wacki
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Ok, I have a buddy that owns an expensive gun collection. He wants to add a safe room into his soon to be built home but is reluctant to for a couple of reasons. The first is reselling the house. My argument is that he should just buy a vault door that is similar in size to a steel hurricane shelter door and then relabel it as a cellar or an emergency safe room. Or slap on a regular door when you move and call it a cellar.
The second is costs. Here I suggest he just put it in the basement and use two walls of the basement as 2 walls of the safe room. That way you only have to lay two extra walls of concrete. But what about the roof? Is it expensive to make a concrete roof? I assume the cheapest route would be to make a roof out of a layer of 10 gauge steel supported by wood beams/plywood. Since most safes are 12 gauge I would assume this roof would be more secure than your average safe. As long as the sheets are welded I don't see a problem. Thoughts about this? Fire resistance would kind of suck here but that could be fixed with a little rockwool. I'm not sure how to layer that though.
As far as vault doors these seem to be the most economical:
http://www.sportsmansteelsafes.com/defender.htm
Does this door really have 1" thick steel plating?
The second is costs. Here I suggest he just put it in the basement and use two walls of the basement as 2 walls of the safe room. That way you only have to lay two extra walls of concrete. But what about the roof? Is it expensive to make a concrete roof? I assume the cheapest route would be to make a roof out of a layer of 10 gauge steel supported by wood beams/plywood. Since most safes are 12 gauge I would assume this roof would be more secure than your average safe. As long as the sheets are welded I don't see a problem. Thoughts about this? Fire resistance would kind of suck here but that could be fixed with a little rockwool. I'm not sure how to layer that though.
As far as vault doors these seem to be the most economical:
http://www.sportsmansteelsafes.com/defender.htm
Does this door really have 1" thick steel plating?
Armory Vault Door
80" x 30" x 6"
$1,799.95
* Department of Justice Comp.- 100% Made in USA
* 1" Comp Door (overall thickness 3 1/2")