[Pil-pc-oceania] Shipping containers as cellars

[jedd]

 How do we feel about this use?

 I want to bury one - of course digging out a pad, about 30-40cm of
 gravel under the thing, and the same around the sides - a plastic
 membrane of some sort (dam liner?) across the top and over the
 edges, and gravel over the top again, and up to a metre of soil over
 that, formed in such a way as to keep moisture well away from the
 thing.  I don't live in a particularly wet area, so I'm expecting the
 thing will last 'forever' (or a practical equivalence of same).

 It looks like it's the cheapest way of getting a secure cellar.
 About $3k for a 12 metre variety, $1k to deliver, and probably
 about $1.5k for the earthworks and gravel.

 Anyone have any experience or suggestions?

 Jedd.