Gun and Fire Safes

[Coursey]

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We are looking at building a new house, so I thought it would be a good time to have a gun/fire safe built into a wall.

Does anyone have pics of how they built in there safe (if you dont mind sharing).

Also, which safes offer the best bang for the buck. I am thinking of a budget of around $2000 or less.

[jy211]

mostly used for? Rifles, handguns, jewelry, papers?

[skigoose]

I am in a industry that we need a TL15 or TL30 safe, this means it takes 15 or 30 mins to cut through it with a torch.

[Coursey]

mostly used for? Rifles, handguns, jewelry, papers?

It will hold a few rifles, handguns, jewlery, important papers, cash, coin, etc.

It is somewhere to stick all the valuables i have or may have.

[mc84_zz4]

If you have the ability, it would be a great time to add a few extras to the same area, add concrete board under the drywall, add a phone line, AC vent, cat-5 line, you could store your security video in there, and basically have a 'storm' room (with an appropriate solid/sealed door), and have your security feed over the 'net.
I would leave the outer wall regular drywall in case there were a fire, tell the firemen which room has the safe, and they can douse it more often (in the event a fire would occur).

[Mkelcy]

When we remodeled a few years ago, I had the same idea. The upshot of my research then was that no safe that would fit into a wall built on 2x4s or 2x6s was going to be significantly fire resistant. We ended up with a free standing gun safe that's bolted to the concrete slab.

[MrForce]

Free standing safe inside wife's walk-in closet. The closet door opens in against the safe, making it not visible to the casual observer, It is lagged to the floor and the CBS back wall as we were advised that a floor bolted safe could be crowbarred off. Run a wire from your alarm system to the safe and make it a separate zone. Lost a 100K plus, 30 years in the making Rolex and fine watch collection, plus wifes jewelry to a burglary about six years ago (pre safe) I'll be dead before I can replace it.

It's not paranoia if they really are after you.

Rob

[67 ls1 vert]

I went through the same thing when we lost our house from the '07 wild fires in So-Cal... What we did was what Mkelcy said. Use the gun safe and bolt it to the slab. But... we did add a small fire proof floor box for hand guns, papers, and coins etc...

[LeighP]

While its a little over the top, a friend picked up an old bank vault door/frame fro ma Post Office being demolished...a walk in sized door. He built a concrete with steel rod walls and roof and set the door into it for a small walk-in armory....extremely secure, though a little labor intensive.

[Coursey]

I went through the same thing when we lost our house from the '07 wild fires in So-Cal... What we did was what Mkelcy said. Use the gun safe and bolt it to the slab. But... we did add a small fire proof floor box for hand guns, papers, and coins etc...

I like this in addition to a gun safe.
What brand is it? How much does one of these run?

[stealth71]

Check out Sturdy Safe. They make some nice stuff.

[shep]

Check out patriot safes, we bought a 39 gun safe rated for 2 hours at 1880 degrees delivered to our curb for $2300. My only complaint about it is that it is short. So to get our shotguns in we had to move the shelves up really high so there isn't much room for other stuff. They now have a taller one available. http://www.patriotsafe.com we bought the collector, I would now go for the armory for the extra height.