NPM 24: Safe House Group wants to Build your Secret Safe Room!

It's hard to believe, folks, but the month is, like, screaming towards an end. September, National Preparedness Month. Probably one of the best decisions I've made in a long time was to knock these lives out here on Instagram, Rumble and X. Turn them into podcasts, meet some amazing people. Man, it's been great. I hope you guys have enjoyed it as much as I have, you know? And just so you know... You can go to PrepperBroadcasting.com. They're all labeled NPM. So you can listen to the NPMs 1 through 24 after tonight's. And if you missed any, man, go back and listen to them because a lot of people showed up with great information and some even showed up with good deals. So, you know, it's a special month and it's hard to keep people kind of focused and locked in on preparedness all through the month of September. For us, typically, you know, we have Prepper Camp in September, so it's always a big month. But this month is different, right? We had it in August this year. So to keep everything rolling, yeah. Just hang on. That's all I can tell you. Two new shows coming on PBN, by the way, tomorrow. You will see Could You Survive? Could You Survive? It's going to be a really fun show. You guys are going to love it. Then we're going to roll through October right into– The release of the Preppers Black Friday catalog, our annual special. So before you know it, man, it'll be 2027. Before you know it, it'll be 2030. Before you know it, we'll all be dead in a coffin, mourned by the children and the loved ones. So you better enjoy this life while you got it. We got Scott Rose with us today from Safe House Group, LLC. And we're going to talk about the fortification of. Life, I mean largely. The fortification of things in general, right? Scott, how are you doing this. Evening, man? Good. How are you doing, James? I'm doing great, man. It's been a long day, but in a good way. I'm sure you probably. Understand that, right? Absolutely. Well, you'll be sleeping about five minutes with a smile on your face when you finally get to the bed. Yes, absolutely. It's one of those days. So I found you guys over on Instagram, the Safe House group. And, uh, you're one of those companies, man, that, uh, well, maybe you're not one of those companies because you do a lot. And when I first saw what you did over there, I was thinking bunkers, but it seems like you do, uh, well, fortification of all things. So maybe, maybe explain to the audience kind of what safe house is into, um, in this crazy world. Sure. So, uh, safe house evolved, uh, from my father's architecture firm. Um, which I've been working at for over 20 years now myself. And we did panic rooms, safe rooms, hidden spaces, hidden compartments for clients over those years. And as time has gone on, the demand has grown to a point where we decided to make its own entity, which is Safe House Group. It started out with panic rooms and safe rooms and converting our clients' primary walk-in closets and bedrooms into fortified spaces. I like that. Yeah. That's a reasonable thing that I feel like a lot of people can afford. You know what I mean? Yes. And with these bunkers or these rooms, the sky's the limit when it comes to amenities and cost. It really comes down to how much money you want to spend, what's the threat that you're trying to prevent, and how long do you want to be able to sustain in this space until help can arrive. But it has also evolved. We also do fortification of other spaces, such as clients' wine collections or watch collections, car collections. We do it for gun rooms, gun safes, and display rooms. Makes sense. Yep. I'm one of those people. I'm a gun collector, and I love to look at what I've collected over the years instead of seeing it in a safe, so I built a space of my own. And now I can go into a room that is fully secured and away from my kids and my family, so I can safely view these items and go to bed at night knowing that no one's getting into it. I bet your gun room is pretty cool. The architect builds a gun display room. That's got to be pretty sweet. Yes, it was a labor of love that I actually built myself with my own hands. So it was a great experience to really test certain products that I've seen online over the years. I've fallen in love with certain products and fallen out of love with certain products. Fair enough. It was a great learning experience. And now I can go to my clients and recommend various products and create these spaces turnkey, essentially. So whenabouts did you guys kind of go, I'm guessing maybe 2020, but correct me if I'm wrong. Whenabouts were you guys like, you know, we're doing a lot of these panic rooms, man. Maybe we should think about, you know, doing this separate entity. Yeah, so it happened probably three or four years ago. So one of my other things that I do is executive protection. So I work for a company out here on Long Island. I've been doing it for about seven or eight years now as an armed executive protection agent. And I saw what the clients are looking to protect, not just their families, but the items and their artwork and their wine. Yeah, you get that. And saw that there was a void. As a guard, personally, you can only watch over things so much. Oh, of course. It really helped the security guards as well, knowing that there's a secure room for the clients or their property to be in. So now we can, as the security guards, can focus on the threat. Yeah. So I merged the two. Yeah, it's great. I mean, hey, experience on all levels, right? Yep. So who reaches out to you? How do they find out about you and who reaches out to you? Do you have a client base from your architecture work or is it the Instagram presence? Where do you guys kind of find your clients? We get a lot of our clients right now from our architecture business because most of our homes that we do for our clients have something that's relatable to our company. Okay. Um, and then we get a lot of recommendations. We do a lot of, um, work with law enforcement, uh, because a lot of the police officers, they also have gun collections that they want to display. So when we go and do training at a range, you meet new people that are gun enthusiasts and they want a gun room now and it grows from there. And it could be as something as simple as I have a safe in my house. It's taking up space. Let's build a custom hidden cabinet. so now it's a little bit it's a fun feature. I get it yeah so do you do like hardening of the home as well that kind of stuff door armor and yeah I think you mentioned ballistic it's called that heat adhesive stuff for the windows. Yeah so we're working with a couple of companies now on testing out a ballistic rated window film clear film that would in theory be applied to an existing window and could also in theory be a bullet resistant level up to a level three. We're still in testing on that side. I will hopefully have more information on that probably in November-ish. But schools are definitely interested