I don't think our basement is going to cut it

[TheNiffler]

2 biggish windows (double glazed though), internal single glazed window at the top of the stairs, ceiling is simply the floorboards to the rooms above, with a bit of plasterboard and player in between the beams, that and the boiler is down there.

Is it doable?

[CaptainMarvelDanvers]

Are we not allowed to build fallout shelters in our back garden? I know this country likes planning permission for everything but it wouldn't bother me if my neighbour had a shelter.

[TheNiffler]

I have no idea. I'm pondering whether double mattresses in front of the basement windows would work. The other window is internal, guessing that's ok.

I cannot believe I am seriously pondering the suitability of my bloody basement

[SideOrderofSprouts]

We have no windowless rooms
But we won't ever be a target. It's the radiation fallout I'm more concerned about. Im looking into weather I can seal door frames with duct tape

[floraeasy]

How will you get air?

[ImperialBlether]

Is this a nuclear attack you're concerned about?

[SideOrderofSprouts]

Hence me checking 😂😂 this was a thought I had when I read somewhere about sealing doors etc and I was there going 'but how would
We breath 😳'

We live over the water from a large nuclear power station.

[SideOrderofSprouts]

I'm not daft I promise! 😂

[MerryMarigold]

LOL. I thought this was a house doer-upper thread. I'd rather go quick than starve to death or be very ill without medical care.

[cozietoesie]

Just enjoy having a basement and work out how you can best use it.