Safe rooms in new houses...common nowadays?

SahaganBeta

I know of at least two new houses going up, that have bank-vault like rooms situated inside them.

The vaults/saferooms even have dimensions that pretty closely mirror those of local banks (which I've also seen recently being built).

I think, if I were building a house, I'd include a safe room/vault. Not only for safety during tornadoes, but for those times (admittedly and thankfully rare) when pusillanimous polecats kick open your door and are willing to do harm to you and damage to your property, and finally, as a safe place to store guns and so forth.

Are these things common around your part of the country? Do you have one?

Sahagan

dolfan

In Florida, safe rooms are being built both in new and existing homes, if you got the cash, due to hurricanes.

Believe it or not, a lot of older homes in So. FL have safe rooms. These were built during the Cuban Missle Crisis days...except none offer protection from radiation....kinda like an expensive "duck and cover".

tomahawk

yep, dig them everyday, mostly in new construction, but sometimes in additions. they can be cleverly hidden[;)][8D]

fishkiller41

quote:Originally posted by dolfan
In Florida, safe rooms are being built both in new and existing homes, if you got the cash, due to hurricanes.

Believe it or not, a lot of older homes in So. FL have safe rooms. These were built during the Cuban Missle Crisis days...except none offer protection from radiation....kinda like an expensive "duck and cover".


YEah,, what Dolfan said.BTW,, how'bout dem FISH!!?[V]

Jeff

Captplaid

Dad had a tornado shelter put in under the back porch. a Cement room with a half height doorway. My cOusin had cement rooms under each front and back porch. They would make great safe rooms. He put a glass door to one and made it into a wine cellar.

I know another guy that has a fireproof safe in his basement. Just uses it for pictures and such.

bigdaddyjunior

A loaded 45 and/or shotgun is about as safe as any of my rooms get.

HandLoad

The Safe Room in my house is simply the one that is farthest from any entry - there is my Safe. Happens to be the Laundry room, not the best match for guns, and papers, and valuables/electronics, but that is just the way it is.

SahaganBeta

Believe it or not, I keep most of my guns in my shop....which is a hundred feet or so from the house, heavily locked, and doesn't look as if it would have in it anything of value beyond the usual tools and such.

I've got a cheap gun safe in the house, but a body could use a dolly and haul it away pretty easily. An old shotgun, a 35mm camera or two, some ear plugs and so forth is all they'd get. I'd hope that anyone breaking in would figure that's all she wrote, and leave everything else alone, although the 9mm on top of the refrigerator, and the .357 magnum hanging from my bedpost would be goners for doggoned sure.

I don't know....I don't feel particularly safe and secure from break ins, but I can't figure what more to do, short of buying a heavy and expensive safe, or building a safe room.

So I guess that uneasy feeling will stay with me.

Sahagan

Idahobound

When I build a house it will have one