As a Retired US Navy Submariner, I would purchase one of our retired Submarines and Bury it much the same way and still feel like I was still doing Special Ops!!!
An old boomer, complete with missile tubes etc... but... UNSINKABLE... Just put up a bunch of tourist signs to the submarine memorial... Just the Sail above ground.... missile tubes covered with a couple of inches of peat moss.....ready and waiting.
@@AtlasSurvivalSheltersobviously it would need to be trucked in several pieces. Have you ever seen some of the huge nuclear reactor parts that needed to be trucked? It wouldn’t be cost effective ultimately. Your products seem to make sense. 👍
As one who has been in construction for almost 50 years I believe this system is to trusting in the welding; I personally would design a flange, seals, and welding system to secure against leakage, I also would cover the whole system in a rubber coating as I went along to secure for leakage!!!
Your right. A double weld doesn’t guarantee a water tight seal unless you X-ray the welds. But that’s costly. Also if you noticed, the vertical welds were being done down hill. Any welder knows what that means. Slag runs into the weld area meaning no penetration. Might as well use superglue. I’m in excavation. Mass earth, a sump pump isn’t needed if they install a drain field. Like a sewer system. Their excavator operator “expert” sucks to. I’ve fired better
@@edgemonsiteworksllc3369 amen my friend exactly, these tactics are headed for disaster, most people don't figure, or ask their selves what if, and is this the best tactics; their tactics is let's get it done to minimal specs, and let the consumer reap the headaches!!! We both know there is a difference such as a 5 star piece of material, and a 1, or 2 star piece of material, and they either don't know, or don't care!!!
Atlas must consider septic tank,sewage system, water tank, much bigger air vent system, deepwell pump for additional water supply, maybe a periscope to monitor outside world, a non weldable hatch to prevent it from being welded outside and much more...
@@user-gp5xc4lh2q no I actually think is an awesome concept. I wish I had the land and the place to build one of this because is really worrisome what’s going on today and with this administration specially. The world is in more danger than ever. Obama left us with a real situation with N. Korea, Trump fix it and now we have this numb nuts getting us in a worst one..
@CrazyLegsMcGee "I don't like Biden but at least he didn't try to steal an election and undermine America." He didn't *Try* to steal an election, he *did* steal an election. Also, he is currently undermining America, by purposefully weakening our national security, energy independence , and logistics. You might want to turn off the mainstream media, if you can't filter out their bullshit.
@@Javservice You think Trump was a steady hand of leadership? Trump, the thin-skinned man-child that sued a comedian over a joke? Trump, the dictator lover that (in his own words) "fell in love" with Kim Jong-Un after a few compliments? Trump, the weak-minded fool that gave North Korea everything they wanted in exchange for vague promises of future action? Trump, the retard that (by his own admission) manipulated Covid numbers to make himself look better? Trump, the fool that asked why nukes could not be used in war? Trump, the moron that asked why a hurricane couldn't be stopped with a nuke? Trump, the 2-bit conman that ran dozens of scams around his presidency to collect trivial sums of money for the supposed billionaire he claims to be? Trump, the business failure that ran 3 casinos into the bankruptcy? I'll quickly grant you that Joe Biden is not an ideal POTUS, but he's leagues better than Trump in a crisis. Trump
As being a welder the first thing I can think of is how much fun these weld jobs would be and 2 I would hate to be a plumber if anything ever had a mishap lol
Attention to detail is rebar that thing on with cemented because with that the thing would have been more stable don't you know the force of the world's event will push that thing right out of the ground the earth will move and younger all the stabilizer you gunna need to keep that thing from coming straight out of the ground upward you can bank on that with the shit the world is making to kill mankind good luck more reinforced into the ground would been more stable then using compact rock
The engineered stone is important to because of its low compaction rating. It prevents movement and settling and offers a place for the water to go when using well points. We used stone often when installing gasoline tanks for gas stations. Adding stone to wet dirt stiffens it up to. Thomas Dutkiewicz Connecticut
A few question's: 1. how do you get Telephone and Cell service in the bunker? 2. how do you get radio & TV signal in there? 3. Where do the shower and toilet's drain connect to? 4. If the city/county power and water resources are not working, for how long can you stay down there since at some point the batteries and the generator stop working, especially if there has been an EMP? I wish our government would require each city/county to provide bomb shelters like they do in Switzerland or other countries.
1. If they ever need the bunker it's not a priority. I'd assume that you would be on 1 or 2 bars or maybe even no signal. 2. Radio's can be used with no problems I think and TV can be hardwired to your house via cable or just get a hard drive full of movies 3. Septic tank for toilets and the water supply is chosen by clients either to house or nearby creek 4. Power supply is solar/diesel depending on customer and is emp hardened in the case of solar and diesel generators have no elecgric components 5. Few months to a year depending on how many batteries and your supply of sunlight/fuel as well as food/water stocks
One of these would be useful as a cellar for a house that could be used as a survival shelter if the need ever arises . But I think most of the value would be having some extra storage space in a house where you can store your food and whatever for day to day use, and perhaps have a hobby/games room as well.
@@Xonid1 It's a scam tbh. People think they're buying bunkers when paying hundreds of thousands for these oversized tin cans, but what they're really getting is a cheap attempt at an underground apartment that depends on electricity, one of the first things they'd run out of within days after the kinda catastrophe for which you'd get one of these. Like are you joking, they actually talk about putting PC setups and televisions down there. Where is the large storage unit with loads of shelves for food, where is the grey/blackwater recycling system, where is all the stuff you would ACTUALLY want if your neighborhood ever became a warzone...
All I could think about was how depressing life would be like in this shelter if it actually had 24 people in it. There is one small area for a tv that maybe 6 or 7 people could watch at the same time. Aside from eating for only 12 people at a time you would have to spend the rest of your time in your bunk. Could you imagine spending months in here?
Depends on the alternatives, if 24 people are hunkering down there for some extended time things outside are _bad_. Would still be a pretty sweet deal compared to getting your skin burnt to a crisp in the initial heatwave followed by your internal organs slowly melting from the radiation of a nuclear blast. If I had the option I'm pretty sure I'd chose the bunker ;-)
Nuke shelter like this, or any kind , you want to plan on only being in for 30 days. Even truly end of the world type nuclear carpet bombing the bad radiation is only a week, unless your right next to a ground burst .
@@dontfukwiththissenator7919 thank man, I've been looking into this . The simple concept for survival of a nuke blast is distance , mass and time. With that to avoid dying in nuke blast or radiation is avoid living next a potential target , have a heavy dense shelter between you and the radiation and the radiation reduces every 24 hours. For me not worried at home. Central Wisconsin is a poor target. However with the new administration, strides will be made by embolden rogue states.
How many nuclear plants close to you? If and emp hits they can only cool so long with generators, then boom! Play cards, or dominos. There is extra seating at that long bar with some under counter stools.
You can build one no problem in the UK, there was a guy who built one in his back garden, no issues. He's on YT can't remember his name he's a mad inventor who built a jet-engined bicycle if I remember right.
I Would Trust Atlas Survival Shelters over any Bunker Company in the World. I don't have one but I would definitely call to order 1 if I could. Ron Hubbard Company CEO Stands by his Brand.
As a person on disability raising my son alone with no help or child support, I know I will never be able to afford a bunker, but love watching these and dreaming ....
A bunker won't save you from yourself. As long as you die knowing that you did the best you could, nothing else matters. Alternatively, you can always buy a shipping container and bury it. It might have a little more mildew than an Atlas bunker, but it'll get the job done if/ when the need arises.
How are the numerous pipes extending above ground protected from attackers? Seems that is would be very easy to compromise the bunkers by damaging or blocking them.
@@uni4rm Well because a lot of people plan on 'bugging out" and yes, they could definitely be wandering. Also, so many people are talking about these kind of shelters that people might actually be looking for someone else's stockpile to steal. It would be easy enough to damage their pipe which supplies fresh air. Stop that up till they're dead or coming out of their escape hatch and get rid of them. There you go, free food. Sad, but true.
Preppers have been wasting their money, since the 1950's. They do have a second underground vacation home, though. I'll stick with my nice cars, watches and tropical travel.
With a clay base like that you should drill like 10 or 20 4inch holes 25ft deep all around the bunker and fill them with sand ..its called sand draining ..a very effective method of getting water down past the clay layer ..sand draining can help alot if your sump pump fails
12x50 is only 600 sq ft. That is about the size of a 1 bedroom apartment. I can't imagine 23 people staying with me when I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment.
@@ledzepgirl299 Ok so that is 1200 sq ft. The size of a small house built in the 1950s. Mine is 2000 sq ft and when there are 8 people here I want four of them to go home after a weekend.
