DIY METAL SAFEROOM HOW TO
On this site and others you will find plenty of articles that will teach you how to increase the security of your home: If you are anything like me, and like most other preppers for that matter, chances are probably pretty good that you have taken it upon yourself to beef up your home’s exterior as a priority when it comes to home defense. Safe Rooms for Comprehensive Home Security
we are very much aware of what happened in Oklahoma yesterday. must also say that we in Australia feel very sorry for your loss of lives and destruction of lives / infrastructure. Just remember, a tornado can put a drinking straw into a tree.make sure the sides are as projectile proof as the framing and the door is going to be a weak point. Naturally, anything is better than hiding in a closet surrounded by half inch drywall and wood studs. Filled cell concrete block is cheap and easy. If I lived in tornado alley, the safe room would be under the slab which really isn't that hard to do compared to building a plane.and makes a great wine cellar (something to do while listening to your house come apart.white or red sweetheart?) If that isn't possible due to water table (like Florida where I'm from), then I would keep the structure as low as possible and probably slope the sides bit. It isn't the wind that will get you, it's the inertia of what the wind is throwing around. A flying car or roof will take out pretty much any light steel structure bolted to concrete. The less wind load you have, the safer you will be. Pic of where some VAF Forum users say they live (area codes overlay on GoogleEarth): PS: If you moved.you could unbolt it and take it with you.
Anywho, if it comes to fruition, we'll keep you in the loop. We're thinking about things like this with a renewed vigor around here. Maybe there is an engineering type out there w/something better than MS Paint that finds this interesting, too. I'm guessing something like this might support the weight of a car, and might even stay attached to the slab if an EF5 decided on us. Paint it safety red and put a RESCUE arrow on the door pointing to the knob. Cut in a door with some bad boy welded-on hinges and we're good. Bolt on a work surface made out of thicker steel C-channel welded together and then cover that with wood to become a workbench. Use a hammer drill, more angle, twenty HILTI expansion bolts and more to tie it into the garage slab. You could tie the four walls together in the corners with some angle iron and bolts. Unlike the online version this would have the rough stuff pointing outward - smooth interior walls. Since I don't have that kind of money laying around, we thought maybe you could buy steel 3/16 C-channel locally cut to a specific length, maybe workbench height, and then weld them together with the stick welder here in the hangar. I found a safe room design online for $3K-$5K that could double as a family tornado shelter ( another design). Randy, Clayton and I were talking yesterday about tornadoes and what they do to our part of the country. (from the front page of VAF this morning.
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