More prep thoughts?

Mary Stetler

Mary Stetler

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I have been kicking the idea around of having an emergency insulated shed that one could just unfold if the power went out. Could even be indoors if not flat on the ground. We have a large closed area in the basement lined with cedar. My thought was to use 3 inch rockwool panels in wood frames. There are some foil backed panels that don't collapse. If the design worked, it could be a commercial product. Many of those out there.
But today I found that some of the panels could contain formaldehyde.
So much to consider and research.
 
Would that be for emergency winter shelter @Mary Stetler ? You would have to have a heat source that would be vented o the outside. I set things up a bit like that with a cold cellar, but that was outside the house. I don't use that now as it got infested with mice when I tried to store stuff in there, but I do have an insulated shed outside the house that has a wood stove for heat and cooking. It is a possible alternative shelter should the house be damaged by an earthquake.
 
Don Alaska said:
Would that be for emergency winter shelter @Mary Stetler ? You would have to have a heat source that would be vented o the outside. I set things up a bit like that with a cold cellar, but that was outside the house. I don't use that now as it got infested with mice when I tried to store stuff in there, but I do have an insulated shed outside the house that has a wood stove for heat and cooking. It is a possible alternative shelter should the house be damaged by an earthquake.
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Equal parts of baking soda and corn muffin mix has had a devastating effect on mice in the barn
but you have to change it as they pee in it.
yuk.
 
Marie Miller said:
Can you not reinforce an interior room and have emergency heat/light? How about a general generator?
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Not to worry. Although I was thinking of this for an emergency fold out for an interior room. I over prep in my head. I have two fireplaces at hubby's house. Two wood stoves in my barn house. And a generator in my barn (although I probably could not pull start it myself.) I just sometimes think back on New Years day when our furnace quit and no one in town had one to sell us. It was 18 below. Not sure I want to do that again.
 
I guess you've seen the 4x8 sheets of foam/polystyrene insulation they sell. Here is a link to the Lowes website search results for them. Link

Max R Value is 10, costs $67. R Value of 7.8 is $30. That's not much for -16°F temps. They are very light. I made an insulating box for my attic stairway opening with them. You use foil duct tape on the seams. I would imagine you could sandwich them together with wood frames. I'm not conversant enough to know if having an air gap between 2 sheets would be more beneficial than sandwiching the boards together to make them one thick piece.

Or you could get lower R Value 4x8 sheets for under $15 and use them as lightweight walls to sandwich high-R Value rolled insulation in between, and might be able to find something lighter than wood 2x4s to use as the frame, if you would even need a frame. There's lots of ways to sandwich together the inner and outer boards with sandwiched insulation using toggle bolts, tie wraps, etc and insulating the holes...it would make for light-weight insulated wall sections.
 
Mary Stetler said:
Not to worry. Although I was thinking of this for an emergency fold out for an interior room. I over prep in my head. I have two fireplaces at hubby's house. Two wood stoves in my barn house. And a generator in my barn (although I probably could not pull start it myself.) I just sometimes think back on New Years day when our furnace quit and no one in town had one to sell us. It was 18 below. Not sure I want to do that again.
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And I can feed a crowd straight out of the pantry. No need to discuss the rest publicly.
 
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