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The whole house? How cold does it get where you live? Is the thickness of the stones enough to insulate it or has insulation been added?

@kentneumann5209 Midwest United States. It originally had no insulation but I added interior stud walls with insulation. Heats with a small woodstove or one 1500w electric heater if I'm feeling lazy.

@@user-mq2sd6ji8r Just how they build court houses these days. Google does the same thing. You can get the recast with foam in the middle to keep it from sweating during temp changes.

Pennsylvania is full of quakers houses I pointed many of them back in the 90s most had walls 3 to 4 feet thick and commonly field stones are the main resource because the Amish would take the stones out of there fields when plowing and build more houses. Those houses are hundreds of years old and today a house last about 30 to 40 years if no one committed to keeping it nice . We truly are a disposable society worth nothing but the paper we stuff in our wallets guides our society into false narratives and greed we truly are doomed.

That’s awesome. I did not live on post at Fort Riley, KS, but I visited friends who did. The homes were built during the Civil War and are all stone and hardwood. They really are beautiful.

Yeah BUT, the fall won't hurt them.... 😬

Yes i live in a more than 130 year old house in Hungary. 53cm thick brick wall...

i live in america and my home is made from unrefined paper.....and by that i mean that my walls are nearly foot-thick logs stacked on top of eachother and bolted down..... and it has survived a tornado, our gazebo that was about 30ft away however, did not.

You underestimate the power of tornadoes. They will demolish a rock house.

Well if I want any culture after war lol probably should use stone 😅

That also means the tornado will be throwing things much heavier than paper. Tornados throw cars.

Another plant are lovely thorny rose bushes along the fences, look lovely and even when trimmed back there is enough there to discourage someone hopping over there fence

I actually have roses growing all along the front fence and blackberries all along the back.

Keep that bush trimmed! I'm talking about the blackberry bushes you clowns. They grow like a weed, and are nature's concertina wire.

I have thorny plants in front of my children’s’ windows. They are pretty, too.

Make sure the thorns are of the hook type. Briar vines are great along the perimeter. They just about grab you as you get close to them. Best rule of thumb: If it can almost rip a pair of jeans, the better. There's a shrub in front of my house that has 1 1/2" -2" spikes that'll make you scream.

Better off investing your hard earned money in making a quality reliable off road bullet proof armoured motor home, bullet proof glass and run flat tires might be out of reach budget wise but having armoured plates to cover your wheel hubs all your glass windscreen with a a heavy duty armoured viewing shutters are the next best thing..now just load your essential survival supplies, water, fuel, oil,toilet paper, guns and ammo, fire extinguishers, dog food & guard dog and get out of dodge…remember a tow truck driver can’t tow your home away when your living inside with a loaded police permitted .357 magnum snub nose revolver to provide peace & freedom…

I have a hundred year old house... It's sheathed in rouge and grooved 2x6s.. I was considering filling the outside wall for my bedroom with gravel, like old banks (had done some renovations in a building that used to be a bank, the half wall for the counters had gravel.)

@@danielescobar7618 we lived in an old school house one time and there were bricks between the 2x4s for insulation although I don’t think they worked that well since it was cold in there before we replaced the bricks with insulation. Of course we weren’t worried about things back 45 years ago either.

I wouldn't waste my money on these crackerjack houses they build these days. Better off building your house underground.

Wondering what state as building standards are different from one to another. Here you need 5/8 sheeting on before siding

For a private home, I agree, but when you see that on government buildings it's a gambit. They're supposed to be obvious to an attacker to use for their own personal defense. But the general idea is that area can be easily engaged by another part of the building's floors or another building on the property. It's giving someone an obvious go-to position when said go-to position is very weak at defending from another location. You see this strategy around many US Embassies. There are solid areas where you initially think, "An attacker can use that as a staging area for their own advancement." Until you realize as part of the defensive protocol there are Marines are in another building with clear line of sight to that area where the low defensive wall offers no protection.

With that in mind you should not make them bullet proof and fill them with tannerite.

Security doors are amazing. SWAT teams need to know about those beforehand to come up with alternative entry tools and plans

You regular civilians crack me up. Guns guns guns bullet proof homes, anti-breakins. You forgot one thing private,, "FIRE" 🔥. You gonna shoot that out?? There's no less option when it comes to war and there's no promise in being fully ready. Not Being seen is the #1 option, not being heard is the #2 option, seeing them first is the #3 option. The rest follows. Hopefully that helps private😎

@@montizzlefoshizzle7131 If someone wants your food or anything else you have in your home they aren't going to risk their lives burning it down and everything inside like the food they are after. If they know you have a fortune in gold inside a safe they may attempt that move but even then it's risky, I think in the SGTF scenario most people won't be after your safe as much as basic need items and if you don't advertise what you have you will not be a likely target of arson. You are right about the options and the fact that no matter how much someone prepares luck plays a role too.

