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Gun Safe Location

Discussion in 'Guns & Hunting' started by JH5370, Jun 26, 2019.

  1. Jun 26, 2019 at 3:41 PM
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    JH5370

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    Where do you all keep your gun safes? I am in the process of finalizing house plans and am looking for a good spot to put my safe. The vault room I had planned got vetoed so now I'm left with coming up with a new idea. I am going to have a climate controlled garage so that is an option but was hoping for something better than that.
     
  2. Jun 26, 2019 at 3:58 PM
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    Did you cancel the custom kitchen as well?

    A vault in the building stages is the optimum time for cost.
     
  3. Jun 26, 2019 at 4:13 PM
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    The kitchen is mostly for me so that would be shooting myself in both feet. It did get the addition of a kegerator. :cheers:

    It just wouldn't work with our floor plan without adding on to the house. It's a single story so not as easy as converting an unused room in the basement.
     
  4. Jun 26, 2019 at 4:15 PM
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    Mine is relatively small so I tuck it into a closetor corner and bolt it to the studs. The tight quarters prevent prying tools from being used effectively. A cordless angle grinder would make fast work of it but that's impossible to protect against imho
     
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    That makes sense.

    Garages are not a good spot. Garage doors are easy entry points. If your safe isn’t bolted down without the possibility of putting a cable or tow strap around the safe and yanking on it with a 7800 lb truck.

    Corner of room, bolted to floor.
     
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    That's the set up I have currently as our office is a bedroom but the new home office will not have a closet.
     
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    Mine is in my basement. We have a finished basement with a bathroom at one end and a small room next to it that was just extra storage. That little room is now my gun/hunting/fishing room. My safe just sits against the wall but I plan to frame it in when I get some time.
     
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    I agree, closet or corner, bolted down. I have a basement I will be placing mine in. However, until a new safe is installed, all rifles are at my dads in his safe. Only hand guns at my place for now.
     
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    closet in the master bedroom. Takes up about half the closet but I am single so its all good LOL
     
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    The hard part about figuring out where to put your safe if you think like you do...a reasonable individual.

    You need to start looking at it through the optics of a criminal. You cannot stop someone from taking your stuff when you are home or not. You can make it difficult. For instance, a safe in a garage. How long would it take someone to put a chain around the safe and pull it down the street? Now how about punching a hole in the wall and driving it down the street. Your 1000# safe will easily go onto a dolly and be carted away easily.

    My suggestion, put it somewhere where it cannot be seen by someone from the street or someone you hire to do work for you in the house....energy consultants and the like.
     
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    I got a big ole Cannon safe that weighs a ton bolted to the floor tucked in a corner in my garage it was too big to get down my hallway to the bedroom.
     
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    Block off a closet and buy a door for it.
    If you have an office in your plans that is where I would do it.

    Double dry wall and cinder block the walls.
    Add the door

    Mine has a book shelf in front of it
     
  13. Jun 28, 2019 at 11:16 AM
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    If it’s a small quick access safe, were every you can get to it quickly. A large storage safe is best in the basement or first floor. A firefighter said to me they worry about heavy safes falling through the top floors on top of them when they are in a house fighting a fire.
     
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    Big safe is out in the garage along the exterior wall, bolted to the floor. My firefighter neighbor told me this was the better option because the garages in most home fires are not as "hot" as the interior of the house- More fuel inside the house with furniture (and wifey clutter).
    Small but heavy ass safe upstairs in the "safe room" / wife's closet.
    Vaultek on my side of the bed.
    My son has a rifle safe under his bed bolted to his bed frame.
    ... too bad all my guns sank on that horrible boating disaster...
     
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    You could always have a decoy safe. The easier it is to find the decoy the less time they'll have to spend on the rest of your house. Sleight of hand kind of thing.
     
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    All my safes are bolted to the floor in my garage. I have separate safes for firearms and ammunition.
     
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    My dad had a large wall safe in his workshop/office in the back yard. Kept small amount of cash and lots of rolled up change in it, with the door "accidentally" left unlocked. Figured if someone broke into the workshop and seen the safe, would take the quick easy cash and not continue and find his hidden, reinforced safe with all the long guns and important stuff.
     
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    Hello all !

    I will add an interesting thing you can do to ur safe to ensure you get back what you stuck in there in case of a fire. Living in California for the last quarter century and every year watching the Northern fires get worse, people think a fire rated safe is the way to go, then find out it failed because the fire raged so long the safe heated like an oven destroying the contents. When I get around to building my safe into the wall I plan to use 1 or 2 layers of CORE BOARD the type of fire resistant sheetrock that's over an 1 inch thick and is used in fire rated restuarant equipment shafts. Then if you have an out of control blaze you wont have to worry as much about the heat. Somthing to think about for all yer safes not just the weapons.

    Good luck
     
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