With 24 souls in this bunker, there should be a CO2 monitor. Is there a dependable one that is fully integfrated into the build to qualify safety concerns ? An add-on within a laptop, may show that it goes off too often. The intake dispersal and exhaust may have sensory abilities, but could fail as an aftermarket application.
I watch these videos and never hear anything about a septic system for the toilets or showers and the like. I would just assume one was install also as well as a drain field/ or something???? Or maybe hooked up to city systems????
I think you can find a video from a channel called engineer775 I think. He’s a contractor that’s done stuff like that with these bunkers. Ron’s used his videos before
Most of the Atlas Bunkers must use a macerator-ejector system and pipe it into a city or septic system on the property. A German company called Wilo makes a smaller system for home use when you don't want to breaks up concrete in an existing basement to add a toilet, shower and sink. From what I last priced they were around $600 but that is a third of the cost to bring a plumber and tear out half of your basements concrete to add drains.
@@Subgunman I know they make different types of "pumps", macerators and the like for getting the waste out. Its just that I've never heard Ron talk about hooking anything up and he goes into "great" detail about all the other piping hook ups. I'm just a little surprised he never talks about it.
As a prior nuclear missile maintenance officer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, if there is a nearby nuclear explosion the sand in your escape tube will heat up so much it will turn to glass and you will never get out. Of course the EMP is going to knock out all your generators and fry all electrical and computer lines.
If the heat in the escape trunk is enough to melt sand.... within a few feet of the bunker... I'm guessing that the people inside are kind of cooked anyway.
@@everythingluxury7 Sand melts at about roughly 1700°C (3090°F). Assuming that that nuclear air burst produces heat that is present long enough, and penetrating deep enough into the ground to melt sand deep enough to cause a problem using an escape trunk filled with sand (say a foot or so).... it is also going to be heating the ground one or two hundred feet away, deep enough to turn that bunker into an oven. Even if the temperature in the bunker "ONLY" rises to a tenth of that temperature (309 degrees F).... that's basically the temperature to bake a turkey at. And people will start dying of heat stroke within a very short period of time. The highest reported core body temperature in a patient who survived without permanent residual deficits was 46.5°C (115.7°F). This 52-year-old patient suffered from environmental heatstroke, and received medical treatment, including removal from the hot area they were in. There's no removing someone form this bunker to a cooler spot. On the other hand.... that presupposes that the bunker is pretty damned close to ground zero, in order to be that close to a nuclear blast. The bunkers in this video do not appear to be very close to any strategic target so that fireball should not be a factor.... just maybe a brief forest fire burning over the bunkers. which should not be a problem. All the folks have to worry most likely are: 1. The US government requisitioning it, 2. roving gangs of people looking to help themselves to whatever is inside, 3.Fallout, 4. sickness spreading rapidly in the closed environment of the bunkers; 5 incompatible occupants knifing each other or worse. 6) unplanned for guests draining prep supplies, and , as mentioned in another comment, a really messy Taco Tuesday aftermath.
That's right! there will be another shift of the plateau, that is, the upper layers of the earth will shift and your whole system will be unusable, We have bunkers in Russia at a depth of 50 meters, a monolith of one and a half meters and a hell of a ton of metal... and this doghouse,,))))that's how I looked cleanly and laughed at how your companies steal money and deceive their citizens...good luck to you...They'll just die, that's for sure
Thanks for the details. I spend too much time thinking about how it could all go to shit. One the realizations I had was that the biggest collapse threat is the "legacy pollution. " the first 72 hours, and 30 period we will have a crap ton of untested industrial sites. Nuclear, biological, chemical and other petroleum based facilities. People stop showing up to work safety Checks aren't done yeah we got problems. The biggest one is Chernobyl and that's a problem for another 19935 years. Good news I just turned 50 and had 3 funerals this last 4 months. Sounds self destructive but at some point not my problem anymore. Kind of Luke that last day in high-school where I can just throw it all away.
Remember to have enough spare Food & Beer for these guys when they show back up during the calamity, they'll be able too remember wherever these are built and could be your new roommate 10 C L
@@geethug6910 Some people have way more money than common sense. Airtight operational security is probably the most important safety precaution, yet millionaires like this throw caution to the wind. One terrible human with a cement truck is all it takes to defeat this, blocking entrance, immediately removing option of self-defense, while they then proceed to seal the generator’s and human airways… wait a week while family suffocates in the dark, before returning to excavate and loot. An even more sophisticated crew could use odorless gas to get the job done in a day. I’d be the type who would eliminate people capable of doing something like what I described, but I’d probably not risk my own life to save people foolish enough to run an insecure operation like this. There are already enough stupid people in this world.
@@truthbydesign5146 Gotta find it first and get past the hidden remotes sentries, RPGs, automated turrets and you won't even see it coming while those inside have been watching you from miles out if you get anywhere near. Remember the best defense is a good offense. These are basic survival buildings, a lot more is added afterwards, filtration systems to filter gas, independant o2 supplies, 360 remote surveillance, multiple hidden escape points. Armchair theory warriors like yourself won't stand a chance thankfully 😆😂🤣
@@CragScrambler Only the government and a relative few elite groups and private families will have the resources, technical expertise and military experience to implement an operation like that....and there's one common denominator shared between all who do: They understand how important SECRECY is to operational security. The last thing any of them would do, would be to advertise their location, like the goof offs in this video. this isn't theory, it's common knowledge and common sense. Like I said, you live in a fantasy world
I also think the air pipes should be in a recessed pit, with a grate and foliage covering them. Sure, they have a drain to prevent someone from pouring flammables or other liquids, but there is no safeguard in place if someone were to seal them and effectively cut off the air supply to the bunker. Also, the NBC filter is in the master bedrooms of most of these bunkers. The filter will eventually become full of radioactive particulates, and emit radiation inside of the bunker. The filtration system needs to be shielded.
@@thesurvivalist. or even simpler. Just grow some prickly bushes around. They are passing the air, have small roots (in comparison with trees), protecting area as a barbed wire and mask the pipes and bunker.
@@rickross6368 they may be wacky but they are professional compared to many in the game. If a redundancy generator is what kills it for you, what would you ever be satisfied with? Lmayo
I guess the owners must show you guys every single secret. They spent $500k on this. I'm betting the house might have at least 1 generator. 24 guys, tons of computer space?!? Let's not be too critical.
@@kingpin76110 - People who do their own work often save 60 to 70% for just labor alone. As long as they do it right. My dad tried. We were really poor. He always broke 3 things trying to fix 1. Knowledge is power.
You may be wrong on the 8 inches of dirt...But definitely dead on with the second statement. Especially with a place like this where they are going to build on top of the entire bunker system afterwards. Build the basement with a partition. From the main basement, you'd never know the bunker section was there.
i dont can imagine how to survive a nuclear attack in a tin can. Here in Germany bunkers are build from concrete minimum 1m of thickness and 5 to 10metres under the surface. The bunkers have an airventsystem which generates overpressure in the inside of the bunker, to prevent the bunker from getting radioactive particles inside. The ventystem is equippt with overpressurevents to close automatically the shelter ventilation when the Bomb explode to protect the lungs of the people in the shelter. Not to say big waterreservoir which is included in the houseinstallation that there is always an exchange and fresh water in the bunker. I know this, a friend of mine has such a bunker in the basement of his house.
They are made from the same galvanized tube your culverts are made of. You know the same ones that rust out after 20yrs. I feel all concrete would last longer and cost similar. The difference is the labor.
The difference is that culverts actually have water passing in them, and are not really protected from the environment. They are open to the air and corrosion. So yea, i don't see how this would rust out in 20 years as you assume it would...
For the air inlet and exhaust, I'd want a large rock/gravel pit with a steel grate a few feet below the surface and the pipes below that so you can't just crush, cover or even find the inlet and outlet. I'd also want it on or near a slope where the ground water can drain by gravity so no need for sump pumps that can fail and need replacement, that way it can sit a decade without power and will still be dry! Also, if they can't find it they can't damage it!
@@colinmcinnis Did you miss where I said on a sloped property so water can drain using gravity? A steel grate with large gravel above to hide the grate, and gravel below and everything drains down hill so no flooding unless it's Biblical where the earth is covered, and in that case having the vents above ground won't help!
This is interesting, however, have any of these been built above ground and had trucks full of gravel and dirt added around and on top? Seems more efficient. Same underground protection/cooling without risk of flooding due to ground water or rain intrusion. could probably take a sizable deduction as a tornado shelter.
It could be done but it would take massive amounts of fill dirt. I haven't done the math but it would probably take hundreds, or more likely thousands of truckloads of fill dirt to make a large enough hill & cover it deep enough to support heavy weight on top, & give radiation shielding, if you also had that goal.
