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Building Bunker Villa on a budget using Quonset Hut structure

Filmed by Kirsten Dirksen on her channel. This is the documentary that introduced a lot of people to Viking Shelters.

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What we build, in a few minutes.

Have You Considered Building an Underground Bunker/Shelter?

3 min · 3,500 views

Inside Viking Shelters: Face-to-Face Discussion of Our Latest Viking Shelters Design Underground

8 min 42 sec · 1,600 views

What I Learned from Building My Own Underground Shelter

3 min · 826 views

Building the tunnel

From first arch to shotcrete.

Underground Viking Shelters DIY Tunnel System — Stage #1

8 min 23 sec · 3,700 views

Step by Step Viking Shelters Underground Build Out!

12 min 19 sec · 2,800 views

Shotcreting Underground Building with no rebar — SteelX Microsteel

8 min 26 sec · 1,500 views

Shotcrete Day!

15 sec · 6,100 views

Quonset huts

Up, sprayed, ready for backfill.

Construction of 30x35FT Underground Quonset Hut Shelter

47 sec · 40,000 views

Concrete Quonset Hut Underground Shelter (First Layer of Rebar)

47 sec · 8,900 views

Concrete Quonset Hut Underground Shelter (First layer of Shotcrete)

1 min 34 sec · 7,400 views

Quonset Hut Underground Shelter Built in 2010 — Before Backfill

1 min 1 sec · 3,200 views

Tours

Finished shelters, lived in for years.

Tour of Quonset Hut Underground that 2 Women Have Lived Full-Time for 13 Years

23 min 50 sec · 733,000 views

In-Depth Tour of Quonset Hut Underground Built in 2011

14 min 55 sec · 592,000 views

Tour of Finished Concrete Quonset Hut Underground Shelter

2 min 11 sec · 3,700 views

Builds Quonset bunkers for a living. Lives in Dome Home in the woods

20 min 9 sec · 240,386 views

Questions & answers

Dave answers the big questions.

Face To Face Introduction — Building Your Own Quonset Hut Underground

9 min 34 sec · 4,300 views

Could You Live Underground for 13 Years??

1 min 1 sec · 2,600 views

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