How to Properly Power a Backyard Bunker - (Completely Off Grid)
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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
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
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
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
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.
I know this was basically a 15-minute commercial but I still found it fascinating.
man i love engineering. Its the best decision ive made in my life. seeing you work out a literal bunker is just fascinating.
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.
6:32 "we have plenty of other problems to solve before we get to number 2" , well played Zack😂😂😂😂😂
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.
@@Okurka.you mean the 2024 election?
@@avreve I mean the reason to have a backyard bunker.
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👌
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.
I like how you tie in the sponsor's stuff with your video without having to cut for a sponsored segment.
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
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.
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
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 🤣
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
The kids are going to have a great place for sleepovers and hangout spots with friends when they grow older
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!
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.
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.
"The air is circulating quite very well" - think he may have inhaled too many fumes 😂
Kidding - bunker looking great!
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.
Nice presentation! I would want this man and the builders to build my bunker. They definitely know what their doing.
Every update that comes out makes my jaw drop further. This is incredible.
12:43 inspector needs to make sure her 3rd child (Zack) is safe under the bunker
Pregnant again?
@@byever1Zack is jerryrigeverthing
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
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...
Ron Hubbard would be very proud of your bunker on a scale one to 10 that is 9 3/4 very well done
Huge progress! That first light switch flic must have felt next level after all the work.
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.
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.
"...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.
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.
My guy is wearing a Casio F-91W on his wrist for years I've noticed.
True legend I love that watch I know so many mechanics wear it too it's like 10 bucks,
but what a piece of engineering you get a well machined watch,
yet this mass produced digital quartz is worn by so many worldwide by all sorts adults and children.
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.
So I think I just watched a 15 min Ecoflow infomercial then? Asking for a friend! 🤠🤦♂
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 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 🤝🏼💯👏🏻
There are lights that mimic the sky you can get - basically the idea you describe.
this is more of an ecoflow ad that takes place in a bunker w/ mr clean
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.
This is the origin and head-quarters of Vault-Tec! 😂
The secret leader of Vault-Tech is Jerry.
💡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.
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.
People are forgetting that this video is sponsored so that NotAWheelChair can actually flip the wheel chair industry upside down
That okie dokie reference was on point 😂
Yeah, the show really owned this phrase by this point it seems
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
1:02 Love that Fallout reference, thanks zack
I need step by step DIY videos. Like how to make a PB&J levels of detail and instructions…
Enjoyed the nothing phone video as well.
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.
@@Okurka.I 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.
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😅😍
@8:19 Sump pump and a backup sump pump, with water management in the bottom of all of those corrugations. Fill with concrete so you don't have dozens of small trapped puddles
Pale yellow walls will help keep cheery spirits while down there for extended periods of time. Pale blue for the bedrooms, though.
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. 👏 👏 👏
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.
Bunker video! Next one I will be able to watch while having my jerryrig knife
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.
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.
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 😅
Why not put the batteries under the floor 8:08
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 :)
It's like a highend airplan setup
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.
EMP resistant?
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.
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!
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.
His voice is great at 1.5+ playback. good job annunciating
I think Zack knows more about manufacturing than Elon Musk by this point
so aggressive advertisement. hope they paid well. otherwise interesting video.
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
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.
Insulation is your friend. It will not only insulate your bunker but kill the echo and buffer noise between the rooms. Just a thought.
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.
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 had 20k of steel 'laying around'. He tells the truth. Always.
Dig a hole next to your bunker so that you could have a water storage tub and the top is just above the ground then have a pipe leading down the bottom through multiple filters to make it pure clean water and then lead it to a water storage tank for later usage
wish i could live in that. underground spaces feel cozy and safe to me.
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!
my OCD loves how organised this is
THAT PLASTIC PANELS THAT YOU ALREADY PUT UP ARE MOLD RESISTANT AND EASY TO KEEP CLEAN, AND LOOK VERY NICE AS A FINISHED PRODUCT. SHAPING UP QUITE NICELY. HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND GOD BLESS AMEN.
That's definitely the bonus of using a culvert tube, loads of storage space below the deck.
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.
I gotta give Colin Furze the nod on getting his done from the inside out, but this is damn impressive as well.
I have a suggestion for y’all… have the elevator attached to a framework with a roof so that when down it seals the shaft. It can double as a support structure to hold your solar panels at the same time. One benefit from this configuration is no one can fall down the shaft by accident because with the elevator up its floor blocks the shaft and when down the roof blocks the shaft. You could also add wall panels to the roof framing so that as the elevator rises no one can fall down the shaft from the sides. This all is contingent on weight and what the elevator can lift 👍 P.S. the solar cable can be housed in a retractable extension cord unit to avoid damaging the wires…
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.
Nice 15 minute ad and tour of a hundreds of thousands of dollars bunker. Really keeps the fun average joe type Zack image we all came to know and love still going.
If there is one thing I've learned in my 39yrs, it's that rich people do wacky things and Zack is definitely no exception.
its fun to watch so im not complaining 👍👍👍
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
I vote you put in an in ground bathtub/shower that's concealed under the floor. Also, I would suggest several bilge pumps. This is so cool. I'm really jealous.
Rectangular shipping containers would have been a better choice! The roundness of those tubes seems a little more claustrophobic and makes it seem much smaller a lot of wasted space. On another note, I really admire all the great things you've done for people throughout the world.
Thank you! Rectangular shipping containers would collapse.
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.
Pretty sure this has been thought of, but there is a ton of unused space under the floorboards. A hinged access door could allow you to store tons of batteries, water tubs, extra supplies, emergency drain, etc. It would be cool to have an upside-down murphy bed with the floor as its base. Think of a full-sized bed under the floor, hanging upside down on rails. Pick up one end, pull the slide rails toward you, flip it over and then lay the bed flat. The mattress would flip from being under the floor, to right side up and you can just reverse the process to hide the bed and get floor space back. This way your square footage could be maximized and one of the largest thieves of square footage could simply be tucked out of the way. Or I suppose a pull-out couch would be more efficient, but less cool ;)