Mounting a safe over carpet?

[Guns and more]

I get at least 2 calls a week from somebody looking to buy a gun safe who's wanting to use it for something other than guns with a value of $100,000 to $500,000.

So what to they do when the professional holds a gun to their head and says, "Open the F...... safe or your dead."?
Once you have that much money in hand, there are people who will kill you for it. That's not the burglar we're talking about.
Being poor does have it's advantages. I feel better.

 

[Threeband]

a1abdj said:

If you're going to bolt the safe, I would use something larger than 1/4" tapcons. I would suggest some sort of wedge anchors no smaller than 3/8".

Just what I was going to say. Use Red Heads, at least 3/8", or better, 1/2". Use several, and run a few lags into a stud or two as well. Be aware, the concrete slab is probably only 4" thick, maybe less.

Also, the maintainance man is bound to know you have a honking big safe in your front closet. He may sell that information to a third party.

 

[bootless]

I agree with Threeband, if you're going to drill holes in concrete make them big. Also lag it into a couple of wall studs so it can't be rocked/break the anchors out of the concrete.

 

[scythefwd]

OK, take this with a grain of salt. I have never bolted a gunsafe down to concrete. I just installed telecom cabinets professionally for about 3 years. All we ever did was anchor into concrete. My only word of warning is this.. watch the spacing on your anchors. They do require a certain amount of spacing between them or they will not hold (having them too close will weaken and crack your concrete). For an anchor going 3 inches deep, we generally kept them at least 6 inches apart. We used the snap off kind usually, but every once in a while we would use beeline (don't use this stuff, you want a flush mount anchor that has a wedge hammered into place after you have placed it in your hole) or drop in anchors. My communications racks would easily get over 800 lbs, and they didn't move when they were hit (pallet jacks loaded up with several hundred pounds of cabling, 500 lb rolling tool boxes, etc) and we were only putting in 2 anchors per cabinet in the middle of the rows and 3 on the ends. Most of the time we were using 3/8 inch threaded rod to secure it down. Here is an example of what I would use IF I had concrete under my safe.

http://www.concretefasteners.com/anchors-fasteners/drop-in/index.aspx

That said, an appropriate anchor in each corner should do you just fine. I have no idea how to mount it through the carpet though.. you don't see that much in data centers.