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A sliding door! Now that makes sense! Thank You.
This guy has a ton of pride and tons of concrete, Great Work!
B-utiful!!! Every family should have one now!
I like that a slider door won't be pushed in, nor does it need to swing out into debris. Just as long as that narrow strip is clear...
This is one of the safest above ground tornado shelters you can buy. It’s a monolithic concrete pour with 8 inch thick walls and 12 inch thick ceiling. That door will not come off. It will stand up to an EF5 tornado with no problem. If I was going to build an above ground shelter this would be the one.
1:33 door takes you to the Wizard of OZ
When he said: "This is Tiffany" I legitimately thought he was referring to the safe room.
We have a Safe Shed with a bed, cassette toilet, shelving, a couple chairs food water storage. When we are under watches or warnings we just lock down and go to bed.
Thick enough for radiation?
I know for a fact Oklahoma has more tornadoes than any state in the United States. One reason they don't build like a basement underground is because if you're stuck in the basement and your whole house is blown away there could be a lot of dust and debris not allowing you to escape the basement. So if they build a safe room or whatever not underneath but if they build it like a regular room you would be able to escape easier than if you were in a basement
I heard or seen they made it to where you can escape. But more price. Hydraulic life doors or hatches. They showed one small door lifting a 4x4 truck off it. I was impressed.
@@thegarbagegladiators4735 ok
Actually no. Texas has the most followed by Kansas.
Would like to know more about the door! Looks like a weak link!?
I agree, it looks like laminated wood. Maybe laminate over steel for decoration?? My shelter door is steel with 3 deadbolts, made from a local vendor for $500. They said its rated for F5s, and did tell me a F5 can pull off a steel door with one deadbolt. I'm not an expert by any means, but I trust what they said.
@@gangisspawn1 i think there is a reasonable amount of preparation then theres paranoia. It sounds like what you did is reasonable, and in a f5 is probably the best you can reasonably do. In a f5 i think it will probably still damage it but it will definitely help, if you have the money, and you are still worried perhaps invest in a safe door.
Yea I've never seen a wood one b4 like that looks like they cheap out on customers. Every other company uses steal doors an they don't use concrete the whole thing is bullet proof steal
@@lilvcifxr It is two half inch steel pieces between wood to stop electric shocks and has never failed. Very heavy and it has never failed a direct hit F5. Or 4 or 3 or 1 if you prefer. You really think they would cheap out with a wooden door? The lady had it laminated.
Thank you.
Don't get me wrong those shelters are very safe and sometimes the only viable option, how ever if it sticks above the ground it is subject to damage / removal under the most extreme circumstances! Terrible Tuesday April 10 1979 proved that. Having seen lesser structures partially survive and adjacent more robust structures be completely erased I know this. My neighbor survived in a bathtub with a mattress pulled over the top and only 2 & 1/2 walls of the bathroom remaining! He told me the only reason he lived was because he was PRAYING! EVERYTHING else on either side (3/4 mile wide) was GONE, trees, brick, concrete blocks EVERYTHING!! I'll give them 98% but not 100%
1:32 - I've always wanted a house with a view of a McDonald's and Taco Bell sign.
Man this clip hits close to home. I used to live about a block away on Kirby Dr and would frequently eat at that Taco Bell and Mcdonalds. Good memories
I'd be more annoyed by the ugly, yellow safe room that has a stream of visitors.
Build your entire house from concrete. It only adds 10-20% to the price of the house. Search concrete homes and you will see they can withstand extreme weather.
Would like to see the door slide into an enclosed pocket so debris can't stop the door from sliding open when you want to exit.
I did Search & Rescue that day. What a sad, sad day.
Nothing about a tornado is "laser precision". Lol.
I wonder how many kids wanted too look out of those vent holes during a tornado too see what it looks like
Make it bigger, put an air filtration system, and you have a fallout shelter.
I have said this over and over stop building conventional homes in this area..... Homes should be solid concrete walls with a concrete domed roof!
Not ever going to happen. Costs will very high. It cheaper to do a safe room and get some good insurance.
Nice. But frankly this type of thing could easily be planned into the home. For example, a master bedroom could easily be concrete walled and trimmed out and one would not even know it.
Doesn't seem to have good ventilation for that structure
Start building houses instead of plywood sheds! High groundwater level is no problem if you do it right ...
some people like windows, don't know if you live where large tornado are common but if you have a window and it breaks, and it will you vacuum will suck all of the air from the house and you will suffocate, building a whole house like this isn't practical.
German house after a tornado ... www.planet-wissen.de/natur/naturgewalten/tornados/tornado-sachsen-100~_v-ARDFotogalerie.jpg ... and this house is at least 80 years old! As I wrote: Stop building plywood sheds and build a basement!
image.stern.de/6862968/16x9-940-529/8c0df4f87abfd471cf6cf07d5e800ec3/Yr/minden-unwetter-tornado.jpg put a tarp on the roof and you can still live in there ...
bilder.augsburger-allgemeine.de/img/aichach/crop34239792/4477211766-ctopTeaser/IMG-6901.jpg
Best picture: bilder.allianzdeutschland.de/b/74/02/15/20/id_74021520/c_985-544/tid_da/tornado-in-nordschwaben.jpg
Looks really secure but i think the door needs to be like a safe door. Think metal. Not wood.
