new gun safe inside house or in the garage?

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In the house, I live in a very dry climate, and have 3 gun vaults, two of which stay in my "gun Room" with my more expensive firearms in, and one out in my garage well concealed with my less expensive firearms in. I do check all the firearms periodically for rust, but so far I haven't found any.
 
main or second floor inside because it's even more climate controlled
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Something that hasn't been mentioned, if there's ever a fire and your safe is on the main/second floor more than likely it's going to take a trip and end up in the basement.

Ideally any safe should be secured to a concrete slab and be on/near an outside wall to try and keep down any extra heat in the case of a fire.



ps: Like the idea of a safe built to look like a fridge
 
My safe was too heavy to get into the house without hiring a crew of gorillas. If you want to conceal it go to an appliance store and ask for a refrigerator box. Then cut the back out and place it over the safe. +1 on lagging into concrete.
 
all the tools needed to break into your safe are in the garage, just sayin'...

had a friend buy an old coke machine that he hid his gunsafe inside of.

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kinda like that
 
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The Garage will work I helped Dad install one for a customer about 20 years ago. We built a closet around it and installed a Steel Door and Frame with double dead bolts.
 
Just bought RSC number 5. All 5 are being bolted to the floor... and the walls... and to each other.

Best that I can do, since my den has a wooden floor and is up on stilts - we got eight inches of water under the house last Friday.
 
I would only place a gun safe in my garage as an absolute last ditch place.
I much prefer the house with it's climate controlled atmosphere.
Living in the humid gulf coast of Texas I have exactly two friends that have been using their garages to place their safes and even though both have used a Golden Rod both have had slight rust issues.
No thanks,my house is where the safe and guns belong.
Cranky wives be damned!!
More security too.
 
In the bedroom, in the closet bolted into the concrete floor by a professional, that's where you are likelly to be if someone breaks in when you are home at night, you will probablly never be in the garage. Also I want them in the air conditioning, in FL. And it's too easy to break into a garage, and hard to get an alarm system that won't "false" from wind rain etc. Bad guys know you may have a safe, it's just going to slow them down enough for LEO or you to get back there. Given enough time any safe can be compromised, just ask an old time safecracker. I would never consider the garage for a second in FL. You would be better off in the living room or office, if the bedrooms don't suit you. Just build it into the furniture or a closet. I learned a long time ago weight means nothing "ask a moving man" and concrete can be ripped up quick with a sledge hammer and cut with a torch if you have rebarb or metal rods. If they want it they will get it if you give them enough time. Dogs and alarms are a big help.
 
My safe is in the garage in the SC lowcountry. The humidity is a beast here. Due to concern for the humidity, I wanted to have it in the house and the wife more or less said that ugly black thing will never go in her house. So we compromised. It didn't go in the house. My homemade goldenrod along with oil keeps back the rust, barely. Security wise, I think the garage is probably best in my case because of the concrete floor and all the clutter around it. It took my wife a few years to even realize where it was. A few additional personally added touches: A flash bulb and a very loud alarm bell triggered by the door opening before the lock levers clear. Those nearly gave me a heart attack when it malfunctioned early on and made me fall over a lawnmower. A motion triggered security camera is in the planning stage also. My safe is bolted down to the concrete floor with an additional 6-5/8" lag bolts into the two wooden wall studs. This could still be defeated but it would take a LONG and LOUD concerted effort to do so. Also realize that 99.9% of the time it is a kid/kids/druggies that are not very high on planning that make a quick grab and run. I can't imagine any nitwit sticking around when a flash nearly blinds you and a 150 db cargo crane bell is going off. And nothing, no matter how good your safe is hidden or bolted down or hard to open will ever stop a professional thief. And professional thieves normally don't break into houses for a few guns.
 
Having the safe in the garage isn't a problem if I need a gun in a hurry because I've either got one in my pocket or on my nightstand when I'm in bed. I wouldn't want to rely on getting a firearm out of a safe if I needed it in a hurry no matter where the safe is.
 
Living in the humid gulf coast of Texas I have exactly two friends that have been using their garages to place their safes and even though both have used a Golden Rod both have had slight rust issues.
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Same here, humid coastal Texas can be a.......pain
 
The problem with the garage is that when you have a cold night and the morning warms too fast it will cause the cold steel to sweat like an ice tea glass.
It is not the temperature or humidity that harms metal, it is a rapid CHANGE in temperature because dense metal can not warm as fast as the surrounding air does and that can cause serious condinsation and rust.
 
had a friend buy an old coke machine that he hid his gunsafe inside of.
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That is actually a really cool idea!

I like the concept of having a large heavy duty safe that doesn't look like a safe.


Perhaps "Diaper Changing Station 5000" would deter people from putting their hands on it?
 
Unless you know that your garage can be decently climate controlled I'd find room for it inside the house.

It's not only the issue of humidity. THere's also the issue of heat and drying of the wood parts that are on the guns. I've seen poorly or non-insulated garages reach stifling temperatures in the summer when closed up. In such conditions the relative humidity drops to desert like values and the moisture is drawn from the wood throughout the garage. You could easily find that the stocks end up warping or even splitting from this abuse.
 
Mines been in the garage 6 years now. Set on a 3/4 inch piece of mining belt and bolted to the floor. Zero rust issues to date... Beside my safe is a 7 foot Oak cabinet and draped over the safe is an American flag all of this facing perpendicular to the main road. People can come in the house from the garage and never have any idea it's there.

That being said I'm getting tired of having to go out in the garage to get into the safe. I believe it's time to be moved to the Bedroom.
 
I bought my gun safe when I was living in apartments. A friend and I had a heck of a time getting it down into my Mom's basement. Now that I have my own home, it's still in my Mom's basement. I'm not looking forward to trying to move it again :(
 
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