Safe Rooms and SheltersĪ safe room is essentially a storm shelter, a hardened room or structure specifically designed to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) criteria to “ provide near-absolute protection in extreme weather events, including tornadoes and hurricanes. Martin Clark, of Nudura, recommends you “opt for the strongest impact-resilient house available, or at the very least, a safe room within your home built using ICF.” ICFs offer a durable, resilient construction option to protect a physical structure and the people inside it from harm. Life safety is top priority, of course, closely followed by the financial costs associated with building destruction and property loss.Įspecially in areas of the world susceptible to these weather occurrences, Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) are a building material solution that address all of these disaster-related concerns. Most homeowners are worried about their home’s ability to cope with the damage caused by severe storms, hurricanes, and tornados. There are precautionary steps you can begin now to ensure the utmost protection of your residential structure and your family in the event of severe weather. Modern Hidden Hills estate fetches $18.Don’t wait until a natural disaster strikes your town to take action to reinforce your home. Kanye West’s bachelor pad - including bathroom fish tank - sells for $2.95 million This Holmby Hills estate sold last year for $90 million. The Corbi-designed home includes two safe rooms and three safe FROM HOT PROPERTY Homeowners who have safe rooms are, not surprisingly, tight-lipped about their features - except for Corbi, who is selling his 2001 James Bond-worthy Hollywood Hills home with helicopter access for $6 million. (Saferoom’s Oregon facility includes a ballistic-testing range the firm was consulted for the 2002 Jodie Foster thriller, “Panic Room”).Ĭorbi also routinely works for the rich and famous, with some jobs taking months, others years, such as the now-listed $17.5-million Atlanta Rice House, a fifth of which was designed by Corbi as a safe core (it includes a “bat cave” garage with receding waterfall fronting the entrance, and rooms that double as “man traps,” wherein intruders can be gassed and incapacitated.) “It’s the last line of defense for them,” said Paster, adding that he could say no more. and Oregon-based Saferoom, outfitted a hallway and executive suites for the United Nation’s secretary-general and his deputy.
The famous, including government officials, favor the rooms. The price of securing a room may run from under $1,000 (for minimal work on a door) to hundreds of thousands of dollars. “You may as well have a cappuccino while calling the police,” said Fridman, who often agents Kardashian deals. Solid-core or reinforced doors made with steel and other materials, and secured with heavy-duty plates and locks (mechanical, electronically activated and electromagnetic) can’t be sledgehammered or kicked-in.Īdd-ons include reinforced walls and ballistic-grade glass to foil bullets, and air filtration systems in case of a chemical attack. Steel-alloy panels (also Kevlar, woven fiberglass and other materials) can be embedded within walls that are made fire-resistant UL and other ratings specify whether a mere pistol or a. Reinforcement plates (steel and other materials) are cloaked behind a door’s wood facings, and steel window and door frames are painted to match existing trim. Safe rooms’ security features are usually invisible: No reason to tip off the bad guys about what they’re up against, and seamless environments feel less like a prison.
Such rooms often include an independently wired phone and surveillance system, through which property can be covertly monitored via hidden cameras. Although safe rooms differ, an ability to communicate with police and others is often key (beyond a cellphone).
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