Keep Your Safe… Safe
A Gun Safe
If you have a large safe, say a gun safe, in your home there are a couple things you should keep in mind. First, the most obvious, you should bolt it down. Without bolting it down even the heaviest safe could be carried out of your home by a determined team of thieves; at least with bolts you deter almost any casual thief from trying any harder.
The second tip is to put your safe in the basement (assuming you have a dry basement). Granted, putting the safe in your basement may seem inconveinent and awkward but in the grand scheme of things it is the safest place ot put it. Let’s imagine, for a moment, that you can’t bolt your safe down but you can put it in the basement; well, then you’ve already detered the casual thief who wouldn’t want to carry the hulking thing up the stairs.
If you don’t have the safe bolted and it is upstairs then the thief can just let gravity do the work of carrying your vault down to the first level and, in the process, doing a lot of damage to your home.
Another consideration for putting your safe in the basement, instead of upstairs, even when bolted is the following scenario. Imagine what would happen to your home if a group of determined theives were to run chains through your house, connect them to your safe and their tow-hitch, and then use their truck to try and yank your safe out of the house. Having the safe upstairs facilitates this form of theft while having it in the basement basically defeats it.
If you thought having the safe dropped down your stairs would do a lot of damage imagine how much that same safe would do if it were being drug through your house on chains by a pick-up? It’s not a pretty site.