Above Ground Shelters, Pics wanted

[nich018]

pretty cool ideas on here

 

[tranger2]

Ronny, how long ago did you build this and what was the cost?

 

[ronny]

Ronny, how long ago did you build this and what was the cost?

Built in '99 (I didn't do it personally) at about $5,000. FEMA paid for $2,500 of it.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd do most of it myself. I wouldn't involve FEMA. I've had an epiphany with regard to government handouts. I wouldn't take advantage of it again. I'm sure there are some out there who need help and deserve it, but most of us don't. We're slowing cutting our own throats.

Since FEMA was involved back then, I didn't get involved with the plans and the ultimate cost. If I were doing it myself, I think I could cut the cost noticeably. I would have never tried to build the roof back then, but now that I have seen it done, I think I could manage it.

 

[KOPBET]

I wound up building a safe room outside...

How is something like this anchored? Looks great BTW.

 

[ronny]

Mine is built into a corner of my house and the floor is, in effect, a 6" concrete slab (with footing) which is, itself, anchored into the slab of the house with rebar.

 

[TerryMiller]

I understand where you are coming from. My last place had an in ground shelter (outside). My new home has a saferoom off the master bedroom that has the MB closet built into it. If you didn't notice the vault door on the way in or the fact that it dampens all sound, you wouldn't know it was a saferoom. Pretty nice to have air conditioning, power, internet, places to store items in the event you get stuck in there. The in-swinging vault door is also nice because I wouldn't have to worry about keeping the door shut like I would on my old in-ground with the outswinging flimsy metal door. I also like not having spiders, bugs, etc in my shelter. Once we had to take shelter at the old place and about 15 minutes into it, my daughter notices a giant black widow up in one of the corners.... no thanks


thoughts?

With regards to that portion in bold and underlined, how are you going to insure that you have power for your a/c and internet? Do you have a generator that would exhaust to the outside?

 

[vooduchikn]

With regards to that portion in bold and underlined, how are you going to insure that you have power for your a/c and internet? Do you have a generator that would exhaust to the outside?

It's wired to house power and the AC feeds The inlet duct. Internet is wireless. Once a tornado hits me and the house is gone...those things really don't matter.

I use them until the power goes out (haven't lost it yet). Working on a whole house generator for when I lose power.






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[Tampabucs]

We have done a lot of them at F5 Storm Shelters.

 

[primeoflife321]

Tampabucs how do you anchor those. They look nice btw

 

[Cowman]

I paid 2500 for my hole in the ground. From Carnegie Pre-Cast Inc. All Concrete 10 year warranty.