Isn't that the way with most of this channel now? It's turned into LTT house upgrades - "I'm rich and I get paid to improve my car/house/security/solar panels/heat pumps/robot vacuum cleaner/whatever else".
@@Jaymiecain1 How is this LTT, I haven't seen a single ad for overpriced water bottles or underwear, I haven't seen a single product Zack doesn't own being auctioned off for "charity" at the expense of the actual owner, I haven't seen a single product review that completely misrepresents the product If you think the worst part of LTT is sponsors, you have a lot to learn about how terrible that company is
You know aside from EVERYTHING great about what Zack does, i LOVEEEEEEE the relationship between him and his wife. This man sees no disability, no frustration, nothing! He loves her very much and we all can see that.
I would have thought Jerry would use the exoskeleton that he's putting in and not weld the room separator and instead put wheels or railing to move each individual wall or door so that he can move rooms around to clean or as needs change in the bunker maybe even adding in another room for some green house plants to self sustain
Looking good! Personally, I would've used MC cable (Armored wire) instead of NM (Non-metallic) for extra durability. A bunker should be built with reliability in mind, since when you need it most you want everything to be working. MC doesn't cost that much extra than NM, and it just gives a little bit extra peace of mind. If you want even better durability, you have EMT and even RMC.
Ventilation ducts above to deal with rain, snow, fallout, etc. A sump pump below the floor incase of water leaks. Backup mechanical lift with chains/pulleys incase the electric one breaks. Love the tv roof idea for the living space maybe. Camera system above ground to video feed below. So many choices.
Lots of people have said that this is an infomercial. I say yes and no. Yes he talk about the product and how it was used. Then he installed the product. The question is? Is it better to show you the product in use or tell you then just use it and not say anything else about it. When a product is sponsored in the video I think that letting me know how it was used and if there were problems with using it is a lot better experience for me. Thanks for sharing how simple it can be to change or create a grid backup or off grid system.
I've been subscribed for a long time, but never really have time for TH-cam but I come back every now and then and it just makes me smile to see you two thriving, can't think of a more deserving pair to have everything life has to offer at there finger tips, much love 🙂
Jerry, you should really switch from a PVC gutter for the wires to something metal, or at least made of plenum rated plastic. Actually, with the bunker being as enclosed as it is you should just use plenum rated wiring and mounting hardware. PVC releases dioxins when it burns. These are some of the nastiest chemicals you can breathe. If you have an electrical fire in that PVC guttering, you're gonna gas your whole family. Same goes for the wire jackets, those are commonly PVC in housing because they're (relatively) sealed in the walls behind the drywall. when the wiring is exposed (as it is in a plenum space, such as the area above a drop cieling) it has to be made of materials that don't give off toxic smoke if they get hot. Now's the time to fix this, as once you get further along it's gonna be harder to access all the wiring.
@@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 If you're silly enough to think you may ever even need some bunker you should actually make the bunker safer than what you are afraid of outside and not a tomb. I mean who are you going to call if it catches on fire when you are "hiding"? lol
You 100% need a very good fast response smoke / fire detection method given how quickly smoke could become a hazard. It wont hurt to find a method of smoke stopping between the sections to.
Probably best to fill those wall cavities with rock wool, and also add rock wool battens to the walls as well, so as to provide both sound insulation and fire resistance. Doors should be at least 30 minute fire rated, and at the rear entry there should be at least a simple winch with manual handle, that can be used with a bosuns chair and a swing arm, kept inside under the cover, but easy to pull out and set in a premade covered flush mounting hole in the concrete, so that you can egress everybody safely, and also use as a way to get heavy loads in and out if the main entrance is also busy.
Thank you for sharing this. I appreciate watching someone who thoroughly thinks things through and is adaptable enough to alter plans spontaneously. You also explain everything you're about to do. I can't recall when I first discovered your channel, but it's now at the top of my watch list.
Jerry you should use 304 or higher grade stainless steel for internal and external flanges and metal supports as it do not corrode and can give reliable long life to your structure. As I saw in your video already few metallic structures are corroded.
@@TheHuntermj Of course you have to make things political. Ironic that you even comment that: you should look at Zach's political beliefs about the other candidate.
A guy I used to be in a band with turned into a hobbyist prepper. He did a micro-hyrdoelectric system, with a shed full of forklift batteries to store it all. But I also saw plenty of solar panels, some wind turbines, and a huge diesel generator as well. It's pretty impressive. He has materials to continually maintain the batteries for a lifetime, a whole machine shop, stockpiles of all sorts of materials, electronics lab, 3D printers, a farm, and a whole armory. He's determined to maintain his quality of life no matter what.
The issue all preppers will run into very quickly is making food on your own. Even canned goods eventually run out of expire and while a personal farm might be good as supplement food, it takes an insane amount of infrastructure just to make food for one person year round. You can have the most comfortable bunker around with enough power for a lifetime but unless you have a whole community dedicated to farming and raising animals you will not survive the winter after your stocks are gone or expired
Add a multi-channel audio system that can play the sound of rain on a tin roof. I would place like 8 mics in different places inside a shed somewhere, and record hours of audio to avoid noticeable loop points. It would really sell the feeling of ... well ... not being buried underground.
I really appreciate your ingenuity with the wiring troughs! Probably not going to get approved in an above-ground structure, but looks to do the job in here. I would like to suggest you poke a few drainage holes in them, just in case you have a secondary disaster after occupying the structure... flood, broken pipe, spill, even condensation. If anything were to leak into trough, having it drain out on its own will just be one less thing to worry about during that incident.
You're probably already planning to, but I recommend creating some type of safety curtain at some point to keep people from going/falling into the area underneath the scissor lift while it is up.
I would have thought Jerry would use the exoskeleton that he's putting in and not weld the room doors that separate and instead put wheels or railing to move each individual wall or door so that he can move rooms around to clean or as needs change in the bunker like as the kids grow giving them bigger rooms maybe even adding in another room for some green house plants to self sustain and adding in some tools and materials to build and make stuff as time goes on in the bunker to fix and use to make things that they want or need
Thank you for this tutorial! I was able to follow it and installed the required technology on my 20 bunkers which I've sitting around in my backyard. A generous, African prince funded the project.
But its even less likely that gas will be available to buy... So solar is the easiest solution... A wind turbine wouldn't be a terrible idea, since wind likely would continue, but they are not efficient for residential.
@@rossallen738 wind is sort of where i was hinting, it might not be efficient, but generating 'something' to trickle in to the batteries is better than nothing if there's not enough usable sunlight hitting the solar cells for them to generate anything. That being said, with the right engineering, a relatively small windmill even DIY can easily generate enough power to charge those batteries on a breezy day/night.
