Safe Rooms vs. Bunkers
They are both designed to keep their occupants safe but demographics and geological locations may have a dictating factor. Not everyone has enough land where they can dig a huge hole in the ground to place a bunker. You have to admit, in the event of a home invasion or any disaster, natural or otherwise, where you didn’t have the time to leave the security your home and head for your bunker that is placed with the access outside has some major limitations except in the most extreme situations where you have ample warning.
Some people like to refer to subterranean Safe Rooms as Bunkers. We have a little different view on this.
Pre-manufactured structures that come rolling in on a Semi Truck are not exactly inconspicuous. In fact, there is a good chance everyone in the neighborhood and some who may be passing by will know exactly what you are doing. Our Safe Rooms are modular in design and much stronger than the great majority of Bunkers but it will be much less conspicuous during the installation specifically in a new build. Additionally, our modular design also allows us to retrofit any space into a secure Safe Room making us one of the few in the market with this capability. Please keep in mind that just because someone has a Safe Room does not necessarily constitute any guarantees you will make it inside if the need should arise. Privacy, Secrecy and Stealth are your best asset…if someone is extremely determined to make you a target and they know you have a Safe Room / Bunker, they will make every effort to get to you prior to you getting inside.
An example of this for Safe Rooms is having more than one access point so you do not have to be in a specific room just to gain access to your Safe Room. An example with subterranean Safe Rooms is having more than one access point as well. In this case, multiple accesses through your floor with a concealed hatch that hydraulically, electrically and manually comes up providing you stairs down to the Safe Room. When the hatch closes you secure from the inside again making access impenetrable.
Concealed Safe Room Access vs. Visible
This is not a straightforward answer. For example, a regular looking door going into your Master Bedroom may actually be an ArmorCoat Ballistic & Blast Door that has the outward appearance a standard door or custom door. It’s what’s layered in the door and the interior locking mechanism that counts.
However, with our custom designed and engineered concealed entrances that are often hidden behind a Bookcase, Armoire, or even a fireplace, then intruders wouldn’t even know where to look. If you can dream it up, we can design, engineer, manufacture and install.
