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How to Supply A Safe Room Or Bunker
Building a bunker/safe room is a time-consuming and costly endeavor. The advantage, however, is that you and your family may take refuge indoors and be safe from outside dangers.
The difficulty with depending on a safe room for survival is that unless it’s well provisioned, it’ll be more of a trap than a haven.
The good news is that your ideal DIY bunker kit can be built with only a little preparation, common sense, and ingenuity.
Things to Consider
First thing to research is, is there a Natural Nuclear Bunker close to Your House? Google-Nuclear shelters in your city/area. You will be surprised at what you find.
Before you begin assembling your safe room, you must first choose which catastrophes and calamities you will be prepared for. A safe room is often built to shield a family from the ravages of storms, human attack or even a nuclear attack.
Another factor to consider is how many individuals will be using the room in case of a tragedy. You should also consider the potential that your safe room will be visited by more people than family.
The essentials: Water and Food
Food, clean water and supplies may appear to be self-evident additions to a safe room. Still, supplying enough food and drink entails much more than purchasing bottled h2o and meals ready to eat.
When planning your food storage, one of the first things to consider is how long you intend to be in the safe room. Of course during a crises, no one knows how long one may be in survival mode. But you definitely need to have a good idea of your intentions.
Keep your timelines reasonable; remaining underground for several years is not a viable option among for most. Make a plan and run with it. Is it, three months, six months or even a year?
Assume you’re ready to withstand a nuclear strike. In that situation, fallout radiation levels will diminish quickly, so planning to stay in your safe room for three to five weeks is a decent start.
However, the necessity for self-reliance will remain much longer due to EMP(Electromagnetic Pulse)/CME (Coronal mass ejections), pandemics, and economic collapse. Set a realistic time limit for how long you plan to stay in your safe room and a goal for how much food and water you’ll need during that period.
Along with stocking up your safe room, it’s vital to evaluate your safe room for flaws before relying on it for survival.
Meals ready to eat that have been canned, dehydrated, freeze-dried, or purchased are all wonderful choices.
Hydroponics may potentially be a viable choice if the safe room is large enough. Microgreens are easily grown and full of necessary vitamins. Iodine-rich foods are excellent for long term supplies.
They’ll assist you in getting excellent needed iodine into your system instead of radioactive iodine that you may get from a nuclear assault or accident.
Whatever you pick should supply enough calories each day to maintain your health and fitness, as well as food that your family enjoys.
Each person will require at least one gallon of water every day. Given the size of the needed storage tanks, the requirement for water will provide considerable logistical issues.
A family of four, for example, will require at least 120 gallons of water every month, or about 1000 pounds of water to store and maintain clean.
If you wanted to store three months’ worth of water, you’d need seven 55-gallon barrels, each weighing over 500 pounds.
All food and water storage facilities must be protected from outside influences such as fallout, germs, viruses, and the elements. If your water becomes polluted, you’ll need a reliable technique for filtering and purifying it.
Are water purification tablets worth keeping on hand during a catastrophe?
Can’t leave your Pets behind
You won’t be leaving your pets outside your safe room, so make sure you have adequate supplies for them as well as a method for dealing with their waste.
Dogs will also need to be exercised on a regular basis and trained to use the restroom in a specified spot inside the safe room.
Ventilation Is Key to long term health
The safe room must get its air from the outside, which necessitates the installation of a high-quality filtration system and a big filter stockpile.
The safe room must get its air from the outside, which necessitates the installation of a high-quality filtration system and a big filter stockpile.
Human and Pet Waste and Garbage is a problem
Spending weeks in a safe room will be unforgiving if you haven’t planned for your waste to be disposed of properly.
There are a variety of methods to achieve this, and after you’ve decided on one that works best for you, and its always a good idea to have a back system in case the first one breaks down.
Assistive Technology
Whatever prompted you to seek refuge in your safe room from the outside world brings us to other dangers that will most likely be chaotic, with the possibility of injuries or contamination.
You must bring enough first-aid materials to treat any injuries and wounds to which you have been trained.
DIY First Aid Kit from the Discount Store or should you buy a professionally built First aid kit?
Our suggestion would be to buy a professional first aid kit as the professionals know what is needed and for the most part they haven’t forgot this or that. Of course you can google what is needed and then visit your local Dollar stores. If you build your own its recommended to store all these different items in one container as when an emergency arises you’ll need it immediately.
The most important thing to understand about first aid supplies is that they are consumable. When dealing with a trauma, you’ll need a lot of materials, with this in mind you will need to replace the ones that have been used. In this scenario, having more is preferable.
If you’re ready for a nuclear strike, keep potassium iodide on hand, as well as radiation detection and monitoring equipment.
Decontamination items – Buy these from a professional
Decontamination supplies are crucial in the case of nuclear fallout or pandemics.
Decontamination will occur every time someone enters the the safe room, therefore having adequate supplies to conduct hundreds of decontamination operations is essential.
Cleaning supplies, Tyvek suits, gas masks/respirators, trash bags, rubber gloves, duct tape, and vapor barrier rolls are all good places to start.
It’s not enough to have the materials; you’ll also need a designated decontamination space.
There should also be a quarantine section attached to this. The air supply for the quarantine and decontamination areas should be separated from the remainder of the safe room and vented directly to the outside.
Furthermore, because infected persons will need to be treated in isolation, measures for providing first-aid on them must be established. Before reentering the bunker’s main sections, the person treating them will need to be decontaminated and potentially confined.
There must also be provisions in place to wash any contaminated clothes and clean any contaminated equipment.
Communication with the outside world is a necessity
When you’re sheltering in your safe room, you’ll be essentially blocked off from the outside world, so having a dependable means to communicate with the outside world is crucial.
Amateur radios, shortwave receivers, CB/FRS/GRMS radios, and even SDR receivers are all necessary for keeping up with what’s going on in the outside world and communicating with other survivors.
Power
Being confined to a safe room with no access to power is a major nuisance.
It will prevent you from having dependable and safe lighting, using electric appliances, or keeping battery-operated gadgets charged and ready to use. Off-grid electricity may be established in a variety of methods. You should select one that is appropriate for your needs and budget. We have research several different solar charging units that should be good for charging your devices. Running your charging cord into your safe room from the outside is recommended. Solar panels come in a variety of sizes depending on your needs.
Warm Clothing is essential
When the temperature lowers, it is preferable to add layers of warm clothes than than invest more energy to heat the entire building, which is in short supply. To get through the frigid evenings, everyone should have adequate warm gear.
Bags for quick escape
Due to an attack or damage, you may need to leave the safe room. As a result, you should carry at least three days’ worth of food, drink, clothes, and survival gear in your backpacks for this event. Some sort of self defense device is highly recommended, knife, stun gun or even a pistol.
Gas masks, decontamination equipment, and protective clothes are not just necessary for nuclear fallout, but also for pandemics.
Entertainment helps with anxiety
Being stranded in a safe room is not a fun experience for anyone. Make sure you have as many alternatives for amusement as possible. Sounds silly but take playing cards and as many entertainment devices/items as you can think of. Preferably none electric devices.
Assuming you have a steady supply of electricity. A TV and DVD player can help make the long days inside the safe room a bit more bearable.
Tools for fixing and building
Things fail, and having the tools to fix them is critical to keeping the safe rooms mechanical systems running. As a result, while putting up a tool kit, make sure you have everything you’ll need to remove and fix anything within the containment area.
It’s just as crucial to stock a safe room with supplies as it is to the construction materials of your built room, and this is where you should focus your efforts to ensure your survival.