​@@montizzlefoshizzle7131when the. house behind mine are constantly getting hit with drive-bys I have started thinking about it my house has been hit by strays 4 times that I have found it is a little concerning and no I can't just move we don't have that luxury

@@montizzlefoshizzle7131 Homes don't MOVE, Mr. SOCOM Sgt. Slaughter. So numbers 1, 2 and 3 are irrelevant.

Never heard of a flash cube begore

cool drillable/meltable super expensive windows

@@jrich436 As opposed to a window you can just toss the drill through? Nothing will keep someone out that wants to get in. You could just drive a car into the house and be in. I mean if they have a drill and don't mind the noise, they could just drill the lock and be in. So yes, you can drill a hole in plastic. It will melt. Glass can melt as well. You can drill through glass as well. If you have bars over the windows, you can cut through them pretty quickly with an angle grinder. If you have no windows, you could cut a window sized hole with a sawzall. I suppose I'm missing your point. I say replace the windows with acrylic, because it will stop a quick blunt force attack, unlike a window. While still looking like a window. Plus, It's really not expensive to do for a significant amount more security vs break ins. Just needs to buy enough time to allow you to grab your firearms and wait to open fire. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@ryanguldbrandsen7672 nah suggestion was silly…. Then you took actual time to write this silly rant instead of just dealing with the fact that your suggestion was…. Silly Which is why you have NEVER gone to someone’s house who replaced the windows on it with 1/4 acrylic Takes nearly 3k degrees to melt glass, acrylic starts to become malleable at 200* 🤣 I can literally get through it with a bottle of isopropyl alcohol, some yarn and lighter, silently Acrylic costs SIGNIFICANTLY more than glass, astronomically more than glass I have insurance on the contents of my house 🤣 I’m not buying custom cuts of acrylic or cutting it myself and then modifying frames to put it up as a means to be more cost effective than replacing the contents….. which even WITH the cost of acrylic costs more, which is why it’s insured Have fun babying those plastic windows and then still having to buff fine scratches out and sanding dull clear off them and then having to respray perfectly and then getting trash in it as they cure anyway Meantime you have a standard frame around your door that even with how fragile glass is even SWAT is going through THAT instead of the glass It’s a silly idea. Go to sleep 🤣

@@jrich436 Mine has been going great for 5 years. Not one issue. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I coated it in 2 coats of ceramic before install. I use spray on ceramic stuff once a year for UV protection. I did cut it myself. Super simple. Cost me like $145 for Lexan. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I guess I need to really watch it for people carrying alcohol and thread vs a hammer. Who knew people were so prepared nowadays. What your saying is dumb. People just don't carry that crap with them. They aren't thinking, oh I should bring a blow torch in case someone has acrylic windows. It just doesn't happen. I was merely stating a fact that everything melts. I didn't rant about anything. What you said was dumb. Because it's super unrealistic. What is realistic is someone using a hammer or rock to break glass to unlock the door. That's something that does happen. Noone is going around melting plastic windows. It's likely literally never happened in history. You have to be realistic with expectations. Of coarse swat would choose to go through a door vs breaking glass. They have the tools to do it. They need a rapid entry. I'm not worried about swat. I'm worried about realistic things. Like teens or a junkie breaking into my house. These are things that happen in REAL LIFE. I prepare for things that actually happen to law abiding citizens. I don't know where you live, but people just don't do what you're saying. You can't prepare for things that just never happen or you may as well live underground in a bomb shelter. Even then, you'd have to worry about the military hitting you with a bunker buster. So you'd still be screwed. Now please go on with your unrealistic situations. 🤦😮‍💨🙄

