We need to discuss it. Is the Average American home indefensible with the wooden frame and large glass windows. How difficult/expensive would it be to build a home from stone? How do you fortify a home to be able to handle any threat that isn't the federal government?
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This made me look up how expensive bordering my house with it would be and I found this stuff
Which seems sick. It got me curios if that stuff could be compressed hydraulically first then welded shut keeping that pressure if it would increase the ability to stop bullets.
>How difficult/expensive would it be to build a home from stone?
It would be more expensive than building with wood truss, asphalt roof and plascrete siding.
But if you're doing all the labor yourself to bake limestone into quicklime and split stones from the nearby outcrop, that will take about ten years of labor.
That's a cool castle. This is the interior.
Even has a sex dungeon in the basement.
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it's german so yeah
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Used to be even cooler, for some reason they got rid of the water
>topplerschlösschen
>fall-over castle
fricking krauts
>UND JAH, DER SCHLOSSCHEN FLOSSCHEN DAS APPEARSCHWARZEN TO GERFALLOVEN BEETHOVEN. DAS IST MUCHEN LOGICALLENSCHWALLEN.
it's called toppler castle because that's the name of the guy who built it 800 years ago
horseshit
>hans why du dist callen der topplerschlossen! eine franken already das thinken wer das laughengerstocken!
>scheisser claus! pretended das ist du nachnamer!
>das candleshinen hans! besten ideageschaffen ist everch herden!
you're not fooling anyone grunhilda.
Your german ist hervorragend. Where did you lern it?
thank you. i spent many years in pointekhillen-ost-der-polenhangin-treeee-am-rhein.
Looks homey, and it's clearly pretty bare right now. Get some paint or wallpaper, a rug or two, and you'd be good to go.
>How do you fortify a home to be able to handle any threat that isn't the federal government?
You don't. You call the police.
>You don't. You call the police.
When seconds count, they are minutes away. Oh and the courts have already clearly stated they have no obligation to help you no matter the circumstances.
>Is the Average American home indefensible with the wooden frame and large glass windows.
I'd say so against any group expecting a fight and willing to take some casualties to take the objective.
> How difficult/expensive would it be to build a home from stone?
Depends. How easy is it to get stone in your area? Home built slip form masonry is a thing but they're using stone from the site usually.
>How do you fortify a home to be able to handle any threat that isn't the federal government?
Insulated concrete forms built the way Jeff Cooper laid out in his defensive home architecture article probably. Thorny plants beneath any window large enough for a person coupled with security film. Double doors at entry's in a man trap like Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels. Metal roof.
Im planning on building an earthbag home which will then be layeredwith adobe. While not as sturdy as rock it can definitly stop small caliber bullets better than just plywood walls with drywall. Also thinking about kind of digging it into the ground more so it is essentially a hobbit hole that I am going to have a turf covered roof. Should be pretty good, and earthbag homes are pretty cheap to make as well. My only concern with it is going to be the plumbing and electrical.
>How do you fortify a home to be able to handle any threat that isn't the federal government?
ICF my dude. It can add as little as 5-10% to the overall build cost of a house and in return you get walls with a core of 4-8" (more if you want it) of reinforced concrete.
>Bulletproof
>Disaster resistant
>Non-flammable
>No worries about rot or termites
>Extremely well insulating
My house is ICF with an 8" core, we've got security film and shutters over the windows and all exterior doors (as well as bedroom doors) are hardened. There's a wall around the property margin, garden plants were chosen with security in mind and we've got an alarm system than can run even if grid power is cut.
I'm honestly pretty confident that my wife and I could hold this position against anyone without a bearcat or breaching charges.
>How difficult/expensive would it be to build a home from stone?
thinking about it wrong. insulated concrete forms are pretty much ideal. ballistic resistance of 4-6" of concrete, insulation of another 6" of foam. nothing for termites to eat, nice and quiet and stable.
What sort of rounds will will ICF stand up to?
