#201 Tornado hurricane shelter bunker build! DIY Wooden storm shelter #6

All right y'all, so yes, it is finally time to start this storm shoulder build. I know a lot of y'all have been kind of waiting on this. I got pretty serious about it a while back and then once it started getting closer to the end of hurricane season, I won't say I lost interest in it, but I just had other things that became a priority. I didn't feel the rush to finish it anymore. You know, now I have all the way till next spring when kind of our tornado season starts around March and all the way till I think it's next June is when hurricane season starts again. We've just had a few recent storms come through even though it's well into November now, but I think they're pretty much done. So like I said, I just don't feel that much pressure to get it done. What is pressuring me to get it done is the house. We're not ready to start breaking ground just yet. We're still finishing up with the engineer and architect right now. Actually, they're all the way down to the slab now. We're done on the interior and the structure. So we should be getting those plans back any days and I got to go do all the permitting. So I definitely want to have this off of my list. So we're going to start building today. This is going to go over many different episodes until it's complete all the way down to paint. And then I'll probably make one big video at the end, kind of time-lapsing and showing a condensed version of the entire build in one video. Because I know some people don't want to follow along on this little series and watch video after video. So enough running my mouth. I'm going to go ahead and make some cuts. We'll get these pressure-treated baseboards down and we're going to start building this thing. All right, I just spent quite a while going around this, getting everything squared up. So I do not want to shift these boards at all. Probably going to drill two holes in each board so I can screw them down so I don't bump anything out and have to kind of square everything up again. I've got my Bosch hammer drill here. I love this thing. Absolutely love it. Now I forgot that my new Dewalt drill has a hammer drive function. So just out of curiosity, I'm going to compare it to the Bosch. Although I expect this to be a night and day difference, but you never know. So let's see which one does better. Wow, that was actually very loud and very fast. I don't know if I'm supposed to be running it that fast on a hammer drill. So put it on a lower setting and see. Surprisingly, that wasn't that much slower than the Bosch, but I'm drilling little 3 16ths holes too. So I'm sure if I was drilling something a lot bigger, Bosch would kill it. But this is noisy. I'm going to use the Bosch. Now to those of y'all that are new to the channel and wondering what I'm doing, I will include a video at the end. I'm going to start building a playlist of how I got to this point. If you want to watch me build up to this point right here, building all these timbers. And there is a set of plans down in the description where I found this storm shelter. It's been engineered, tested, rated, everything. So, you know, you're building to those plans, not to mine, build at your own risk. And you're going to already see that I am modifying those plans some. For example, they had a little one by six base plate pressure treat. If the water builds up really high, I wanted to go ahead and go with a two by material. So you'll see small modifications throughout this, including some things I think I'm going to make structurally even stronger. And I'll talk about those as we go. So all I'm doing now is securing these timbers down to the base plate with some three inch screws. And we'll work it up from there. Don't worry, this is not all that's going to hold this down. As we continue to build and get more toward the interior later on, I'll show you how we're really going to secure this thing down to the slab. This is just some extra precaution right here and even more tie down in my mind. Well, I guess you can say things are getting serious. Look at these screws. So the plans actually called for very heavy duty eight inch screws and I'm going to put two per end. And that's how I'm going to help tie all these together and make them just really lock in. So we're going to put the old D-Walt to the test because I have a lot of these to drive. This thing is sweet. How did we ever get by without these impact drivers? I just don't know. All right, so now we've got the first run done. So I'm going to start liquid nailing every single run after this together and sandwich each piece down on top of this lip. All right, one of the thing that I'm going to do that I didn't see called for in the plans, it's just going to make me feel better, is I'm checking the level every time I go around because dimensional lumber is not exact. I mean, you put a couple pieces together, there could be a quarter inch difference at times in width and length. That's just all over the place. So I'm going to keep these walls leveled as I go around. Fortunately, thus far, everything looks perfect. The fronts need some minor leveling. And also where these two by sixes, these timbers have slid down over this top lip on these, I'm going to shoot a nail every so often, really locking these together. I also didn't see that called for. Now, ultimately what's going to lock these walls together is one, the screws. And whenever I sheath it on the outside with three quarter inch ply and on the inside, I'm going to wind up nailing all these timbers together, locking them in with that plywood. This structure isn't going anywhere. But since I'm going to set my level, I figure I'll pop some nails every so often right through this lip to hold it. I don't want to do too many and bust the lip. And it's just even more strength that it's going to add to the structure. All right, y'all. Well, I think I have reached my knocking off point for the day. Between editing two YouTube videos and dealing with some other stuff this morning, didn't get a whole lot of work time. But tomorrow I'm going to get out here after I'm doing a little hunting. And I'm hoping I'm getting this all the way up to where we're putting roof timbers on tomorrow. Then I got to go purchase some plywood and get ready to sheath it and all kinds of stuff. So I know y'all are going to have questions like why is the doorway so big? Hey, we're still going to frame the inside and I'm going to wrap it with some steel. So it's going to be stronger than you think. And I'm going to the plans. There's lots of little things you could do differently, but I think it's going to be extremely strong overall. All right, well, hopefully y'all enjoy this. This is going to be a fun project. We still got a lot to do. By the time this is all done, I'm going to make it look just like a outside shed. I'm going to put hardy board siding on it, paint it to match the house. So nobody's really even going to know it's a storm shutter. It's just going to look like a little storage shed out here in the yard. We'll have several more videos as I sheath it, build the roof, do the hardy board siding. We've got a lot of steel work to do. I'm going to eventually do some wiring, put an AC in it, all kinds of stuff. So this will continue to go on. Appreciate y'all so much for watching and having the patience. Yes, it's finally here. We're finally working on it and we'll get it knocked out. Then we'll start on the house build. So a lot of things going on around here. Thank y'all so much for watching. I've got to go jump in the yard, do a little watering and knock a few other projects out before it gets dark. Catch you on the next video.