Fire Shelter Design
Fire Shelter Design or Fire bunker Design is crucial to ensure you have a safe fire shelter that will save your life when required!
Fire Shelter Design Elements
The following Fire Shelter Design elements are critical to the effectiveness and safety of your fire shelter or fire bunker.
Top entry or Side entry Fire shelter?
Depending on your circumstances have the choice of a Top or Side entry Fire Shelter is very important as there are many factors to consider. Factors such as age, size and location are all things to consider when choosing you fire shelter. A top entry is a little more difficult to get into for older people and people of larger size since the fire door is smaller.
Another important distinction between top and side entery Fire Shelters is you land and the location of the shelter. If you have a hill side or similar near you house, then a side entry will be ideal being set into the ground with the entry tunnel facing the best entry point from your home.
Fire Proof Shelters offer you the choice of top or side entry plus larger size Fire Shelters giving you many more options than most suppliers.
Here is a video of the Top Entry Standard Fire Shelter
Less is More!
Fire Proof Shelters are custom designed to be simple yet extremely effective by reducing the amount of potential problem points such as vents or wirly gigs and other possible failure points! The reason these are a potential hazard is relying on people to remember to secure them when in a panic situation, also they introduce more heat entry points unless guarded by a rated fire door.
All Material MUST Be Fully Fire Rated and have Australian Standards Certification.
Make sure to check for Australian standards certification on all important parts such as the Fire Door, Concrete structure, Handles and Hinges or anything that is exposed to heat. Fire Proof Shelters are ALL Fully equipt with rated compontents, using the best Fire Rated material available.

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