@@robertapreston4200 Not to mention, loads of survival material available... metal for arrow heads, knives.. a large supply of birds to eat. fertilizer... seeds in rotting garbage.... damaged but functional containers for transporting fluids, kindling, etc., etc., etc.
Was that 24 beds/bunks? Twenty-four people are going to be living in that place for more than a day? Screw that, I'll take my chances with the zombies.
I’d like to see a dry run. 12 people for 5 days! So how do you get rid of trash? Are there CO2 monitors?? Nice work! I want one but I’d like one underwater!!
So by pouring some down the fresh air intake for the generator you can make the whole damn thing explode? Or by covering up the exhaust you can make the generator non-functional?
Not that I can ever afford any kinda bunkers lol but I really like watching what you do lol Ive been telling all my friends here in New Zealand to watch your channel because its buzzy lol
I would think that living space would be at a premium and so would quietness... So why did you not put the ventilation system in its own closet where the generator is or in its own tube off the living space, or under the floor?
what about installing a drain field ontop of the buried bunker, which filter's down into a filtered water storage container? That way when it rains, it keeps more water way from the shelter and resupplies the water storage at the same time?
After you hit a certain price point I'd imagine that concrete would be the material of choice. Is there a reason that this isn't a 100% concrete structure?
Because the people buying these are idiots and think these glorified storm shelters will actually protect them despite how shallow they are and how little the sheet metal shell will actually protect them.
Why is someone always standing under a suspended load? @16:00 the escape tunnel is being lowered by a ratchet strap on tiny welded rings and dude is using the ratchet strap tail as a tag line. These are the kind of examples they use in safety training videos where you have to identify all of the unsafe work practices. Where is OSHA!?
For those commenting on the escape tunnels please remember that they said they were going to build a building on top of these bunkers. With that in mind the escape hatches (and air piping) can come up anywhere in the house or building. Behind false walls, cupboards, closets, fake fireplace, etc. Let your imagine run wild and that is probably what these people are doing. If they can drop $500k on just the bunker you can imagine that the upper structure will also be awesome.
@@eternalskeptic I'm curious, if in the event of a nuclear war, it can penetrate anything even gas proof spaces? Or the explosion alone will destroy everything in that area?
@@enargy5890 You've heard of Cheyenne Mountain, where NORAD is stationed? It's under a mile of solid granite, yet it was obsolete before construction was even completed. Hydrogen bombs create fireballs that can be miles in diameter burning at millions of degrees, even if a bomb were to miss by half a mile(it won't) it would still destroy it completely. Say you build your pressurized underground bunker with an unlimited supply of power, air, water, food etc and you're not near enough to be killed by the thermal pulse, the overpressure of the blast, or the radiation which will be at its most lethal in the weeks following the blast... will any of your exits to the top even open? What if a house collapsed on top of them, or tons of concrete were blown onto them? This is without mentioning Strontium-90 or the fact that there will be more than 100 nuclear power plants around the world melting down for the next few millennia and poisoning our world even further. Nuclear war is game over human race, to think otherwise is a dangerous delusion.
Very quick question I'm a construction worker 4ft by 30 ft drop cloths on the bottom side they have a rubbery grip so they don't move around they are worth their weight in gold a lot of painters using to put over hardwood floors but they're very versatile you guys should use them so you do not have to trap all that mud around
How long do you think twenty-four people can live together in this? One month? Two months? Twelve months? It would be difficult. From a psychological standpoint, this setup would work for six people , max.
You KNOW it all depends on the mentality of the people...Obviously a crew of certain people COULD survive for AS LONG as they had supplies IF they were FORCED to. I would say a crew of seasoned submariners could survive as long as they had supplies for...
@@RANGER73CPT Correct. A certain type of training would be required. Certain training was required for Biodome 2. Ordinary people would not make it in that shelter of it was maxed out.
I was wondering; what materials/metals would you have to utilize if you don’t want your bunker detected by any ground-penetrating radar used by people looking to raid stockpiles? (As a matter of fact, is keeping your bunker invisible from metal detectors and whatnot even possible?)
I thought you said they were going to spray everything with a tar based paint? Is doing all the engineered fill with the compacting still cheaper than just pumping in concrete or a concrete pumice mix?
Hide it with bushes, turn it into a fake tree, put it in a shed..... They spent $500k for just this, the skeleton, not including the house and landscaping.
Yes, ammo! I want 6 of these side by side, 1 on top lateral for several spider holes and 1 vertical for my 50BMG and optics. I want one emergency exit to go into my humongous pool with tons of rock features and water falls.
Man; wish i could afford something like that. Have you ever thought about adding a 4" or 6" wide stripe of luminous paint along the top of the shelter, at least in the generator room, entry, bath and kitchen areas? That would cut down on lighting power needs at times when you don't need full lighting. And in case of a power failure, it would provide emergency lighting to see by.
Leonard - What happened to the glow in the dark arrows so you can see your way out of the apartment in the dark? Sheldon - Oh that paint was wildly carcinogenic. ;)
@@ered203 You can still get fluorescent paint, even at Walmart. I have a spray can of it. If folks are worried about cancer, they should just stop breathing now, since pretty much everything will kill us eventually. But yeah; don't breathe, drink or eat paint.
@@redfaux74 I have a roll of that...Duck Tape brand. I got it at Walmart a couple years ago but sometimes you can find it at Ace Hardware, or order it online.
That's pretty incredible, although to be truthful, if I was spending that much money, I think that I would go with two rectangular units side by side and maybe with a connector with vault doors somewhere in the middle. But it was the client's project, not mine.
I'm curious about a few things; 1 - How does the client perform maintenance on water pipes and electrical wires that run between the two shelters? It looks like any connection problems underneath the mudhouse are fatal since they'd have no way of getting to them, though this could be something that takes quite a while, be it natural degradation, or any underground wildlife finding its way under. 2 - Do all these shelters have such a strong reliance on stored and limited goods? Two I'm most curious about is food and fuel. I can't understand this being a long-long-term solution because of them. There are too many power outlets for non-essential items, I could understand a few for entertainment, but not one on every chair. For food, it seems to be a reliability on non-perishable foods, maybe in the line of those low-maintenance military MRE's. This is a little less of an issue, since there seems to be a lot of storage, but say 24 people for one year, three meals a day, is 25,632 packaged meals needing storage, that's (at lowest average) 13 tonnes of meals, not even mentioning the actual physical dimensions (3" x 12" x 8"). (I would also say, from what I can see, there's a number of sites saying they don't recommend using MRE's, they were just the longest lasting, most nutritiously useful, food that I could think of) 3 - On the talk of resources, there appear to be no outlets in the kitchen area, is this just the angle of the video? 4 - More of an issue with actual bunker design here- why is the shower the first thing you see in that second shelter? Am I the only one that finds that weird? Even with a shower curtain. Why not have the door lead immediately to the beds, then the shower, then the maintenance room? Alternatively, have the shower in the space highlighted as a shelf space, then the shower can have one opague wall facing the centre, and at least a little privacy... Call me picky. 5 - The emergency exits, their location, seems a little too close to the main entrance and exit. I'll go past the "enemy attack" note, as I assume it's a joke, but I'm curious as to the reasoning for this? I do understand it's quite a difference to build an exit 100 miles long, but I'd personally figure the safest bet is to go at a diagonal, away from the bunker. That way any natural obstructions are slightly less likely to cover all three exits at once, and if (for some reason) there was an enemy attack, they'd have a bit of a wider field to aim for instead of just looking up a little bit from the entrance. None of this is anything against the actual bunker, the people who bought it, or people that continue to buy it. More so curiousity about these factors and how people get through them... I can't imagine many people have little aquaponics or hydroponics systems ready to start up in the corner of their bunkers, though. I've always been skeptical about the doomsday planners because they all seem to be preparing to start and fight wars, instead of survive anything, judging by how many guns and defense systems they stock in comparison to basic necessities (once saw a show where the guy had a single kitchen cupboard sized shelf filled with canned carrots, kidney beans, baked beans, peas, etc, and his main focus was just on getting a living room set up to be just like home...)
"this type of shelter has been around since the 1950's" Look up the Anderson shelter. It's what kept most Brits alive during WWII. Probably long before that in WWI too.
This may be a ridiculous question- but since I am looking into something similar I at least want to ask...... with all the electrical / plumbing, etc located on the outside- what happens if something fails? How would you repair it? Have access to it for repair? I have looked at some "self-contained systems" but I am mildly curious as to how this works???
from the looks of it, all of the piping is non corrosive steel or pvc, so they wont decay very quickly, so the only point of failure would be somebody purposefully tampering or a wire shorts out but that can be solved by just pulling the wire and pushing new wire back in the pipe. Self contained systems are as good as you make them or simply "you get your money's worth" air recyclers, water recyclers, sewage reclamation, indoor farming, are all very large, expensive, and sometimes prone to malfunction. so while its more secure as you virtually eliminate any presence of your bunker except for your main hatch and however many escape hatches you use, you will be gambling if you have no reserves/warning systems in place about system failures so you can prep to leave or have your bunker become your tomb. So having a emergency supply of food and water incase the system fails along with a geiger counter and protective suit will go a long way of making sure you keep on surviving.
