Harrison Marshall, 28, plans to live in the skip in Bermondsey, southeast London, for a year as a project aiming to make a 'statement' about the 'crazy' cost of living in England's capital city.
He aims to live in the standard eight-yard skip, usually used for storing, moving and dumping waste building material, for the rest of this year.Speaking about the project, he said:"For me to live in this area, this was the only option for me to do that, which is just mad.
"When I came back to London I started the hunt for a room, and, obviously, within that timeframe, the prices had gone kind of crazy. "People were getting hundreds of messages for a single room… it was at the point where if you weren't willing to put your deposit down the same day as viewing it, you didn't really stand a chance.
"And so that's when I started picking up the idea again, about is it actually possible to live in a skip?"Mr Marshall's new home comprises a standard 12m x 6m builder's skip with an insulated timber frame and a barrel roof.He also hopes to be connected to a power source which will enable him to use a heater and a cooker.
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