Now that is an interesting box that I admittingly have not used before.
I agree. Why anyone wouldn't frame with metal studs is beyond me. If you're worried about a few lost inches use 1 5/8" or 2½" metal studs. I did a job years ago where the homeowner insisted on using furring strips. When I asked how we would install the electrical boxes he said "I'll chop out holes in the block walls". When I was done laughing he said he was serious and he chopped about 25 holes in foundation walls to accommodate the boxes. Who would want 25 holes in their foundation wall?
I see a few questions about our safe room/office. The plan here is to have a slab level tornado shelter. I'm almost 50 and plan on retiring and dying in this new house. When/if I get old, I want to be able to walk/roll/crawl into a shelter without going up or down stairs in my future old age. The door will be steel and rated for over 300 mph winds and debris. The door will come from the same contactor that will install the room. There will be a wooden door on the house side so that it appears to just be another bedroom or closet, when in fact, open the wooden door and there is a steel door behind it.
Us Okies think alike. ^^^^^^^^ Tulsa man knows what's up. LOL
We met with the builder last Thursday and I asked him how they planned on furring out the walls. He told me the 2x4's. We aren't sold on it. I hate those flimsy ass metal studs but in this situation, they might be better. Not sure on cost. We might switch to that at some point. If so, I'll just run EMT and bend a dozen shepherd's hooks and strap with zip ties. LAMO Kidding.I agree. Why anyone wouldn't frame with metal studs is beyond me. If you're worried about a few lost inches use 1 5/8" or 2½" metal studs. I did a job years ago where the homeowner insisted on using furring strips. When I asked how we would install the electrical boxes he said "I'll chop out holes in the block walls". When I was done laughing he said he was serious and he chopped about 25 holes in foundation walls to accommodate the boxes. Who would want 25 holes in their foundation wall?
They have been sort of common here, often located under a slab that has a exterior patio or front porch above it. Some really small others rather large.
depending on where you are on the globe, you might want some insulation in that wall?
Make sure you have a pick axe or fireman's axe mounted in the room so you can get out by breaking through the wood door! It just takes a fallen truss or studs to block that wood door.
I'm not worried about getting out. Someone will come get us. I'd rather be trapped in a room alive with some supplies than not.
I hear ya. The shelter and shelter door are going to be framed, poured, and installed by a shelter contractor. They provide the door and everything. Once done, the framers will frame around it for the other walls and doors. I'm a drafter around 50% of my time here at the office as well so I catch the details too, but doesn't really matter what the print says, it will be good in the end. The interior wood door will be 3'0' x 68" and the shelter door will be whatever they frame up in the 3'0" approximation.
shouldn't it say 3668 on the plan instead of 3068 then?
True I wasn't thinking much about height, but that is a short door.
That's correct, doors are sized as you've noted.
OP did not ask about those things.
