A home wall usually has 3 inches of empty space in it except where there are studs wires and pipes.
Homemade bulletproof wall panels.
That is to fill them with packed sand.
Our panels come in various sizes and can be used in your security wall panic room safe room or anywhere a ballistic protective barrier is desired or replacement for your wall board.
Inspired by an episode of myth busters i made up some test panels consisting of an assorted mix of polycarbonate and ceramic tile.
Of course there are some downsides to resitantial applications of kevlar panels.
Install bullet resistant fiberglass wall panels the dry inner wall will not protect you from bullets so remove them and instead install fiberglass wall panels.
Bulletproof safe rooms are actually made using fiberglass panels.
Bullet resistant fiberglass panels are made by saturating the mesh with resin.
Standard sizes can also make them great as kevlar door panels for providing post production bullet resistance to an existing door.
Here s my contribution to the mix.
There is one inexpensive way that you can make your walls at least somewhat bulletproof.
This provides high level bullet resisance.
Polycarbonate is the plastic layer used to make bullet resistant glass.
Typically 1 of fiberglass is used made up of three 3 8 thick panels.
Using multiple panels like this allows the installer to offset the seams improving the ballistic protection that the fiberglass provides.
But like the fiberglass panels it s going to be an expensive option.
Flat layers of this resin soaked mesh are then squeezed and baked by an industrial press.
The ul 752 listed bullet and blast protection composite panels our manufactured using a woven roving ballistic grade cloth that is manufactured in house.
Fiberglass panels come at different prices and one needs to choose one that corresponds to the threat faced.
He concluded that the best bullet resistant wall construction versus cost would be poured concrete filling the cavity between 2 x4 studs using 1 1 8 osb oriented strand board fastened to both sides followed by 5 8 gypsum.
The result is a hard dense rigid panel.
Body armor and armor panels.
The osb would be screwed to to the 2 4 s and used as a material strong enough to hold the poured concrete.
