It has been a while since I posted, but the idea of living in a cargo container(s) has been scrapped. After much research about cost of materials, transporting containers, insulation, toxicity, etc. it just doesn't make much sense to build with containers. The things that attracted me to them was the steel structure for earthquake protection, fire protection, security and modularity. But the cons just outweighed the pros and so back to concentrating on cob and other natural materials. We have now been in Portland, Oregon for just over two years and are very confident the Pacific Northwest will be our home.