Also nice that the single shower for 24 people has a clear glass door situated at the entrance to the living quarters! Seriously though, it makes me curious about the design parameters for the installation. Based on water capacity and living space I'd suppose that at design occupancy it's probably intended for no more than a couple days. Sufficient for most fallout to drop out or to wait out an unmotivated attacker, but not much use in a pandemic. That's just my guess though, would be interesting to hear more from the designer how they spec different configurations for duration of occupancy, especially with respect to consumables like water and fuel. With flush toilets (no waterless urine disposal) and a shower the water consumption per person is going to be at least 10 gallons per day, more if they aren't careful with the shower. Presumably additional water and fuel stores can be added above-ground and plumbed in, but I've never heard them talk about that. Edit: I forgot about the well, once that's added I suppose the limit is fuel capacity. Solar up on the building roof would address that in all but the most extreme situations. With water and power the limits are probably sufficient for most any purpose.
Wouldn't you want to put your escape hatch a little further out and out of sight, because if your main entrance is being blocked or maybe there are bad guys out side, I would think you would want a way to get out without being seen if that makes any sense.
I think I found a serious flaw with your design... what happens if a pipe breaks or the conduit breaks between the sections? How are you to access that area and repair it?
@@KumaBean Well, im not that conspiratorial of me, accually I hate conspiracies bc most... Erhm, unsmart ppl think that the government always is up to no good with chemtrails and what not. And I hate religion, which means I am an atheist. For me, if you believe in something other than yourself you are weak minded and needs something bigger than yourself to make the everyday life work. Atleast that's my two cents
celeroon89 yeah that new world order conspiracy turned out to be a huge lie. And JFK, anyone who thinks that Oswald didn’t act alone has to be a nut job. You know the CIA wanted to release this last batch of JFK files but this damn Covid made it impossible. I mean really people actually think we brought in Nazis after WW2 and let them start the CIA and NASA. The government only wants the best for us, all smart people know that.
@@mathewmcdonald3657 Yeah, you can try make fun of me and all but I don't care. So go back to your basement and prepp for the apocalypse, believing that the earth is flat, UFOs is real and the government try to mindcontrol us using chemtrails.... Hope that work out for you
I wonder if it would be beneficial to set up a stationary bike connected to the NBC filter. People could get some exercise while cleaning the air. Wouldn't want to get too aggressive with the exercise though so you don't burn too many calories, create too much heat or stink up the place with sweat.
Came across your channel today...now I'm fascinated to learn more about bunkers. Good stuff. But dang my lungs hurt watching welders work with no proper ventilation from fumes.
I want to a true doomsday bunker with a washer dryer and enough storage, a game room with led AI windows to make an outdoor atmosphere, with a Murphy Bed desk with book selves. Surveillance cameras geothermal energy a well and as much freaked dryer food in storage.
Amazing? It pays to be prepared. I hope it never gets used, but one day, this installation may just save 24 lives! Good luck to all of you who survived in this shelter. From someone who didn’t, peace and love to you all!
Do these structures last long considering the moisture issues. Ground water on the outside and condensation on the inside. Seems like a along term structural survivability and livability issue to me.
As a Retired US Navy Submariner, I would purchase one of our retired Submarines and Bury it much the same way and still feel like I was still doing Special Ops!!!
It would be unable to be delivered
An old boomer, complete with missile tubes etc... but... UNSINKABLE...
Just put up a bunch of tourist signs to the submarine memorial... Just the Sail above ground.... missile tubes covered with a couple of inches of peat moss.....ready and waiting.
Bubblehead!
@@ssn608 i like the way you think!!
@@AtlasSurvivalSheltersobviously it would need to be trucked in several pieces. Have you ever seen some of the huge nuclear reactor parts that needed to be trucked? It wouldn’t be cost effective ultimately. Your products seem to make sense. 👍
As one who has been in construction for almost 50 years I believe this system is to trusting in the welding; I personally would design a flange, seals, and welding system to secure against leakage, I also would cover the whole system in a rubber coating as I went along to secure for leakage!!!
Settling will break those welds.
@@colt45peacemaker I agree, among other circumstances!!!
Your right. A double weld doesn’t guarantee a water tight seal unless you X-ray the welds. But that’s costly. Also if you noticed, the vertical welds were being done down hill. Any welder knows what that means. Slag runs into the weld area meaning no penetration. Might as well use superglue. I’m in excavation. Mass earth, a sump pump isn’t needed if they install a drain field. Like a sewer system. Their excavator operator “expert” sucks to. I’ve fired better
@@edgemonsiteworksllc3369 amen my friend exactly, these tactics are headed for disaster, most people don't figure, or ask their selves what if, and is this the best tactics; their tactics is let's get it done to minimal specs, and let the consumer reap the headaches!!! We both know there is a difference such as a 5 star piece of material, and a 1, or 2 star piece of material, and they either don't know, or don't care!!!
Wheres the Flex-Seal when you need it?
Good thing about this business is if SHTF scenario ever takes place, there will not be any complaints if this actually never works.
now that you mention it, a pretty clever business model.
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LMAO! Best comment I have ever heard in regards to this nonsense!!!
@@joyztik except people do use them... use fitness equipment and as wine cellars if close to home, use for vacation homes if far away from home, etc..
Atlas must consider septic tank,sewage system, water tank, much bigger air vent system, deepwell pump for additional water supply, maybe a periscope to monitor outside world, a non weldable hatch to prevent it from being welded outside and much more...
Yeah all for the price tag of 1.5M dollars. If you have this kind of money given them a call they will accommodate you for sure.😂😂😂😂😂
@@Javservice They actually aren't priced too bad for what you get. Should actually look into some of their structures.
@@user-gp5xc4lh2q no I actually think is an awesome concept. I wish I had the land and the place to build one of this because is really worrisome what’s going on today and with this administration specially. The world is in more danger than ever. Obama left us with a real situation with N. Korea, Trump fix it and now we have this numb nuts getting us in a worst one..
@CrazyLegsMcGee "I don't like Biden but at least he didn't try to steal an election and undermine America."
He didn't *Try* to steal an election, he *did* steal an election. Also, he is currently undermining America, by purposefully weakening our national security, energy independence , and logistics.
You might want to turn off the mainstream media, if you can't filter out their bullshit.
@@Javservice You think Trump was a steady hand of leadership? Trump, the thin-skinned man-child that sued a comedian over a joke? Trump, the dictator lover that (in his own words) "fell in love" with Kim Jong-Un after a few compliments? Trump, the weak-minded fool that gave North Korea everything they wanted in exchange for vague promises of future action? Trump, the retard that (by his own admission) manipulated Covid numbers to make himself look better? Trump, the fool that asked why nukes could not be used in war? Trump, the moron that asked why a hurricane couldn't be stopped with a nuke? Trump, the 2-bit conman that ran dozens of scams around his presidency to collect trivial sums of money for the supposed billionaire he claims to be? Trump, the business failure that ran 3 casinos into the bankruptcy?
I'll quickly grant you that Joe Biden is not an ideal POTUS, but he's leagues better than Trump in a crisis. Trump
Concrete pump truck has got to be one of the best things ever invented for construction.
As being a welder the first thing I can think of is how much fun these weld jobs would be and 2 I would hate to be a plumber if anything ever had a mishap lol
I don't think many plumbers will get a call-out after WW3...
@@tedthesailor172 That will be due to SHTF.... 😉😉🤣
@@tedthesailor172 or after a MASSIVE CME...or a Mico-Nova, which could be considered.
As both, I fucking agree.
@@atticus2581 xxxqqqsxss🎃s
What I really enjoy about watching the process of putting in this bunker was how much attention to detail was emphasized. Steller job!
Attention to detail is rebar that thing on with cemented because with that the thing would have been more stable don't you know the force of the world's event will push that thing right out of the ground the earth will move and younger all the stabilizer you gunna need to keep that thing from coming straight out of the ground upward you can bank on that with the shit the world is making to kill mankind good luck more reinforced into the ground would been more stable then using compact rock
The engineered stone is important to because of its low compaction rating. It prevents movement and settling and offers a place for the water to go when using well points. We used stone often when installing gasoline tanks for gas stations. Adding stone to wet dirt stiffens it up to.
Thomas Dutkiewicz
Connecticut
Depends on exactly what kind of hazard you are expecting, allowing movement is VERY important.
A few question's:
1. how do you get Telephone and Cell service in the bunker?
2. how do you get radio & TV signal in there?
