Panic Rooms
Impregnable Security Panic Rooms
Panic or safe rooms are there to provide an ultra-safe location inside your home, where you, or your family can retreat during a robbery or other threat. Think of a panic room as a vault for your most valuable asset, your family.
Usually the door is made from a double-core metal with a heavy deadbolt installed. Although it's possible to use a different style lock, it is probably best to use a deadbolt so that the need for a key has been eliminated.
If you need to use you panic room, then you will also need to contact emergency services such as the police. So a means of communication with the outside world is imperative and a video monitor that shows all activity outside the door and in the house is a worthwhile investment.
Although it's sometimes called a "panic room", remember that the purpose of the room is not for you to panic, but for you to be safe.
About Our Panic Rooms
- We prefer to construct our walls from floor to ceiling for structural continuity.
- We use steel studs for our walls, and brace them with reinforcing ties, then cover them with bullet resistant material such as Kevlar.
- We cover the bullet resistant material with sheetrock, tile or other decorative finishes.
- We overlap resistant sheet where necessary to ensure your security room does not have any weak points.
- We incorporate all necessary structural elements such as wiring, plumbing and ventilation (evaluating the potential threat of poisonous gasses being sent into the room through the duct system) and build according to the threat.
- Our floors are concrete whenever possible. We also reinforce the floor to account for the added weight of structural elements of the security room.
- Doors are one of the most critical aspects of a security room design. Our doors are bullet-resistant with internal steel framing. We also use hardware that can provide substantial, secure locking.
- We use sound insulation in the construction of our security rooms. This means that the attacker can not be heard nor can they hear you.
- We incorporate only the best surveillance and computer equipment into our panic rooms.
