I'm drawing up the plans for my place and am planning on building a walk in gunsafe/room. Nothing huge but I need more storage, the size of a decent walk in closet. Does anyone here have pics or suggestions on this build. I've looked at the prefab steel setups and may go that route. What materials would you use if you were going to do it yourself.
Walk in Gun Safe/Room?
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How about concrete and rebar filled cinder block walls, poured concrete floor and ceiling, vault door for entry, use a Mini-Split unit for climate control, stub up through floor for power and climate control so there are no holes in the ceiling or walls.
Just googled and saw this: http://www.rhinovault.com/GunVaults.htm
This is good info, keep it coming. I'm framing up living quarters on one side of a metal building so it's going to be a live in shop. I'm about to start on the pad, then lay the slab so the idea about running electricity through the floor is a huge help. How do they poor concrete for the ceiling?
By using a wooden form.
Also, I work offshore and would like this to work as a safe room incase my family needed while Im away at work or whenever. How would I need to do as far as vents/door with mechanism on the inside? Would the vents compromise the safe in a fire?
I had a good friend in the B.R. area that had a pawn shop. Somewhere he bought a walk-in vault from a bank that was being torn down. I think he poured a slab for it up against his house. Brought in the vault, secured it to the slab, punched a hole in the house for the door to open, framed it in and then bricked around the vault like it was part of the house. There was no way anyone was getting into that thing!
Armnhammer
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Heres a video of a pretty efficent use of a smaller safe. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnuOncXGEqs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnuOncXGEqs&feature=related
I had thought about that a while back but figured the ground would be too saturated down here and might cause problems. I know that when I was on the pipeline we did a job close to where I live and had to weight the pipe to keep it from floating up when we would get a lot of rain. That would be ideal it it would work though.
I really want to build one of these one day. I would go for a concrete design 12" thick with #6 rebar @ 6 inches each way each face. I would love to see someone try to get in 
. Browning sells some pretty sturdy safe doors made by prosteel.
Quick estimate on material for 8x8 is $1600 for concrete and $1250 for rebar. Throw in about $1000 for forms and labor and $3500 for a vault door and BAM. Impenetrable fortress for ~$7350...
. Browning sells some pretty sturdy safe doors made by prosteel. Quick estimate on material for 8x8 is $1600 for concrete and $1250 for rebar. Throw in about $1000 for forms and labor and $3500 for a vault door and BAM. Impenetrable fortress for ~$7350...
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Dear Lord.... the walls are too straight for it to be Suerto...
dhfischerjr
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Mine is concrete block filled, 1 inch rebar in every hole, 3/16" steal one top, welded to protruding rebar. The door came out of a bank they were taring down in Meterie.
W1nds0rF0x
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You do understand, we're going to need pictures of that...
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