The Shipping Container Home Made Easy sales page, captured 2026-09-23
Shipping Container Home Made Easy review
A step by step DIY guide for anyone thinking of turning shipping containers into a house
By the RJ Editorial Team. Sales page checked 2026-09-23. Last updated 2026-09-23.
Is it worth it?
Maybe you've been scrolling container home builds for months, doing the maths on a mortgage you can't face, and thinking a few steel boxes on a piece of land might actually be doable. That's who this is for. Adam Ketcher's pitch is that he's built 146 container homes over 18 years and made every mistake first, so you don't have to. What you're buying is that knowledge written down: plans, plus a step by step walkthrough of the build. Worth being clear about what it is and isn't. It's a guide, not a service and not stamped engineering drawings. Nobody is coming to look at your site. The headline promise (cheaply, in days, zero hiccups) is the seller's claim, not a measured result, and days describes setting containers, not a finished, plumbed, inspected home. Where it genuinely earns its money is before you spend anything. A guide like this is the cheapest way to work out whether you actually want to do this, and to learn the vocabulary before you ring a container yard. If it stops you buying one bad container it has paid for itself many times over. The page says nothing about permits or local building codes, and that is the part most likely to stall you.
Pros
- Written by someone who has done it repeatedly, not just researched it
- Cheap way to test the idea before committing real money
- Covers the unglamorous parts: sourcing, site prep, insulation
- Useful even if you end up hiring a builder, because you'll ask better questions
Cons
- Price, page count and format are not stated on the sales page
- No engineering drawings, inspections or site specific advice
- Permits, zoning and local codes get no mention, and they vary hugely by area
What you get
A digital guide from Adam Ketcher covering the full build: where to find and buy containers, what to check before you pay for one, how to prepare a site and foundation, cutting and framing openings, insulation, and the sequencing of a multi container layout. It reads as plans plus a walkthrough of the mistakes he made first. The page does not say page count, format or whether video is included.
Before you buy
- Check your local rules on container dwellings first, since a guide can't fix a zoning no
- Ask or check what actually arrives (PDF, length, any video) and the refund terms at checkout
- If you have no tool experience or nobody to help, budget for trades regardless of what you read
Who it suits
Suits a hands on DIYer seriously weighing a container build, especially at the research stage. Skip it if you want ready to submit drawings or plan to hire the whole job out.
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