3. Where do the shower and toilet's drain connect to?
4. If the city/county power and water resources are not working, for how long can you stay down there since at some point the batteries and the generator stop working, especially if there has been an EMP?
I wish our government would require each city/county to provide bomb shelters like they do in Switzerland or other countries.
1. If they ever need the bunker it's not a priority. I'd assume that you would be on 1 or 2 bars or maybe even no signal.
2. Radio's can be used with no problems I think and TV can be hardwired to your house via cable or just get a hard drive full of movies
3. Septic tank for toilets and the water supply is chosen by clients either to house or nearby creek
4. Power supply is solar/diesel depending on customer and is emp hardened in the case of solar and diesel generators have no elecgric components
5. Few months to a year depending on how many batteries and your supply of sunlight/fuel as well as food/water stocks
@@r.p5380 Lol at batteries lasting "months to a year". Sounds like a very wishful thinking list.
Just visiting from CP Its good to the work that goes into the build and this ones a baby little one.
One of these would be useful as a cellar for a house that could be used as a survival shelter if the need ever arises . But I think most of the value would be having some extra storage space in a house where you can store your food and whatever for day to day use, and perhaps have a hobby/games room as well.
He sells that. And of course you can store some additional supplies in the normal basement, and use the added storage space of the shelter as extra.
You idea is much more practical, and just as zombie proof.
I'll go with that idea .play music as loud as you like any number of friends over as want limited by size of the room of course.
You can't keep the installation of these bunkers secret. It seems like secrecy would be half the value.
@@Xonid1 It's a scam tbh. People think they're buying bunkers when paying hundreds of thousands for these oversized tin cans, but what they're really getting is a cheap attempt at an underground apartment that depends on electricity, one of the first things they'd run out of within days after the kinda catastrophe for which you'd get one of these.
Like are you joking, they actually talk about putting PC setups and televisions down there. Where is the large storage unit with loads of shelves for food, where is the grey/blackwater recycling system, where is all the stuff you would ACTUALLY want if your neighborhood ever became a warzone...
All I could think about was how depressing life would be like in this shelter if it actually had 24 people in it. There is one small area for a tv that maybe 6 or 7 people could watch at the same time. Aside from eating for only 12 people at a time you would have to spend the rest of your time in your bunk.
Could you imagine spending months in here?
Depends on the alternatives, if 24 people are hunkering down there for some extended time things outside are _bad_. Would still be a pretty sweet deal compared to getting your skin burnt to a crisp in the initial heatwave followed by your internal organs slowly melting from the radiation of a nuclear blast. If I had the option I'm pretty sure I'd chose the bunker ;-)
Nuke shelter like this, or any kind , you want to plan on only being in for 30 days. Even truly end of the world type nuclear carpet bombing the bad radiation is only a week, unless your right next to a ground burst .
Yeah but you be alive when everyone else is dead/dying. People allowed in there are all on the same page I'm sure
@@dontfukwiththissenator7919 thank man, I've been looking into this . The simple concept for survival of a nuke blast is distance , mass and time. With that to avoid dying in nuke blast or radiation is avoid living next a potential target , have a heavy dense shelter between you and the radiation and the radiation reduces every 24 hours. For me not worried at home. Central Wisconsin is a poor target. However with the new administration, strides will be made by embolden rogue states.
How many nuclear plants close to you? If and emp hits they can only cool so long with generators, then boom! Play cards, or dominos. There is extra seating at that long bar with some under counter stools.
One of many reasons why I do admire American's, in the UK I'd never be able to get the planning permission for a bunker on that scale.
Planning you say for a secret bunker 👀
@@liamhargreaves7135 🤣🤣
You don't need planning permission to go underground.
You can build one no problem in the UK, there was a guy who built one in his back garden, no issues. He's on YT can't remember his name he's a mad inventor who built a jet-engined bicycle if I remember right.
Colin Furze?
I Would Trust Atlas Survival Shelters over any Bunker Company in the World. I don't have one but I would definitely call to order 1 if I could.
Ron Hubbard Company CEO Stands by his Brand.
Vos bunkers sont les meilleurs en Amérique du Nord
As a person on disability raising my son alone with no help or child support, I know I will never be able to afford a bunker, but love watching these and dreaming ....
Find a fat girl with a rich dad and you'll be set.
@@gueropalma6649 lol
R.I.P.
With enough focus, dreams can come true no matter what your circumstances are.
A bunker won't save you from yourself. As long as you die knowing that you did the best you could, nothing else matters.
Alternatively, you can always buy a shipping container and bury it. It might have a little more mildew than an Atlas bunker, but it'll get the job done if/ when the need arises.
How are the numerous pipes extending above ground protected from attackers? Seems that is would be very easy to compromise the bunkers by damaging or blocking them.
Why would people be wandering the woods of WV attacking pipes?
@@uni4rm Desperate times. There are so many protruding pipes that it just seems someone may happen upon them.
@@uni4rm Well because a lot of people plan on 'bugging out" and yes, they could definitely be wandering. Also, so many people are talking about these kind of shelters that people might actually be looking for someone else's stockpile to steal. It would be easy enough to damage their pipe which supplies fresh air. Stop that up till they're dead or coming out of their escape hatch and get rid of them. There you go, free food. Sad, but true.
Preppers have been wasting their money, since the 1950's. They do have a second underground vacation home, though. I'll stick with my nice cars, watches and tropical travel.
Love the idea, but if ANYBODY knows about it a siege could be in your future, one you won't win!
@RON @ATLAS.
Do you plan to make a video on the DRIVE IN SHELTER'S.
With a clay base like that you should drill like 10 or 20 4inch holes 25ft deep all around the bunker and fill them with sand ..its called sand draining ..a very effective method of getting water down past the clay layer ..sand draining can help alot if your sump pump fails
Now that's my type of bunker. Computers and stuff, hell yes.
Dang 2 12x50's, that's a house!! Impressive.
12x50 is only 600 sq ft. That is about the size of a 1 bedroom apartment. I can't imagine 23 people staying with me when I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment.
@@tstuff but there is 2 of them. I thought each one was 12x50.
@@ledzepgirl299 Ok so that is 1200 sq ft. The size of a small house built in the 1950s. Mine is 2000 sq ft and when there are 8 people here I want four of them to go home after a weekend.
@@tstuff lol
Yes, like a premo double wide bomb shelter.
Great video……. Ron’s got competition on his videography 👍
it was in 360P for me?
Hi Ron! Southern California still sucks! God Bless you brother!
What about Northern California? I hear it's great
This is for the future family safety good job.
With 24 souls in this bunker, there should be a CO2 monitor. Is there a dependable one that is fully integfrated into the build to qualify safety concerns ? An add-on within a laptop, may show that it goes off too often. The intake dispersal and exhaust may have sensory abilities, but could fail as an aftermarket application.
Thank you for the share. It is fascinating to see how it is installed and covered.
All seem professional and well organized.
Is it though? ua-cam.com/video/0mqpFfvmAYk/v-deo.html
I like to know where this is at just so I can pay a visit to admire the handy work 😉😉😋😋😁😁
Praying for you Ron hope you are doing well 🙏🙏
What happened to Ron?
@@jaytee2716 he was diagnosed with cancer
I watch these videos and never hear anything about a septic system for the toilets or showers and the like. I would just assume one was install also as well as a drain field/ or something???? Or maybe hooked up to city systems????
I think you can find a video from a channel called engineer775 I think. He’s a contractor that’s done stuff like that with these bunkers. Ron’s used his videos before
Most of the Atlas Bunkers must use a macerator-ejector system and pipe it into a city or septic system on the property. A German company called Wilo makes a smaller system for home use when you don't want to breaks up concrete in an existing basement to add a toilet, shower and sink. From what I last priced they were around $600 but that is a third of the cost to bring a plumber and tear out half of your basements concrete to add drains.
@@Subgunman I know they make different types of "pumps", macerators and the like for getting the waste out. Its just that I've never heard Ron talk about hooking anything up and he goes into "great" detail about all the other piping hook ups. I'm just a little surprised he never talks about it.
@@leopitre7907 sound attenuation
As a prior nuclear missile maintenance officer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, if there is a nearby nuclear explosion the sand in your escape tube will heat up so much it will turn to glass and you will never get out. Of course the EMP is going to knock out all your generators and fry all electrical and computer lines.
If the heat in the escape trunk is enough to melt sand.... within a few feet of the bunker... I'm guessing that the people inside are kind of cooked anyway.
How far away does it have to be for you to be okay?
