by Leslie | Dec 5, 2013 | Choosing Your Safe Room Site Blog
Weather authorities used to say to stay away from the southwest corner of your house because they believed that was where the tornado would strike the hardest. Today we now know that just isn’t true. The truth is, no one place is any safer against a tornado than...
by Leslie | Aug 2, 2013 | Choosing Your Safe Room Site Blog
I want to buy a tornado shelter but don’t want to have to put it in the garage or outdoors. Do you have any other options? We sure do! As long as your house is on a standard reinforced slab foundation we can install your above ground storm shelter in any room that has...
by Administrator | Mar 8, 2013 | Choosing Your Safe Room Site Blog
In a previous blog we referred to a “standard reinforced concrete slab of adequate mass and geometry” for an acceptable anchoring location for safe rooms. So what the heck did we mean by that? “A STANDARD REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB”: As a general...
by Monty | Feb 3, 2013 | Choosing Your Safe Room Site Blog
Question: Can I install an above ground safe room in my home with a crawl space? Answer: First, let’s define the general types of residential construction: Slab on grade: A concrete slab is poured in a properly prepared area with the slab sitting directly on...
