Roll Up Door Leaking In Your Shipping Container? Here’s Why It Happens and How To Fix It!
In this short video, we will explain why your shipping container roll up door may be leaking and what you can do to keep water from entering your sea can.
Shipping containers are designed to be wind and watertight and handle a lot of damage, but as soon as you start modifying it and cutting holes into the steel, it is no longer as weather-tight or durable.
That is why you need to reinforce the can and seal up any area that is modified to make it as wind and watertight as possible. We use Container Modification World’s Roll Up Door Kit because it reinforces the container and is designed to keep as much water out as possible (always silicone where you can to prevent any stray water from getting inside).
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YouTube Video Transcript
Hey everyone, I'm Channing McCorriston, The Container Guy.
Today, I just ran outside to do a little QC check on a container that we just recently modified,
and I noticed a couple small issues, some of it being our fault,
some of it being the way that the container was manufactured, so.
I want to jump inside and show you what went wrong and how to prevent
this if you are installing your roll-up door on your container.
So, I jumped inside this container and I noticed that there is some water spillage happening.
This container isn't sitting quite level,
and it's obvious that it just rained and a little bit of water is leaking into this container.
Now, some of this is inherent with installing a 26 gauge thin sheet metal roll-up door on the side of
your beautifully sealed shipping container, so you can expect it not to be quite as wind and
water tight as— or as rodent proof as it would have been if you didn't modify the container.
But, a lot of people find that sacrifice worthwhile
for having the extra access into the side of your container, so.
If you are installing a roll-up door, make sure that at least you install
it right to prevent the majority of this problem from happening.
And so, what happened here is our guys didn't silicone all the way along the edges of the track
and where the side frame meets the threshold plate, and so I feel some of the rain has
come down the side frame, got under the threshold plate and then into the container.
So a quick silicone job along all that is going to repair some of that issue, but another problem
is that this container, if you notice with the maroon interior, this is a
leasing company spec unit not a one-time— a true one-time-use shipping container, so.
Some businesses in China are being opportunistic and taking advantage of the very high shipping
rates, and so they're building the lowest cost shipping container to come across the
ocean with the intention of selling this thing and purposely losing money on this container, and so.
Because of that, the floor in this container is lower down than the top channel.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's thinner than the normal inch and an eighth, or what the deal is,
but that's caused our standard operating procedure of installing this
threshold plate to actually be drafted inwards.
So, I guess our guys, we need to be cautious of these styles of containers
and make sure that we run a level on the floor and a level on the threshold plate,
and if we're noticing that this is drafted inwards, any water that lands
on the threshold plate is going to want to come into your can rather than spill outwards, so.
Another thing we need to check: our threshold plates are designed so that we can leave
the weld along the bottom and not have to grind that because it's loud, uh it sucks,
it's, it's a, it's a labor intensive process, but in this instance, we might just have to do that.
Another thing to be careful of is make sure along the top of that weld that you're applying some
silicone to stop potentially water maybe from— from coming in underneath there, so.
A few things to look out for here, some of it potentially being our fault,
some of it being the way that this container is manufactured, but something to keep an eye out
if you're buying our Container Modification World Roll Up Door framing kit and either
installing your roll-up door or getting one from us, make sure that you're installing it properly.
Make sure your threshold plate's drafted outwards,
and make sure that you silicone all along the edges.
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