@@RonLaws but you have to be in a breezy spot... Which isn't always controllable and wind is far less reliable in some spots than others... You might get a day of wind per week, which means that he wouldn't have nearly enough battery. That's even assuming 1 windy day could fill the battery...
Solar still works when it's clouded over, just at lower efficiency. Even for fallout clouds. What I'm worried about is getting breathable non radioactive air, and water recycling
You should also run mains power into the bunker, i know that removes the “Off grid” side of things but it would keep the bunker online as long the power grid is still up, and it would also charge the batteries
Rather than hardwiring it I'd install a generator-style inlet panel. It can either connect to a matching outlet on the house or to a portable generator if ever needed.
@@eDoc2020 There will definitely be a need for multiple power sources to use as needed. Grid power for normal use... "I think I'll go play a video game in the bunker". This will also keep the EcoFlow batteries topped up at all times. A solar array for primary off-grid use. The EcoFlow's main drawback is that it has limited solar power input. We have one hooked to a 500W array that is in parallel, that if the panels are partially shaded, they will still send some energy to the EcoFlow. And a generator as a backup to off-grid use. I would bury a generator in a separate enclosure, with outside air supply and exhaust pipes sticking out of the ground. If it can be switched between natural gas (attached to an outside supply) or a buried propane tank, you'd then have multiple independent sources of power. If I'm counting right, that's six independent ways to operate. A little Honda generator with a propane conversion kit can also be switched back to operate from the gasoline fuel tank. So, seven. But I would only use the gasoline if there was nothing else available.
I've started old snowmachines and atv's with 15-year-old gas in them without a problem. You may have to put some fresh fuel into a spark plug hole, but the gas itself is usually still volatile. Gas has a much longer shelf life than most people think. I wouldn't recommend it for average use, but it will still fire a spark plug and cylinder.
My God! Zack and Cambry are absolutely adorable! Every time I see them in a video I cannot stop smiling, just like his face lights up when he sees her!
People seem to be complaining about the fact that this is sponsored but. This is a fantastic opportunity for the brand and for Zach. This project has costed a lot of money. And I think the money coming from the sponsor will go back to his wheelchair business. Yea he has a lot of money but he also wants to keep things at a high production value. Nothing is cheap or free in this world people.
I'm not complaining. It looks like a cool product, and it if works for him all the more power to him. At some point in my future I can see on-premise power as a must have given the global weather changes we've had lately.
This build has been absolutely fascinating to me. I was extremely glad to see that you decided to use the Independence kit. I am currently running the 15kw kit on my RV and it's a flawless system now that I finally got a good update. Hot tip, stop updating when the system works or has bugs that are manageable. Every update seems to create new bugs and may not fix old ones. I'm just north of you in Idaho and I have been running my kit since Oct 2022. If you have questions feel free to reach out.
I recently bought an 85". It was legit hard getting it up the stairwell and thru my apartment door. I feel Zack's pain. I have **no** idea how people with crazy 115" TVs do it... remove a window? Door? Wall? I guess they have staff for that...
Looking great! Don't pay attention to those taking about this just being a long ad. Yes, EcoFlow is in this a lot. But, it did a lot and are helping pay for all this. Great video. 👏 👏 👏
You should add red LEDs into your setup they can run at very low voltage and wattage that you can see important areas that also have built-in rechargeable batteries in them so they're able to run on their own when disconnected from power
Install permanent heavy built solar panels above with a spray nozzle system so I can clean them when dust builds up on them connect it to a well system and an automatic timer which is separate but also a emergency pass through where you can spray it without the automatic timer so it has dual channel power so you can clean them that way
Music carbon black filtration system and A rad meter and a gas meter paired with your ventilation system heroin direction meter on the surface maybe four of them just for extra data and temperature meter use a low wattage smart controller to automatically shut off fence systems if High radiation is detected or air pollution is high tie this with a buzzer so you know vents have been shut add a manual override also include a manual pump system for oxygen using a pedal assist store iodine for treatment of radiation
Make sure you have long-lasting power cells which have high charge / discharge rating also make sure to have a direct pass through inverter which is capable of running without batteries you might want to have a oxygen pump and a pressurized system so you can pump to pressurized containers full of oxygen what should be mixed with polluted air if it ever occurs to decrease the exposure and dilute the pollutants if it's very very high you could just use masks with air canisters while the ventilation system shut off if you have two 30 gallon tanks of air that's 120 hours worth of air divide that between four people that's roughly 30 hours supply
Salt is a valuable resource and also you might want to grow some sort of algae you can eat which has protein and vitamins you can run your oxygen system through the algae to boost growth
You should have protected cameras mounted to the surface and one mounted on a pole remote-controlled or 360° with a glass dome over the top for protection and sealant
You could put a ceiling/roof/cover on the lift that has extendable supports like drawer runners so that as the lift goes down the roof fits into the top of the hole and the supports extend leaving it covering the hole, as the lift goes up the support runners retract untill they hit the stop point and the roof cover lifts off the ground. When the lift is down it would be flush to the ground, since the supports extend the top cover wouldn't end up way in the sky when the lift goes up, the cover would only start lifting when the lift gets close to the top.
I am so happy that that joyful, sweet unfortunately disabled woman found such a great educated gentleman. Such a perfect couple, such two wonderful, thoughful human beings.
For the walls you should use 5/8 thick drywall, it's fantastic for being extremely fire resistant which would be important but if you double layer it which they do in many commercial jobsites its great for insulating sound so if you want the walls to be pretty sound proof without much sound insulation this is a great choice. To make it even more sound resistant you can hang it on what's called RC channel which absorbs sound through the wall. You can do all this with extremely thin walls. I'd definitely consider this if I was building a bunker lmao.
Great infomercial! Ecoflow must be really happy with this one, I doubt any of the RVer ones gave this much time devoted to the product in their videos. Also nice to see the bunker build moving along still.
Jerry I hope you built a second "secret" bunker somewhere else (like they did in the movie "Contact" from the 90's) as half the West Coast will be trying to get into your bunker when SHTF soon 😅
The product is kind of the point in this case. What's the problem? "Today we are installing the electrical system, using parts I'm not going to tell you anything about, because someone in the comments will be upset that a company will benefit in some way, and the content producer will get paid. .... So I guess that's the end of the video. Thanks for watching. See you next time, when I say absolutely nothing about the combustible toilet."
@@YourMotherSucksCocksInHellI don’t understand why people see this as a big problem. He’s ACTUALLY using the product and is making a very cool video about it..
I really like the smell of F.R.P. lol. I have installed more than a million S.Q. feet in the last 30 years.. And in my opinion, a circular saw, router and a pair of tin snips are all you need... And the end finnish is amazing..
