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The Secure Home Paperback – January 1, 1999

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This is the long awaited update of Mr. Skousen's original and popular work, The Survival Home Manual, last printed in 1982. It has a new title and is a near total rewrite--expanded from 300 pages to 700 pages. This book is intended to give you all the information you need to implement a high security and self-sufficient residence or retreat, from initial design strategy to shelter construction details. Mr. Skousen's design specialty is building high security, totally self-sufficient homes that are completely off-the grid. This massive volume shows you how to accomplish the complex process of integrating all of the security and self-sufficiency systems into a conventional structure. His unique multi-purpose, high security shelter designs allow a person to install a concealed safe room within a conventional home that offers complete live-in protection from tornadoes, hurricanes, fire, intrusion and nuclear fallout. These are self-contained with independent electrical power, water, food storage and communications and compact living facilities--all with convenient access from inside your own home. His voluminous lists of specific product and equipment recommendations, along with sources, will save you months of research. These lists are updated regularly on his website so that your copy of The Secure Home will never be out of date.
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    Swift Winds Books
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    January 1, 1999
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    1568610556
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1568610559
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Joel Skousen's books are highly sought after due to the great amount of hands-on experience he has in this field. His original Survival Home Manual was the pioneering work in the high security residential field, over 25 years ago. This completely new work, with an updated title (The Secure Home) is destined to replace his original work as THE definitive work in the field of self-sufficient and high security architecture.

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This book contains all of the design concepts and implementation details I use in my work. I have placed these valuable illustrations and descriptions in The Secure Home to help readers do all or part of their own design work. My work load has increased so much over the years that I only have time to consult on design now and must leave the detail design work to other designers or architects. This book provides the necessary details to help others do the implementation. This allows me to better serve hundreds of clients each year instead of a handful. I encourage a lot of do-it-yourself design and construction and thus have tried to develop many simply and inexpensive ways to provide security. With the online update of recommended equipment and products it saves me from having to revise the entire print edition to keep the book current.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Swift Winds Books; Fourth Edition (January 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 610 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568610556
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568610559
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.35 pounds
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Captain Kirk
5.0 out of 5 stars Well researched suggestions and specific advice
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023
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With potential nuclear war and resultant civil unrest , the authors provide specific advice on how to survive the unthinkable.We’re lucky to have retired to a safe little part of the nation that’s not even worthy of a Russian nuke, so survival of the initial fallout and continuing our lives in the absence of power, water, sewage and supermarkets will be crucial IF the unthinkable happens.
We appreciate our national leadership for inching us forward toward this mess , given that sensible alternatives and peace are available to those actually interested, as it seems as if our near peer adversaries do not seek Armageddon either.
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M C
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative book
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Good insights!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just WOW
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This book is very well written and covers topics well beyond my head. Lots of good information on remodeling and new construction. A good read even if you are not doing any of those things, if you are into preparedness.
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GreatBooksforyou
5.0 out of 5 stars An important resource for preparing for the future collapse
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013
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This book is worth its weight in gold! Almost!

If you are like I was, you might be thinking the price tag is quite expensive ($47).
But you can buy a half-priced version at the author's personal website:[...]
In fact I RECOMMENDED you do this not just for the price savings but also because if you buy his original $47, it is so poorly bound that the pages will start falling out of your book within the first week of taking it out of the package.
I purchased the pdf version and then printed the pages most interesting on my printer and then saved these in a 3-ring binder for later review and discussion with my wife.

I really like the author's suggested security procedures for the following:
* ARMED INTRUSION at home, at night
* ARMED INTRUSION during the day
* SEXUAL ASSAULT
* KIDNAPPING
* MOBS and SOCIAL UNREST
* UNJUSTIFIED OR ILLEGAL ATTACK BY GOVERNMENT AGENTS
* FIRE
* NUCLEAR WAR (Nuclear, Biological Or Chemical Attack)
* EARTHQUAKES, TORNADOES, and STORMS

I also liked the various floor plans that he provided in his book.

However there were a few minor typos and spelling errors in this book:
Page 95: "All he know.." should be "All he knows..."
Page 107: How control is the area by big corporations or government bureaucracies?
Perhaps this should be "How controlled...
Page 107: "Get a chart the local school district" should be "Get a chart of the local school district"
Page 110: "If your are retired..." should be "If you are retired..."

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Stewart P. Lewis
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting and worth the money
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2013
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The only issues I have with this book thus far are 1) during printing it would appear that ink was running low in a specific region of the press and thus text was faded throughout the book at one horizontal position and 2) there are numerous spelling/typos (but they are minor). I recommend this book to anyone looking to improve the security of their living environment. The book points out all sorts of pros and cons to common house designs, location, etc. in addition to methods for improving energy efficiency and the integrity of the structure to natural disasters as well as man-made ones.
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R. Mayor
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2009
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This book pretty much covers everything you would want to know about building or converting an existing home to a secure home. Everything from how to build bullet resistant walls, to Emp protection on your power grid. Also in the back of the book, The author gives a wonderful products list so the reader can research some of these great products and ideas for him or herself.

This is not a back to land book. It is not a "how to raise a goat" book. It is a book on how to protect yourself and family in your home from a variety of potential disasters whether natural, man made, or whatever else might come down your way.

Everyone I know that has this book loves it!
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Consumate Consumer
5.0 out of 5 stars Look no further
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2010
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This book is fabulously rich in detail, depth, graphics, and guidance. It is worth the price many times over, (do not compare it to the vapid fluff books out there, on that factor alone), and might turn out to be a bigger bargain than you would have thought.

You can utilize this from groundbreaking on a new structure, through to incremental upgrades on you present home.

End result will be attainment of your family's edge in dealing with a future that is changing fast, and proving to be far more challenging than most folks had envisioned for this point in time.
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John Shuman
5.0 out of 5 stars expensive but worth it
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2007
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This book will give an overview of home building from the self sufficient/survivalist viewpoint. It also touches on discrete ways of construction. Also briefly mentioned is some desired features of secure locations and the author's criterion for them. He also covers some of his philosophy. My only complaint is that he writes from a STRONG Christian perspective, almost but not quite to the point of prosceletysing. I am not a christian and have had experiences that give me to doubt that a strongly Christian region is always a good thing. However, this does not otherwise detract from the book's value and the Christian jingoism is virtually pointed out and can be screened out.
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Sheltagar
5.0 out of 5 stars Good info
Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2018
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