Shipping Container Tool Storage

June 15,2024

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Shipping containers are some of the best options for extra storage space. here we are converting a 20 ft standard height shipping container to a tool storage shak. We can't clame that the container convertion idea was ours as it was requested from one of our customer that happend to be a big construction company. They needed a solutoin for their large amount of construction tools. The company ordered two 20 foot shipping container that need to be converted into a tool storage units with 6 foot roll up door on each, two louvered vents, two 4 foot ceiling lights, two quad electrical receptacle and a four tier wood shelving. The one thing that caught our attention was the 4 tier wood shelving that have to be in a ( J ) shape wrapped inside the shipping container. We start thinking why wood shelving? Why not steel shelving? the shipping container is built from steel except the floor of course. It will be a much easier to at lease build the framing from steel. But at the end it's what the customer wanted and that's what the customer gets. We started with the roll up doors as they are easy to install We install hundreds of them. We want them done and out of our way. Since we are using the same tools and materials we did both doors one after the other. Next we moved to installing the louvered vents. All four vents, Two vents for each container on apposite sides got installed at one shot. Mark, Cut, Install,Weld, Clean, Paint and done. Next came the electrical part. The ceiling lights were the easy part as they are completely out of the way of the shelving. But one of the quad receptacles has to be centered on the side wall and in between the second and the third shelving tier. So the electrical plumbing had to be well thought of before start weld tacking the junction boxes in place. We start with the junction box that feeds the ceiling lights which was mounted at the top center of the front wall. The rest was a smooth sailing. This was suppose to be the easiest part of the whole modification. It's 2X4 studs and some plywood how hard it could be. Right!. It turned up to be a nightmare. How to fasten the 2X4 wood studs to the steel walls without using steel brackets welded to the walls. If we do that Using welded steel brackets on a four tier shelving we have to wire wheel the weld burns from the outside and have to paint the whole container. Which was not an option. These were new 20 foot shipping containers after all. And we wanted to keep them as clean as possible. After some thinking we end up using a steel flat bar fasten to the top of the 2X4 wooden studs and bolted to the top rail tube, the 2X4 is setting in the cavity of the corrugations to save on space. No welds & No holes to the outside. Cool. The other issue that arises was centering the vertical 2X4 wood studs at 4 feet apart. The shipping container steel wall corrugation did not cooperate at all and we still have the junction box in the center of the wall that need to be taking in consideration too. At this point of building the shipping container tools shak it came down to saving lumber or saving time. So we choose the saving time option and we went for it. It really looked and sounded simple to install wood shelving in a storage shipping container. But the amount of time it took to cut, drill and fasten all that shelving lumber was unexpected.