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The shipping container roof bracket can be used for projects like roofing, framing, mounting photovoltaic solar panels, adding extra stability and reducing movement of your structure along the length of the container.

I share my process, mistakes and successes so you can learn from them before you build your container office. Including photos of the office transformation.

In this article we will show you methods for framing the outside of your shipping container - using timber, steel, Unistrut or scaffolding. Download the instructions here...

Due to the popularity of shipping containers as tiny homes, scientific monitoring stations, offices and lockups, anywhere there is a converted shipping container, there is likely to be also a need for high speed internet. Learn how to securely mount your Starlink kit onto a shipping container, how high to install it & how to run the cable into the container. Full instructions & tips

If you have been looking for ways to attach a floodlight directly to shipping containers, you may have already found our instructions for installing a full height floodlight kit, but not thought about using a solar floodlight instead of a conventional wired one. Here we’ll explore the advantages of attaching a solar floodlight above your shipping container.

Unistrut channel systems are a highly practical and versatile set of building blocks, allowing you to build fully customised support systems and structures without the need for welding or drilling. For those old enough to remember, they are a lot like meccano, but for adults.

We are going to show you two DIY shipping container ramp ideas for how to make your own ramps - to make loading and unloading your container quicker, easier and safer. The Domino Ramp is designed for rolling wheeled items like flight cases, motorbikes, pallet trucks & sack barrows in and out of a shipping container and the Dominos will prevent the ramp from sliding away particularly when wheeling heavy objects out of the container. 

Adal Advertising is a Domino Clamps customer from the Netherlands, who recently put together this substantial steel tube frame on the side of a shipping container in order to attach a huge advertising banner to the side of it.

In this blog we’ll show you how to attach various lengths and diameters of metal tube or pipe vertically to a shipping container using our selection of vertical tube clamp accessories.

In this blog we are going to show you how to bolt structural timber onto your ISO shipping container, quickly and easily, and without having to make a single hole in your container.  Once attached, the timber can be used as a basis for many additions such as a roof deck or building another structure off the side of your container such as a carport or shade structure.

In this blog we’ll show you how to attach a tube or pipe perpendicular out of the side of the corner casting so that it comes out at a 90 degree angle away from the container. Attaching a bar or horizontal support to a container is a really practical way of then attaching other things off your container, particularly things which can hang, like signage, lighting, drapes or banners.

Attaching timber to a shipping container creates the opportunity to build other structures on or around your container such as stairs, handrails or even a roof deck using just woodworking tools and without having to make a single hole in your container.  In this blog we show you different methods of attaching timber to your shipping container whilst leaving your shipping container completely undamaged.