Texan maker's underground survival bunkers are real batcaves

that looks also it's gonna help you yes ma'am okay so it's what four feet underground okay we're good all righty this officially when we're done here this is the largest bomb shelter factor in the world all right come here when you do a square bunker okay and you're gonna put the angles in the floor you put the first angle and you put the last angle in okay then you put an angle on top of it and you clean your tacit or weld it then when you put on the other angle or as you clamp it up what does that do it keeps the angles flat you can't just measure it okay this is not like this this one's going to have like that other one darn Eidos have the ladder that one's going to have a stair I'm gonna still manufacture for 40 years I started the brand to make the bomb shelters in 2011 [Music] the real-estate market for people buying land and wanting to put a bunker with a cabin on it has skyrocketed in the last three months it goes 1/5 on the back end 12 inches from the side on each side of 12 inches back in from the backside all right to have a bunker you know you need as a yard [Music] a bomb shelter is not as simple as this making a box and burying in the ground that is not a bomb shelter that's just probably you're great to do it right you've got it you got to compensate for heat for condensation for hot air in the summer cold air in the winter gamma radiation all kinds of different things it's not rocket scientist but you got into a ride or it will be wrong well if you had a bunker this is what you would come up to the grass is going back over it there's a special lock right here that you have to reach your hand into then the hats pretty much open up on its own we're actually going down and it's lter as the men walked into in about two months this is three feet underground all right so when you walk into your shelter this is what you'd find out for a month it has everything you'd have in a big RV that's 50 feet long all a difference is this is going to be very 20 feet underground the hatch to our bunker is hidden inside this little tool said and this is the only person in America that likes to show her biker to the news and the media so okay I would say you don't you have a lock on it right now okay [Music] okay so we're now about 20 feet underground here okay oh wow oh and they bifold he has a composting toilet have you ever noticed the temperature down here is below freezing outside that is what temperatures are staying here like really so it never gets cold or hot it doesn't change okay and then then there's your shower so then you've got your private bunk room here and they went with camo you got a secondary door that opens into now this is a 26 foot bunker okay I fulfill that fantasy of people wanting a place to bug out so that's what I do let's start off with a smaller bunker and let's get bigger because I want the climax of this video to blow your people's minds because the bunker that we do at the end is unfreakin real okay so we'll start off here with kind of a smaller bunker which you might think is pretty big so what we're going in right now is what's called a culvert pipe bomb shelter so the way it works is this this area right here is called a mudroom so people I say they come down to stare right here this is the mudroom they can disrobe this you got more storage in here there's a shower in here for decontamination they would shower off and then they would go into the bunker and then they would close this door behind them and they would be locked in so when you step in you've got your shower and your toilet so this is a regular flushing toilet this thing right here is what's called the overpressure blast valve what happens is when the pressure builds up in the bunker this actually opens like an air drum and then lifts the hair out it will let the smell up right there so that was this engineering that's why they call it the head save is on a boat they put the toilet at the head so everyone doesn't smell it so the head basically is the rear end of the boat so when they're going into the wind and the guy does his business it it goes that way yeah so then we were in the bunker so when we get into are we closer to okay and we lock it down and that's gas tight that will protect us on all the biological the chemical a denser so this is one of the signature things on all the Atlas shelters is that we have these gas tight doors this is like the bunk room right here so people would be sleeping here and you've got storage under each one of the bunks there's four bunks right here another thing that's very cool is all these bunkers have they got storage underneath the floor so down here we put our water tanks or food or lithium batteries extra solar panels backup microwaves people love this pipe because you can get 55 gallon water barrels under the floor so there's three feet of storage underneath the floor here and you can put all your water barrels and all your food your backup supplies now this also has a door in the room so you can close it and have your privacy in here open it up you're into the living area this has a four person dinner table it's the same footprint as the Denny's restaurants that's where I copied it from yeah actually our storage underneath the seat we also have storage underneath this TV right down here this cabinet actually lifts up you've got your entertainment center with electric fireplace there's a leather couch your kitchen you've got a desk over here that has two chairs you also can put your and your radios over here refrigerator freezer full kitchen and even a master bedroom in your bomb shelter so this master bedroom and this one here is 14 feet long but also in the master bedroom is the heart and soul of the bunker which is the NBC air filtration system and the way this works all you do is you press that button right there this turns on and it's blowing a lot of wind look at this I mean this oh yeah without this you wouldn't be able to breathe underground this is a carbon filter with a HEPA filter and the carbon and HEPA filter will take out the radioactive matter it will cling out in a biological matter and any chemical agents so bunkers are designed to withstand artillery with chemical warfare mustard gas whatever even biological warfare but I was to unhook these two clamps and hook this up to here and this one up to here it's an air-raid siren [Music] good yep okay that's an air-raid siren right there okay why it's not an air-raid but we use an air-raid siren to let the men know that it's lunchtime it's got a girl in it yeah that's a real one yeah so this is what keeps you breathing down here and if