you have cognitive dissonance issues While saying the objective fact that anything can be defeated as a means to argue a defense for a silly suggestion you are now again trying to argue that your idea isn't silly by talking about the probability of defeating things You brought up melting glass.... MAKE IT MAKE SENSE Acrylic scratches easily and there is no way you are cleanly spraying ceramic clear in an exterior environment, let alone vertically from a rattle can.... If subjectively you accept that trash on the front of your "house", thats fine. But arguing that its a 1:1 superior replacement to glass is objectively silly DECADES of working with acrylic. Same with restoring vehicle headlights. Ceramic clears are hazy and work really well on things like valve covers and other under hood parts where we do not really see the gradual yellowing and the initial haze. They are ceramic to help with the heat engines put out NOT for your application. A good 4k clear sprayed from a gravity gun in a controlled environment is the only way you are going to get any decent lay up and consistency when it cures. Then timing the next pass as not to get a reaction with the new layer and the solvent as directed on the sheet from the manufacturer DOUBT you are that in depth No one is randomly walking up to your door while you are home and then getting surprised by your plastic sheet and giving you time to get to your gun because they are now banging on you 1/4" STALLANIUM plastic like a moron Teens and junkies are going through a window on the back or side of the house while you are not home Any real thieves are taking a long wrecker bar and distorting the frame braking that 1X either by forcing the bar through or pulling it off the 2X4 OR mule kicking it to do the same thing. If it isn't budging, they are going through a window again, you are weaving in an out talking about reality trying to defend putting trash on your house when you don't need to. Its your house to trash up my man Even IF my HOA wouldn't ask WTF am I doing, I'm not spraying hazy clear on plastic I fitted into frames in or around my front door on my house How you got that frame holding that sheet in? Stainless screws you drove through it? Wanna bet there's stress fractures because you didn't melt the holes into that sheet of Lexan or sand them diamond bits after doing low pressure high speed drilling with pre heatd bits and tape on your plastic? And a good solid kick from someone who knows to kick THROUGH it with their weight not at it will fracture either it AND the frame? Because you have what? 1/4 or less between the edge and the hole to secure it to the frame? How long are those screws? What are they fastened to? Solid wooden door? Standard 1X window frame? Acrylic or Aluminum frames? 145.00 to use up hours of your life, make your house look cheap and add NO security so you can look through hazy plastic... followed by typing all this 😆 You are a special type of person @@ryanguldbrandsen7672

Anarchist's Cook Book?

I came up with that on my own ​@@kentneumann5209

One could run screws or nails thru a piece of plywood or such about 2 inches apart throughout the board. Set the board inside the home under the windows after screwing to the floor. Should only need this on the first floor. So if someone does gain entry through the window, this will slow them down or deter them.

I've had that thought along with using several of barbed wire or electric wire (think livestock fencing). Also make some caltrops to scatter on the ground along the fence so if they do make it over, there's a ground "surprise" waiting for them.

I never liked shutters on the outside of a house because you have to be outside to close them. I'm planning on replacing my curtains with a more modern looking double sliding barn doors. That can be locked an barred from the inside. I don't like my windows being open much anyways so if the glass catches a bullet atleast it won't go to far.

@@sparklekpadeh3382 Don't forget your sniping holes.

check out the rolling shutters from Germany.

I have a coworker in South Louisiana who has electric roll up shudders on the outside of his home. I don't know how well they actually protect the window, but I'm sure there is an expert somewhere to provide scientifically backed improvements for hardening them.

​@@peenchay_whetto2333Just like the steel roll up doors shop owners use in seedy neighborhoods.

A ladder and a piece of carpet defeats that easily.

I can't even find that bush on Google.

​@@johnwayne2103 look for "deuil de Paul fontaine". But apparently it's vulnerable to blackspot.

Deuil de Paul Fontaine

Many places have building codes that prevent you form installing smaller windows.

@@Gravedigger933 Even without codes, you need windows you can escape through, as having a house fire is more likely than SHTF. In military training one lesson is to never build a fortification so seamless that you can't get out if you need to, preferably via more than one route.

We used old phone books. Thick and helped with insulation

@@christinam673Cant get phone books anymore where im at , where you at ?

Serious stuff, thanks for your intelligent and long comment !!!!

We replaced all the windows in our house when we bought it 2 yrs ago. I was very upset later (~ 6 months after the 3-part job was completed, to find out that the company had impact resistant hurricane windows ... but they were never mentioned in the sales pitch ... I guess because we are inland & not in direct hurricane hit zone. Had I known, we would have paid the even higher price for them, at least on the back side of the house.

And when it comes time to paint, you'll pay the painter big bucks to get past them too.

@kellyvcraig paint what? The posts? Fiber/rebar reinforced concrete posts don't need much in the way of paint.

That's for the raging BULL in the yard. LOL

That's what Jeffery Dommer said before he dined on his friends .

@Star-Soul I'm willing to get along with neighbors but you've got others near and far that don't care to get along or talk it out. Once you let someone in they figure out your game plan. Game on.

@@victorrodea7163 I agree.keep on keeping on baby

Unfortunately, not everyone thinks that way. I’ll take my chances and prep for the worse.

