In-Depth Tour of Quonset Hut Underground Built in 2011
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Then and Now - 12 years later! Zero water issues - zero moisture and same as it was when finished, which is quite rare for Undergrounds in the Pacific Northwest that rains constantly from November till May/June.
This Quonset Hut Underground was built around 2011.
In this video, we revisit the site for the first time since 2011 and share an in-depth tour of how it was built, reasoning for certain building techniques and address a few questions people have asked over the past few months. If you have any additional questions, leave a comment or send us an email!
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I would make a fake wall about 12' in with benches along the wall. If someone breaks in, they would just think it's an old storm shelter. I love the build; you have everything needed.
Good idea, there are dozens of ideas and ways to conceal an underground much better. This property is extremely secluded and wasn't the customers priority. Thank you for sharing your thoughts !
This is pretty cool. My Grandpa was a WW2 Navy vet, and he built his house like this in southern Utah. Except the front of the house was just like a normal small house with the big underground section covered with grass in the back yard. He passed away when I was around 15, I remember he always had ham hocks and beans with corn bread ready to go when I would go stay the weekend with him. He had 2 coffin style freezers in the underground section. One was packed with meat and the other was packed with gallon buckets of vanilla ice cream. He would serve me peach cobbler with warm milk poured on it in a bowl. Which to this day I have never met anyone who eats peach cobbler with warm milk like its cereal lol. Wish I would have spent more time with him to learn more. He was a very resourceful intelligent man. Not sure why he felt the need to build the underground shelter part. It may have been left over fear from the war or perhaps fear of nuclear war with the Russians or maybe it was because of all the nuke testing the government was doing in the desert.
Awesome ! Thank you for sharing your story and insights !
Yep he was a Cold War warrior and a Boy Scout to boot, the greatest generation all gone now and their spawn are ruining everything.
@@Veldtian1 Its ironic that the "greatest" generation was the worse at the only thing any generation cant fail. That is, to raise at least a mediocre one to substitute them. They fucked everything so deep, people will be cleaning after them for the at least the next six generations to come.
That is the coolest bunker I've ever seen
Thank you ! We appreciate the comment & support 🙌 🙏
What I like about this is that it's not just a bolt hole for if the worst ever comes, but a usable, if spartan, place to have a quiet break for a few days in the woods.
Or a few years or decades! Thank you for you're comment 🙏
That'd be me, I'd end up living there full time.
It's my dream to build a nice bunker that doesn't seem Closter phobic like most and this one is the best I've seen yet. I daydream of being able to keep my loved ones safe when something bad happens, unfortunately I don't see myself having the means in the near future, but if I ever do I will build something just like this, so thank you so much for sharing. This build is awesome and absolutely inspirational.
Nice build!! READY FOR ANYTHING!!!
This is a beautiful home ! Great idea ..
You'll be needing it soon
Great job
Very impressed! Just found you through watching Kirsten Dirksen channel featuring this shelter. Love how you did interior doors. Definitely agree with you. Would be better having water storage tank buried outside to free up space inside. Greatly appreciate you freely sharing your knowledge and expertise from experience on the subject matter.
I would live in that every day
Just saw Kirsten's vid, you did a GREAT job of showing & explaining everything! I live in a 'traditional' poured concrete and slab-roof underground in Fla. One thing I wish I had is better/more ventilation like your guillotine vents. But in Fla, the 'fresh air' just = major humidity about 11 months out of the year, lol.
Very nice Bunker ! But i would recommend 2.5 things . 1. The wood ceiling inside the bathroom, we have it too , factory impragnated wood and its molding as soon as the shower is used regulary! (i hope you never have too) 2. The metal door starts to surface rust, it may not impact the functionality but your entrance starts to get some sort of "deserted" look ..i did not pay attention if you have always someone in genral vicinity to "guard" it...but the more deserted it looks the more looters or over curious people will try to forcefully enter ! i would paint the door and visible concrete in a camouflage pattern , plant some conifer-like trees infront and with not so deep penetrating roots also on top in a irregular pattern to hide possible detection from air ! and 2.5 dust of some of the interior if u have to move in than to survice and not to clean ;)
I didn't notice any gun ports or viewing periscopes anywhere either, disappointing..
