AS A STORM SHELTER

The primary purpose of these units is to protect their occupants from violent and severe weather conditions such as tornados and hurricanes.

AS A PANIC ROOM 

Having a modular safe room in one’s home can help families provide increased safety to elders, young children, and other vulnerable family members in the unfortunate event of a burglary, home invasion, terrorist incident, or other unforeseen threat.
In such cases, get inside the safe room, lock the door, and call or wait for help.
According to SafeGuard (a World Security Company), two million home burglaries are reported each year in the United States, with a home burglary occurring every 13 seconds.

USED AS A SAFE VAULT

In addition to offering personal protection, these units can be used as safe vaults or confident spaces for securing weapons, jewelry, or other important types of valuable household and business belongings. Our modular safe rooms come standard with two deadbolt locks. This is NOT a fireproof safe; our safe rooms come with air intakes to provide oxygen to the people inside. We suggest buying a small fireproof safe for all your documents, money, and other items and putting it inside the storm shelter.

EMERGENCY ESCAPE WALLS

Must of our doors open to the inside preventing entrapment if debris is blocking the entrance, however a nice feature of these safe rooms is that you can also remove the bolts holding the walls and exit from the back or the side by using a wrench, which is provided.

OPTIONAL ELECTRICAL OUTLETS

You can have electricity inside your safe room with a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) extension cord with four (4) outlets and a switch 125 V, 15 A, 14/3 Gauge. Add $99 for this option.

WHERE IS IT INSTALLED?

This safe room is intended to be installed on existing homes (any room, closet, under the stairs, or in the garage) on a concrete slab 4” thick or more. Please ask for 6” L anchor bolts if you have carpet or hardwood floor. However, the shelters can also be installed on new houses after the concrete foundation is cured and before the framing goes up. The best place for the unit will be a hidden closet in your master bedroom, under the stairs, or in a closet in your garage.

Our modular shelters are equipped with four heavy-duty lock pins that fasten the door to its frame to ensure your safety. They come in a variety of sizes. Our most common stock sizes are: 3’ x 5’, 3’ x 7’, 4’ x 6’, 4’ x 8’ and 6’ x 6’.

BEFORE YOU PLACE AN ORDER

Torshel’s modular storm shelters come in 12” and 6” wide panels. First, measure the area where you want the shelter to be installed; make sure this area is wide, long, and tall enough. You will need a perimeter of at least 1.5” extra all around the shelter so the installer can put the wall bolts in place.

Pay special attention to the door location. Our doors are located 6” from the corner of the shelter. Or preferably, take pictures, draw the area on paper, and send it to us via e-mail to provide you with one or more options in sizes.