DIY 20 Foot Shipping Container Walk-in-Cooler delivery and install

Good afternoon. I wanted to make a short video just something I've been promising to do for a little bit of time a while about our walk-in cooler. So, you know several months ago, my wife and I put together a walk-in cooler so we can store the flowers and here it is. Here's a little video of the inside. You can see the cool bot. This is shortly after it was finished. I've got it insulated. It's about I want to say about five inches of insulation there in the shipping container. Pretty nice. It was quite a bit of quite a bit of work. There was a little bit of an expense there, but we saved a lot of money doing it ourselves. So this is a 20 foot long by 8 foot by 8 foot shipping container. So here's the adventure, you know, first of all, we had to secure a shipping container. So we, you know, did some research online called a bunch of places found a 20 foot by 20 foot. I'm sorry 20 foot by 8 foot by 8 foot and had it delivered and you know, those things are 5,000 pounds of steel. So we have a small tractor and I was able to push it into place, but you can see I set up these large posts so we can essentially roll it into place. So I got all these set up. I think I use six of them and you know, we'd set it down and we move it in and we move the post and roll it a little bit more and I had that tractor pushing it in. So there's another view of those posts. I wanted to put it in the barn to keep it protected from the sun. Well, you know, we could have left it out. It was supposed to be waterproof and I'm sure it would have been or it is but we wanted to put it inside the barn so it wasn't outside anywhere. So here is the full-size big rig truck. That is I want to say it's a 53 foot truck. So full-size that's our little storage unit. He came in our backyard did a couple maneuvers and then slid it off right there and you can see it's sitting on these rollers and then slowly but surely using our little tractor. I slid it back in there. I had done all the measuring made sure that it would fit width and height wise there was one cross beam. I had to move you can see it right here. I had to move that up about six inches. This is a water line that runs over to the sink that I'd installed over here and but we rolled it in here and put it in this nice flat spot. So there it is almost in place. You can see I've got a floor jack here and this is really cool. You know, it's it's 5,000 pounds and I had to shove it, you against the wall the wall here on the right side and I you know, I would go over here and I push with all my might couldn't get it to move. So I had this brilliant idea was actually something I'd seen probably on YouTube before where you jack it up and you put something under one side at a slight angle. And so as that weights coming down it hits that one side and it just slides over just slides over. So I did that, you know, I put it under there and push it over a foot and then I jack it back up put one log over there again at an angle and then as that weight comes down it just slides it over. So it was sliding it toward that wall. I'm there to the to the right side of the of the screen. So this was a this is an adventure. It was a whole day several hours getting it in place. You can see there. It is finally in place against the wall. I tore up the floor a little bit. I mean, it's just dirt and gravel. I'm getting it into place. And then the first thing I had to do is insulate it. So I got all this insulation. I think I got it at Lowe's, you know, I have a little full size truck and put a whole bunch of insulation in there and went back and forth two or three times, you know, the ceiling is it's domed slightly and so in order to keep keep them up against the ceiling and this is just construction adhesive used a bunch of construction adhesive and pushed it up and then these are the pieces that I will use. I'm holding up, you know, the pieces that I am using. So here it is after the first coat and the first layer, I guess and this is, you know, insulation tape. This is supporting the top. I did end up running a piece of wood with holes through the ceiling supporting the ceiling because all those pieces with the weight would just droop the construction adhesive didn't get attack fast enough, but this hole was interesting to drill and to saw so it's just, you know, I don't remember it's a 16 through I remember what gauge steel it is, but I used a sawzall to cut through it with a bimetal blade and it worked just fine. I think I destroyed the blade in the process. I actually the first time I didn't cut it large enough. So I had to go through and cut it again. Yeah, it was quite the adventure. So here it is. This is working on the second layer. So I guess we're only at about three inches of insulation there. If you count the air cells, it's five. But three inches, four inches. I'm sorry, four inches of insulation. So again, the second layer is going in. I tried to go at different, you know, orientations instead of all vertical like the first one was. These were horizontal. I felt like that was a good idea. And here's more and I wanted to do, you know, a transparent non-transparent, a reflective coating on the second layer to try to keep the cool in and the heat out. So these are, you know, the same reflective nature on both sides. There's some of the construction adhesive I used. I don't know what was best, what wasn't best. I went with a recommendation from the guy at the store. Here it is with all of the insulation in place. You can see this board. I think it's a two by four, two or three of them and I drilled holes in the roof of that. Sorry, there goes my little puppy, in the roof of that storage container, storage unit container, shipping container so that I could hold that, support that up. So there are holes, you know, the washer and then a bolt down through there and another washer. You can kind of see the washer here and the nut holding that in place and then I taped it all with insulation tape. So there it is, pretty much finished. Of course, not quite cleaned out. You can see it in place in the barn. Here it is. You can see the AC unit. Now, this is actually the first one. I'll tell you what happened. So this right here is called a CoolBot and you can research these online. They come in different types. It was really pretty cool. The CoolBot itself allows you to use a conventional AC unit, you know, one that's an appropriate size for the room or for the area and it over programs it. So what it does, you can see here is this is reading the temperature to, it's actually sending the temperature to the CoolBot. This little piece right here is actually the piece that would measure from internally, measure the temperature of the fins. So what the CoolBot does is it sends a warming signal to this which tells this unit that it's too warm in the room and that makes it actually cool lower than it should. So we keep this CoolBot set at about 40 degrees, depending on the temperature, the ambient, you know, outside temperature. So it's at 40 degrees, pretty exciting, right? There it is in place. So that's the adventure, the story of my wife and I's walk-in cooler. You know, this has some Chinese on it in a couple of places. It looks like it's been all over the world. When the truck driver dropped it off, he did say that this was one of the better looking ones and I'm not sure about that. It was really pretty dinged up, pretty beat up, but you know, apparently they get beat up in the process. But we, you know, we saved between $7,000 and $10,000 doing it ourselves. So it was quite the adventure, you know, $2,500 for the storage unit plus expedited shipping and for everything else, including the insulation and all the supplies and products. It was about another $2,500. So I think we spent $5,000 on it, I'm all told, and for something 20 foot by 8 feet by 8 foot with the cooler itself, the AC unit, you know, you'd be talking at $10,000 or $15,000. So we considered it a good worthwhile investment to save the money, especially with all the flowers that we've got going on. So here's some of my wife's flowers here. Anyway, hopefully that's been helpful. Enjoy. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Bye-bye.