@@ssn608 yeah idk why someone would be worried about glass blocking their exit when they're roasted corpses
@@everythingluxury7 Sand melts at about roughly 1700°C (3090°F). Assuming that that nuclear air burst produces heat that is present long enough, and penetrating deep enough into the ground to melt sand deep enough to cause a problem using an escape trunk filled with sand (say a foot or so).... it is also going to be heating the ground one or two hundred feet away, deep enough to turn that bunker into an oven. Even if the temperature in the bunker "ONLY" rises to a tenth of that temperature (309 degrees F).... that's basically the temperature to bake a turkey at. And people will start dying of heat stroke within a very short period of time. The highest reported core body temperature in a patient who survived without permanent residual deficits was 46.5°C (115.7°F). This 52-year-old patient suffered from environmental heatstroke, and received medical treatment, including removal from the hot area they were in. There's no removing someone form this bunker to a cooler spot.
On the other hand.... that presupposes that the bunker is pretty damned close to ground zero, in order to be that close to a nuclear blast. The bunkers in this video do not appear to be very close to any strategic target so that fireball should not be a factor.... just maybe a brief forest fire burning over the bunkers. which should not be a problem. All the folks have to worry most likely are: 1. The US government requisitioning it, 2. roving gangs of people looking to help themselves to whatever is inside, 3.Fallout, 4. sickness spreading rapidly in the closed environment of the bunkers; 5 incompatible occupants knifing each other or worse. 6) unplanned for guests draining prep supplies, and , as mentioned in another comment, a really messy Taco Tuesday aftermath.
That's right! there will be another shift of the plateau, that is, the upper layers of the earth will shift and your whole system will be unusable, We have bunkers in Russia at a depth of 50 meters, a monolith of one and a half meters and a hell of a ton of metal... and this doghouse,,))))that's how I looked cleanly and laughed at how your companies steal money and deceive their citizens...good luck to you...They'll just die, that's for sure
Love it! Cheap, easy, effortless to install, who could ask for better. I can see millions of Americans installing this.
Millions?? LOL
there too expensive.
not millions just a few uneducated souls
Prayers for Ron hope he's doing OK. 🙏
Best one I have seen for installed. I know online they have some crazy setups. Good to see someone doing something with more than just one
Thanks for the details. I spend too much time thinking about how it could all go to shit. One the realizations I had was that the biggest collapse threat is the "legacy pollution. " the first 72 hours, and 30 period we will have a crap ton of untested industrial sites. Nuclear, biological, chemical and other petroleum based facilities. People stop showing up to work safety
Checks aren't done yeah we got problems. The biggest one is Chernobyl and that's a problem for another 19935 years. Good news I just turned 50 and had 3 funerals this last 4 months. Sounds self destructive but at some point not my problem anymore. Kind of Luke that last day in high-school where I can just throw it all away.
Remember to have enough spare Food & Beer for these guys when they show back up during the calamity, they'll be able too remember wherever these are built and could be your new roommate 10 C L
@@geethug6910 Some people have way more money than common sense. Airtight operational security is probably the most important safety precaution, yet millionaires like this throw caution to the wind.
One terrible human with a cement truck is all it takes to defeat this, blocking entrance, immediately removing option of self-defense, while they then proceed to seal the generator’s and human airways… wait a week while family suffocates in the dark, before returning to excavate and loot. An even more sophisticated crew could use odorless gas to get the job done in a day.
I’d be the type who would eliminate people capable of doing something like what I described, but I’d probably not risk my own life to save people foolish enough to run an insecure operation like this. There are already enough stupid people in this world.
@@truthbydesign5146 Gotta find it first and get past the hidden remotes sentries, RPGs, automated turrets and you won't even see it coming while those inside have been watching you from miles out if you get anywhere near.
Remember the best defense is a good offense.
These are basic survival buildings, a lot more is added afterwards, filtration systems to filter gas, independant o2 supplies, 360 remote surveillance, multiple hidden escape points.
Armchair theory warriors like yourself won't stand a chance thankfully 😆😂🤣
@@CragScrambler lol, nice fantasy world you live in.
Life is not a video game.
@@CragScrambler Only the government and a relative few elite groups and private families will have the resources, technical expertise and military experience to implement an operation like that....and there's one common denominator shared between all who do:
They understand how important SECRECY is to operational security. The last thing any of them would do, would be to advertise their location, like the goof offs in this video.
this isn't theory, it's common knowledge and common sense. Like I said, you live in a fantasy world
Army will claim it, under Federal evacuation orders.
someone prepared for 2022 extensively !
What do you do when the customer is disabled and can't climb the ladder leading into the bunker? 🤔
Those stair chairs that ride on a rail.
The escape hatch is always way too close to the main entrance. I would think it would be better about 200 feet away or so
I also think the air pipes should be in a recessed pit, with a grate and foliage covering them.
Sure, they have a drain to prevent someone from pouring flammables or other liquids, but there is no safeguard in place if someone were to seal them and effectively cut off the air supply to the bunker.
Also, the NBC filter is in the master bedrooms of most of these bunkers. The filter will eventually become full of radioactive particulates, and emit radiation inside of the bunker. The filtration system needs to be shielded.
@@dontfukwiththissenator7919 wow… I like your insights. I never thought of any of that
@@dontfukwiththissenator7919 I suggest you let Ron Hubbard, the CEO of Atlas Bunkers know of your insights; he will appreciate them, I'm sure.
Install a fake tree or tree stump, and have the pipe in the center of that tree! If they do not look closely they will even notice it!
@@thesurvivalist. or even simpler. Just grow some prickly bushes around. They are passing the air, have small roots (in comparison with trees), protecting area as a barbed wire and mask the pipes and bunker.
No generator redundancy seems pretty risky since all of the bunker relies on electric power.
@@rickross6368 they may be wacky but they are professional compared to many in the game. If a redundancy generator is what kills it for you, what would you ever be satisfied with? Lmayo
@@Greatlakeskyle. um, im guessing redundancy?
I guess the owners must show you guys every single secret.
They spent $500k on this. I'm betting the house might have at least 1 generator.
24 guys, tons of computer space?!? Let's not be too critical.
@@kingpin76110 - People who do their own work often save 60 to 70% for just labor alone. As long as they do it right. My dad tried. We were really poor. He always broke 3 things trying to fix 1. Knowledge is power.
@@redfaux74
Me and him would get along real well…. My poor grammar just seemed like the right thing to do. Jaha
Serious questions: What does 8 inches of dirt do to protect you? How is this better than a reinforced and hidden basement for a fraction of the cost?
It's 72" of dirt. Not 8". But 36" minimum is needed
You may be wrong on the 8 inches of dirt...But definitely dead on with the second statement. Especially with a place like this where they are going to build on top of the entire bunker system afterwards. Build the basement with a partition. From the main basement, you'd never know the bunker section was there.
i dont can imagine how to survive a nuclear attack in a tin can. Here in Germany bunkers are build from concrete minimum 1m of thickness and 5 to 10metres under the surface. The bunkers have an airventsystem which generates overpressure in the inside of the bunker, to prevent the bunker from getting radioactive particles inside. The ventystem is equippt with overpressurevents to close automatically the shelter ventilation when the Bomb explode to protect the lungs of the people in the shelter. Not to say big waterreservoir which is included in the houseinstallation that there is always an exchange and fresh water in the bunker. I know this, a friend of mine has such a bunker in the basement of his house.
The video says 8 feet, not inches. ' vs "
They are made from the same galvanized tube your culverts are made of. You know the same ones that rust out after 20yrs. I feel all concrete would last longer and cost similar. The difference is the labor.
The difference is that culverts actually have water passing in them, and are not really protected from the environment. They are open to the air and corrosion. So yea, i don't see how this would rust out in 20 years as you assume it would...
For the air inlet and exhaust, I'd want a large rock/gravel pit with a steel grate a few feet below the surface and the pipes below that so you can't just crush, cover or even find the inlet and outlet.
I'd also want it on or near a slope where the ground water can drain by gravity so no need for sump pumps that can fail and need replacement, that way it can sit a decade without power and will still be dry! Also, if they can't find it they can't damage it!
Flooding would kill the air flow. No fresh air and no exhaust. why bother at all, you will not survive 5 minutes
@@colinmcinnis Did you miss where I said on a sloped property so water can drain using gravity?
A steel grate with large gravel above to hide the grate, and gravel below and everything drains down hill so no flooding unless it's Biblical where the earth is covered, and in that case having the vents above ground won't help!
This is interesting, however, have any of these been built above ground and had trucks full of gravel and dirt added around and on top? Seems more efficient. Same underground protection/cooling without risk of flooding due to ground water or rain intrusion. could probably take a sizable deduction as a tornado shelter.
It could be done but it would take massive amounts of fill dirt. I haven't done the math but it would probably take hundreds, or more likely thousands of truckloads of fill dirt to make a large enough hill & cover it deep enough to support heavy weight on top, & give radiation shielding, if you also had that goal.
