Preparing a Safe Room
Having a Safe Room built into your home or vacation home, survival retreat or bug out bunker is a great option for those who are serious preppers.
A Safe Room is a room that is either built in place during the construction phase of the home or a room that has had reinforcements added to it that will make it strong enough to withstand major weather events or even to keep intruders out and keep you safe from harm.
If you are in a position to build a Safe Room into your new home or want a Safe Room added to your current home this builder may be able to help you out.
www.Ready.Gov offers the following advice to consider when building a Safe Room:
Extreme windstorms in many parts of the country pose a serious threat to buildings and their occupants. Your residence may be built “to code” but that does not mean it can withstand winds from extreme events such as tornadoes and major hurricanes. The purpose of a safe room or a wind shelter is to provide a space where you and your family can seek refuge that provides a high level of protection. You can build a safe room in one of several places in your home.
Safe rooms built below ground level provide the greatest protection, but a safe room built in a first-floor interior room also can provide the necessary protection. Below-ground safe rooms must be designed to avoid accumulating water during the heavy rains that often accompany severe windstorms.
To protect its occupants, a safe room must be built to withstand high winds and flying debris, even if the rest of the residence is severely damaged or destroyed. Consider the following when building a safe room:
The contents of a Safe Room will vary from person to person, but I would recommend having the following items as a minimum for basic survival inside of the Safe Room.
I would also recommend having the following items in the Safe Room to help you extricate yourself incase the door is jammed or debris is blocking your exit or in case the entire house has fallen down on top of your Safe Room.
More likely than not a Safe Room will be utilized for shelter during a high wind extreme weather event, but the possibility does exist that it also could be used to keep yourself or your family safe from intruders or looters (zombies) after a major catastrophe as well. So be sure to consider the wall thickness, placement of the locks and whether or not the Safe Room looks like a Safe Room from the outside or does it just look like another closet or even a built in cabinet with a hidden door.
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For building a room in an existing house, what kind of door would be best? Also thanks for the supplies list. Never thought about that.
I would go with a thick steel insulated door on heavy duty hinges. Then I would add additional steel to the back side of the door because a 9mm will shoot right through a regular steel door. Cheers JJ
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