Anyone on the board have any experience with a safe room? Concrete walls etc with a safe door. With new construction it would seem a simple matter in a basement area.

Doug

A friend of mine has an all concrete room in his basement with poured concrete deck overhead and a regular commercial vault door.
Pretty nice !

dwhunter, I saw several of these back in my Beachjumper days working in Israel. Very effective even built on ground level. I've seen a few rooms on ground level homes done with either cinderblock or steel plate with a heavy duty door mounted. I don't have the web site handy, but maybe Texas A&M had the site where they designed a retrofit tornado proof room. That should accomplish the same thing.

We are preparing to move to the Ocean side of Wash,DC down south. I am going to start pricing this out as we look for a home. I have pretty much convinced myself that it is the best way to go for all of the guns I own and the few other valuables.

Thanks,

Doug

I saw one that was built using concrete panels with steel frames around the outside perimeter.
They were 3' wide, 8' tall, and 3" thick.
Using a forklift they set them in place and weld the steel at the seams and corners.
Cieling was the same way.
Door was then welded in place, furing strips and drywall inside with a vent system.

[ 09-23-2003, 07:11: Message edited by: gsp ]

In my old house I took a good sized closet and made it a hideout. Access was through end of another closet. Not reinforced at all but a burglar probably wouldn't find it. Total cost about $500. I priced out reinforcing it with steel (I am in the metal fabricating business) but it didn't seem worth it.

dwhunter,

Safe room? Have you called Jodie Foster? I guess that was Panic Room. Sorry I couldn't resist.

BOWHUNR