Good luck with your build, sounds cool!

How do you keep it so hidden that a new person wouldn't find out? I am thinking of getting a 1000mSQ plot of land and building a perimeter wall with a simple hut/ house as a cover in the middle, and below will be like 3 levels of bunkers.. -1 A shopping mall/ apartment building inspire underground parking lot -2 Living quarters with a huge atrim in the middle so you could see down to level -3 -3 will be the Essentials, like green house, communal kitchen, gun room gun range, communal laundromat, decon laundromat. Etc. But i have been having difficulties finguring out how to make it so hidden that nobody would know that there will be or is a entrance to a huge mancave underneath.. besides the huge underground garage opening i want it to be invisible from inside the house.. If you could help me or give me some ideas that would be perfect

split level building with drive in entrance disguised as regular wall , from inside house you can do everything from hidden bookshelf door to secret entrance under carpet that you don't open till doomsday, the back of closet is excellent place for secret door(how many people pull all clothes and things out and look at back closet wall?

Same

I'd like to have a way to recirculate my water supply while it's not being used so it can re-oxygenate. It would also help lengthen the life of the water filters, especially if you have the extra filter as suggested above. I'd also like a way to limit water usage to the shower when it's not being used for decon. Really, there should be a decon shower before entering the living quarters.

This has bugged me for years but since the subject of a secret passage was brought up.... The proximity of the escape hatch to the bunker has driven me almost to drink. I'd love to see someone actually ask for an escape tunnel ending up in the woods or elsewhere if leaving the bunker was absolutely necessary. And just because it should be seriously considered, the entrance and escape should be booby trapped.

@@kevinmoore2929 if/when I can afford one that's what it will be with mine. Either in or behind another building at least 50 feet away. The problem with popping up in the woods is avoiding killing trees while you're digging the trench for the tunnel.

​@@michiganengineer8621 at my farm you'd never believe how fast trees grow back if you remove them. In under 10 years we had a road through our farm we didn't need or care about so we let the trees move in. Here we are now you'd never have known 10 years ago anything was there.,.. that area is a forest now just because we stopped maintaining that space. It is thick with trees now.

@@kevinmoore2929the main reason is in case of an emergency inside the tunnel like a fire where the gasses can kill you quickly. The escape is there so you can try to get up and out fast without having to go for 200 yards through a tube before you get to the ladder. The lesser reason is for an attack where you need to escape someone trying to get in.

still should have storage under each, spend the money for the concrete , keep the storage under the first one also one food medicine and canned water something to store , it may come in handy should still put in the generator the grid could go down better safe than sorry , i know you may not have the cash but find a way.

I know that the air system has a blast valve but idk about the water system.

I am building shelters in poland now and I'll soon build some in northern Italy too for a project. So contact me. Ron

Why

@@AtlasSurvivalShelters German plumbing is really well engineered, they’d use stainless steel for most of that. They really would be baffled as to why a concealed domestic filter install was done inside a bunker, they’d hang all of that on the wall where it could be easily maintained. They install to industrial standards for maximum efficiency and reliability, which is actually what you want in a bunker really

Needed for airflow through the bunker.

For what purpose? The hatch is locked and so is the bunker entrance door. Maybe the 2nd unit should have been sealed off, but the client wanted the odd bookcase thing for some reason.

@@dmcd7333 thats easy tho , i would put vents down low for that.

Those are not shipping containers, shipping containers collapse when buried under the weight of the dirt/backfill.

Not to mention all someone on the surface would need to do is plug up all the air vents & suffocate everyone inside the bunker. These are nothing more than fancy, expensive tombs.

@@Bishop228 I had the same thougts , those vents should be much better protected. A Nice wine cellar Or tornado hide out; nothing more

That would be called a panic room. You need a gas tight door, strong walls preferably fire and bulletproof. Air filtration with positive air pressure, I would be happy with a commercial filter, I don’t rate NBC as a significant threat in my rural area. It should be hidden, so it has to be in line with the expected floor plan. If you’re building then I would use ICF and put it under the garage, driveway or patio with a hidden door into the basement. Use the house to supply the bunker with utilities, weeping tile, insurance, hide the air system in the walls, privately stock preps. Have a trapdoor hidden under a drainage grate in the garage, that only opens from inside.

Thanks 😊

No permits Ever

It all depends on what type of bunker you use/buy and the cost of digging the hole and back filling. Ron has talked about it in other videos.

@@RJM1011 also the water table is a deciding factor in how deep you can go I would think. 👍✌️

@@abritabroadinthephilippines Yes Atlas does do watertight shelters because of that. Thank you.

The culvert bunkers can bear more soil cover than the square bunkers I’ve read somewhere.

It seems that the escape tunnel should extend farther away from the bunker. Ideally if the house was on a hill, it could lead directly out ro the ground level.

Yes, you’d be trapped. These are nothing more than fancy, expensive tombs.

Fallout shelters are different than blast shelters. 3-6' of concrete is added and steel plumbing then

@@AtlasSurvivalShelters So this is just a fallout shelter? But at 16:42 there is a blast valve? I'd agree that being within a blast zone is extremely unlikely, but this seems like an oversight to have a sewage line venting directly to the outside? You can get internal air system vents that would do the same thing I believe

So far I seem on this it’s not safe

@@Kapu5-15 oh I believe it’s really safe, these points are just unlikely edge cases

It’s designed to keep the damp out, and a plastic sealed area of sand sits above it. Should be fine

I agree I wish Atlas would show that

Double bag it all, over a few weeks there is going to be minimal waste and smell if you wash out all food containers. It’s not likely you’d have any vegetable or bone waste to dispose of

20' is the deepest I have gone. Roof to surface. That requires a huge hole. 30' deep

@@AtlasSurvivalShelters that's impressive. If I ever get one I want it DEEP

They all have bleed holes. They can't full up

They are cheaper than homes in cakifirnia too