Gun safe location. Garage? Bad idea?

[Jessie]

Another idea since he's determined on the garage, and its still being built, is to add a small room in the garage. It could be in the corner connecting to the main house with its access door inside the house but closed off to the garage. He could even use 3' or 4' of an entire wall thus building a false room that no one knows about.
Not that expensive and you could run an AC/heat vent to it for climate control.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I know a guy here in town who hand dug a cellar under his stem wall foundation house. Most houses here are built on a slab.
Then he poured a steel reinforced vault. Added a vault door.
Access is via a circular steel stairway.
Yes this guy is excessive!

 

[Beemerguy53]

I know a guy here in town who hand dug a cellar under his stem wall foundation house. Most houses here are built on a slab.
Then he poured a steel reinforced vault. Added a vault door.
Access is via a circular steel stairway.
Yes this guy is excessive!

A German friend of mine was a Bundeswehr weapons engineer in his career, and has forgotten more about guns than most of us will ever learn. When he built his home, in a small town near the Dutch border, back in 1968, he built it around his gun safe...

They poured the basement slab, then lowered the safe onto it, and then built the rest of the house. That safe is enormous: About 4 feet wide, 4 feet deep, and 6 feet high.

 

[wbraswell]

I don't see a problem, just put it in the wife's walk-in closet, or put it in the kitchen and the fridge goes in the garage. You just need a bachelor to see things clearly.

 

[LittleCooner]

I would put it in the master bedroom walk in closet also,this is no problem if he is building a new house. Agree with this others, just plan ahead. None of my stuff is going in the garage. Keep it in the bedroom. I would look at buiding a "safe room" of total concrete in the middle of the house for storm protection and put all my "valuables in there also. M2CW

 

[Bugkiller99]

Can you provide more details?

Sure. It was on a common wall with the house interior. Built a SMALL room around it and added venting from AC/heat. Just enough room for me and my shadow, but it works.

See post 41 from Jessie. Same thing.