Tornado Proof Safe Room

Lone star safe rooms use a simpson strong tie wedge all anchoring system to secure the safe room during an f5 tornado.

Tornado proof safe room.

Building a safe room for your home or small business fema s safe room guidance also references criteria in icc 500 standard for the design and construction of storm shelters. Walk in vaults gun rooms large gun safes panic rooms vault doors for large vault rooms. Best storm shelters safe rooms tornado shelters. A family in mississippi lost everything after a tornado obliterated their rural home on easter sunday but they are alive because of a home safe room that doubles as a closet.

Each safe room is bolted down to your concrete slab by drilling 5 8 x 3 holes and inserting specialty designed anchoring bolts at the appropriate locations around the perimeter of the safe room to ensure the safe room stays in place as the rest of the house is torn. Starting at 4 000 for example you could have your own 4 foot by 4 foot above ground all weather safe room or tornado room installed in your home or business. A safe room typically costs about 2 500 to 5 000 to build a small price to. That s why it makes sense to buy a storm shelter.

And not only will our all welded reinforced thick steel tornado safe room units protect from even an ef 5 tornado engineered to exceed fema s national. Recent natural disasters highlight the need for tornado shelters inside or close to homes in tornado prone areas. All safe room designs even for rooms inside the house are engineered to provide a room that s completely independent of the house structure and bolted down to a concrete slab. Basic safe room information and construction drawings for site built safe rooms are provided in fema p 320 taking shelter from the storm.

In addition the room has a tough impact resistant shell to protect occupants from the wind blown debris that accounts for most storm fatalities and injuries. Visit our show rooms in tulsa oklahoma and irving texas in the dallas ft worth metro. The best safe room doesn t always mean the most expensive safe room. The problem is 99 of people never use them.

Storm shelters safe rooms and walk in vaults can be customized to fit any space and can include full lighting electrical ventilation ar500 ballistic resistant vents also available bench seating that doubles as storage space shelving gun racks emergency lighting in the case of power outage. Tornado proof is a stretch but you can significantly increase your buyers chances of surviving strong tornadoes and hurricanes with safe rooms built in the basement crawl space or main floor.