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Home Depot Marketing Storm-Safe Room From Dupont
 CNNMoney.com reported last week that Home Depot is test marketing Dupont’s StormRoom™ in Houston and other locations in Texas. Reinforced with KEVLAR®, the rooms are designed to withstand strong winds from tornadoes and hurricanes.
Dupont and Home Depot are both members of the National Council of the Housing Industry — The Supplier 100 of NAHB.
The Dupont StormRoom can be added to an existing home or incorporated into the design for a new home, according to the manufacturer.
The room has been designed to endure wind speeds of up to 250 miles per hour, and Dupont said that in independent impact tests it withstood repeated hits by building timbers fired at speeds equivalent to those experienced in Category 5 hurricanes and F5 tornadoes.
 The rooms are reinforced with KEVLAR®, the same fiber that is used in bullet-resistant vests, Dupont said. Pound for pound, it is five times stronger than steel.
The Storm Room is solidly anchored to concrete foundations with chemically-set anchors strong enough to help resist the wind uplift generated by the most powerful storms.
The room can be created in any wall length from 4 feet to 12 feet as a customized system or a standard size. Equipped with a security door and keypad, the safe room is a fully functional living space. The room is ventilated and electricity, plumbing and a few finishing touches can be added for the space to double as an extra closet, powder room or even a wine cellar.
The room can be installed in less than one day by an authorized Dupont installer, and in new construction it can be installed without interrupting the building cycle — from bare slab through framing or drywall.
For more information on the StormRoom, click here, e-mail Dupont or call 800-448-9835.
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