That's actually kinda cute how Zack first gets all the hard work done and then asks his wife for the inspection and opinions in the end and how she moves around and inspects it but that "YOU SHOULD KILL THAT SPIDER" was great LOL😅😍
FYI I've stored diesel on the farm before and had some batches that got forgotten out at some locations. If properly sealed and sterilized I've had diesel last over 10 years. I've even had it work fine in plastic Jerry cans just make sure you have a good biocide because the real reason fuel goes bad in plastic containers is that water permeates the plastic. P.S. I've drained old diesel out of a front end loader that had no fuel cap for a few years. its was green and slimy. Added biocide and a surfactant and let it settle for a month then pumped the fuel off the top of the sludge, worked fine in the Ford Ranger, then used the sludge in the diesel heater!
You might want to build peaked covers over your bunker entrances that would allow fallout to slide off, you 90 degree turns at the bottom will only atenuate 90% or less of radiation, either that or entrance buildings with 3 foot thick con walls and ceilings w blast doors. Radiation can go around corners, it is called sky shine. While you are at it add some blast valves for your air supply.
Hey Jerry, with underground structures you always run the riak of radon gas build up which can lead to lung cancer. Even with good ventilation it might be useful to check radon concentration, there are these foil balls which you can hang in the bunker for a given time, the alpha particle emitted by radon damages the foil which you wont see before etching the foil with acid. In germany there is a startup who does this for 30€. Might be an idea :)
I love the video THANKS!. 1. I would consider installing some isolation material in the wall to improve acoustic 2. The lighting you installed are adiqute but you might want to have an option to use only part of the light to conserve energy when needed. 3. Add bicycle with generator, when your solar pannel are blasted, you can make your children earn there food by making power 4. Question: why you decided not to put batary pack below the deck? 5. To get completely wilde, add alternative dim red light so when you go out at night for hunting you don't have to adjust for the darkens. compound bow (70 lbs, heavy arrows with fixed-blade broadheads) should be aduqute wepon to hunt wild boar 6. Add backup manual oil pump for emergency rising the elevator. 7. Have a pully system so you can carry out a weel chair with one person when oil system break.
In a situation where the solar panels are not able to produce enough power, it may be more practical to go with a thermal pile setup which generates heat from an ambient (or nuclear) source and converts that into electricity. One example of this is a thermopylae, which uses the body heat given off by 300 greeks when your solar panels are in shade, such as during a partial eclipse or a barrage of persian arrows.
Hi Zach, here's my four penn'orth of wisdom, based on nearly 30 years living off grid. 🌿Add some small, passively cooled, full spectrum grow lights that can run all year round and keep some plants growing. 🌿 Good choices would be Sansevieria, Draceana, Chlorophytum, Aspidistra. Self watering hydroponic pots should keep everything alive for months at a time. These will help absorb any residual chemicals and purify the air whilst the bunker is dormant and at the same time they add the proven benefits of having plants in the living space. 💡Install small independent solar panels that charge small lithium cells and power lights. 💡 These could be pretty coloured lights around doors or access areas, fun flame effect lanterns or simple spots, even pir units in the stair well and lift. When your main power trips, runs out or just needs to power down, you will be glad of those few faintly glowing leds because they are remarkably brighter than darkness. And *never ever* burn candles - but I guess you are smart enough to know that. Personally, mine run regardless of the battery status and sometimes it's nice to turn everything off except the gentle illumination they offer. All I would say is spend more when you buy them, because cheap panels & crappy cells will let you down.
All thr contractors who helped build it will show up armed with their family's to try and get the bunker. If some real stuff went down, these people would definitely come and try to get inside before him and his family. Likely by any means necessary
Modern inverters are pretty efficient (95%+), and by running higher voltage you use lower current. Power loss in the cables is I^2 * R so by using ~10x lower current you reduce power loss by 100x, and your cables don’t need to be as thick
@@AlexLouden Yes, the only part that’s typically low-voltage DC is the whip between the LED driver and the Light itself. Which is only a few feet at most.
If you string enough LEDs together, you can consume 100V of forward voltage in the diodes themselves. It's actually possible to run LEDs directly off AC mains this way, although you do still need some current-limiting mechanism. The point is, though, neither 12V nor 24V is any more native to an LED than 110V. You would need a series string or a transformer either way.
💡so ideal for that elevator opening. Make the safety rack/rails on that lift higher to accommodate for the hight of a person. Have a collar on the topside. Have a lid that fits on top of the collar. So when the lift comes up it will lift up the lid with it. It will basically look like a roof over the lift. As it goes down then the lid drops back into place. You can also have a lock mechanism so when the lift rack leaves the lid- it flips some toggle latches that lock the lid in place. These same latches can also secure it to the top of the rack to prevent the wind from taking it.
you can store gasoline for way longer than 6months especially for emergency generators, just gotta do it correcly (even normally stored its easely fine for over 6months doe). also air and exhaust for a bunker generator is a solved issue.
He should get a diesel generator, it can run on cooking oil, so even if diesel runs out... Gasoline will be the first to go empty as its what most people use. Put it in a building on the surface, and connect it with the other exit.
@@dubious6718 yea im not saying gasoline is without its flaws, just had to point out the false reasoning. Imo optimal would be combining electric like he has with a second power source in case the solar fails or is for example covered in snow. Diesel probably best option even just because less consumption than gasoline
Don't forget to isolate all walls for sound. Same with the flooring. Putting a (thin) layer of sound deadening isolation helps a lot. Compartmentalizing the subfloor helps with that as well so sound from one end can't travel all the way unobstructed to the other end. You're in a big tube, you don't want to hear people at the one end of the tube flushing the toilet while you're trying to take a nap on the other side of the tube. :)
I usually dont mind advertisements, but damn this entire video is an infomercial. We get it, they offer great products, but god did it get annoying quick.
A few suggestions for your own sanity: 1) Get an oscillating tool/multitool. They support a variety of different "blades" to make different types of cuts and remove different types of materials, and since they only oscillate a few degrees you can put your hand right up to the blade to stabilize it for better control and accuracy on complex cuts. Not to mention they are a lot safer to use than a cutting wheel on a grinder (and no high-speed shrapnel). 2) Someone recommended a sump pump for under the floor in case of leaks, which is a good idea, but that corrugated tubing won't allow a sump pump to drain the last inch or so of water out of the corrugations. I would also suggest a dehumidifier system to help counter small leaks before they get to that point. Even without leaks you guys are going to be adding a lot of humidity to the air with showers and just breathing, and the chilled walls down there are going to condense it out of the air and lead to mold. 3) A contour gauge is your friend. Stick it up to a wall and it will give you the shape of the crossbars/corrugations that you need to cut around.
