Concrete Safe Room Doors

This door weighs 200 lbs.

Concrete safe room doors. Vault doors storm shelter doors and safe room doors for home or business. If you have a basement this is the most ideal location for a safe room if you are concerned about tornadoes or other storms with high winds. This is the safe room door that the cheap vault door outlets don t want you to see. Best american made vault doors custom vault doors for sale in usa 800 299 6929.

A properly specified and engineered door can save lives by preventing the devastating air born debris caused by tornado and hurricane force winds from entering a storm shelter or safe room. Not only do we build vault doors we also build vault rooms. Instead of building a safe room it is possible to build a tornado resistant concrete home but it is unlikely to provide the same level of protection as a concrete safe room unless the connections of the structural elements are capable of withstanding 250 mph wind pressures and the windows entry doors and garage doors can resist the impact. We can construct a vault room in any size with many options.

Basic safe room information and construction drawings for site built safe rooms are provided in fema p 320 taking shelter from the storm. A first floor interior room is also a good location. We are starting to get into the best vault doors to use on a concrete room. It features a steel envelope door panel that you fill with concrete after the door is installed on the wall.

Since vault doors are just a door and not an entire safe there are no tests that can accurately state a fire rating as it s going to be dependent on the rest of the vault room. The safest place for a safe room is underground. The 4 4 heavy vault door with all the extras. Know the best place to build or create a safe room.

More than the standard vault door with an extra 1 4 of steel on the front plate. A thousand pounds of concrete cannot be cut with a torch and it has an engineer certified blast rating of 50 psi. High security safe room doors can be combined with pressure and ballistic protection to save people and property from extreme wind and unwanted intruders. Insist that a moisture barrier is used during construction.

Building a safe room for your home or small business fema s safe room guidance also references criteria in icc 500 standard for the design and construction of storm shelters. We build vault rooms. For example are the walls just drywall or an entire cement room. If concrete is poured paint your vault s interior with a product like ugl s drylok or red guard.