My wife and I are looking for more security than we currently have. We have a relatively inexpensive and mediocre quality Liberty gun safe for valuables but we need a little more. We have an area under the stairs that is a perfect area for a vault room but the walls are just drywall with 18 inch spaced studs. After some thought and review, most all safes can be breached in 15 minutes. We could reenforce the walls around the would be vault room and put a door on it or we could get a Ft. Knox safe. Does anyone have any experience with constructing a vault? Cost, time involved, breech resistance vs. a safe? Any advice is welcome.
Ft. Knox safe vs installing a vault
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Reinforce the walls for the vault room, put the safe in the vault room. Store the (extra)ammo out in the vault, the more valuable firearms in the safe. Bolt the safe to the floor so it cant be rocked in any direction. A little more pricey but hey.....
Building a "vault room" out of anything less than reinforced concrete isn't gaining much. Unless the Fort Knox has a "TL" rating from UL it isn't going to gain you anything over the Liberty. You could look at a used burglary rated safe. I bought the one here at the store from World Wide Safe, very good people to deal with.
Jeweler's Safes, Modular Vaults, Commercial Safes by Worldwide Safe & Vault | The security specialists
Jeweler's Safes, Modular Vaults, Commercial Safes by Worldwide Safe & Vault | The security specialists
Our house has a vault. You are going to spend thousands if you do it right. One of the keys to a vault is hiding it well. This helps prevent people from even trying. Another key is that only the closest of friends and family know about it. But to do it right, you are going to need to do some serious construction. Its going to cost about the same as a high end, highly rated safe, but you can store a lot more in it. Our vault door cost around 7000$.
Just got a TL30x6 Original Platinum 7036 vault (70x36x26 interior) for $6500 delivered and installed. Look it up, it's a bad motherfucker. The next up from there is REALLY expensive stuff. TL15 is sufficient for most needs and a good buy if you find one used for a good price, but bang for buck and security-wise the TL30x6 is the way to go now. This VAULT is insurable up to $1million in items.
I used to like the regular TL30 Amsec a lot until I saw this one. I almost bought one until a local dealer called me back with this Original for $1000 more than a TL15 and same price as a TL30 but with larger dimensions, redundant locks, glass re-locker, and installed. Difference between TL30 and the x6 version is that all six walls and door are equally impenetrable.
Look at a recent thread on here about gun safes, I go into some detail about what they can take and what they can't and how they rate 'em. An RSC isn't what you think it is. It's not safe. The door is the selling point but the walls are just sheet metal and drywall.
I used to like the regular TL30 Amsec a lot until I saw this one. I almost bought one until a local dealer called me back with this Original for $1000 more than a TL15 and same price as a TL30 but with larger dimensions, redundant locks, glass re-locker, and installed. Difference between TL30 and the x6 version is that all six walls and door are equally impenetrable.
Look at a recent thread on here about gun safes, I go into some detail about what they can take and what they can't and how they rate 'em. An RSC isn't what you think it is. It's not safe. The door is the selling point but the walls are just sheet metal and drywall.
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