What a genuine panic room build actually costs to install

Diagram of layered security around an artwork: perimeter, building shell, interior zone, display or store, and the object

Last month I quoted a job in Toorak where the client had already been given a figure by another outfit: $18,000, turnkey, done in a fortnight. I walked the site, looked at the wall construction and the existing door frame, and told them the real number was closer to four times that. They weren’t happy […]