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Old 04-06-2024, 08:58 AM
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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.
I am sure you will be fine. But personally, posting that you are adding a safe to your home on an open site, (here, FB, or any other ) may not be the best thing to do. Anyone can see what "you " intend to do and also know it isn't done yet.

Better to be over cautious than not. For sure you are not in your prime for defending yourself, you live in TV.

Good luck.