I just finished refurbishing a floor standing safe built (I'm guessing) in the 40's or 50's and would love some input from anyone who has installed a home safe.I had a lot of fun refinishing the cabinet and fixed up the door hinge pins and latch mechanism and learned to replace the combination lock and now it's time for the install. It turns out that I should have given more thought to the install,
My first thought was to put it in the garage and bolt it to the concrete floor but I learned that the safe needs to be in a controlled climate. The garage has extreme temperature change and extreme humidity changes. Because of this I am now planning on installing it in our dining room. The basement has no external doors and would be very difficult to get it down there so the dining room is looking like the next best thing. The dining room is at the far end of the house away from exits and we can disguise it with a cloth cover and a lamp or something just for esthetics.
So my question is about securing the safe to the wall. A fairly large friend and I were able to get this thing off it's feet by putting nylon straps under it and just dead lifting it so it probably isn't much heavier than ~200 lbs. I'm thinking that a thief could easily carry it away with a hand truck which made me think that I should at least put a lag bolt into a wall stud and attach it to a hole in the safe's wheel with a cable lock. It would at least add a little more security to it.
So any thoughts? Has anyone installed a safe in their home?
My first thought was to put it in the garage and bolt it to the concrete floor but I learned that the safe needs to be in a controlled climate. The garage has extreme temperature change and extreme humidity changes. Because of this I am now planning on installing it in our dining room. The basement has no external doors and would be very difficult to get it down there so the dining room is looking like the next best thing. The dining room is at the far end of the house away from exits and we can disguise it with a cloth cover and a lamp or something just for esthetics.
So my question is about securing the safe to the wall. A fairly large friend and I were able to get this thing off it's feet by putting nylon straps under it and just dead lifting it so it probably isn't much heavier than ~200 lbs. I'm thinking that a thief could easily carry it away with a hand truck which made me think that I should at least put a lag bolt into a wall stud and attach it to a hole in the safe's wheel with a cable lock. It would at least add a little more security to it.
So any thoughts? Has anyone installed a safe in their home?