage container section get the 2 x 6 inch rectangular steel tubing for the verticals instead of the 2 x 4 inch tubing we used in the first section.
We used 2 x 6 inch tubing on this end to create a 7ft wide opening, which is exactly what we need to install the seven-foot wide shipping container roll up door.
2 x 2 inch rectangular steel tubing gets installed 82 inches from the floor across the opening to complete the roll up door frame.
1/8 inch flat panel gets cut to fit the top opening to create a header and close the opening.
The only thing left before installing the roll up door is installing the door threshold, cleaning the steel and weld, prime and seal the inside.
The shipping container roll up door can now be installed in the framed opening.
Custom-built 10ft shipping container that you will never find anywhere in the shipping container market.
