Gun Room Thoughts

[Moose242]

I really wanted to go the room reinforcement route, I really did... but from a logistical standpoint it is just really difficult. You need to factor in humidity controls, gun racks, peg boards, appropriate locks and security measures, safety, and vulnerability. After mulling this over I found out that if you do some bargaining you can get a volume discount. I called the Garland Safe Co (I think is their company name) and got 3 safes for a fair deal with free delivery and install (bolted to the ground) with dehumidifiers included:





Pretty much all of this fits into one safe (large pic, click to follow) as well as many pistols:

http://imageshack.us/a/img688/9674/collectionpost.jpg

Another safe is ammunition and various accessories.

The last safe houses the barrett, magazines for various firearms, car keys, documents, random guns, and misc stuff.

[slowyellow]

I really wanted to go the room reinforcement route, I really did... but from a logistical standpoint is it just really difficult. You need to factor in humidity controls, gun racks, peg boards, appropriate locks and security measures, safety, and vulnerability. After mulling this over I found out that if you do some bargaining you can get a volume discount. I called the Garland Safe Co (I think is their company name) and got 3 safes for a fair deal with free delivery and install (bolted to the ground) with dehumidifiers included:





Pretty much all of this fits into one safe (large pic, click to follow) as well as many pistols:

http://imageshack.us/a/img688/9674/collectionpost.jpg

Another safe is ammunition and various accessories.

The last safe houses the barrett, magazines for various firearms, car keys, documents, random guns, and misc stuff.

Have I ever mentioned that I hate you.... Can I see the inside of one of those safes? I'm in the market and trying to figure out what I need.

[Moose242]

Have I ever mentioned that I hate you.... Can I see the inside of one of those safes? I'm in the market and trying to figure out what I need.

PM incoming.

[dblack1]

http://www.sturdysafe.com/vaultdoor.htm

Probably what I'm going to do. Take that door and go from there. It has a latch to lock the from inside for safe/panic room. Based on what I've seen you should recoop money with this in a windowless room if you sell home.

You could rip out a room closet, fireproof insulate/sheet rock, 18-22 ga sheet steel, etc.

[phaux]

Are you willing to add onto the structure or are you wanting to keep the structure intact?

[CJ]

Funny you mentioned this today. I'm buying a new house soon and I was researching this today. Very interested as well.

[Trip McNeely]

Sucks you don't have basements there. Basement would be easy to convert.

[jakesford]

http://www.sturdysafe.com/vaultdoor.htm

Probably what I'm going to do. Take that door and go from there. It has a latch to lock the from inside for safe/panic room. Based on what I've seen you should recoop money with this in a windowless room if you sell home.

You could rip out a room closet, fireproof insulate/sheet rock, 18-22 ga sheet steel, etc.

This... If I build I'm going to do a reinforced CMU room and have access through a closet. Have all the safe room I could ever need plus a storm shelter.

[CJ]

Sucks you don't have basements there. Basement would be easy to convert.

Some neighborhoods do, I'm planning on looking at some.

[nightfly2000]

order the sheet steel (3/8 thick, relatively cheap btw) and use it as you would sheet rock, use 2x6 as studs 8 inches apart, then fill the wall with sand. get a firesafe door with a steel frame and weld it in place. A friend did this and it costed about 2800 in materials, but the room is fire resistant (think it was 1100 for 18 minutes if the math was done right)

[nightfly2000]

....and its 8 foot by 6 foot.plenty of room for everything... probably not gonna work well with a P&B foundation.... some mods can be done like placing some concrete supports under the location of the walls, they sell the cardboard molds for the concrete at lowes