Saferoom Armor Panels

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Safe rooms are the single most important means for reliably separating the home or business owner from intruders while providing a safe place to await the arrival of police or on-site security.

Most security experts use the phrase "Safe Room" rather than Panic Room to describe the concept of having an ultra secure location within a residence or business. The concept is simple ....prepare a room within the interior of the building where the family or employees can safely retreat during a home invasion, armed robbery or other terrorist threat and summon help.

Most safe rooms are merely fortified enough to delay an intruder so an alarm can be activated or call made to summon the police or security. Any business or homeowner can create such a room with relatively little effort and expense. The most common reason the average person would want a safe room is fear of assault from a home invasion robber or abusive spouse. The most common reason for corporate executives to construct a safe room is fear of kidnapping for ransom or fear of robbery for the wealthy.

To make a simple safe room, just select an interior room or large closet with no windows or skylight. Install a solid core wood or steel door and hang it so it opens outwards. For an added extra cost you can also purchase a pre made Bullet Resistant door and frame. Replace the wooden doorjamb with a steel one or reinforce the door trim with steel angle iron to prevent the door from being kicked open. On wood doorjambs, install three-inch screws in the door hinges and in the heavy-duty, four-screw, lock strike plates that cut deep into the door frame studs. Usually a keyless Grade-1 dead bolt is used to prevent the keys from falling into the wrong hands, but you must consider that mischievous children might lock themselves inside and you outside.

To complete the room you must stock it with necessary emergency items and a way to summon aid or defend yourself. This includes a cell phone, a flashlight, first aid kit, food, water, and defensive weapons. With new construction you could pre wire for an alarm panel, a direct dial phone in addition to cell phone, an electrical outlet for cell phone charging, and install either chicken wire or steel sheeting underneath the wall and ceiling drywall.

Whether you have newly constructed or modified an existing space, the safe room should blend with the rest of the structure. There are stories of families who had secreted themselves inside their safe room while the house was being ransacked. Fortunately for them, the police were called and were able to capture the burglars before being discovered or damage was done to their home.

Bullet resistant panels or sheathing are specified in many design situations. The more common applications include, Judge's Benches, courtroom protection for the Jury area and the Witness Box, within the woodwork of Tellers cages or counters in banks, as a bullet proof barrier or wall within government buildings, police stations, District Attorney's offices, U.S. Marshals offices, FBI and ATF offices, guard houses, control rooms within prisons, convenience stores, check cashing stores, etc. Our Fiberglass Armor panels or Steel Armor Plate are sometimes used within high-end residences to make a "safe room" or bullet protected room for high threat situations.Our Armor Panels can be used anywhere there is a perceived or real threat of ballistic assault.