@@Veldtian1 Why, do you have gun ports and periscopes in your house?
@@ForbiddTV
Yes, they are called peepholes and hallways.
Very good build Sir, I would live in that .
You and me both!
Contact us and perhaps we could make something happen ! A whole 30x40 home isn't necessarily needed to protect you and family
Fantastic! it looks well loved.
It is very well "loved"
love it!
Absolutely amazing. My ideal home lol.
Absolutely amazing build in my hats off to you. I would have built that high as floor down just a bit lower so you could walk freely in there. But other than that it's absolutely perfect.
Good use of arches. You could could use some big bushes/trees to cammo your entrance.
I love the background music. Excellent job on a shelter.
Nice job
Thank you William !
Muito bonito,amei seu abrigo.
I am nana. We have 7 in my family to look out for. There is no money to prepare for what’s coming. No savings either. But you did a great job!!! Nice
Nice job my friend 🏋️♀️👍🤺🤗
Thank you 👍
I love this.
Thank you !
Great job.
Thank you to you in Alaska! Be safe and enjoy nature ! ❤
This is Awesome!
Thank you ! We are super appreciative of all the exposure and views in the past week or so..
Very nice 👍
Thank you !
If you organize your stuff, you can see what you have and what you still need. Another thing is if you made the toilet and shower separate from the sink, it's easier with more people. One person can shower while someone else can brush their teeth.
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very nice. i think i would add some long shelving and built in storage type furniture . really interesting structure and thats a good size space.
Great idea Debbie! That is often the thought and would be ideal but usually we build to what the customer desires even though we've suggested such things..
My dad was stationed in Iceland during while serving during the Korean War and that’s what the Army used for barracks. I think maybe the military still uses them but I may be wrong.
Awesome!❤👍
Thank you! Cheers!
This guy is a fucking genius
o lugar é enorme ,bem gostoso de ser abrigar em uma situação de caos generalizado.
Gawd that felt good. Germany will NEVER recover from this, EVER.
Quonset UG.... Genius Idea...
Thank you brother
As a Post Apocopolyptic War Lord, I appreciate and approve of your efforts.
You shall indeed survive the oncoming Apocalypse
Excellent! It would be great if you would discuss the cost, permitting, zoning, etc., for people who want to put one on their land.
que estrutura maravilhosa.
like the Robert Plant music playing in the background.
To cool. I think I would add more exits or never use it as a bunker persay. So easily trapped in. But a couple more exits would make it a great living space for sure.
The only way you'd ever be trapped overall is if someone welded the door and escape hatch on the back top of the underground..
The reason the main door opens
Inward is so if a ton of debris somehow blocked the doorway, there is a hydraulic jack system. Not everything is shared with the public 😉
Loved the music...
Love Zeppelin 👍
Parece buen bunker, pero la puerta de entrada es un claro punto débil y el desorden es inaceptable. Pero es solo mi opinión.
Gracias por enseñar su secreto.👍
Excellent. Greetings from Australia.Is there a link for the kit you bought? (For the metal arches?)
I wonder what the cost of this underground quonset is?
I'd love to have some land (+/- 40 acres) with a 1300sf house/cabin, a 40x60 garage/shop, and a buried bunker like this one.
Please send us an email to vikingundergrounds@gmail.com to discuss details 🙏we can schedule a phone call. Thank you
Depending on size and what you desire exactly, it is around $80-300 a square foot.. Too many variables to discuss in comments here...
Would be very energy efficient, effective against tornados and hurricanes! I love the concept, but personally i don't trust would supports. I would use steel them do a wood wrap. I would also add another outer door and use it as a mud room, security stop. Plus a another posted, a concrete barrier directly in front with 90 degree exits. Just my 2 cents, but very good job. Question, you said you had a process for the spray foam and how thick was your shot crete?