I've got 6" of concrete then 4" of insulating form and finally 1" brick veneer. Obviously the brick ain't stopping shit on its own but I've always wondered whether it would be enough to destabilize bullets before they hit the concrete. Reckon that'd be the case or not?
>I've got 6" of concrete then
the concrete will stop pretty much anything from .30 AP and down. the brick means the concrete layer will take a lot less damage from most stuff. I don't think it'll make it suddenly 50BMG resistant, but everything else will be less effective.
Step 1. Move to a location where the federal government is the only likely threat.
Step 2. The best defense is a good offense.
>How difficult/expensive would it be to build a home from stone?
Wouldn't concrete and cinder blocks be easier?
Extremely, and you can get slabs that they can bolt together to make walls.
How long do concrete constructions last? It'd be nice to build something that'll last hundreds of years.
Depends on concrete and environment. The main problem is that the metal rebar will eventually rust and break apart the concrete, like the Surfside Condo.
Just use stainless steel rebar then
Stainless is way more expensive and will expand/contract with temperature more than normal rebar.
>How difficult/expensive would it be to build a home from stone?
Limestone butter sticks are cheap. Esp in Texas. But your house would look pretty rustic. Sadly, most stone in the US is cut into sheets to veneer the outsides of concrete or wood structures.
With concrete production contributing about 7% of global carbon emissions, going back to stone masonry from local quarries is an easy policy win. Why crush up limestone, burn it in a furnace, ship the cement, mix it on a site, and then pour it as concrete? All for a block that's about 60% as strong as natural limestone? For smaller buildings like houses and apartments it makes zero sense. It's an artifact of 20th century modern architects wanting to do away with everything old and embrace new materials.
Thats cool. I assume you stay put in the stone part when the house part gets torched. Maybe it has an escape tunnel for prolonged siege.
More likely they just didn't expect it to get torched.
Solid beams of wood don't ignite easily, especially if you're limited to firing arrows with flaming rags tied to the end while the people inside pour buckets of water out the top floor windows. Oil was relatively expensive back in the day as was glass so you wouldn't be hurling molotovs around unless you really thought it'd be worth it. Not to mention the risk of getting shot while you approach close enough to throw whatever clay pot you've rigged together up to the wooden floors.
>Is the Average American home indefensible with the wooden frame and large glass windows.
it's a shitty starting point, but significant upgrades are easy. first, see that you have a sturdy door, a sturdy door frame, sturdy hinges, a sturdy bolt and a sturdy strike plate. those parts are often made of the thinnest material and held together with the tiniest screws. even just replacing small screws with big-ass screws makes a huge difference.
I've got a granddad who lives in a house built several decades ago. It's built out of concrete blocks with a nice brick facade. Old enough the ceiling tiles are probably still asbestos. Short of a bomb or an armored car, that house will stand up to just about anything.
The windows would still be a problem, though. That's where stuff like pic related would probably come in handy.
What is this book, please?
I'd like to get a copy
I wish I could tell you. Some other anon posted that cap months ago and I saved it, because I'd had an even older version of that particular page for quite some time.
Defensive architecture is almost hard banned; your city will not issue permits for anything effective. Then there’s the HOAs demanding a wide open lawn that any feral Black person cam stroll on to pitch his swisher sweets wrapper or any neighbors dog can wander up and shit on, and any (every) ring camera on your block can have multiple overlapping views of your property of at all times in 4k.
>city
>HOA
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Great for some inner walls
Very cute towerhouse; I wish I lived in one
Offense is the best defense. Get yourself an 81mm mortar, put some servos and a homemade autoloader on it, and mount it on your roof. Get some drones set up to patrol around your house, run the drone footage through a computer, and use them to fire mortar rounds at anything that moves on your property. Poorgays can settle for a 40mm grenade launcher set up like a mortar instead
>tall fence
>deep ditches
Simple as. A modern fence is practical in all manners of defense and privacy and if something goes bad and the legality of what you can and can't do becomes questionable it can easily be fortified more. Yet people refuse to put them up and instead opt into doing meme shit TO their house instead of outside it.