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Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home
Photograph by Connex Custom Builds, from their own page. Used to show the product it depicts. Renderings are design intent, not to scale, not for construction.

The Custom Shipping Container Home, a shipping container kit from Connex Custom Builds, has no published price.

Connex Custom Builds does not publish a wind rating, a snow load, anything about fire or a price for this model, so 81 percent of the fields we score are blank.

None of that tells you whether it works on your land. Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance are site specific engineering, so the only useful answer comes from running this kit against your address.

Completeness

19%

19 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Connex Custom Builds published. Why completeness is never part of the grade.

The thing nobody else will tell you

This kit cannot be scored on its own. Nothing on this page tells you whether it works on your land.

Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance come from your address, not from this kit. Put in an address and the gates run against the real requirement at that point.

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The Kit Home Finder Grade

Not ratedNot rated, which is the absence of a score rather than a bad one. We could not rate buyability or cost honesty, and a grade needs two of the three, so the materials and carbon tier score we do have stands on its own below. This says nothing about how the kit performs. A maker can publish an excellent wind and snow rating and still be unrateable here, because this grade measures whether you can buy it, whether the price is honest, and what it is made of.

Rubric v1.0, August 2026. Site fit is not in this grade, because it depends on your land rather than on the kit. Every weight, and what we refuse to grade.

What the maker publishes

Everything here came off Connex Custom Builds's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.

Build typeShipping container
Structural systemShipping container conversion
Finished sizeNot published
BedroomsNot published
BathroomsNot published
Wall R valueNot published
Roof R valueNot published
Foundation typesNot published
Lead timeNot published
Delivers toBased in Orlando, FL; site claims worldwide shipping
CountryUnited States
Build difficultyCrane and a trained crew
Modules or heavy steel arrive on a truck and go up with a crane. Read from the construction method.

What the maker says it resists

Design capability as published. Not a certification, not a rating of your house, and not proof against anything.

Engineered wind speedNot published
Roof snow capabilityNot published
SeismicNot published
FireNot published

Price

Not published

This maker publishes no price. That is the single most common gap in the Index, and it is the first thing to ask them.

What that number coversNot published

What else we found

CONTAINER TYPE IS VAGUE: site says the company works with 'new and used shipping container homes' but does not specify which condition is used for any given build. Treated as unconfirmed/mixed rather than guessed. General durability claim ('built to handle the harshest weather conditions') with no numeric rating. No pricing published.

Questions to send this maker

Generated from what they left blank. Every one of these is a thing they could answer today and have chosen not to publish. Copy them into an email. If they answer, tell us and we will update this page with the citation.

  • What does this cost, in dollars, and exactly which build stages does that number cover?
  • What design wind speed is this model engineered to, in miles per hour, and at what Risk Category and Exposure Category?
  • What ground snow load can the roof carry, in pounds per square foot, and is that the ground load or the roof load?
  • What is the roof assembly's fire classification, and are the vents ember resistant?
  • What Seismic Design Category will you engineer this model to, and is that included or a paid upgrade?
  • Which foundation types does this kit support, and can it sit on piers above a base flood elevation?
  • What is the wall R value, and is that nominal insulation or a tested whole assembly value including thermal bridging?
  • What is the roof R value, and is it nominal or whole assembly?
  • What is the finished square footage of this model?
  • What is the lead time in weeks from deposit to delivery, right now?

Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 19 percent.

Questions people ask about the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home

Answered from what Connex Custom Builds publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".

How much does the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home cost?

Connex Custom Builds publishes no price for this model. Across the whole Index only about a third of makers publish a price in dollars at all.

What wind speed is the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home engineered to?

Connex Custom Builds does not publish a design wind speed for this model. Only about one kit maker in ten publishes one. Note that "hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, so a page using that phrase without a number has told you nothing.

What snow load can the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home roof take?

Connex Custom Builds does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.

Can you actually buy the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home?

Yes. Connex Custom Builds takes orders for this model today.

What foundation does the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home need?

Connex Custom Builds does not publish foundation options for this model. That matters more than it sounds: in a FEMA A or V flood zone the finished floor has to sit above the base flood elevation, and a kit offered on a slab only cannot get there.

How well does the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home stand up to a hurricane or a wildfire?

The honest answer is what it resists, and under what conditions. No kit home is proof against either, and any page telling you otherwise is selling. "Hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, no house can be tornado rated, and whole building certifications like LEED, Passive House and HERS all require a built, sited, inspected home and cannot be attached to a model from a spec sheet. What a maker can honestly tell you is what the design resists and under what conditions. For this model, they publish nothing at all.

Will the Connex Custom Builds Custom Shipping Container Home work on my land?

Nothing on any spec sheet can answer that, including this one. Wind, snow, seismic, flood and soil requirements come from your address, not from the kit. The Kit Home Finder runs every kit in the Index against the published hazard data for your point and shows you what survives and why the rest did not. It is free.

How it compares

It documents less than the average shipping container kit, 19 percent against 25.

Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 18 of them shipping container. Recomputed on every build.

Sources

Where these values came fromhttps://connexcustombuilds.com/
Maker's sitehttps://connexcustombuilds.com
Last checked13 August 2026

Values are what the maker published on the date above. Makers change pages without notice. If you find something out of date, write to hello@kithomefinder.com and we will recheck it and re-cite it. Members can dispute any figure on the page, and the dispute and its resolution are both published.

Membership

Connex Custom Builds will not tell you what this costs. Members get the delivered cost by stage.

The narrowing is free and always will be. Membership is for the part after you have your shortlist, when you need to act on it.

  • Delivered cost by build stage, so you can see what the published number leaves out
  • See it on your land. Your parcel with the footprint dropped on it to scale, setbacks checked
  • The questions to send makers who publish nothing, written from their own blanks

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