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Pete Kimbell

Preparedness Guide To Building A New Home

From Safe Rooms to Solar: A Practical Guide of Off-grid Concepts

Pete Kimbell

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Pete Kimbell
18 September 2025

Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Natural disasters; Home & house maintenance

Series: Preparedness

Preparedness Guide to Building a New Home - Build More Than a HouseBuild more than a house-build security, resilience, and peace of mind.

When most people think about building a home, they imagine floor plans, countertops, and paint colors. But a truly well-designed home is more than a place to live-it's a foundation for safety, comfort, and long-term stability. Preparedness Guide to Building a New Home helps you create a house that's as practical and durable as it is beautiful.

Drawing on years of construction knowledge and real-world preparedness experience, this guide walks you through every stage of building with resilience in mind. From choosing your land to installing utilities, every decision becomes an opportunity to make your home stronger, safer, and more self-sufficient.

Inside You'll Discover How To: ✅ Choose the right location - Understand elevation, drainage, and placement while avoiding hidden pitfalls like easements and land-locking.

✅ Design a resilient foundation - Plan basements for both safety and storage, incorporate safe rooms, and create utility spaces that stay dry and secure.

✅ Select strong structural options - Compare framing methods, design reinforced first-floor construction, and consider wraparound porches for shade and protection.

✅ Fortify your exterior - Choose fire-resistant siding, storm-ready shutters, reinforced doors, impact-rated windows, and roof access for safety and maintenance.

✅ Plan for efficiency and comfort - Balance insulation types, HVAC vs. mini-splits, and appliance selection with preparedness and energy efficiency in mind.

✅ Integrate essential storage - Build smart spaces for pantries, freezers, and refrigerators; dedicate rooms for food, water, and long-term supplies; and design mudrooms that support everyday use.

✅ Power your home reliably - Explore solar integration, propane generators, multiple electrical sub-panels, and fuel-storage strategies to keep systems running when the grid fails.

✅ Defend against fire and intrusion - Use rainwater-fed fire suppression, hard-wired perimeter alarms, motion sensors, exterior lighting, and security cameras to protect key areas.

✅ Design for family preparedness - Include safe rooms, water-storage spaces, and flexible utility areas that simplify daily life and emergency readiness.

Why This Book Is DifferentMost construction guides cover materials and methods but stop short of answering: What happens when the power goes out? When fire threatens? When the freezer must stay cold?

This book connects modern building practices with long-term resilience. You'll gain practical checklists, design ideas, and strategies that help you avoid costly mistakes and build a home that serves your family even under stress.

Who This Book Is For

Families building their forever home who want durability, efficiency, and reliability. Preppers and homesteaders seeking built-in resilience from the ground up. Homeowners wanting practical storage, security, and power solutions designed in-not added later. Anyone who values safety, sustainability, and self-sufficiency without giving up modern comfort.

Your home is more than shelter-it's your first line of defense, your hub for daily living, and your family's strongest safeguard. Build it right the first time-and build it to last.

Preparedness Guide to Building a New Home is your blueprint for creating a house that blends strength, safety, and smart design into every wall, room, and system.

By: Pete Kimbell
Imprint: Pete Kimbell
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9798349695179
Series: Preparedness
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 18 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pete Kimbell has built a life, and a career, around resilience, problem-solving, and creativity. For decades, he worked in IT service delivery and operations, leading teams through high-stakes challenges where keeping systems reliable under pressure was essential. That same mindset of preparation and calm leadership now fuels his mission as an author: helping individuals and families build the confidence to handle life's unexpected events.Pete's preparedness journey began in the Boy Scouts with the Emergency Preparedness merit badge, and it has been a guiding principle ever since. Today, he and his wife live in a fully off-grid, solar-powered home he designed and built himself-proof that preparedness can be both practical and sustainable. His three-book series, Preparedness for Your Way of Life, Preparedness Guide to Building a New Home, and Preparedness for the Hidden Battle, reflects his holistic approach, showing readers how to prepare their homes, their routines, and their mindset for whatever may come.Beyond writing and resilience, Pete is an advocate for cancer research, an outdoor enthusiast, and an amateur photographer who loves capturing the natural world. He's also an electronic engineer and lifelong tinkerer-an 8-bit computer enthusiast, a proud ""surfer"" of the personal computer revolution, and even a former Christmas light display extraordinaire. His adventures have taken him mountain climbing and far beyond the desk, blending curiosity, technical skill, and a love of discovery.At the heart of it all, Pete believes preparedness isn't about fear, it's about confidence, peace of mind, and protecting what matters most. Through his writing and his life, he inspires readers to find resilience not only in their homes and systems, but also in themselves.