First video I see from your channel, just subscribed. I have always wanted to build out a bunker! I don’t know what you have in mind for the rest, but if am allowed to I would like to suggest some ideas. -You can create a terrace, sort of like a canopy with open sides and a roof. You can cover the roof with solar panels for more juice. - also add like normal outdoor stuff like a table, couch plants etc to disguise - maybe insert a movable floor to the entrance and place a sturdy object like a table that won’t fall in but big enough so the zombies can’t access the door. (Don’t forget a hidden button or secret code to open the door) - you can add cameras around the terrace to see the things happening upstairs. -maybe even a lockdown system that brings down a fence along the sides I have lots of ideas but can’t afford it atm lol. Hope you bring your dreams to life!! 😊
When it’s all finished and you become aware that it’s not actually being used, and that no one likes being in it, could you possibly use it as a sceptic tank maybe, still, it’s been useful in diverting many thousands of pounds ( dollars , sorry) to steel and materials suppliers.
I bought the other EcoFlow now I've got to get my electric guy over to install them or I'm going to be in the dark when my electricity goes out. You're welcome Zack I bought them under your Amazon account.
Great video Jerry, love the series. For some extra backup power you could use a small fuel cell powered by hydrogen to charge the ecoflow batter, you can use it indoors since the only exhaust gas is water vapour.
I highly recommend leaving a pull string from end to end of the gutter. Just for future wire pulls. Tie both ends off so it won't get accidentally pulled out.
Ive got some experience with bunkers, both concrete, steel construction and in bedrock. Common for all types are the need for air handling. You need to dry the air. Hopefully you wont have any water leakage, but still the moisture needs to be controlled, otherwise you will have mold very soon. Having untreated and unpainted wood or boards will make it happen faster
Love the idea of having the screens above to simulate what the weather is like outside. On them scorching hot days the screens are just showing close ups of the sun lol.
You should add a periscope like camera, that’s on a hydraulic pole, that can pop up out of the ground, and then it should be strong enough to lift any potential debris on top of it. Then once it’s retracted it should be hidden to not reveal your location to those zombies. And then it means you can look outside to see if it’s safe to leave. Also probably have air quality sensors, temperature sensors, basically a weather station outside so you can also see if it’s safe.
when I'm annihilated in a nuclear blast soon I'll think to myself "at least that jerry youtube guy might be playing zelda right now"
I don't think that will happen Trump will get back in soon and it will be ok
*nuclear winter blocking the sun*
@@Condamine123456 Lol. Lmao, even.
@@rocktheworld2k6 nah that's a solid ROFL
@@Condamine123456 Yeah sure, XD
You should perforate the gutter channel. That way, if there is ever a water spill/leak, the water will not pool in the gutter and flood your wires.
Good one, someone's definitely going to spill something along the way
That is a good tip!!!
I don't know what you talking about. But sounds good 😂... Zack perforate what he just said 😂
Thought the same thing! Gutters are meant to keep liquid within itself....plus I've heard elec and water have a complicated relationship. 🤣
Good idea
10 percent bunker build, 90 percent EcoFlow infomercial
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Gotta pay for the bunker somehow
Isn't that the way with most of this channel now?
It's turned into LTT house upgrades - "I'm rich and I get paid to improve my car/house/security/solar panels/heat pumps/robot vacuum cleaner/whatever else".
Exactly, I subscribed because I wanted to see the build. I unsubbed today because his channel is literally just an advertisement.
@@Jaymiecain1 How is this LTT, I haven't seen a single ad for overpriced water bottles or underwear, I haven't seen a single product Zack doesn't own being auctioned off for "charity" at the expense of the actual owner, I haven't seen a single product review that completely misrepresents the product
If you think the worst part of LTT is sponsors, you have a lot to learn about how terrible that company is
i liked the part where, he shows his hardwork to his wife and she appericates it alot.. made me happy!
You know aside from EVERYTHING great about what Zack does, i LOVEEEEEEE the relationship between him and his wife. This man sees no disability, no frustration, nothing! He loves her very much and we all can see that.
Something about this video makes me think it might be sponsored by ecoflow. I doubt you guys noticed, but I pick up on things like this.
Damn you should consider a career as a detective
It's clearly stated in beginning of the video
He said it was sponsored at the beginning of the video…
I see we have a couple masters of sarcasm in here as well. That's very good to know.
Always fun to meet people like that @@alext6933, they aren't rare, but they're fun to interact with
I know this was basically a 15-minute commercial but I still found it fascinating.
A good ventilation system which doesn't clog during snowy season is a must.
especially with the bathroom right next to the kitchen...
I would have thought Jerry would use the exoskeleton that he's putting in and not weld the room separator and instead put wheels or railing to move each individual wall or door so that he can move rooms around to clean or as needs change in the bunker maybe even adding in another room for some green house plants to self sustain
Snowy season? Nuclear winter you mean.
@@YourMotherSucksCocksInHellyou mean the 2024 election?
@@avreve I mean the reason to have a backyard bunker.
man i love engineering. Its the best decision ive made in my life. seeing you work out a literal bunker is just fascinating.
Looking good! Personally, I would've used MC cable (Armored wire) instead of NM (Non-metallic) for extra durability. A bunker should be built with reliability in mind, since when you need it most you want everything to be working. MC doesn't cost that much extra than NM, and it just gives a little bit extra peace of mind. If you want even better durability, you have EMT and even RMC.
6:32 "we have plenty of other problems to solve before we get to number 2" , well played Zack😂😂😂😂😂
Ventilation ducts above to deal with rain, snow, fallout, etc. A sump pump below the floor incase of water leaks. Backup mechanical lift with chains/pulleys incase the electric one breaks. Love the tv roof idea for the living space maybe. Camera system above ground to video feed below. So many choices.
The Elevator has its own battery
Are u a survivalist✋😭🤚… brilliant ideas tho👌
The Zombie Apocalypse starts. Zack's neighbors: "Dude I know a guy who has a sick ass bunker we can raid!"
pretty sure they would have deep grooves trying to get in...I'm kinda sure he has a helipad exit at this point.
@@zepo82 That rinky-dink little elevator looks like I can bully it into going up and down.
@@zepo82 Or a escapetunnel to Collins Bunker.
Most likely the hidden electric auto turrets nd flamethrowers will make short work of intruders.
@@bazanime It's not a doomsday bunker until you add the robotic gore cleaners.
Lots of people have said that this is an infomercial. I say yes and no. Yes he talk about the product and how it was used. Then he installed the product. The question is? Is it better to show you the product in use or tell you then just use it and not say anything else about it. When a product is sponsored in the video I think that letting me know how it was used and if there were problems with using it is a lot better experience for me. Thanks for sharing how simple it can be to change or create a grid backup or off grid system.
