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i havent seen anything mentioning closet doors bedroom doors etc. they are just as sturdy as construction wood and are much better used to protect the outside then the inside

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I must seem like an idiot for just recently realizing this, but I decided to take a look at just how much lumber is currently being used to separate backyards. Well, in my current situation, there is over 6 miles worth of lumber sitting right inside my BOL, and I didn't even realize it. With this amount of lumber, I can wrap my BOL 3 times over in lumber, not including the brick wall that sits there now. And while wood isn't the strongest of materials, it would be good for a temporary fix, and, with it's abundance in just about any suburb, when repairs are needed, supplies wouldn't be hard to come by.

Anyone else thought of this, do I seem stupid for taking this long to find the barricading gold mine that was right infront of my face the entire time, thoughts?

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What do you guys think about filling garbage bags with dirt or soil to make barricades.

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anything can work

Zombies are stupid and slow not like the running zombies in movies

A barricade doesn't need to be bullet proof, but if your afraid of other humans then keep reenforcing as you find new material

use a Car if possible to block doors or windows

use the furnature in your home

old tires if you got them

rebar sindar blocks and concrete to make a stone wall

wood, chain, wire

start by locking the doors, then put something infront of them
shut all windows and nail them shut or board them up if possible
I recomend watching dawn of the dead and night of the living dead the origanls not the remakes

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Here's the link: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7067464/description.html
Whatever surface you spray this stuff on becomes slicker than wet ice.
Not too sure how easy it is to get, but if you've got some nobody's gonna get near you.

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Exterior Barricades:
I'd stick with chain link, due to ease of installation and construction. A properly installed chain link fence is not going to fall over like the one's in the movies. I would however make my chain link fencing a double row, about 8 feet apart, with concertina wire laced in between them and topped with barbed wire.

If you've ever constructed a sand bag wall of any height or width, you'd know just how much effort and not to mention sand (dirt) is required to build one. Masonry walls are just as bad, due to the extensive foundation work required to make them stable.

Interior Barricades:
Can really be anything. You can cover plywood with sheet metal for a very robust barricade. Plywood can also be made extremely tough, just be using an old construction method of crossing the grains. You take three thin sheets of plywood and lay the first sheet down. The second sheet is cut in half and then their rotated, so the grain of the wood goes perpendicular to the bottom sheet. The plywood is glued to each other with construction glue. Then the third sheet of plywood is glued on top of the second layer. Once these sheets are glued and cured, this new-engineered plywood is tougher than hell to break apart.

You can also use chain link gating in a building for securing hallways and / or stairways.

I’ve even thought, that given time you could make a drawbridge type of stairway for access to your second floor. Once you’re up there for the night, you just draw up the stairs and drop them again in the morning.

Windows/Doors:
I’d just nail and bolt chain link with tension bars, over the outside of the first floor windows. That way I could still open them for ventilation.

For doors I’d use chain link gating to cover them and on the inside I’d have 3/8 inch steel drawbars to jam the door in its frame. You’d need a battering ram to dislodge the door

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In short sections (less than 10 feet), 440 cable really is pretty stiff, making it POTENTIALLY useful as a barrier over short opening (most widows, being especially targeted).
Of course, I could be wrong, which is why I made a discussion about it FIRST…

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I bequeath to each and every one of you a building, as big as you want and built of what ever material you want, but crippled with the LARGE, EASILY BROKEN windows skin jobs will probably break through without even meaning to, and as much scaffolding as you request.
YOUR JOB: To take the scaffolding, WITHOUT CUTTING A SINGLE PIPE, to seal up the building and make it reasonably secure in preparation for a larger rebuild or rescue operation.
Begin.

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