you ever lose power what's great about the swiss air systems and as you can manually operate it and this thing is so easy even a little six-year-old girl with a broken arm can operate this thing because i've had a six year old girl with a broken arm coming in here and operate it with one hand so i can operate it with one finger because I'm strong you've gotta exchange the air in here because of the co2 build-up about every probably four to five hours maybe sometimes it depends on the amount of people that are in here you got a lot of people in here you gotta keep the air going regular but if there's like you you buy yourself you can maybe do it once a day I mean it's like just that there's enough air in here but this is what I put in every one of my bunkers and without this you know it's basically just a coffin in the ground but with this yeah you'll survive pretty much anything it starts just like this and of course the echo goes away once you put the furniture in here but all the bunkers start just like this right here we start with a basic piece of ground culvert pipe we weld the ends on build out the floors and that's how we create a round bomb shelter what's the diameter of them this one's 10 foot diameter when we're done yep great bit of storage under the floor and then you have seven foot ceilings so this this factory has two wings in it this side here makes all the culvert shelters but we also do a lot of the the modular shelters over on this side too so you're getting ready to see them when we come around this corner here this bunker right here looks like a big giant submarine but this is what we call a round watertight this is made to go in someplace that might have a high water table where they might want the round culvert but they're afraid of the water leaking inside they go with an all welded so it looks like a big giant submarine or but say think it has a storage under the floor it's got the this area right here is what's called the decontamination room so they'll come down a staircase they'll enter into this room here this is the decontamination room their stories on the outside as well then they go into the bunker again the gas tight door so that's a round one so there's two shapes and bunkers basically there's round and they're square some people like round some people like square so I make them both which one is stronger realistically the round one is several times stronger because it doesn't need any exterior support to bury it deep where the square one we have to put all these exterior membranes on here to give it enough strength to where it doesn't cave in from the weight of the earth so naturally round is going to be a lot stronger than square but some people just like the fill of a square bunker because it just feels natural then when you get to some of these bigger bunkers they're just like they're just like big hotels inside this is called the big boy modular it's 12 feet wide inside is 48 feet long so again my watertight gas tight door and Willis under construction that you'll get the idea the Sowers does this an inlaid ceramic tower this like a regular story you would have in a house plucking toilet shower hot water cold water vanity you know I mean it's best basically a two-bedroom apartment underground one two three four five six seven eight nine yeah so this room sleeps nine the idea he has enough room here for his entire family there's a two foot of storage so he can hold in here probably five to ten years worth of food okay so yeah let there all the way down there's one two three four five and then there's one in there so there's six access points to the underfloor storage in there so this has built-in water tanks so this right here is two 300 gallon built in water tanks this is going to be your kitchen this one even has regular granite counters in there so he's even got the sliding door on this area okay so with a sliding door come on into the master bedroom even they had me out of toilet and you can walk away the bathroom so this is the escape so you open up this hatch right here then there's a tunnel that will come out the backside so you can escape out of the bunker it has these heavy-duty structural light beams on the roof and because they're given to sort of concrete on top of this they hold a lot of burst so this one's going to be very deep underground I was cool about this we neared that deep underground it just stays nice and cool in here it'll be 56 degrees in here year-round basically you've got to put a concrete foundation first and set on top of the foundation then we bolt it down so the way one of these bunkers works is we put in the big body of the bunker first and then we bolt on this thing right here and this is the decontamination room and the generator room all packed into one so the way it works is you actually would come down a staircase and then you would turn and go into your bunker through one of these gas tight doors right here and then you close it behind you you take a shower you get all the country all the fallout off you and then you go into your bunker and you've got to go through this gas tight door here into the decontamination room it's got a shower on a second door and then you're into this bunker this is the bathroom uphill plucking toilet new mirror and it's a regular bathroom and this is like a living the room and then this is the kitchen believe it or not we're underground right now and a bunker cooking click Submit so these are really big if I just stand here and I'm six foot three so this we call this one the big one all my catalog I have like 24 different types of shelters that we may I know you guys are gonna like this bunker so if you're curious the big boy and the culvert design cost one hundred and thirty thousand if we do it in a watertight version which means it's all steel welded out a half a thick plate it's 180 thousand this is this is my new studio it's all my beers hey guys welcome back to another episode of Atlas survival shelters I hope you're all having a fantastic day I'll show you the reason why I had --less in 1950 there was a company called Atmos bomb shelters and I wanted to resurrect your company so this is the 1961 brochure from Atlas bomb shelters right here so this this says 1961 right there so this is the oldest known brochure I know from this company but that bunker right there similar to one that we call call Grenada says another Atlas bomb shelter this is the original Atlas bomb shelter brochure which I had nothing to do with this company I the company basically was started up in 1950 and it closed down in the 60s when the Cold War was slowing down and I got in a bomb shelter business I was like