Installing Storm Shelters

Tips from Real-Estate-Agents.com

Storm shelters can be installed by a manufacturer's representative, licensed contractor or homeowner. Some manufacturers will only provide warrantees on shelters installed by their own distributors. Others require they be installed by licensed contractors. Others offer to give consumers installation instructions.

To install a shelter a hole is dug with a back hoe, the shelter is lowered into the hole, secured in concrete, and a conduit is run for electricity and telephone, if desired, then the rest of the hole is backfilled with soil. The door is usually just above ground. Consumers frequently landscape around shelters that are installed in yards. A building permit is usually required.

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