in that concept because to be able to go into an existing building and not have to rip out a window to provide a level to an existing structure That is not so invasive. That's huge. That is huge. The need for this stuff spans all kinds of businesses now, huh? Yes. Healthcare, government buildings, police stations, hospitals, hotels, retail stores for smash and grabs. Businesses with large storefronts. When you looked at during COVID, all the rides that happened in cities, bricks through windows, and then. Take what you want. Yeah. So to be able to put these films over these windows helps deter some of these break-ins. Nothing's perfect. Everything comes down to time, essentially. And that's the biggest thing. Time is your greatest enemy. Of course. Yeah. So nothing's perfect. And I tell my clients, with enough time and money and resources, I can break into just about anywhere. Yeah, right. Exactly. Exactly. Well, look, guys listening over there at Instagram, each show we've had a link. This show we have a link so you can go over to the services page at safehousegroupllc.com. and you'll see that if you're listening to what we're talking about here and you're kind of thinking, like, they might solve a problem that I need solved, there's a free initial consultation where... I'm sure you'll talk to Scott or one of his employees, and they'll sort of figure out what you want and if they can do it for you, right? Is that what that initial consult's all about? Absolutely. If it's within a certain distance from our shop, we will do it in person. And if not, we can conduct it over Zoom. We're able to service nationwide. And you said you're in Long Island, right? Yes, we're in Southampton, New York, which is the end of Long Island. But we have clients up and down the East Coast. Sounds like a good resource, folks, you know, to have a group like you who's, you know, you guys seem pretty open to almost whatever a person brings to you idea-wise, right? I don't know if you want to talk about the garage we were talking about before the show started, just to give people an idea that you're capable of something like that, too. Yes. So one of our extreme bunkers, if you will, is for an avid car collector. The house is relatively close to the ocean. And the client wishes to bring a handful of vehicles from Europe to his summer house out here. But given its proximity to the salt air and the water, we need to protect these vehicles long term. So we do it underground. And due to the groundwater, we now build it like a submarine. So it's concrete. We have pumps. We have three car elevators that drop down into three. Oh, cool. Vault doors, submarine doors, blast-resistant doors, you name it. It has its own generator system because if the house goes out of power because it's hooked up to natural gas, you need to be able to pump the water out in an emergency so those cars do not get a nick on those things. Some of those cars are worth north of $ 10 million each. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Blast doors for sure then. Yep. Yeah. That's pretty cool, man. Do you get a lot of, uh, or do you get standard sort of like a backyard bunker storm shelter stuff, or is that less common for you? That is less common for us in particular. Um, not to say that that hasn't been done. Um, if it, if someone came to us wanting an underground, essentially a storm shelter, tornadoes and things like that, um, Depending on its location and its features, we would either, A, do it ourselves, or if it gets too complex, we can partner with other firms out there. I know there's another one. I got you. Atlas Bunkers. Yeah. That's in these underground facilities. So we can help coordinate that and be the quarterback, if you will, for these systems. So where you guys like to stick is with the sort of rooms within homes. That seems to be like. yeah what you do the most of and probably what you do the best. Correct it could be as simple as speccing out a a wall safe for a watch collector having it into a built-in uh nook with a hidden panel behind it in your walk-in closet uh to these extreme underground garage bunkers. And everything in between yeah do you guys do like uh will you take a room and sort of make it disappear on the floor plan, something like that, so that that room becomes, you know, like a big safe room type of thing? Yes. So what we started doing on the architecture side years ago was if a client knew that they wanted some sort of safe room, a panic room or hidden feature, a secured storage room of sorts, that room on our drawings initially was, would be drawn as a mechanical space or a void, chase, or anything else. Oh, I see. Enable it, draw it differently, submit for building permits differently. So your square footage is there. And then we would change how you get into the space. We would change everything about it. So at the end of the day, because of the Freedom of Information Act, someone could go to the local building apartments and foil that home's plans. And if I wrote faith room or panic room on it, don't know what that is. Yeah. Yeah. How weird that you could do that, right? Look at the layout of someone else's home and find out where they're hiding. Yeah. It's creepy. We go to great lengths to protect our clients. You know, even as simple as labeling a room differently on the drawings initially when we submit for a building permit. Yeah. Something small, but. Yeah, it makes a world of difference. You have somebody who knows what they're doing, knows what to look for, right? Absolutely. Man. Everything's a thing, Scott, isn't it? Everything has layers. It's fun to talk to people like you who get down into the nitty-gritty of all of that. Yeah. I love it. Like I said, I took the best of both worlds from the architecture and the executive protection, merged it into one. Yeah. I'm literally doing what I love to do every single day. You're the man for the job, man. Thank you. Yeah, definitely. So folks website is a safe house group, LLC.com. You can get to that, uh, link. If you're in Instagram right now, you can get to that link into show notes later. Once the shows, if you're listening to us via podcast, um, and you know, have you always wanted that thing that, that safe room, that, i mean everybody wants a gun storage closet who doesn't who doesn't want their ars on display and handguns and all that kind of stuff it's cool um well scott i appreciate you coming on today and telling us all about safe house yeah we'll uh we'll be talking more about safe house on pbn you're going to hear about them we'll keep them in your uh in your target reticle for a while so that you you remember hey maybe i should take that initial consult and make that call and see if they can do what I've been always wanting done in my space. So I appreciate your time, sir. Thanks for joining us tonight in the national preparedness month. Yes. Thank you again for having me. This has been a great, great evening. Yeah, no problem. No problem. 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