There are many options when you are considering what kind of “safe room” or “storm shelter” to add to your new build home plans or add to your existing home. Here are some facts about building each of them that may help you decide which product you need.
Tulsa Safe Rooms and Tulsa Tornado Shelter are usually built to protect the individual or family from burglary or some other threat. They are equipped with a communication device to contact authorities in an individual situation where law enforcement can arrive and help the situation. They are built for safety. They have reinforced walls, doors, and the sides are reinforced to withstand bullets and all kinds of attempts from the outside to get in.
A storm shelter is basically designed to withstand tornado force winds of 250 miles per hour. Some things are similar, as it needs to have a steel door and thick walls, but the nature of a storm shelter is to have someplace for the family to sit down for a few hours at most while a storm passes and they can leave the room.
A safe room will often have an escape hatch that is not the front door for escape to the outside. A storm shelter usually has a hatch on the top or a sloped door way that leads to stairs below and has to be secured to the foundation so that it will not topple and cannot be sucked out into a storm.
We at Hausner’s have devoted more than 50 years to keeping our customers safe during a storm or any kind of emergency. We build and sell everything you need to keep you and your family safe including slope front concrete storm shelters, flat top concrete storm shelters, metal drop in storm shelters, concrete safe rooms, metal safe rooms of any size and up to community size safe rooms for your business. Call our customer service professionals and let us help you decide what type of protection your family will need that fits in your budget.
There are rebates and grants from the state of Oklahoma to help with your purchase. Let us discuss those with you when we come out to give you an estimate. We are the Tulsa Safe Rooms pros! We are the Tulsa, Oklahoma storm shelters, Storm Shelters Tulsa, OKC Safe Rooms, OKC Tornado Shelters, OKC Storm Shelters pros!