Gun safe in mobile home?

[p89cajun]

My gun collection is up to 8 long guns and four pistols and is evergrowing. Right now I have two of the stack on gun cabinets, one with shelves for pistols ammo and accessories, and the other for long guns. I would like to get a nice heavy fire proof safe but I live in a moble home and am afraid it will be too heavy for the flooring and a pain in the butt to get in if even possible. I don't plan to build a house for about 9 or 10 years so I will be here for a while.

I do have a 14x16 workshop behind it with room for a safe but it is detached from the house. It has 2x4 framed walls wraped in metal siding with a window and locking double doors. I was reading the thread about the safes in garages which would be ok since it is part of the house but my shop is detached. I live in a small town and am related to everyone that lives on my street so crime is low to say the least.

What do you think of my options. Would it be fesable to get one inside as I would prefer it there.

 

[Eric F]

Well you seem to have a problem here. A neighboring cities fire department went to a trailer park where a guy bought a 1000 pound safe and put it in the trailer well that lasted about a week before it crashed threw the floor. You can put it in the trailre as long as you shore up sufficiently. I have a work shop with a small locker in it behind my house. I keep some seldom used stuff there, it is my man land facility but I also have climate control and adt wired in. So to the shed with it unless you shore up. Look at this too, the fire reating for these things are usually rated for 30 minutes to an hour at x temprature, I have never worked a trailer fire that lasted more than 20 minutes from start to us putting it out or the whole thing being burnt to the ground.

 

[Schutzen]

I have cut up several house trailers and made hay trailers. All of them have two main beams running the entire lenth. If you go inside and place a support across the main beams( a layer of 3/4" plywood on top of the floor), you should be able to place a medium sized safe there for many years.

 

[Sav .250]

If you can, call the manufacturer of your trailer and see what they have to say. Can`t hurt.

 

[Defensory]

Why not a JOBOX jobsite storage chest with removable storage tray? 48"x30"x33-3/8", 173 pounds. Bolt cutter-proof locking system, and also highly resistant to prying. Can be both bolted to the floor and chained to something.

 

[wideym]

I live in a old 1978 house trailer with two gunsafes. One weighs 600lbs and the other 800lbs. I anchored both to the floor, one at each end of the trailer. Moving them in place was easy with a floor dolly.

 

[moooose102]

i would say this. if you can get the safe in the trailer, it would be easy to build a 2x4 or 2x6 reinforcing "box" if you will, under the spot of the floor where you plan to put your safe. top it off with a sheet of 3/4" ply wood and you would be all set. now, if you are talaned enough, you could actually anchor the safe into the framework of the "box" and then IF anybody ever tried to steal it, they would have a horrible time doing so! if you do not have a slab under the trailer, you could set the box, or build the box onto a sheet of trated plywood. that would support the load, and keep moisture from atacking the framework.

 

[RugerBob]

Crawl under the trailer and locate the steel beam. place the safe over the beam. I would take a look at the wood by cutting the plastic sheeting and removing the isulation. You could add some 2x6s from the floor support wood 2xs that are there to a concrete or teated wood base. When done, be sure to put all the insulation and sheeting back in place. Good luck, Bob

 

[a1abdj]

I have installed a number of safes in trailers/prefab homes. Everything above is true. Place it over the frame, or build something to support the weight. I wouldn't go over 1,000 pounds.

Something else to point out. If you have those welded metal steps to get into the trailer, do not move the safe up those. Concrete steps are ok. If you do have the metal steps, move them aside, and transfer the safe from the truck/trailer directly into the door.

 

[Zach S]

As stated, mobile homes have two steel beams running the entire length, the 2x6s are normally the width of the trailor and lay across the steel beams. The flooring is normally 5/8 or 3/4 particle board, some of the older ones used 1/2.

Try to put it on a wall that doesnt join a bathroom, bathroom floors are the first to rot out.

You could aslo double up your floor joists where the safe will sit as added insurance. No too hard to do, but getting to them will be the hardest part. If you double up your floor joists make sure theyre long enough to go over both beams.

 

[W.E.G.]

I used to live in a trailer. Had a few inexpensive guns then.

I made it a point to get my finances better in order before acquiring such a collection that I had to be worried very much about securing it.

I shot a skunk that lived under the trailer. That was a mistake.

 

[just carl]

My suggestion is to forget about a safe of any kind. If your handy or have a friend that is handy at home type installations, create a fake wall somewhere. A tight fitting removable wall type section somewhere in the home. When and if a safe is delivered it is like saying I've got something here and I dare you to try to get it. If and when people come over and see a safe, that too says the same thing. Of course I'm in the Chicago area where the slightest idea of something of value in a house is just open to a home invasion.