Interior Tornado Safe Room

Recent natural disasters highlight the need for tornado shelters inside or close to homes in tornado prone areas.

Interior tornado safe room.

Know the best place to build or create a safe room. Storm shelters provides safety and security from dangerous storms and tornadoes with tested and certified exterior concrete storm shelters and interior steel multi purpose safe rooms. The safest place for a safe room is underground. A properly specified and engineered door can save lives by preventing the devastating air born debris caused by tornado and hurricane force winds from entering a storm shelter or safe room.

Storm guard builder s choice econ model bolt together panel model. A producing member of the american tornado shelter association. When faced with a severe storm most people go to an interior room as you did. A safe room typically costs about 2 500 to 5 000 to build a small price to.

A first floor interior room is also a good location. Lone star safe rooms use a simpson strong tie wedge all anchoring system to secure the safe room during an f5 tornado. How storm shelters or a safe room pays off. If you have a basement this is the most ideal location for a safe room if you are concerned about tornadoes or other storms with high winds.

Building a safe room for your home or small business fema s safe room guidance also references criteria in icc 500 standard for the design and construction of storm shelters. If you live in tornado alley in the panhandle of texas or are worried about violent storms with high velocity winds building storm shelters now called a safe room should bring you a little more peace of mind. Our high security safe room doors and frames are designed by certified engineers. Tornado proof is a stretch but you can significantly increase your buyers chances of surviving strong tornadoes and hurricanes with safe rooms built in the basement crawl space or main floor.

This safe room set the standard for all safe rooms tested at texas tech. Each safe room is bolted down to your concrete slab by drilling 5 8 x 3 holes and inserting specialty designed anchoring bolts at the appropriate locations around the perimeter of the safe room to ensure the safe room. You will receive shop drawings showing design and specs for door frame.