What you need

Options:
How air is let in

1. Wall mount flange:
Do-it yourself with the included wall mount flange

2. Through the wall kit:
Use our easy-to-install kit to make a simple, clean installation

3. Register duct kit:
Easily attach your intake hose to an existing register duct

Options:
How air is let out

1. Use the existing structure: Air seeps out the cracks under doors and around windows - this is perfectly acceptable, as long as you maintain overpressure

2. Overpressure relief valve:
In a very well sealed protected space you will need to meter the outflow of air

Options:
In an emergency

1. Emergency hand pump
For long term power outages, you can draw safe, breathable air into your protected space through the filter banks of the Safe Cell

2. Auxiliary blower
This will automatically refresh the air in your protected space when you are not using it - and - it can double as a backup blower for your Safe Cell

3. Replacement filters
These can be installed after an event when your existing filters have done their job and become less effective because they are clogged with particles and gases that would be in your lungs if they were not captured by the filters of the Safe Cell

What you need to know

A safe room consists of an envelope (a room) that has a true NBC filtration/ventilation system installed that will maintain more air pressure inside the room than outside of it (overpressure) in order to constantly keep air bowing outward from the protected space. This will not allow airborne toxins from migrating back into the air you breath.

With the right equipment, standard residential construction - homes and apartments - can be a perfectly suitable envelope to keep out airborne toxins. Absolute sealing of the room is not necessary - as long as you have achieved and maintain overpressure.

Even if you are inside a hermetically sealed container, you need true ventilation - air in and air out. This ventilation continually removes heat, moisture, and carbon dioxide that is exhaled by the occupants while bringing in a fresh supply of oxygen-rich air.

This air must be filtered in order to make it safe and breathable. The best filter combination is a bank of pre-filters, an individually DOP scan tested nuclear grade HEPA for radioactive fallout and a nuclear grade carbon adsorber that will adsorb radioactive iodine.

All of the component necessary to do any kind of installation of a safe room is right here, waiting for you.

Critical things to consider

There's more:
the Pusher Mode

The Safe Cell has the ability to quickly and easily be mounted in an adjacent closet or under a cabinet. We call this the "pusher mode" because it is "pushing" air into your safe room (protected space).

Normally, the Safe Cell is mounted inside the protected space and the only hose required is the intake hose that connects to the bottom intake port. This allows you to quickly attach the emergency hand pump to the top output port and start manually drawing in filtered air - without leaving your protected space. This is a simple schematic of a normal installation:

But sometimes, you may wish to have a more discrete installation - hiding the fact that you have military grade protection from airborne toxins. That is why we made this simple kit that allows you to mount the Safe Cell in a closet or other adjacent space. This is a simple schematic of a pusher mode installation:

In the pusher mode mode, it is possible to mount the Safe Cell outside of the protected space, but we do not recommend this type of installation. All of our military sales and research into protected spaces used by militaries worldwide has shown that it is imperative that the occupants be able to have access to the filtration equipment from within the protected space. Access to the Safe Cell allows you to change filters, use the emergency hand pump, and quickly attach the auxiliary blower - if needed. It also gives you visible and audible feedback that the Safe Cell is functioning. Here's how a "pusher mode" installation looks:

Shown above is a Safe Cell mounted in a wall of one end of a walk-in closet in a bedroom. The air is drawn from outside the residence through the hose at the bottom left and expelled into the bedroom through the 90-degree fitting and the hose at the top right.

This entire installation took about a half-hour - from out of the box to hitting the "on" button. Anyone can do this with a few simple hand tools.