Thread: Securing a pistol safe, wooden house vs concrete floor garage

Hey team, just bought a pistol safe and trying to sort a place to secure it at home. Dwelling is a 1940s hardwood framing home with hardwood floors etc.

I do have a standalone double garage with concrete floor and exposed framing interior about 10 meters from the house as well.

Those that have gone through this before, the simple option is to have it hidden in the garage somewhere but I would like it to be in the house somewhere. How big of a steel plate do I really need to go under the floor? Is there another way to do it?

Love to hear from anyone who has had to do this in the last 12 to 24 months, or longer.

Originally Posted by Rated M for Magnum

Hey team, just bought a pistol safe and trying to sort a place to secure it at home. Dwelling is a 1940s hardwood framing home with hardwood floors etc.

I do have a standalone double garage with concrete floor and exposed framing interior about 10 meters from the house as well.

Those that have gone through this before, the simple option is to have it hidden in the garage somewhere but I would like it to be in the house somewhere. How big of a steel plate do I really need to go under the floor? Is there another way to do it?

Love to hear from anyone who has had to do this in the last 12 to 24 months, or longer.

FSA say it needs to be a plate bigger than the safe at least 6mm thick and secured to at least 2 joists. Use at least 10mm bolts.

When I was looking at doing my endorsed safe it was going to be a bit of a prick through our wooden floors, so I ended up putting it in garage on a concrete floor.

So I'm probably looking at a couple of big pieces of angle iron under the floor. The garage is nowhere near as secure as the house. The garage is also where all our power tools are handy for breaking into things

I fabricated a plate for a friend to go under his floor, what i did was measured between the joists, cut a 6mm plate to fit between them, welded a length of 6mm flat on each side to bolt through into the joists, the tech screwed it in place, sat the safe in place and drilled the floor and marked the plate, i then took it out, drilled the plate, put the 4 10mm lengths of threaded rod in the holes welded up so no way to cut the studs off from below, put the plate with the studs back in under the floor, and bolted it to the joists using 10x50 coach bolts, then sat the safe on top and put nyloc nuts in from inside the safe, then 2x 10x65mm coach bolts into the wall stud on the back of the safe.