Building A Safe Room In Your House

Safe rooms and panic rooms should be placed as close to the frequented living spaces as possible.

Building a safe room in your house.

Some factors to consider are the location of the room. When you ve decided on an appropriate room replace the existing door jam with a steel one and the existing door with a heavy steel door. It would accommodate three or four people in a pinch. A safe room is no different.

Seconds can be of the essence. The easiest way to build a safe room is to retrofit an existing room in the interior of your house without windows such as a walk in closet. The room should be accessible in the case of an emergency. All family members that are physically able should be able to quickly access the room.

I used masking tape to lay out the space for building my family s safe room. Finally stock your safe room with food and water. If your basement has an area bordered by three walls all you need to do is build the fourth and add a door. Attempt to camouflage your safe room as much as possible.

More so than the amount of steel protecting you this will eliminate potential threats. On the whole you re better off having a room that s too large than one too small. If you have several people in your household you might want to put a keypad access on the door to the safe room so that whoever has retreated first is safely locked in without worrying about admitting the other family members. A basement corner is particularly advantageous for building a safe room because two walls are already in place.