I've been subscribed for a long time, but never really have time for TH-cam but I come back every now and then and it just makes me smile to see you two thriving, can't think of a more deserving pair to have everything life has to offer at there finger tips, much love 🙂
Jerry, you should really switch from a PVC gutter for the wires to something metal, or at least made of plenum rated plastic. Actually, with the bunker being as enclosed as it is you should just use plenum rated wiring and mounting hardware.
PVC releases dioxins when it burns. These are some of the nastiest chemicals you can breathe. If you have an electrical fire in that PVC guttering, you're gonna gas your whole family. Same goes for the wire jackets, those are commonly PVC in housing because they're (relatively) sealed in the walls behind the drywall. when the wiring is exposed (as it is in a plenum space, such as the area above a drop cieling) it has to be made of materials that don't give off toxic smoke if they get hot.
Now's the time to fix this, as once you get further along it's gonna be harder to access all the wiring.
Yeah, pretty sure rain gutter is not an NEC approved Raceway 😅
Exactly, but but nothing in that crematorium, I mean bunker, looks to be any sort of fire resistant anyway. That thing is a death trap.
@@inothome I think if he ever needs to use that thing, there are worse things to worry about than the risk of that bunker bursting into flame.
@@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 If you're silly enough to think you may ever even need some bunker you should actually make the bunker safer than what you are afraid of outside and not a tomb. I mean who are you going to call if it catches on fire when you are "hiding"? lol
Good tip, timely tip
You 100% need a very good fast response smoke / fire detection method given how quickly smoke could become a hazard. It wont hurt to find a method of smoke stopping between the sections to.
Probably best to fill those wall cavities with rock wool, and also add rock wool battens to the walls as well, so as to provide both sound insulation and fire resistance. Doors should be at least 30 minute fire rated, and at the rear entry there should be at least a simple winch with manual handle, that can be used with a bosuns chair and a swing arm, kept inside under the cover, but easy to pull out and set in a premade covered flush mounting hole in the concrete, so that you can egress everybody safely, and also use as a way to get heavy loads in and out if the main entrance is also busy.
Might as well put a rescue tank down there with a mask.
this whole thing is a deathtrap
"Do you have any suggestions?"
"We should get rid of that spider."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A missing spider in a bunker, I would be freaking out 😂
@@lestherbualan8619 Day 2760 : You miss the spider because you need a third someone to talk with.
Every spider is minus 100 mosquitoes
Thank you for sharing this. I appreciate watching someone who thoroughly thinks things through and is adaptable enough to alter plans spontaneously. You also explain everything you're about to do. I can't recall when I first discovered your channel, but it's now at the top of my watch list.
Jerry you should use 304 or higher grade stainless steel for internal and external flanges and metal supports as it do not corrode and can give reliable long life to your structure. As I saw in your video already few metallic structures are corroded.
Lets be honest: this is where theyll be putting the kids when they act up. Either that, or where theyll go to get away from them 🤣
"The air is circulating quite very well" - think he may have inhaled too many fumes 😂
Kidding - bunker looking great!
Americans preparing for the 2024 election
lol
Correction, Americans preparing for a possible Biden victory in the 2024 election.
@@TheHuntermj Of course you have to make things political.
Ironic that you even comment that: you should look at Zach's political beliefs about the other candidate.
@@shan_singhcricket is the greatest most entertaining sport in the world 🏏❤
@@blueboy4625for real lol
Huge progress! That first light switch flic must have felt next level after all the work.
A guy I used to be in a band with turned into a hobbyist prepper. He did a micro-hyrdoelectric system, with a shed full of forklift batteries to store it all. But I also saw plenty of solar panels, some wind turbines, and a huge diesel generator as well. It's pretty impressive. He has materials to continually maintain the batteries for a lifetime, a whole machine shop, stockpiles of all sorts of materials, electronics lab, 3D printers, a farm, and a whole armory. He's determined to maintain his quality of life no matter what.
The issue all preppers will run into very quickly is making food on your own. Even canned goods eventually run out of expire and while a personal farm might be good as supplement food, it takes an insane amount of infrastructure just to make food for one person year round. You can have the most comfortable bunker around with enough power for a lifetime but unless you have a whole community dedicated to farming and raising animals you will not survive the winter after your stocks are gone or expired
We need that fusion core. Let's get this video to a million likes.
Truth!!!!! 😅😅😅
we absolutely do
Don't even need a million likes if EcoFlow sends him a free one.
Today, this video has 1.4M views. I see potential.
12:43 inspector needs to make sure her 3rd child (Zack) is safe under the bunker
Pregnant again?
@@byever1Zack is jerryrigeverthing
TVs on the roof to mimic the weather outside sounds so cool lol
Or a TV on the wall playing live video of outside like a real window
or one of those LED lights that have built in Rayleigh Scattering. DIY Perks built a home made one a couple of years ago.
Add a multi-channel audio system that can play the sound of rain on a tin roof. I would place like 8 mics in different places inside a shed somewhere, and record hours of audio to avoid noticeable loop points. It would really sell the feeling of ... well ... not being buried underground.
I really appreciate your ingenuity with the wiring troughs! Probably not going to get approved in an above-ground structure, but looks to do the job in here. I would like to suggest you poke a few drainage holes in them, just in case you have a secondary disaster after occupying the structure... flood, broken pipe, spill, even condensation. If anything were to leak into trough, having it drain out on its own will just be one less thing to worry about during that incident.
I gotta give Colin Furze the nod on getting his done from the inside out, but this is damn impressive as well.
You're probably already planning to, but I recommend creating some type of safety curtain at some point to keep people from going/falling into the area underneath the scissor lift while it is up.
you're not going to last long into an apocalypse if you feel threatened by a scissor lift...
The kids are going to have a great place for sleepovers and hangout spots with friends when they grow older
This bunker is getting better and better making me want to live there forever 😂
I would have thought Jerry would use the exoskeleton that he's putting in and not weld the room doors that separate and instead put wheels or railing to move each individual wall or door so that he can move rooms around to clean or as needs change in the bunker like as the kids grow giving them bigger rooms maybe even adding in another room for some green house plants to self sustain and adding in some tools and materials to build and make stuff as time goes on in the bunker to fix and use to make things that they want or need
Just make a pertumotion motor power a generator
Thank you for this tutorial! I was able to follow it and installed the required technology on my 20 bunkers which I've sitting around in my backyard. A generous, African prince funded the project.
You have old school work ethics and your workmanship NICELY DONE ✌🇨🇦
Just a thought... Don't bank on the sun being visible for a good long while in situations where you'd actually need this space.
But its even less likely that gas will be available to buy... So solar is the easiest solution... A wind turbine wouldn't be a terrible idea, since wind likely would continue, but they are not efficient for residential.