I was ganna say why dont u just build a underground house...but then i heard about the water levels
sylensyoso - They could do it, it's just not practical.
How does the concrete poured into the walls keep from overflowing into what is going to be the floor?
I believe they have a mold over there. I.e. there's a piece of wood over where the floor should be.
Why build stick frame homes, use ICF with flat roofs, exterior steel roll window covers
Door seems a little flimsy.
“If it’s put together in pieces it can come apart in pieces.” Yall just gonna skip over how they keep the door from ripping off?
That is what I wondered. With the tornado that ripped through Arkansas and Kentucky just a few days ago, Dec, 11 2021...I don't know if that would have even held up.
@@chewar7537 Agree, I reckon this door would be ripped off in seconds.
Maybe that's just a temporary door for the advertising and it has some kind of steal safe type door for real use.... But seriously I love this old house but this just seems like an ad for a company that is very questionable 😕
His pour and rebar are great but his door is crap.
How much?
Listen to his classic Oklahoma accent.
schloughed lol. Oklahoma by way of Chicago!
Question would you be able to put any type of window on that safe room so you can see or would it not be safe
@Itznun Yabizness Well then the door is the weak spot.
Bullet proof window
Anyone tell me why don't they use concert to build the whole house when tornado come visit every year? Carbon footprint?? better than rebuild it every year or risk your life
Carbon footprint? How much hot air are you putting out with your nonsense?
The concrete manufacture process is the second largest contributor to greenhouse gasses. Carbon footprint with concrete is not nonsense.
NSMike87 Carbon footprint is always nonsense! 😂
Cost?
I'm just here looking for the "make the whole plane out of the black box" theory
Cost
i like the marketing with just the saferoom on the property...
but whats up with the esex house?
y no new videos? the last one came all at once which was quite nice...
Lol what about that wooden door wouldn't the tornado rip it off
Tornados HATE wood...they avoid it at all cost.
That's not a wooden door. Get real people.
1 question. Why can you just build concrete houses that will not be totally demolish in the first place? You can design a safe room within the concrete house.
Because an all concrete house would be miserable to live inside and expensive to build.
Money and no profit. It's expensive to build a concrete house here in the states. Alot of builders don't know how to or want to.
You could build a 'monolithic dome' with 4" concrete, but it would be a challenge to get visual acceptance.
A woman had one built just off Panama City Florida a year before an F5 hurricane blew through. It survived with no wind damage.
The only damage was from a power line transformer that was flung into it. It cracked a joint of the concrete without penetrating through.
Tough structure. Should handle an EF5 tornado as well.
Thanks all for the input. I think there might be a need for a mindset shifts for places with high probabilities of hurricanes. Loss of lives and properties can be minimised.
They didn’t say how much something like that cost?!
Because of the thickness of this shelter, Mother Nature decided not to issue any EF6 upgrades.
seems like overkill 30 tons of concrete why not 1/2 steel box.
why don't you build the entire house like a safe room. Yes it will more expensive but you will not rebuild the house every 5-10 years...
We don't have to rebuilt our houses every 5 to 10 years. Moore has just been phenomenally unlucky. Tornadoes hit a pretty small area and most are no where near as strong as an EF 5. Most people also don't want to live in a windowless concrete bunker.
biohazard 918 just because it’s concrete doesn’t mean it’s windowless. Use your brain now. There’s many full concrete homes built here in Vancouver Canada. Albeit luxury homes but it is possible
@@AlMai222 Very true, but Radoslav suggested to build the entire house like a safe room. Safe rooms don't have windows.
I bet thats not cheap!
Why is the Mafia talking about safe rooms?
Tornado warnings lasts for hours not 15 minutes. They say seek refuge til the tornado warning ends. So youll be in that safe room for hours no?
AND COULD BE YOURS FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF 100,000 US $
Why don't you just build a house out of filled concrete masonry blocks with rebar steel like they do in Europe lol the roof and the windows will get blown away but at least the house won't be completely leveled and the concrete structure will remain mostly in tact protecting you inside your interior room and or basement and you can rebuild your home off of the concrete walls that remain intact.
(P.S now with the extremely high lumber prices the overall price of a house made of cinder blocks, concrete and steel might end up costing around the same.)
Good for information. Bad for DIY'rs. Change the name of the video to cool safe room instead of how to.
Расслабились, а раньше при Хрущеве, бомбоубежище строили )))
Wait....why not just build the whole house out of concrete? Gawdayum these Oakies are thick.
Because it's not worth it. Have a nice normal home because any home however seemingly strong will disappear in a F5/4.
The safe room installer selling his product hard. His thick Chicago accent is too distracting to listen to.
Pretty lady
Sorry but I don’t trust that
They have never failed an F5. They are the safest.