@@EmBeye21 landfill...... perfect hideaway, and large mountain above👍👍👍👍
@@EmBeye21 - Correct. Imagine the cost to move a mountain. I think under is better unless your soil is just too wet.
You wouldn't then have the benefit of being unknown to all the scavengers on the outside
@@robertapreston4200 Not to mention, loads of survival material available... metal for arrow heads, knives.. a large supply of birds to eat. fertilizer... seeds in rotting garbage.... damaged but functional containers for transporting fluids, kindling, etc., etc., etc.
Was that 24 beds/bunks? Twenty-four people are going to be living in that place for more than a day? Screw that, I'll take my chances with the zombies.
L9L!
Survival man not luxury long term living.
Try living on a sub or small ship out sea for 6-8 months or longer.
@@HooksBill As huge as the USS SAIPAN was, things still got claustrophobic.
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Shouldn't the exhaust and the air intake be furter from eachother, and the condensation, isn't the water running into the pipes below ??
I’d like to see a dry run. 12 people for 5 days! So how do you get rid of trash? Are there CO2 monitors?? Nice work! I want one but I’d like one underwater!!
So by pouring some down the fresh air intake for the generator you can make the whole damn thing explode?
Or by covering up the exhaust you can make the generator non-functional?
Great video as always !
How is Ron doing with therapy? Wishing him all the best and a speedy recovery!
Not that I can ever afford any kinda bunkers lol but I really like watching what you do lol Ive been telling all my friends here in New Zealand to watch your channel because its buzzy lol
I would like to see the building they built over it.👍
I would think that living space would be at a premium and so would quietness... So why did you not put the ventilation system in its own closet where the generator is or in its own tube off the living space, or under the floor?
Where do the french drains drain out? Is there a exit spout at a lower elevation than the base of the excavation hole?
RIP the workers who worked on this project... Ultra Secrecy has its cost.
LOL
15:05 Some automatic filters for welding masks will not work well with LED or a fluorescent light source nearby. Be careful with this.
Miss ya Ron. Get better and keep the videos coming!
what about installing a drain field ontop of the buried bunker, which filter's down into a filtered water storage container? That way when it rains, it keeps more water way from the shelter and resupplies the water storage at the same time?
After you hit a certain price point I'd imagine that concrete would be the material of choice. Is there a reason that this isn't a 100% concrete structure?
moisture?
Atlas built his personal bunker from concrete
Because the people buying these are idiots and think these glorified storm shelters will actually protect them despite how shallow they are and how little the sheet metal shell will actually protect them.
Why is someone always standing under a suspended load? @16:00 the escape tunnel is being lowered by a ratchet strap on tiny welded rings and dude is using the ratchet strap tail as a tag line. These are the kind of examples they use in safety training videos where you have to identify all of the unsafe work practices. Where is OSHA!?
Let them die in peace ;)
*He's literally standing on the SIDE, not under it.*
Very good. Congratulations.
For those commenting on the escape tunnels please remember that they said they were going to build a building on top of these bunkers. With that in mind the escape hatches (and air piping) can come up anywhere in the house or building. Behind false walls, cupboards, closets, fake fireplace, etc. Let your imagine run wild and that is probably what these people are doing. If they can drop $500k on just the bunker you can imagine that the upper structure will also be awesome.
No amount of spending will allow you to survive a nuclear war.
@@eternalskeptic whats worse is the aftermath
@@eternalskeptic Yeah. We will all take the same amount of cash into the afterlife.
@@eternalskeptic I'm curious, if in the event of a nuclear war, it can penetrate anything even gas proof spaces? Or the explosion alone will destroy everything in that area?
@@enargy5890 You've heard of Cheyenne Mountain, where NORAD is stationed? It's under a mile of solid granite, yet it was obsolete before construction was even completed. Hydrogen bombs create fireballs that can be miles in diameter burning at millions of degrees, even if a bomb were to miss by half a mile(it won't) it would still destroy it completely.
Say you build your pressurized underground bunker with an unlimited supply of power, air, water, food etc and you're not near enough to be killed by the thermal pulse, the overpressure of the blast, or the radiation which will be at its most lethal in the weeks following the blast... will any of your exits to the top even open? What if a house collapsed on top of them, or tons of concrete were blown onto them?
This is without mentioning Strontium-90 or the fact that there will be more than 100 nuclear power plants around the world melting down for the next few millennia and poisoning our world even further. Nuclear war is game over human race, to think otherwise is a dangerous delusion.
Totally awesome. I would love to have one. Need to hit lottery.
To buy this I'd probably team up with a bunch of friends/family to buy this setup and share it. Definitely my dream to have one just in case
Love the lay out , I’d probably go for 10 bunks and two double rooms , have more living space
Servers, with those beds, next to discreet gray buildings. Very specific requirements. Looks like someone is housing a wet crew.
they will be if the worst happens
While everyone prepares to protect themselves when the zombie apocalypses arrives, I'm preparing myself to be the zombie.
Lol
Very quick question I'm a construction worker 4ft by 30 ft drop cloths on the bottom side they have a rubbery grip so they don't move around they are worth their weight in gold a lot of painters using to put over hardwood floors but they're very versatile you guys should use them so you do not have to trap all that mud around
How long do you think twenty-four people can live together in this? One month? Two months? Twelve months? It would be difficult. From a psychological standpoint, this setup would work for six people , max.
You KNOW it all depends on the mentality of the people...Obviously a crew of certain people COULD survive for AS LONG as they had supplies IF they were FORCED to. I would say a crew of seasoned submariners could survive as long as they had supplies for...
@@RANGER73CPT Correct. A certain type of training would be required. Certain training was required for Biodome 2. Ordinary people would not make it in that shelter of it was maxed out.
Seems strange watching without hearing Ron’s voice hope he’s doing ok
I was wondering; what materials/metals would you have to utilize if you don’t want your bunker detected by any ground-penetrating radar used by people looking to raid stockpiles? (As a matter of fact, is keeping your bunker invisible from metal detectors and whatnot even possible?)
if people have ground penetrating radar you have worse things to worry about as they have some far superior technology at their disposal
Metal detectors and ground penetrating radar hahahahhahahha
1 Buy a Submarine
2 dig a 150 foot deep hole
3 put asubmarine in hole
I thought you said they were going to spray everything with a tar based paint?
Is doing all the engineered fill with the compacting still cheaper than just pumping in concrete or a concrete pumice mix?
@0:47 nice antenna array indeed.
Nobody will know someone is there.
Don't you have to water proof the galvanized steel portion before setting it on the ground?
And how is the air intake protected from anyone jamming it full of dirt, poisonous gas or just closing it off?
Hide it with bushes, turn it into a fake tree, put it in a shed.....
They spent $500k for just this, the skeleton, not including the house and landscaping.
Great question. What about water? Where does the water from cooking and showering go?
im actually glad we will have some survivors, i hope they packed the right one item that will keep them alive
Yes, ammo!
I want 6 of these side by side, 1 on top lateral for several spider holes and 1 vertical for my 50BMG and optics. I want one emergency exit to go into my humongous pool with tons of rock features and water falls.
No survivors with this set up
Les meilleurs bunkers aux monde ✨✨✨✨✨✨🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
professional work! only America has money for this! the rest of us just pray to God ...
Who cleans up the floors, stairs ect ? Terrific video thank you 👍
Yeah, they paint them white in the factory and let the contractors drag their muddy boots all over it at least put some cardboard down.
Obviously you don't know Ron. He's meticulous.
I've wanted exactly something like this! wow and with wifi down there too so I cant play on my Xbox and it doubles for an actual living area
Odds are if you are down there that there is little communication systems functioning on the surface.
Not if you use it as a mancave till u need it
Man; wish i could afford something like that. Have you ever thought about adding a 4" or 6" wide stripe of luminous paint along the top of the shelter, at least in the generator room, entry, bath and kitchen areas? That would cut down on lighting power needs at times when you don't need full lighting. And in case of a power failure, it would provide emergency lighting to see by.
I'm sure the person who had it installed is the one who would decide how to decorate it and that might be one of their considerations.
Leonard - What happened to the glow in the dark arrows so you can see your way out of the apartment in the dark?
Sheldon - Oh that paint was wildly carcinogenic.
;)
Glow in the dark tape....
@@ered203 You can still get fluorescent paint, even at Walmart. I have a spray can of it. If folks are worried about cancer, they should just stop breathing now, since pretty much everything will kill us eventually. But yeah; don't breathe, drink or eat paint.
@@redfaux74 I have a roll of that...Duck Tape brand. I got it at Walmart a couple years ago but sometimes you can find it at Ace Hardware, or order it online.
Got the land purchased. Now the next thing is to get Mr. ATLAS out there for the prep !👍😎
That's pretty incredible, although to be truthful, if I was spending that much money, I think that I would go with two rectangular units side by side and maybe with a connector with vault doors somewhere in the middle. But it was the client's project, not mine.