@@rossallen738 wind is sort of where i was hinting, it might not be efficient, but generating 'something' to trickle in to the batteries is better than nothing if there's not enough usable sunlight hitting the solar cells for them to generate anything. That being said, with the right engineering, a relatively small windmill even DIY can easily generate enough power to charge those batteries on a breezy day/night.
@@RonLaws but you have to be in a breezy spot... Which isn't always controllable and wind is far less reliable in some spots than others... You might get a day of wind per week, which means that he wouldn't have nearly enough battery. That's even assuming 1 windy day could fill the battery...
Solar still works when it's clouded over, just at lower efficiency. Even for fallout clouds. What I'm worried about is getting breathable non radioactive air, and water recycling
@@32BitJunkie A valid point, A multi-prong approach with contingencies doesn't hurt though.
You should also run mains power into the bunker, i know that removes the “Off grid” side of things but it would keep the bunker online as long the power grid is still up, and it would also charge the batteries
Rather than hardwiring it I'd install a generator-style inlet panel. It can either connect to a matching outlet on the house or to a portable generator if ever needed.
@@eDoc2020 There will definitely be a need for multiple power sources to use as needed. Grid power for normal use... "I think I'll go play a video game in the bunker". This will also keep the EcoFlow batteries topped up at all times. A solar array for primary off-grid use. The EcoFlow's main drawback is that it has limited solar power input. We have one hooked to a 500W array that is in parallel, that if the panels are partially shaded, they will still send some energy to the EcoFlow. And a generator as a backup to off-grid use. I would bury a generator in a separate enclosure, with outside air supply and exhaust pipes sticking out of the ground. If it can be switched between natural gas (attached to an outside supply) or a buried propane tank, you'd then have multiple independent sources of power. If I'm counting right, that's six independent ways to operate. A little Honda generator with a propane conversion kit can also be switched back to operate from the gasoline fuel tank. So, seven. But I would only use the gasoline if there was nothing else available.
So I think I just watched a 15 min Ecoflow infomercial then? Asking for a friend! 🤠🤦♂
I've started old snowmachines and atv's with 15-year-old gas in them without a problem. You may have to put some fresh fuel into a spark plug hole, but the gas itself is usually still volatile. Gas has a much longer shelf life than most people think. I wouldn't recommend it for average use, but it will still fire a spark plug and cylinder.
My God! Zack and Cambry are absolutely adorable! Every time I see them in a video I cannot stop smiling, just like his face lights up when he sees her!
I like how you tie in the sponsor's stuff with your video without having to cut for a sponsored segment.
People seem to be complaining about the fact that this is sponsored but. This is a fantastic opportunity for the brand and for Zach. This project has costed a lot of money. And I think the money coming from the sponsor will go back to his wheelchair business. Yea he has a lot of money but he also wants to keep things at a high production value. Nothing is cheap or free in this world people.
This is absolutely amazing!! Who cares about being sponsored? LOL, that's just people just like to complain or getting some attention.
I'm not complaining. It looks like a cool product, and it if works for him all the more power to him. At some point in my future I can see on-premise power as a must have given the global weather changes we've had lately.
i was expecting an actual inspector with a hi-vis vest and a clipboard LOL. busted out with laughter after seeing it's the wife. adorable.
An actual inspector would probably ask for the UL listing of the rain gutter to be used as a cable tray.
This build has been absolutely fascinating to me. I was extremely glad to see that you decided to use the Independence kit. I am currently running the 15kw kit on my RV and it's a flawless system now that I finally got a good update. Hot tip, stop updating when the system works or has bugs that are manageable. Every update seems to create new bugs and may not fix old ones. I'm just north of you in Idaho and I have been running my kit since Oct 2022. If you have questions feel free to reach out.
I love how your wife is so unscripted and tells exactly what she is thinking and feeling. Great video and cant wait to see the finished product.
"...the biggest TV we can fit through the door..."
*Samsung The Wall has entered the chat...
I recently bought an 85". It was legit hard getting it up the stairwell and thru my apartment door. I feel Zack's pain. I have **no** idea how people with crazy 115" TVs do it... remove a window? Door? Wall? I guess they have staff for that...
A projector would actually work well in a bunker they do get hot tho.
@@fajile5109 Some of the short throw laser projectors are pretty sweet. Easiest way to get a 120" screen in there.
@@Martin_Edmondson yeah laser projectors don't get as hot as a regular projector with a bulb.
Looking great! Don't pay attention to those taking about this just being a long ad. Yes, EcoFlow is in this a lot. But, it did a lot and are helping pay for all this. Great video. 👏 👏 👏
That okie dokie reference was on point 😂
Yeah, the show really owned this phrase by this point it seems
You should add red LEDs into your setup they can run at very low voltage and wattage that you can see important areas that also have built-in rechargeable batteries in them so they're able to run on their own when disconnected from power
Install permanent heavy built solar panels above with a spray nozzle system so I can clean them when dust builds up on them connect it to a well system and an automatic timer which is separate but also a emergency pass through where you can spray it without the automatic timer so it has dual channel power so you can clean them that way
Music carbon black filtration system and A rad meter and a gas meter paired with your ventilation system heroin direction meter on the surface maybe four of them just for extra data and temperature meter use a low wattage smart controller to automatically shut off fence systems if High radiation is detected or air pollution is high tie this with a buzzer so you know vents have been shut add a manual override also include a manual pump system for oxygen using a pedal assist store iodine for treatment of radiation
Make sure you have long-lasting power cells which have high charge / discharge rating also make sure to have a direct pass through inverter which is capable of running without batteries you might want to have a oxygen pump and a pressurized system so you can pump to pressurized containers full of oxygen what should be mixed with polluted air if it ever occurs to decrease the exposure and dilute the pollutants if it's very very high you could just use masks with air canisters while the ventilation system shut off if you have two 30 gallon tanks of air that's 120 hours worth of air divide that between four people that's roughly 30 hours supply
Salt is a valuable resource and also you might want to grow some sort of algae you can eat which has protein and vitamins you can run your oxygen system through the algae to boost growth
You should have protected cameras mounted to the surface and one mounted on a pole remote-controlled or 360° with a glass dome over the top for protection and sealant
You could put a ceiling/roof/cover on the lift that has extendable supports like drawer runners so that as the lift goes down the roof fits into the top of the hole and the supports extend leaving it covering the hole, as the lift goes up the support runners retract untill they hit the stop point and the roof cover lifts off the ground. When the lift is down it would be flush to the ground, since the supports extend the top cover wouldn't end up way in the sky when the lift goes up, the cover would only start lifting when the lift gets close to the top.
