YouTube star Colin Furze wowed viewers when he revealed his garden shed to be much much more than meets the eye.
From the outside it just looks like any other garden shed that Britain's men are proud to spend all of their spare time in, to get away from the wife. A small space, usually smaller than the living or bedroom, but it's his and his alone.
Some men use their sheds to store tools, gardening equipment and other man stuff. Others convert their sheds into man caves with TV's and bars and refrigerators. While most of us just use them to dump the christmas decs or bikes we promised we'd use to get fit when it's been sunny for 3 days in May and next-door all go out on a family cycle looking like Chris Hoy, while I'm sat with a pot noodle and four cans of Carlsberg watching the match feeling sorry for myself.
But YouTube star and inventor, Colin Furze, took the idea of the typical garden shed and multiplied it by a million and created the mother of all man caves underground, with the shed the access point.
Colin Furze isn't new to these incredible feats, and has since gone on to create another underground bunker by the seaside, disguised as a small sea-shed used to store brollys and
deck chairs in.
In fact Furze has a host of inventions and mergers which make watching his YouTube channel a joy to anybody interested in engineering and creation.
From flamethrowing guitars to actual real-life platform shoes and beyond, there isn't much this budding British inventor hasn't done.
But back to the shed - or bunker. Furze completed the project as part of a sponsorship deal with Sky in 2015 for their programme 'You, Me and the Apocalypse' and teased that it cost around the price of a nice family saloon car (so about £35k give or take) in a '5-years on' update he posted in March 2020.
The bunker sits 3 meters (10 feet) underground and is accessed by a hidden ladder in the shed at the bottom of the garden. Furze's apocalypse bunker measures in at 4.9 meters by 6 meters (16 feet by 20 feet) and is kept att around 12c all year around by way of self ventilation.
Inside the bunker, which after 5-years still looks exactly as it was left by the creator, there sits an ejector bed, a 3D printer, a large flat-screen TV with fully-functioning Sky Sports set up. A drum kit, wall of inventions, kitchen with working water supply, tinned food, party room and of course a work bench for any future projects the inventor wishes to work on.
In the video update posting around the time the UK went into lockdown following the coronavirus outbreak, Colin Furze explained that he wanted to"extend it and put a proper bathroom in", as that is currently missing. But the problems he faces are that since the bunker was completed there have been new houses built behind his home, meaning using the necessary equipment may be that bit more difficult.
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