SHELTERS

Our fallout shelter kit is built to house up to six people, offering a secure environment in the event of nuclear fallout or other emergencies such as civil unrest. Think of it as the Anderson shelter of the modern age — practical, no-frills, and dependable.

There are two versions of the shelter available: Type One, buried & Type Two, semi-buried. This allows you to decide what is the most appropriate for your site. The Type One would be placed in a four metre deep trench and covered with earth. Type Two can be placed in a shallower trench and have earth heaped on top of it to the required depth.

The body of both designs are made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) culvert pipe. This has been used in the UK for years and offers the best resistance to our soil conditions. The structure is supplied as one piece with the main chamber and access shaft. All the seams are plastic welded to form a water tight seal.

The shelters have been designed to give you a solid base from which to customise the layout and functionality. One of the end walls has four 50mm diameter pipes secured in place allowing you to add additional pipework to the surface for monitoring equipment and radio antennas. In addition one of these access points is allocated for you to run power into the shelter. Any of these that you don’t want to use can be capped and sealed.

Access to the shelter is via a galvanised steel entry hatch. Designed to be secured from the outside when not in use, once you decide to occupy the shelter the hatch can be secured from the inside but importantly cannot then be opened from the outside, giving you that peace of mind that you will be safe from attack.

Inside the shelter you will be supplied with a flooring system. This consists of a series of panels which lay on top of an already installed support system of box-section HDPE. Each of the panels can be lifted to reveal the storage space beneath. This allows you to store additional food supplies, drinking water, general stores etc that you would need for your stay.

The most important aspect of the whole design is the air handling system. We have selected the Finnish company ATMAS to supply an air handling and filtration system that will work perfectly for these shelters. During peacetime, the system will run to keep the shelter ventilated and maintain the condition of the shelter ready for use. When you occupy the shelter you manually switch to the filtered mode which will keep you safe from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attack.