Tornado Proof Room

And not only will our all welded reinforced thick steel tornado safe room units protect from even an ef 5 tornado engineered to exceed fema s national.

Tornado proof room. 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. It ll fit in most basements large garages or even outside. Because concrete doors would weigh too much for people to maneuver when they need to access the room fabricated or store bought missile resistant steel doors work best according to texas tech university s wind science engineering research center. The tornado may destroy the house but the safe room is likely to survive.

Even if the house disintegrates around the safe room in the teeth of a tornado you ll be snug and safe inside but scared to death. A concrete tornado room is only as good as its weakest point making the door to the room an important factor. Ef5 rated to keep your family safe. A safe room is a hardened structure specifically designed to meet the federal emergency management agency fema criteria and provide near absolute protection in extreme weather events including tornadoes and hurricanes.

Many homes in oklahoma have a safe room along this design. Vault pro safe rooms and tornado shelters are built to fema 320 361 and icc 500 standards using a minimum of 3 16 7 gauge reinforced steel and can be upgraded to an even thicker 1 4 3 gauge reinforced steel for added protection. Made in tulsa ok. 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.

A safe room typically costs about 2 500 to 5 000 to build a small price to. Recent natural disasters highlight the need for tornado shelters inside or close to homes in tornado prone areas. Here s a basic design for a tornado proof safe room. The best safe room doesn t always mean the most expensive safe room.

Lone star safe rooms use a simpson strong tie wedge all anchoring system to secure the safe room during an f5 tornado. Starting at 4 000 for example you could have your own 4 foot by 4 foot above ground all weather safe room or tornado room installed in your home or business.