Keep Your Customers Safe At Home With Built-In Storm Shelters From HabiFrame

HabiFrame In-Home Storm Shelters Add Severe Weather Safety And Boost Your Bottom Line
Shelter From The Storm
HabiFrame in-home storm shelters offer innovative, cost-effective interior storm shelters that double as fully functional interior rooms. So you can offer your customers code-compliant protection from severe weather, including tornados, hurricanes, windstorms and thunderstorms. in-home storm shelter tremendous customer appeal. Not only does a HabiFrame in-home storm shelter provide safety from severe weather, it adds value to the home.

Putting Tough To The Test

Missile impact tests are designed to re-create the effects of airborne debris striking a structure in a catastrophic weather event such as a tornado or hurricane. Approved by organizations including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA) and the ICC (International Code Council), theyre a perfect way to test the strength of the HabiFrame in-home storm shelter. We subjected HabiFrames in-home storm shelter walls to a full battery of these structural tests, conducted by an independent laboratory. The results were impressive.

Built For Strength

The key to the HabiFrame in-home storm shelters success is its unique wall panel construction. The panels are created with LP SolidStart Laminated Strand Lumber (also known as LSL) framing beams. Made with engineered wood, LP SolidStart LSL products deliver far greater structural strength than conventional framing lumber and contain no knots, splits or voids. These characteristics make them ideal for shelter construction. The LP SolidStart LSL beams are assembled in a horizontal pattern, reinforced with Simpson Strong-Tie steel structural support rods inserted at regular intervals. Interlocking corner joints and steel reinforcing plates add still more strength. The HabiFrame in-home storm shelters roof is constructed in the same manner, and the entire room is built on a specially designed poured concrete foundation. Sheet rock, paneling, or other finish materials are applied, giving the appearance of an ordinary room. A reinforced steel door provides safe, easy access. Standard HabiFrame in-home storm shelter size is 10 ft. x 10 ft., providing ample space for a family in the event of an emergency.

The Trouble With Tradition

All homeowners want to keep their families safe. But a variety of negatives make traditional storm shelters unappealing to customers. Underground shelters are costly, difficult to maintain and prone to moisture problems. Aboveground, shed-style shelters are imposing, unattractive and take up yard space. Both freestanding underground and aboveground shelters require families to leave the house and move to the shelter during storm conditions, exposing them to rain, wind, lightning, hail and debris. And theyre unpleasant, intimidating places for young children, seniors and individuals with claustrophobia or other medical conditions.

Solid Construction, Proven Results

Our HabiFrame panel passed the structural tests, successfully meeting NSSA accepted FEMA and ICC guidelines for tornado and hurricane resistance: Resistance of a 2-inch x 4-inch, 9 lb. missile propelled at 90 mph, which simulates identical debris being propelled horizontally by a 225 mph hurricane (Protocol 2ICC-500). Resistance of a 2-inch x 4-inch, 9 lb. missile propelled at 110 mph, which simulates identical debris propelled horizontally by a 220 mph hurricane (Protocol 3FEMA320/FEMA 361). Resistance of a 2-inch x 4-inch, 15 lb. missile propelled at 100 mph, which simulates identical debris being propelled horizontally by a 250 mph tornado (Protocol 4FEMA320/ FEMA 361 and ICC-500). The HabiFrame panel emerged from each of these intense tests completely intact, showing only a few scratches. Thats proven protection for your customers, right in their own homes.

Our Safety Sells

A HabiFrame in-home storm shelter eliminates all of the negatives associated with traditional shelters. There are no special maintenance requirements. No moisture problems. No need to leave home to enter the shelter. No sacrifice of interior or exterior living space. And no unpleasant feelings created by being in the shelter, because its already part of the home. This gives homes that include a HabiFrame

The Inside Story

Though it appears to be an ordinary room, the patent-pending HabiFrame in-home storm shelters unique construction helps ensure your customers safety in a variety of ways.
Roof is constructed in the same manner as wall panels.

Sheet rock, paneling, or other finish materials give the appearance of an ordinary room.

Wall panels are created with LP SolidStart LSL framing beams, which deliver far greater structural strength than conventional framing lumber. LP SolidStart LSL beams are assembled in a horizontal pattern, creating solid interior walls. Simpson Strong-Tie steel structural support rods inserted at regular intervals reinforce LP SolidStart LSL wall panels. Interlocking corner joints and steel reinforcing plates add still more strength.

Reinforced steel door provides safe, easy access.

Specially designed poured concrete foundation keeps shelter firmly anchored. 10 ft. x 10 ft. size provides ample space for an entire family.

Provide Peace Of Mind While You Boost Your Bottom Line

Only built-in storm shelters from HabiFrame let you provide customer peace of mind while boosting your bottom line. That makes every HabiFrame in-home storm

shelter a real win-win. Learn all there is to know about our space-saving, profit-boosting, lifesaving severe weather protection. Contact us today for complete details about installing code-compliant storm shelters from HabiFrame in your homes!