This is the origin and head-quarters of Vault-Tec! 😂
The secret leader of Vault-Tech is Jerry.
I am so happy that that joyful, sweet unfortunately disabled woman found such a great educated gentleman. Such a perfect couple, such two wonderful, thoughful human beings.
this is more of an ecoflow ad that takes place in a bunker w/ mr clean
For the walls you should use 5/8 thick drywall, it's fantastic for being extremely fire resistant which would be important but if you double layer it which they do in many commercial jobsites its great for insulating sound so if you want the walls to be pretty sound proof without much sound insulation this is a great choice. To make it even more sound resistant you can hang it on what's called RC channel which absorbs sound through the wall. You can do all this with extremely thin walls. I'd definitely consider this if I was building a bunker lmao.
Great infomercial! Ecoflow must be really happy with this one, I doubt any of the RVer ones gave this much time devoted to the product in their videos. Also nice to see the bunker build moving along still.
Jerry I hope you built a second "secret" bunker somewhere else (like they did in the movie "Contact" from the 90's) as half the West Coast will be trying to get into your bunker when SHTF soon 😅
Basically this whole video is an Ad.
Almost all of his videos are ads.
The product is kind of the point in this case. What's the problem?
"Today we are installing the electrical system, using parts I'm not going to tell you anything about, because someone in the comments will be upset that a company will benefit in some way, and the content producer will get paid. .... So I guess that's the end of the video. Thanks for watching. See you next time, when I say absolutely nothing about the combustible toilet."
Basically this whole channel is an Ad.
@@YourMotherSucksCocksInHellI don’t understand why people see this as a big problem. He’s ACTUALLY using the product and is making a very cool video about it..
I'm happy with an ad, but crafting a video entirely around every opportunity to mention a sponsor vendor is cringe.
so youtube videos stopped being videos and now are all just sneaky 15minute commercials
Have you not noticed that pretty much every video Zack does is a review for something? That’s kind of the idea of the channel…
@@TheToastDog thats why I didnt even watch this video i just skimmed threw maybe 30 seconds of it
I really like the smell of F.R.P. lol.
I have installed more than a million S.Q. feet in the last 30 years.. And in my opinion, a circular saw, router and a pair of tin snips are all you need... And the end finnish is amazing..
you make it look everything easy, but this requires not only hard work, but a lot of money and good sponsors.
I know this video is going to be great!!
Thank you for watching! and Subscribing.
EMP resistant?
That's actually kinda cute how Zack first gets all the hard work done and then asks his wife for the inspection and opinions in the end and how she moves around and inspects it but that "YOU SHOULD KILL THAT SPIDER" was great LOL😅😍
FYI I've stored diesel on the farm before and had some batches that got forgotten out at some locations. If properly sealed and sterilized I've had diesel last over 10 years. I've even had it work fine in plastic Jerry cans just make sure you have a good biocide because the real reason fuel goes bad in plastic containers is that water permeates the plastic. P.S. I've drained old diesel out of a front end loader that had no fuel cap for a few years. its was green and slimy. Added biocide and a surfactant and let it settle for a month then pumped the fuel off the top of the sludge, worked fine in the Ford Ranger, then used the sludge in the diesel heater!
You might want to build peaked covers over your bunker entrances that would allow fallout to slide off, you 90 degree turns at the bottom will only atenuate 90% or less of radiation, either that or entrance buildings with 3 foot thick con walls and ceilings w blast doors. Radiation can go around corners, it is called sky shine. While you are at it add some blast valves for your air supply.
Hey Jerry, with underground structures you always run the riak of radon gas build up which can lead to lung cancer. Even with good ventilation it might be useful to check radon concentration, there are these foil balls which you can hang in the bunker for a given time, the alpha particle emitted by radon damages the foil which you wont see before etching the foil with acid. In germany there is a startup who does this for 30€. Might be an idea :)
Zack's tax evasion plan: Live rest of your life in a bunker playing video games no one knowing. 😜
He can evade taxes but he'll never evade the 10%, if you know what I mean.
Why not put the batteries under the floor 8:08
I love the video THANKS!.
1. I would consider installing some isolation material in the wall to improve acoustic
2. The lighting you installed are adiqute but you might want to have an option to use only part of the light to conserve energy when needed.
3. Add bicycle with generator, when your solar pannel are blasted, you can make your children earn there food by making power
4. Question: why you decided not to put batary pack below the deck?
5. To get completely wilde, add alternative dim red light so when you go out at night for hunting you don't have to adjust for the darkens.
compound bow (70 lbs, heavy arrows with fixed-blade broadheads) should be aduqute wepon to hunt wild boar
6. Add backup manual oil pump for emergency rising the elevator.
7. Have a pully system so you can carry out a weel chair with one person when oil system break.
In a situation where the solar panels are not able to produce enough power, it may be more practical to go with a thermal pile setup which generates heat from an ambient (or nuclear) source and converts that into electricity. One example of this is a thermopylae, which uses the body heat given off by 300 greeks when your solar panels are in shade, such as during a partial eclipse or a barrage of persian arrows.
Hi Zach, here's my four penn'orth of wisdom, based on nearly 30 years living off grid.
🌿Add some small, passively cooled, full spectrum grow lights that can run all year round and keep some plants growing. 🌿
Good choices would be Sansevieria, Draceana, Chlorophytum, Aspidistra. Self watering hydroponic pots should keep everything alive for months at a time.
These will help absorb any residual chemicals and purify the air whilst the bunker is dormant and at the same time they add the proven benefits of having plants in the living space.
💡Install small independent solar panels that charge small lithium cells and power lights. 💡
These could be pretty coloured lights around doors or access areas, fun flame effect lanterns or simple spots, even pir units in the stair well and lift.
When your main power trips, runs out or just needs to power down, you will be glad of those few faintly glowing leds because they are remarkably brighter than darkness. And *never ever* burn candles - but I guess you are smart enough to know that.
Personally, mine run regardless of the battery status and sometimes it's nice to turn everything off except the gentle illumination they offer. All I would say is spend more when you buy them, because cheap panels & crappy cells will let you down.
Am I the only one who is genuinely spooked by a man in US wanting to have he's own casual bunker? And making totally normal videos about that?
Definitely not 😅
Is Nate going to be allowed in the bunker during the apocalypse or will you leave him outside for the zombies to eat him?
All thr contractors who helped build it will show up armed with their family's to try and get the bunker. If some real stuff went down, these people would definitely come and try to get inside before him and his family. Likely by any means necessary
@@ryandann9362 I wonder if they will be armed with JerryRig Razor Knives.
Lol, is this a secret fallout 76 episode we don't know about yet?
@@ryandann9362 SIMPSONS DID IT!
Insulation is your friend. It will not only insulate your bunker but kill the echo and buffer noise between the rooms. Just a thought.
