Quote:
Originally Posted by McClendons
I have a new constuction house in the Village of Lake Denham. I am hoping to bolt down a small Sentry safe in the one of the bedrooms using something like Red Hat fastners or Tapicon bolts. In researching, I ran across a couple of questions I am hoping someone will have insight on.
Does anyone know if the Villages uses normal rebar based concrete slabs, or have they gone to Post Tensioned Concrete? Clearly it would be a disaster to drill into an Pre Tensioned cable, so am very concerned there. I would only need to drill at most 1.5 to 2 inches deep, so not too worried about plumbing etc that should be deeper, but from research it looks like tension cables can be any depth.
For anyone that has installed a safe, any insights on where and how you intstalled yours? I tried searching, but using the word "safe" got me anything from AEDs, golf cars, restaurants, etc. Thanks in advance.
|
A couple years ago I considered installing a safe in my house. I discovered that there are various kinds. A safe to protect documents in a fire does so by chemical means, hidden in the walls of the safe. But generally these are pretty easy to break into. They are often simply thin double walls easy to drill through. There have been a lot of problems, it seems, with humidity in documents in the safe leading to mold problems, at least in Florida. They also aren’t much use if the house floods if they are on or in the floor.
Safes meant for valuables like jewelry generally aren’t much help in fires or floods. Often unattached safes can be lifted into a vehicle and opened in privacy elsewhere, even sizable gun safes. A small safe screwed into a concrete slab with a couple bolts can often be broken loose in a few seconds with a hundred dollar hammer drill from Harbor Freight or a six foot pry par and a sledge hammer.
However, any of these might offer some security against a snatch-and-grab sneak thief who doesn’t carry any tools except maybe a small crow bar and wants to be in and out in five minutes.