Rafter C Dirt And Dozer

The installation itself went well. Initially the manufacturer if the tornado shelter had the size wrong. While there are "standard sizes" this installation required a modification that wasn't done and wasn't checked by the Rafter C folks prior to delivery so they had to take it back and get a rerplacment. I don't know who made the error but I saw the order was correct so I'm putting it on the manufacturer though Rafter C should have measured before it arrived I guess. Anyway the new shelter came 3 weeks after that and after some maneuvering they managed to get it in the garage and positioned. The rest of their portion of the install went well and the building inspector initially signed off on it. He called them back later and because he had decided a vent needed to be sealed. This wasn't Rafter C's fault as the installation was the first of this type they had done and that the city had inspected. We are preparing a response on sealing the vent and expect it to be accepted today. I bought locally because I wanted to know the people doing the installation and paid more because of that. An out of town company would have made any adjustments such as the vent more difficult but buying locally limited my choice of manufacturer and I had to pay more to have the door swing changed top inward opening. In a tornado debris can land anywhere including against a shelter door making and outward opening door just silly. Changing that swing cost me $500. I wanted to shelter to be accessible from inside the house without having to dig a hole in my garage floor - again a dumb indea, who knows what will land on top of that kind of shelter exit following a tornado - or add a pad outside that would look tacky and not be useful when we aren't sheltering from a storm. Other providers - out of the local area - offered such options but I was the first to ask for such a thing here. I had removed my traditional hot water heater in favor of a tankless model opening a space large enough in the garage. The shelter had to be 4" shorter than the standard model which cost nothing as they are all built as needed and I've already addressed the door swing costs which I felt were excessive. Putting it in the garage created the vent issue as you can't have a constantly open air exchange from a garage to the house, particularly the bedroom area, We'll seal that and install a carbon monoxide alarm to make sure all is well. The installation could have gone better but for a one of a kind first of a kind job I thought Rafter C did well.