None of the wood is holding up the structure. Could have been a clear open arch if that's what the client wanted.
In a hole in a ground there lived a Hobbit.
And I have always loved that song if I was a Carpenter by Robert Plant what a great choice of background music, simple, genius🕺🏻
Awesome music “If I were a Carpenter”
I would love to have this structure built on my property, 1. moisture would be the the enemy, once mold started it could not be stopped.
2if anyone knew about this food cache it could easily be taken.
otterwise great build !
Mold could always be eradicated.
Looks well ventilated so I doubt mold will be an issue.
It seems this (quonset hut) is a better structure/layout than traditional large pipe designs. Are there any drawbacks vs pipe?
Tremendo
Love the music 😂😂😂😂❤
Hi just wondering about the spray foam if there was a fire, I always thought it burned really well, or are there different types?
The spray foam is in 12" inches of concrete with Helix Steel which is stronger than rebar. What do you mean specifically?
Wow. I would have put a burm in front of the main door to mask the approach.
What powers it? I also i,agine mold would be a major problem.
Beautifully done and job 😮😢 ❤ it truly respect from 205 pisces black alpha male Birmingham Alabama home of the Civil rights moment
I like it
Could this be done with a 40' wide x 50' long and 20' high Q model Quonset? Also, did you use a heavier gauge than normal? I think these usually come 22 gauge thickness, but you can special order a thicker gauge like 18.
I am having that exact size engineered at the moment. My engineer has specified it as 6" concrete with #4 rebar.
If you could send me another email, we've had 100's, and cannot find our prior conversation. I'd be glad to share for a hefty discount or for free our engineered blueprints if you're interested.
I didn’t mind the music:)
great song - if i were a carpenter, Robert Plant
I need one of these but don't think we could with how high our water table is😢
I think i'd put the food inside where you can lock it up better, and when your coming in after walking through the aftermath of who knows what you might want to wash and change your clothes, if you had any radiation you, take your cloths off to wash them separately from your normal inside cloths, and you just wash off in the shower don't scrub!!! You'll scrub the radiation into your skin, have outside clothes only or a suit that you can take off then wash. just saying. Have fun with the information, also if a EMP hits don't turn your backup systems until two or more weeks later they're other EMP coming, FYI. :) Cool place though! :)
Sounds real nice, I'd like to know who check the structural engineering, also my field, mechanical engineering? I'm seeing a few things that wouldn't last ten years or a little longer. Where's the Swiss filtration? Am I missing something? Maybe this is supposed to last for a year or two. Please lemme know. Ty.
What do you mean? This was built in 2011.... it is all engineered approved. A 747 could fly into it and wouldn't matter, from what the guy said...We waited a decade before sharing these video's, so we knew what we did was done righ
You think you can do better? YOU build one and make a video. Put your money where your mouth is mouth piece.
@NSGca I would bet this structure will be there hundreds of years past the home you are presently living in.
@ForbiddTV I wouldn't disagree with you, the structure will be there, but how many years was it habitable for humans? If you don't have clean water and clean air, the rest really doesn't matter, right?. More binds us than separates us. ✌️ peace friend.
Remember in winter time if you're running a wood stove that smoke can be seen for miles and miles and miles away therefore it's like a gigantic GPS Google Maps Arrow pointed right to your house. Same goes for those gas and diesel generators that everybody loves to have for power outages. If I'm hungry and my kids and grandkids are crying about being hungry and scared and I hear one of those going and we didn't prepare for the end of days which is literally any day now guess where I'm going to get food and supplies and I will have to do whatever I have to do. I'm not saying that that is what I would do because I'm actually prepared for what's coming but I'm telling you the mental process the mental thought and the reasoning behind how good people will turn to bad bad people and do really bad things when the shit hits the fan. So is badass is all that looks and trust me it looks amazing you did a fantastic job but when the shit hits the fan if they can hear your generators or see your smoke you're not hitting at all and all you did was gather up supplies and a nice good Fort for someone else to defend after they come and take it from you. I hope you're making the preparations to cover that up camouflage it and not giving out the coordinates to where that's located
you make a fun video and a dude comes in here and literally tells ya he will murder who ever is in that place and he says it like its nothing... welcome to the modern age.
