ARMAGEDDON HOMES

A Story You Need To Read from the Owner

Why Choose An Armageddon Home?

A few years ago, clients asked me to crib and frame them a stunning modern style custom home on a mountainside overlooking beautiful Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. I drove up in the middle of a December snow storm and after surveying the northeast-facing slope surrounded by Ponderosa Pines, I urged them to please let me build them a solid concrete or ICF home instead, because I could see a hot summer firestorm racing over the ridge that would leave them with only minutes to escape.

Despite my warnings, they chose wood-frame construction, so they could save some money on structure and spend more on finishes. My crew and I then built them a beautiful industry standard wood frame home. Afterwards they finished the interior of the house off themselves and most probably filled it with precious photos and memories, hosted barbecues with family and friends while enjoying the breathtaking setting and view. Sadly less than 5 years later, I watched the Evening News in horror as their home—along with hundreds of others—was destroyed in a firestorm.

After the fire I drove up the mountain and sat in my truck staring at the burned out ruins. I thought about the hard work we put into cribbing and framing it, the huge waste of time, money, and materials. The irreplaceable loss of family memories. The miracle they got out alive. And the agonizing road ahead—battling insurance, government red tape, and deciding whether to rebuild or move on. I never reached out to them. What could I say… “I told you so?” They cheeped out on the structure to save money for finishes and then lost absolutely everything in minutes to an inferno.

What are your family and memories worth?

For the past 20 years I have designed and built hundreds of custom homes, mansions, modular, movable, multifamily, hotels, museums, apartment buildings and commercial projects for countless builders, developers, realtors and private clients across Alberta and BC. I had large crews of up to 125 guys plus trades and suppliers as we did multiple projects at the same time. My crews and I would excavate, survey, crib, frame, install roof, doors and windows, fences, decks, drives, walks and landscape and then hand them over a completed home so they could then go inside and finish the interior to their hearts content. I have designed and built homes in every conceivable construction method you can think of including Wood Frame, Post and Beam, Log, SIP panel, Prefabbed, Straw Bale, Rammed Earth, Steel Post and Beam, Solid Concrete, ICF and Concrete Sandwich Wall systems.

I was raised in a very extreme weather area where we regularly saw winds up to 106 miles per hour that would rip roofs off buildings and tip over tractor trailers that were driving on the highway. I remember driving home at night as a family from church as dad would be busting thru the snowdrifts on the highway with our van and the Snow drifts would often reach the height of the top of a houses where we live with extreme temperatures ranging from -40 Celsius in the winter, up to +40 in the summers. We would close the exterior wood shudders over our windows and I would lay awake at night listening to the wind shake the house as I waited for the windows to blow in. One evening I woke up to the unexpected extreme winds in the middle of November so I called my crews to rush to the framing site of a hotel we were framing up in our town. It was useless. You couldn’t stand in the wind and it would rip your car door off if you tried to open it. So we all stayed at our homes and waited it out. In the morning the wind had subsided and we came to work to find all the framed and sheathed walls we had stood and braced snapped in half, torn down and thrown about the jobsite like matchsticks. I combatted that by building in smaller sections with specialized sheer walls to try to avoid further destruction by more unexpected winds. Often we would build commercial shops or barns with telephone poles sunk into the ground and then strap down the roof trusses with metal straps to the telephone posts and frame our walls in between the telephone posts to try to make a durable survivable building. I had grown up in an extreme environment and had no choice but to learn to engineer, design and build to adapt to it.

I also invested in a U.S. Military Private Partnership Counter-Terrorism Training Company because I believe in protecting Democracy above all else. It was while we were training the US Military that I realized the concept of combining Elite Counter Terrorism Security with cutting-edge Architecture to enhance fireproof, tornado-proof, hurricane-proof, and criminal-proof custom homes and mansions, so families never have to experience the devastation of the Okanagan and Palisades firestorms. I have designed and built at least 65 Solid Concrete and ICF Homes and buildings in a variety of Architectural styles with multiple levels and in all sizes from 1500 square feet to well over 10,000 square feet.

The majority of building companies you encounter will be run by Realtors, Developers, Investors and Architects who are at the mercy of their Trades and Suppliers because they have never picked up a hammer in their lives and have no idea what it is like to stand on trusses 50 feet in the air in the middle of winter flying roof trusses in with a crane on a mansion. That is why on my regular website https://brucebrady.com/ and YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@brucethebuilder you can see me designing and building in all kinds of weather and all styles of builds so you know I can design and build you a stunning, secure Armageddon Home anywhere in the World and better than anyone else on earth.

I do not ever take photos, videos, share plans or addresses of any of my full Armageddon homes. It remains a confidential partnership between each client and myself. We sit together and design based on an evaluation of your needs. Then we sign an NDA so no one will ever know you have an Armageddon Home and what it’s capabilities are.

I hope this letter answers a few more of your questions. Enjoy some videos below of one of my wood frame mansions, an urban solid ICF build and a rural hybrid ICF/wood build. I look forward to working with you.

Sincerely Bruce the Builder