Preparedness, sourced
Skavinger does two things. We publish household preparedness references written for one country at a time, where every legal, safety and infrastructure claim traces to a named primary source and carries the date it was checked. And we build WORLDVIEW, a live globe that shows you what is moving overhead right now.
The books
Preparedness advice does not travel. The volume of water a government tells you to store, the number you dial when the power fails, what you are owed when supply fails, and what you may lawfully keep in the house are different in every country. A book that averaged them would be wrong for most of its readers.
The only UK household preparedness book where every legal, safety and infrastructure claim traces to a named primary UK source printed with the date it was checked, and where a build gate fails the manuscript on any claim that does not.
The Food Standards Agency publishes guidance written specifically for power cuts and almost nobody knows it exists. This book is built on it, and on Water UK's own storage guidance, rather than on folklore about six months and bleach.
The only book that puts England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in one table. An owner-occupier in England is under no legal duty at all; one in Scotland must have interlinked alarms throughout. Nothing else in the UK market states that.
Water compensation rose on 2 July 2025, the first uplift in 25 years and up to tenfold, which makes most of the internet wrong by half or more. Every figure here carries the date it was checked.
Two rights nobody uses. The trader bears the cost of a repair under the Consumer Rights Act, and manufacturers must keep spare parts available for 7 years under the 2021 Ecodesign regulations. Both are law, both are ignored, and neither appears in a general DIY book.
A long-emergency book written for the United Kingdom. The law on force and blades is sourced and current rather than borrowed from American assumptions, the climate killer is cold rather than heat, and the density means nobody is retreating anywhere.
The app
Real-time satellite tracking, global flight radar, seismic monitoring and tactical overlays on a photorealistic 3D globe. Over 4,000 tracked objects. Free to try, no account needed for the demo.
The shop
A short, opinionated list rather than a catalogue. Most preparedness shopping is wasted on the wrong things, and the most useful items in our own books cost very little.
How we work
Our manuscripts are checked by build gates that fail on a factual sentence with no citation, a source last checked over 12 months ago, an American source or spelling in a British book, an item that is lawful elsewhere and prohibited here, or an instruction beyond ordinary household competence. Then a separate reader tries to disprove every chapter. The full source register is printed in the back of each book.