Titanium isn't really a very strong metal.

@@ryanguldbrandsen7672 yes I know. Mild steel is even less strong. Thats why I said it.

@@thelouiebrand 1/2" mild steel plate is going to be stronger vs a normal 1/2" cp1 titanium plate. That's why I said what I said... Titanium has a higher strength to weight ratio, but it's not that high. Grade 1 cp titaniums yield strength being around 220mpa vs mild steel on the low end being 290-350mpa depending on the type of mild steel it easily can be as high at 700-2100mpa. Grade 4 titanium alloy has a yield strength around abouts 480-1100mpa depending on who makes it.

@@ryanguldbrandsen7672 6al 4v.

Might have been an alloy that's mostly aluminum.

Didnt that fall apart?

@@mrright1068 Nope it's still standing it saved Texas

@@subarutime5089 I have to get over to see that in person. How long would it take to see it all?

@@mrright1068 not long it's in the middle of San Antonio surrounded by sky scrapers 😆

​@mrright1068 make sure you ask to see the basement.

Depends on the apartment building. My last one? I would pick that over a suburban brick home any day. There were 400 units that all looked identical, with identical hallways and carpets and doors. Nothing stood out. You were "lost in the crowd". There was as single ingress/egress point to each apartment, the door. Which was solid wood with a deadbolt that didn't go into wood, it went into a metal frame. Because the building was constructed with metal frames for strength since it was 15 stories. It had concrete walls on all 4 sides, plus ceiling and floor. My apartment was 1200 sq ft. I had a spare bedroom with walk in closet that I stored 2 months of water, and 2 months of food. And since water cubes stack on top of one another the sq ft footprint they take up is remarkably small. Food was also easy to store in the spare closet. Concrete/metal buildings with asphalt roads each block are remarkably fire resistant. I was armed, so anyone attempting to breech the one entry way had to first figure out how to overcome 10's of thousands of pounds of force. Because I could wedge the couch between the door and a wall (lengthwise). So you literally had to break a couch in half to open the door. And then figure out where I am in the apartment about to engage you with deadly force. Considering the average person has less than 3 days of food available, and the Pentagon released a report that said within 1 month cities would have a near 90% mortality rate. I could wait out any incident. So I would take THAT apartment over a house with multiple windows, multiple floors to defend, and an attacker with room to operate. Such as front/backyards or longer distance engagements from forests, etc. My hallway in the apartment building was only about 8 feet wide. That's very little room to build momentum to generate force. When I bought my condo, it was even MORE defensible. But my house in rural America? Hmmmm..... It is *very* hard to find. It can't be scene from the road, and the driveway is quite hidden. But *IF* it's found? I'm in trouble. It's very large and I'm one person. There's dozens of ingress/egress points and the walls are just plywood and insulation really. Nothing is bulletproof, and I'm surrounded by woods which mean I'm HIGHLY susceptible to fire. There's acres and acres of woods around me, so it makes monitoring the home very easy for an attacker, and engaging from hundreds of hidden locations. It's ONE defense is that it's hidden. But if discovered it becomes nigh impossible to defend. It's too big. So there are MANY instances where I would take my old apartment, or I would prefer to be in my condo if a SHFT event happens (which is 4 blocks from my old apartment building in the city). But statistically I'll be in the house. As I rarely go into my place in the city anymore.

ever see the movie, the postman ?

@@brianblithe2271 I did not

@@hlriiiviiiv9570 Might want to see it, most hated movie by hollywood elite and for the reason that it was too truthful of a actual future possibility.

Some old & disabled will not be able to move. So planning ahead is vital for them. If someone has to work to hard to enter. They may move on to easier prey. Especially if they know not what wait for them inside.

@@m1a1abrams93 they’ll move on when their getting three squares a day, but starving people, and that will be everyone, starving people are relentless. Example: Somalia mid 90s. The more fortified a place is says “you don’t know what’s in here, but it’s worth protecting therefore valuable”. When there’s 1000 people trying to catch the same fish, that today has to be stocked mind you, all elbow to elbow on the riverbank, what happens to the one guy that catches it. There’s not enough deer in the woods to feed the 58k starving people from the closest big town. People will get hungry fast, dangerous fast. If you become a target, you’re gonna take shots, it’s what targets do.

It is illegal to kill and rob people.

In a SHTF anything goes. I would put sheets of plywood under my windows with 3 inch screws or 16 penny nails facing upward for intruders. It may not stop them but it sure will slow them down.

Believe it or not that's illegal in most US states.

Believe it or not that's illegal in most US states.

Amen!!! 🤠👍

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