This project is freakin insane the thought process to do all of this and at the same time it needs to be wheelchair friendly 👌🏻💯 big ups to you 🤝🏼💯👏🏻
Led lights on a 110 circuit? How is this energy efficient? You could wire any LED lights to 12/24V DC directly which is much more efficient
Modern inverters are pretty efficient (95%+), and by running higher voltage you use lower current. Power loss in the cables is I^2 * R so by using ~10x lower current you reduce power loss by 100x, and your cables don’t need to be as thick
@@AlexLouden Yes, the only part that’s typically low-voltage DC is the whip between the LED driver and the Light itself. Which is only a few feet at most.
If you string enough LEDs together, you can consume 100V of forward voltage in the diodes themselves. It's actually possible to run LEDs directly off AC mains this way, although you do still need some current-limiting mechanism. The point is, though, neither 12V nor 24V is any more native to an LED than 110V. You would need a series string or a transformer either way.
@@nickwallette6201 Your LED's would be flickering at 60Hz which may be annoying to some.
@@quantuminfinity4260 Yes, and that's pretty common, particularly for decorative lights.
Bunker video! Next one I will be able to watch while having my jerryrig knife
People are forgetting that this video is sponsored so that NotAWheelChair can actually flip the wheel chair industry upside down
💡so ideal for that elevator opening. Make the safety rack/rails on that lift higher to accommodate for the hight of a person. Have a collar on the topside. Have a lid that fits on top of the collar. So when the lift comes up it will lift up the lid with it. It will basically look like a roof over the lift. As it goes down then the lid drops back into place. You can also have a lock mechanism so when the lift rack leaves the lid- it flips some toggle latches that lock the lid in place. These same latches can also secure it to the top of the rack to prevent the wind from taking it.
Ron Hubbard would be very proud of your bunker on a scale one to 10 that is 9 3/4 very well done
I think Zack knows more about manufacturing than Elon Musk by this point
you can store gasoline for way longer than 6months especially for emergency generators, just gotta do it correcly (even normally stored its easely fine for over 6months doe). also air and exhaust for a bunker generator is a solved issue.
He should get a diesel generator, it can run on cooking oil, so even if diesel runs out...
Gasoline will be the first to go empty as its what most people use.
Put it in a building on the surface, and connect it with the other exit.
@@dubious6718 yea im not saying gasoline is without its flaws, just had to point out the false reasoning.
Imo optimal would be combining electric like he has with a second power source in case the solar fails or is for example covered in snow.
Diesel probably best option even just because less consumption than gasoline
so aggressive advertisement. hope they paid well. otherwise interesting video.
Don't forget to isolate all walls for sound. Same with the flooring. Putting a (thin) layer of sound deadening isolation helps a lot.
Compartmentalizing the subfloor helps with that as well so sound from one end can't travel all the way unobstructed to the other end.
You're in a big tube, you don't want to hear people at the one end of the tube flushing the toilet while you're trying to take a nap on the other side of the tube. :)
I hope that Zack will keep us updated throughout the apocalypse
Bro is ready for WW3
I usually dont mind advertisements, but damn this entire video is an infomercial. We get it, they offer great products, but god did it get annoying quick.
A few suggestions for your own sanity:
1) Get an oscillating tool/multitool. They support a variety of different "blades" to make different types of cuts and remove different types of materials, and since they only oscillate a few degrees you can put your hand right up to the blade to stabilize it for better control and accuracy on complex cuts. Not to mention they are a lot safer to use than a cutting wheel on a grinder (and no high-speed shrapnel).
2) Someone recommended a sump pump for under the floor in case of leaks, which is a good idea, but that corrugated tubing won't allow a sump pump to drain the last inch or so of water out of the corrugations. I would also suggest a dehumidifier system to help counter small leaks before they get to that point. Even without leaks you guys are going to be adding a lot of humidity to the air with showers and just breathing, and the chilled walls down there are going to condense it out of the air and lead to mold.
3) A contour gauge is your friend. Stick it up to a wall and it will give you the shape of the crossbars/corrugations that you need to cut around.
First video I see from your channel, just subscribed. I have always wanted to build out a bunker! I don’t know what you have in mind for the rest, but if am allowed to I would like to suggest some ideas.
-You can create a terrace, sort of like a canopy with open sides and a roof. You can cover the roof with solar panels for more juice.
- also add like normal outdoor stuff like a table, couch plants etc to disguise
- maybe insert a movable floor to the entrance and place a sturdy object like a table that won’t fall in but big enough so the zombies can’t access the door. (Don’t forget a hidden button or secret code to open the door)
- you can add cameras around the terrace to see the things happening upstairs.
-maybe even a lockdown system that brings down a fence along the sides
I have lots of ideas but can’t afford it atm lol. Hope you bring your dreams to life!! 😊
When it’s all finished and you become aware that it’s not actually being used, and that no one likes being in it, could you possibly use it as a sceptic tank maybe, still, it’s been useful in diverting many thousands of pounds ( dollars , sorry) to steel and materials suppliers.
I bought the other EcoFlow now I've got to get my electric guy over to install them or I'm going to be in the dark when my electricity goes out.
You're welcome Zack I bought them under your Amazon account.
Great video Jerry, love the series. For some extra backup power you could use a small fuel cell powered by hydrogen to charge the ecoflow batter, you can use it indoors since the only exhaust gas is water vapour.
Who is Jerry?
I highly recommend leaving a pull string from end to end of the gutter. Just for future wire pulls. Tie both ends off so it won't get accidentally pulled out.
I've worked around FRP before. As soon as you said it, I automatically scrunched my nose up!
Man, that’s the prettiest inspector I’ve seen. Nice effort, keep it up. I’m curious to know how it will turn out in the end
Ive got some experience with bunkers, both concrete, steel construction and in bedrock. Common for all types are the need for air handling. You need to dry the air. Hopefully you wont have any water leakage, but still the moisture needs to be controlled, otherwise you will have mold very soon. Having untreated and unpainted wood or boards will make it happen faster
Love the idea of having the screens above to simulate what the weather is like outside. On them scorching hot days the screens are just showing close ups of the sun lol.
The lights have a ac/dc converter. You could use DC directly as that would improve the running time as there are less losses.
You should add a periscope like camera, that’s on a hydraulic pole, that can pop up out of the ground, and then it should be strong enough to lift any potential debris on top of it. Then once it’s retracted it should be hidden to not reveal your location to those zombies. And then it means you can look outside to see if it’s safe to leave. Also probably have air quality sensors, temperature sensors, basically a weather station outside so you can also see if it’s safe.
Great job on the video Zack! Thanks for making it. Phenomenal pun at 6:41.