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A traditional front porch takes shape with one end of the former shipping container serving as the house posts and a new front wall being constructed of 16-gauge welded steel.
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Strong, Affordable Storm-Ready Housing Project
Steel Walls, Exterior Finishes, and Floorplans (BV0203)
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Bob reviews the progress and story behind the container-built home they are constructing in St. Petersburg, Florida, with the help of St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services, NeighborWorks, and the Home Depot Foundation. Bob watches Derek Mercer and Delwin Carter of Tampa Armature Works (TAW) finish the exterior skin of the new front wall by welding 16 gauge sheet metal to the steel framing strips and stitch-welding them from inside to prevent buckling in high winds. Ty Moses fills the weld points and seams with body filler and primes the surface with a latex, galvanized-metal primer. After two to three hours, Moses sprays on an elastomeric stucco coating, and will finish it with SuperTherm insulating ceramic paint. Leslie Chapman-Henderson from FLASH reviews the Blueprint for Safety building guidelines with Bob and presents him with the Governor’s Hurricane Conference award for his dedication to promoting best building practices for a safer Florida. Chapman-Henderson tells Bob about the My Safe Florida Home to aid Florida’s low- and modest-income residents as they make safety upgrades to their homes. Bob closes with architect and designer Steve Armstrong who explains the strength of this steel structure and the layout flexibility of its interior space and David Cross who shows design possibilities for container-built homes.
Additional Show Information
• My Safe Florida Home
• Floorplan from Steve Armstrong
• Creating and Maintaining a Stucco Exterior
• Punto Gordo Storm-Ready Design Project
• Converting Shipping Containers for Housing
• Building a Container House
• View show transcript
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| Bob Vila recaps the construction done so far of a storm resistant home in St Petersburg, Florida, where abandoned shipping containers have been converted to modules for affordable housing. Bob ...
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| Bob talks to Derek Mercer and Delwin Carter of Tampa Armature Works about how to treat the steel exterior of the building to make it look more like a conventional ...
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| Bob talks to Ty Moses of Tampa Armature Works who will put on the finishes. The plug holes have been filled with body filler to make a smooth surface. A ...
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| Bob talks with Leslie Chapman-Henderson from the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) about the technologies involved in securing a roof. Chapman-Henderson explains the importance of keeping a roof secure ...
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| Bob talks to Steve Armstrong, the project architect and engineer, about converting old shipping containers into houses. Armstrong recounts how he was approached by Tampa Armature Works to get ...
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| Bob talks with David Cross from Tampa Armature Works. Cross reviews the versatility of designing houses with shipping containers. Both traditional and contemporary models are available using this method of ...
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