Building a Shipping Container Home | EP05 Connecting to Electricity and Water

In this episode of Building a Shipping Container Home I will start by going over to connect a shipping container to water and electricity. I will also show how I added mechanical systems to heat and cool the shipping containers with mini split ductless heat pumps. Link to the drawings for the container house: #/floorplans/ This is going to be a technical episode covering some boring but really important topics: How to transform raw land to house with utilities I looked at a lot of different properties on Zillow and got frustrated but the lack of information provided about utility hook ups. I found that getting the APN# and reaching out directly to the providers was the quickest way to get solid answers. An overview of the electrical systems I went all electrical for everything including cooking, heating, cooling, and hot water. Gas systems can be really efficient but that involves installing different infrastructure and I like having