Yeah same especially in a high water table. It’s definitely cool though
“French drains are necessary.” Is there a sump pump? Or just a bunch of drain pipe in the low spots that go nowhere?
he said pump so.........were u getting the fule if the world goes to shit? lol US....
I'm curious about a few things;
1 - How does the client perform maintenance on water pipes and electrical wires that run between the two shelters? It looks like any connection problems underneath the mudhouse are fatal since they'd have no way of getting to them, though this could be something that takes quite a while, be it natural degradation, or any underground wildlife finding its way under.
2 - Do all these shelters have such a strong reliance on stored and limited goods? Two I'm most curious about is food and fuel. I can't understand this being a long-long-term solution because of them. There are too many power outlets for non-essential items, I could understand a few for entertainment, but not one on every chair. For food, it seems to be a reliability on non-perishable foods, maybe in the line of those low-maintenance military MRE's. This is a little less of an issue, since there seems to be a lot of storage, but say 24 people for one year, three meals a day, is 25,632 packaged meals needing storage, that's (at lowest average) 13 tonnes of meals, not even mentioning the actual physical dimensions (3" x 12" x 8").
(I would also say, from what I can see, there's a number of sites saying they don't recommend using MRE's, they were just the longest lasting, most nutritiously useful, food that I could think of)
3 - On the talk of resources, there appear to be no outlets in the kitchen area, is this just the angle of the video?
4 - More of an issue with actual bunker design here- why is the shower the first thing you see in that second shelter? Am I the only one that finds that weird? Even with a shower curtain. Why not have the door lead immediately to the beds, then the shower, then the maintenance room? Alternatively, have the shower in the space highlighted as a shelf space, then the shower can have one opague wall facing the centre, and at least a little privacy... Call me picky.
5 - The emergency exits, their location, seems a little too close to the main entrance and exit. I'll go past the "enemy attack" note, as I assume it's a joke, but I'm curious as to the reasoning for this? I do understand it's quite a difference to build an exit 100 miles long, but I'd personally figure the safest bet is to go at a diagonal, away from the bunker. That way any natural obstructions are slightly less likely to cover all three exits at once, and if (for some reason) there was an enemy attack, they'd have a bit of a wider field to aim for instead of just looking up a little bit from the entrance.
None of this is anything against the actual bunker, the people who bought it, or people that continue to buy it. More so curiousity about these factors and how people get through them... I can't imagine many people have little aquaponics or hydroponics systems ready to start up in the corner of their bunkers, though. I've always been skeptical about the doomsday planners because they all seem to be preparing to start and fight wars, instead of survive anything, judging by how many guns and defense systems they stock in comparison to basic necessities (once saw a show where the guy had a single kitchen cupboard sized shelf filled with canned carrots, kidney beans, baked beans, peas, etc, and his main focus was just on getting a living room set up to be just like home...)
"this type of shelter has been around since the 1950's"
Look up the Anderson shelter. It's what kept most Brits alive during WWII. Probably long before that in WWI too.
Yes and there are still some remaining. Some times if your buying older properties some of them still have them in the gardens.
Wild wonderful and beautiful west virginia 😍
Probably an ideal build in areas affected by tornadoes. Topped off with a blockhouse - no debris.
That's what there only good for, they will not stand up against Floods or Nukes
This may be a ridiculous question- but since I am looking into something similar I at least want to ask...... with all the electrical / plumbing, etc located on the outside- what happens if something fails? How would you repair it? Have access to it for repair? I have looked at some "self-contained systems" but I am mildly curious as to how this works???
from the looks of it, all of the piping is non corrosive steel or pvc, so they wont decay very quickly, so the only point of failure would be somebody purposefully tampering or a wire shorts out but that can be solved by just pulling the wire and pushing new wire back in the pipe. Self contained systems are as good as you make them or simply "you get your money's worth" air recyclers, water recyclers, sewage reclamation, indoor farming, are all very large, expensive, and sometimes prone to malfunction. so while its more secure as you virtually eliminate any presence of your bunker except for your main hatch and however many escape hatches you use, you will be gambling if you have no reserves/warning systems in place about system failures so you can prep to leave or have your bunker become your tomb. So having a emergency supply of food and water incase the system fails along with a geiger counter and protective suit will go a long way of making sure you keep on surviving.
I would of needed multiple tunnels leading off a couple hundred yards. To pop out of and handle trouble
I want a verticle bunker, like a tree, for my 50BMG and optics.
@@redfaux74 if you can afford a bunker you can afford a bmg
It seems like an interesting choice to have to walk through the bathroom when entering any room.
Oh I'm sure they would get to know each other very well 😊
Also nice that the single shower for 24 people has a clear glass door situated at the entrance to the living quarters!
Seriously though, it makes me curious about the design parameters for the installation. Based on water capacity and living space I'd suppose that at design occupancy it's probably intended for no more than a couple days. Sufficient for most fallout to drop out or to wait out an unmotivated attacker, but not much use in a pandemic.
That's just my guess though, would be interesting to hear more from the designer how they spec different configurations for duration of occupancy, especially with respect to consumables like water and fuel. With flush toilets (no waterless urine disposal) and a shower the water consumption per person is going to be at least 10 gallons per day, more if they aren't careful with the shower. Presumably additional water and fuel stores can be added above-ground and plumbed in, but I've never heard them talk about that.
Edit: I forgot about the well, once that's added I suppose the limit is fuel capacity. Solar up on the building roof would address that in all but the most extreme situations. With water and power the limits are probably sufficient for most any purpose.
@@dave7038 I think it's two family-sized bunkers cobbled together, there wouldn't be enough water for showers. It would have to be wet wipes lol.
poor design
Wouldn't you want to put your escape hatch a little further out and out of sight, because if your main entrance is being blocked or maybe there are bad guys out side, I would think you would want a way to get out without being seen if that makes any sense.
I think I found a serious flaw with your design... what happens if a pipe breaks or the conduit breaks between the sections? How are you to access that area and repair it?
It's fun to know that even during the apocalypse, two people in a bunker somewhere are still able to enjoy a friendly game of Battleshits 🤣 👌
During "the" apocalypse? What apocalypse?
celeroon89
You must be fun conversation at parties,.... 😒
@@KumaBean Well, im not that conspiratorial of me, accually I hate conspiracies bc most... Erhm, unsmart ppl think that the government always is up to no good with chemtrails and what not. And I hate religion, which means I am an atheist. For me, if you believe in something other than yourself you are weak minded and needs something bigger than yourself to make the everyday life work.
Atleast that's my two cents
celeroon89 yeah that new world order conspiracy turned out to be a huge lie. And JFK, anyone who thinks that Oswald didn’t act alone has to be a nut job. You know the CIA wanted to release this last batch of JFK files but this damn Covid made it impossible. I mean really people actually think we brought in Nazis after WW2 and let them start the CIA and NASA. The government only wants the best for us, all smart people know that.
@@mathewmcdonald3657 Yeah, you can try make fun of me and all but I don't care. So go back to your basement and prepp for the apocalypse, believing that the earth is flat, UFOs is real and the government try to mindcontrol us using chemtrails.... Hope that work out for you
I rather have the nuke hit me in the noggin' than live in this with 23 other people for any amount of time, lol.
And what do you come out to after? Depending what happens you could need to be in this thing for years. And eventually stuff breaks down.
A world that looks like the movie "The Book Of Eli" @@hillustration
I wonder if it would be beneficial to set up a stationary bike connected to the NBC filter. People could get some exercise while cleaning the air. Wouldn't want to get too aggressive with the exercise though so you don't burn too many calories, create too much heat or stink up the place with sweat.
Came across your channel today...now I'm fascinated to learn more about bunkers. Good stuff. But dang my lungs hurt watching welders work with no proper ventilation from fumes.
Especially when cutting that galvanized....no PE at all.
I want to a true doomsday bunker with a washer dryer and enough storage, a game room with led AI windows to make an outdoor atmosphere, with a Murphy Bed desk with book selves. Surveillance cameras geothermal energy a well and as much freaked dryer food in storage.
Do you use any kind of cathodic protection for the metal?
Amazing? It pays to be prepared. I hope it never gets used, but one day, this installation may just save 24 lives! Good luck to all of you who survived in this shelter. From someone who didn’t, peace and love to you all!
I too live in WV and wondered if you would be able to come this far for a shelter, I'm glad to know you will.
I want to start a war just so people can use it 😐
Do these structures last long considering the moisture issues. Ground water on the outside and condensation on the inside. Seems like a along term structural survivability and livability issue to me.
That's great work. Not half ass jobs.nlive love it
Have you looked into just making the bunkers out of concrete? You could make a bigger bunker.