Bunkers to Order

[junmist]

Still trying to work out a good reason to have a bunker in the UK, except to keep coal in

why not just think of it as a underground shed or maybe a wine cellar that just so happens to be more secure and wont spoil your newly laid lawn ,

thought about this myself but in a rented property its not realy do-able .

Damed how did you know I have a very expensive wine collection

[Balian]

I have thought about the underground shipping container option for a while now, even the other half has agreed on it.

Finally moving to the country where I would have the space to put one and in time I may well do.

If it is ever needed or not is a different matter but think I would prefer to have one and not need it then need one and not have it.

[munchh]

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/db/98 ... 08001.html

I take it i'm not the only one who has looked at these things, i have thought about a bunker, but i am not in any shape to have one, although a friend has looked into the container thing and was told he needed no planning to drop one in the ground?

Driving home along the A27 this morning, i could not help dreaming of owning one of those lovely hills and putting a structure inside one so it looks the same apart from slits horizontaly so it looks like a giant pill box, underground, but up high, i like that idea, propper dreamer me.

[12mp82]

I have thought about the underground shipping container option for a while now, even the other half has agreed on it.

Finally moving to the country where I would have the space to put one and in time I may well do.

If it is ever needed or not is a different matter but think I would prefer to have one and not need it then need one and not have it.

Good luck, have you really thought about all the implications involved though?

I read somewhere that a cubic foot of sub-soil is quite heavy, and there is going to be a lot of it to move to get a container underground, even if you only just cover the top with an inch or two of soil, 1280 cu ft of soil is a fair few skips full

[Balian]

The idea was to bury it to almost ground level and either put the polytunnel or garden shed over it, hiding the entrance in them.

That way it wouldn't be bearing much weight on the roof.

It is something that would require a lot more thought and research but an option.

[12mp82]

There are a few posts on here already, if you do a search on Shipping containers it will give you eight pages of results

[Darktide]

I've read lots of articles and watched videos of people using shipping containers as underground shelters. I really like the idea and would love one myself but I just dont have the room or time for a project like that.

Maybe one day when we move and have some more land I'll look into it again.

[Welsh_Guy]

Dont know what your planning for but how about something along the lines of a storm shelter, like the "storm shelters porch unit pod" (Check it out on youtube), as its not fully underground i can see this being more adaptable to the uk prepper market.

[Bladerunner]

I must admit I was under the impression that you did not need planning permission for anything underground.
Personally I would keep shtum and do it anyway.

Just make sure you don't dig through any pipes and you should be OK.

If you could afford something similar to railway sleepers you could place them across the roof to take the weight.
You could even bury the container slightly deeper and have the ground either side taking the weight of the sleeper so there is nothing on top of it whatsoever.

I know there are a couple of good videos on youtube for burying containers.

Be lucky (and leporine)

[munchh]

I had a conversation at work this week about how you can build a shelter in your garden for your family, you have been aloud since WWII, but probly some old by-law?