3 Design Parameters That Affect the Cost of a Community Safe Room
The only thing common across safety rooms is their intended purpose: to provide safety. Beyond that, you’ll seldom find two safety rooms alike. They differ according to dimensions, number of uses, resistance, and more. These factors affect how much they cost and how well they fit your needs. Here’s more about them in detail.
Above-Ground Rowlett Safe Room Checklist for Homeowners
A safe room serves to protect you from the force of a disaster. For example, a safe room will protect you from the powerful winds of a tornado. However, when spending time in a safe room during a disaster, other things can harm you. Hunger and boredom, for example, are two negative feelings that people […]
3 Questions To Ask Your Contractor When Getting A Safe Room
When choosing a contractor for your safe room installation, you should be wary of a few factors, and never hesitate to ask plenty of questions. After all, it’s a change that could cost you the safety of your family and plays a major role in their well-being. Not to mention the high costs of shelter […]
Is A Safe Room Worth Installing?
If you live in Dallas and Fort Worth, it’s probably crossed your mind to invest in a storm safe room for your home, given the frequency of tornadoes and thunderstorms here. But there’s no denying that it’s a hefty expense and one that’s going to require other spending too, such as on minor reconstruction and […]
3 Home Improvements You Should Definitely Make This Year
Renovating or remodeling your home, albeit stressful, is always exciting and definitely worth taking on. It’s the perfect project to take on if you’re looking to feel productive, make the most of your space, and add improvements that not only serve an aesthetic purpose, but also a functional one.
4 Ways to Save for a Safe Room Installation
Storm safe rooms can be the difference between life and death when you’re living in a place like Texas that is hit by tornadoes so often. Year after year, tornado season wreaks havoc on locals across cities and towns like Arlington and Fort Worth, but investing in a storm shelter for your home can help […]
The Ultimate Checklist For Storm Shelter Essentials
As Hurricane Hanna harkens the arrival of the U.S. monsoon season, homeowners in vulnerable areas are rushing to the stores and stocking their storm shelters with all the necessities they need. But par the kitchen sink, how do you decide what the essentials are?
Tornado Preparedness With Special Needs Family Members
For anyone who has a family member with special needs, the sirens that ring in light of a tornado warning are the most horrifying sounds they can hear. While tornadoes don’t typically strike without warning, it doesn’t take long for them to quickly become more devastating and move toward surrounding areas that weren’t originally in […]
Lesser-Known Facts You Need to Know about Tornadoes
You might remember from your 5th-grade lessons how tornadoes form and the destruction they cause. But, are you sure what you learned way back is enough? There are plenty of myths and misconceptions about tornadoes that have caused people injuries and even resulted in a loss of life. So, why not clear out this misinformation? […]
Tornado Watch And Toddler Care: How To Keep Children Calm During A Tornado
Even with a tornado shelter installed in your garage, which you were able to seal yourself in, just in time, being part of such a frantic, scary scenario is often scarring for children, something that dramatically impacts their recovery process. So, how do you make sure that your child’s reaction to a tornado is collected […]