you know what I'm gonna run direct this company but also the ironic thing is my first company was called Atlas ornamental iron your first company was doors now making doors and I still do the doors forty years later I still make the door each one of those dogs tightens down that area so that the gasket which is this gasket right here will indent on the steel creating a barrier between you and any gases that could get in go inside and close the door you'll have some like close the door and this would be your airtight vault to protect you from a airborne pandemic okay so now you're locked in now you would be safe while you're in there now you have a toilet a water barrel an account or a two-person bunk basically our starter bunker right here they started like twenty thousand dollars but you can use it as a root cellar a tornado shelter this is what we're putting under a lot of the houses being built because they want that safe room you know they want a place where they could run in and retreat but even then it has all the bells and whistles of the big bunker it has the gas pipe door it has the mud room it has the shower so you could decontaminate the only thing it doesn't really have it doesn't have the 90 degree stare on this one all you do is when you're in your house you just walk in the closet open the door and just walk down your stairs open the door to your bunker and enter your bunker is a 10 by 20 safe seller that we just said it's on the concrete foundation and this will be come up under the house there you'll just walk into it like a regular staircase under the house now this one here has a vault door that's just a real préval door then the inside will be built up and everyone this is an 8 foot by 12 foot bunker it's got eight foot ceilings I can't even touch the ceiling the bunk beds check this out the bed's fold up like that and the couch pulls up as well and then of course that has a small NBC air filtration system in here these couches are for like RV trailers or motorcycles so they can fold them up and pull them out then set them down there so I just adapted them to the bunkers yeah it goes down just just fold this back and it becomes it becomes a couch or if you do this it becomes a full-sized bed and this comes down as well but so you can you know if you're sitting in your bunker you're down here for a week you got a place to sit this is a very small backyard in an American home but we put a 20-foot shelter in the backyard at this house okay the bridge right there is actually covering the hatch there's the hatch underneath there and then there's two air pipes this is one air pipe this is a six inch galvanized air pipe that's never going to rust and then there's the other air pipe right there yeah this hat has two hydraulics lists so when you open it weighs 600 pounds it opens on its own but I'm gonna go on down here this is the experience coming down into the filter and already I can feel how cold it is down here because we're going so far underground there we go okay now the shelter is locked up now you notice there was no echo in here listen to this you hear that solid is concrete and there's no echo in here because corrugated pipe does not there's so many advantages to a culvert shelter over a non culvert shelter and the price is even lower on the culvert shelters but when we do a filter hit a high water table we have to eliminate the culvert there's only two weaknesses to a Kohler one the material is rather flimsy as you notice it's very flimsy but it is the strongest once it's buried on the ground you can go up to 42 feet underground with a culvert shelter the key is to pack the earth every 12 inches as you go up around it this customer is going to build a house over this bunker so this area this entire air is going to be covered in concrete and then the hatch somebody was even a park a car on top of them it will raise 16,000 pounds so it will just raise the car up like it wasn't even there put your knee on it there you go since I dropped lifted matter of fact we need to take one of the hydraulics office a little too much so hook it in there so that hatch is a that's an armor-plated hatch it's about eight years old and after you put your hatch and you got to pour concrete around it you want it harden so somebody's you know really trying to dig you out they can't get to it so we're gonna go ahead and open this thing up [Music] so this is a natural bunkers been in the ground for eight years it is kind of weird because it still smells new in here he's got the floor pulled up he's showing me the story too underneath the floor here 55-gallon drums fit perfectly underneath the floors in he's got all kinds of freeze-dried food boy you've got a bunch of it I love that cup of soup you just start eating that stuff that stuff's great all you got to do is that water and underneath here he's got storage he's got extra microwaves refrigerators I mean he really prepped how cool is that I can't find my bunker see people always worry about oh they're gonna see it well trust me after you put it the ground and the grass grows up around it you'll lose your bunker to have a bunker you got to have the desire to want that bunker because having a bunker is like owning a cell boat that you have down at the marina what do you have to do when you have a cell boat you have to check on it like once a week okay I know we're close well there is an air pipe right there okay so there's an air tight top at this bunker and like ten years ago and then the entrance is right there this is the hats well it's cool this is the bunker and we do know like eight nine years ago ten yeah I don't know how long it's been it's been a while but boy I'm telling you did the grass and trees grow up around it or what there's my little camera keeps an eye on my hats

Channel: Kirsten Dirksen

Views: 1,207,722

Rating: 4.8388381 out of 5

Keywords: survival shelters, bomb shelters, preppers, prepping, atlas survival shelters, ron hubbard, underground shelter, underground house, subterranean shelter, subterranean home, underground home, earth shelter, earth sheltered home, underground architecture, tiny home, small space, small home, off grid, sulphur springs, texas, pandemic prep, transformable furniture, safe house, hidden home, secret shelter, doomsday bunkers, doomsday preppers, bugout shelter, fallout shelter

Id: EL7xW5zTh6M

Length: 24min 28sec (1468 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 29 2020

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[u/kingjoshington]

This seems full of phrases like: "you've got to do it right or otherwise it will be wrong" and "to have a bunker you have to want a bunker".