Zero reason that room cannot also be a "severe storm room". Just don't close the door. The room will protect you well enough without the door being closed.
What's with all the little eyelets on the walls?
Zero reason that room cannot also be a "severe storm room". Just don't close the door. The room will protect you well enough without the door being closed.
Those are the "ties" that goes through the wall. Metal straps that hold the forms together. You take a hammer and smack the top of them and they break off flush with the wall.
I agree.
Just curious...did you or will you have a concrete top on the room as well?
Zero reason that room cannot also be a "severe storm room". Just don't close the door. The room will protect you well enough without the door being closed.
Yes. Steel bridge deck with 7 1/2" of concrete on top of that
Oh, man . . .
I've been fantasizing about a poured concrete home for a long, long time. Fire-proof!
It's awesome to see someone making it happen and with a custom secure room incorporated from the start.
Those are the "ties" that goes through the wall. Metal straps that hold the forms together. You take a hammer and smack the top of them and they break off flush with the wall.
Nice Doddy House!
Is that for your mother-in-law?
i don't have a motherinlaw
If that is because you do not have a wife, then that explains why you have so much time to plan and the money to be able to execute on something like this.
On a serious note, pretty awesome so far. Looks like a basement that would have even Kirk Freeman drooling.
WOW!
You have a wife and you don't have to deal with your mother-in-law?
Do you know how lucky you are.