These days, there are woodstove designs that are far more efficient and produce far less smoke than the cookstove that they have in there. I think the techniques used for the newer designs could be mimicked in a build of this nature.
Cool build/different...however for me, the lack of windows/natural light- and reliance upon non-fresh food would be the deal killers for any real world practicality.
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Do you build in the northeast?
Total cost??
Plug up the vents, eventual access.
Very cool
Thank you Kirby! We appreciate the feedback.
How much it cost to build this
Somebody's got more money than Davie Crockett !!!
It's actually somewhat relative to a new home construction nowadays depending on area and how much you build it all out.
I want one
where is the water ?
donde esta el agua ?
esse ai esta bem protegido num apocalipse zumbi
Wish i could afford one skint
Who is the structural engineer who stamped engineered blueprints and signed off on this?
It's very nice, but I just want to organize it and clean it up
Should have had a dog-leg at the entrance as a kind of mud-room since it would slow down "unwanted visitors" and radiation travels in a straight line.
Lots of negative comments here just thought id say i thinks its prdy cool man if the apocalypse dont happen then you have the ultimate man cave
Thank you brother ! We appreciate it !
What is the name of this song? Who is the artist?
If I were a carpenter Robert Plant !
Cover the door with trees/foliage!
What would be todays price if someone wanted a replica of this project?
Which states to you operate in??
Well, mainly the PNW (Washington State) but we can consult to anyone in the world and if necessary, we could organize a trip to supervise contractors local to your idea. Really depends on your budget, take a look @ our Website! www.vikingshelters.com and send us an email
Will DO. Po baby here, But LOVE your stuff anticipating to replicate! mw@@VikingShelters
The vent pipe isn't it too low to the ground poss. Flooding.
No, unless there's a 1000ft wave basically... 😉
What’s with the music??? How about details on the build and how it was done? Cost???
This is a review of the construction after it was built a decade or so later, if you want specific details / videos of how it was built, please contact us.
Cost... Anywhere from $80-300 a square foot..
The background music has vocals. There are two voices to try and listen to
What’s the address ?
The music is very distracting.
We'll do our best to lower it or have no music next time, thanks for your input!
Quonset huts were never intended for underground usage and are absolutely not rated for it. It won't pass a county inspection. I assume either reinforced concrete ir spray in foam or aerocrete over steel Quonset hut. Concrete will shrink away from any form its put on and this will allow for water seepage. I assume you fill any shrink induced vouds?
The quonset steel isn't structural at all once the concrete is applied, it merely serves as a form. It could all rust away (not likely for hundreds of years) and the structure would not be compromised in the least.
who want to try to live thru any aftermath ?
People who have families and believe in the future of humanity beyond the ignorance that currently exists..
no faith in GOD no hope............I am 70 and look forward to the next dimension, so I have a different point of view ! @@VikingShelters
@@jackwill3578why wait to get to the next dimension? At 70, surely you've already come across the famous Terrance McKenna Heroic Dose? Shooooowee!
I also don't think the functionality of day today living is addressed enough 😮
Why was this built?
Is this a deathtrap? Did this get inspected? I love the concept, but if there is a fire, how many minutes before you suffocate!?!
It has two separate egress points. That’s a passing inspection signature in most states for subterranean living
Exactly....
Is that a human head that is blocked out?
Hahaha we used TH-cams feature to try and blur faces but it did other stuff too.... it is what it is for the moment. We are new and learning !
Very good but the entrance must b hidden
So are we going to ignore the giant crack @9:23 ?
Are you talking about the wooden beams?? 😂
That’s a shadow from a cable hanging between the light and the wall.
You need a new potato camera for your next video.👍
Did you put any Radon detectors in the building as a test?
Those wooden beams have zero structure support and happened while screwing into the wood. Wood cracks overtime as well, total non issue.
Very interesting
BUT THE MUSIC 🤢🥺