To Move Or Abandon a Safe

[nachogrande]

SAFES IN BASEMENTS OR (GOD FORBID) 2nd FLOORS?

Like painting yourself into a corner. As mentioned the construction of floors/steps needs to be considered, possible risks if trying it yourself??? How much for the moving company to move it xxx miles? Whether new buyers want a safe OR NOT, it's gonna be used to try and get the price down. It's academic now. I'd have to crunch the #'s at the time. Safes may not be all that safe if a thief (believing it's full of gold bars) is holding a gun to a loved ones head & saying "open it or else". I'd hope they would be able to open it for them. Good insurance is a +.

 

[Farmer17]

I like the idea of two smaller safes bolted together. Easy to move but harder to steal and takes twice as much time to break into.

 

[steelslaver]

I like the idea of two smaller safes bolted together. Easy to move but harder to steal and takes twice as much time to break into.

Actually that's the setup I have now. Large safe holds rifles and I installed drawers in the small one for handguns. You would have to open both to split them and moving them together would be extremely difficult. I am going to be putting on an addition and am thinking of pouring a set of steel reinforced concrete walls with an embedded steel frame I can make a vault door for.

 

[Geno44]

I've always considered weight of a safe to be one indicator of quality. Assuming you have a full size safe, 475 pounds seems awfully light. My full size safe weighs about 825. My brothers larger safe weighs 1500. Around here, a standard safe weighing about 800 pounds can be had for under $1000. I don't know if there was anything special about yours but $900 seems high for the move. These days I would think most home buyers might have a good use for a safe for jewelry, papers, cameras or other valuable items besides guns which would make leaving it a good idea.

 

[Zipdog]

Any Millwright worth his salt would have moved that safe all by himself. No problem.

 

[oneounceload]

Next time, if you do not want to move the item, remove the gun rack parts and have it filled with nothing but shelves and list it as a secure place for laptops, cameras, jewelry and important legal documents; that would be more palatable.

 

[LVSteve]

The local safe company moved my huge Browning and el cheapo Home Depot safes for $350 IIRC, but it was garage to garage and they bolted down the big one at this house. Three guys, a truck with a lift and the appropriate tools and fixings. I wasn't complaining.

 

[Bullet Bob]

What state are you moving to, federali?

 

[mtgianni]

Another reason we built a walkout basement.

 

[raisedin99]

Sell the combination numbers ?

Believe I would empty the safe then lock it up. Whoever buys the house might just pay for the combination numbers.

Anybody know what those numbers would be worth?

terry

 

[federali]

However....

In the interest of brevity, I omitted from my opening post that there's a second safe in the house, also mounted on a concrete pedestal and far more conducive to general homeowner use. It's where my handguns are kept and I'm leaving it for the next owner (without the handguns).

Also, prices vary depending on locality. Long Island, NY, along with California, has the highest real estate taxes in the country and the general cost of living is through the roof. This accounts, in part, for the high cost of doing anything.

In response to Bullet Bob, I'm heading for North Carolina.

 

[JSR III]

My safe weighs 1950 lbs empty. I have no clue what to do if I move!

C4

Only kidding. As far as leaving the safe or not and its affect on new buyers, I would consider leaving it behind if the cost of moving it was near its worth. You could offer it in the price of the house or offer to move it if the buyer didn't want/need a safe. It therefore should not affect the offered price as you give them the option to have it removed.

In the second case, you are then required to move it and if it makes the house sale easier it is money well spent. Even after spending the $900 (which I agree is pretty steep) you still end up with the safe for your new home.

I would also call piano movers and see if they offer the service. Two friends of mine and I moved a safe upstairs for a buddy using a refrigerator dolly that has stair climbing tracks. We even had to negotiate a 90 degree turn. Two guys in front and two guys behind and it went real easy.

 

[sousana]

Unfortunately for me, back in the 80's at a savings and load auction, I bought the walk in vault with all it's safe deposit boxes. When I had my home built not long ago, it's all concrete and steel framed, I had the vault built into the sub-basement behind a hidden wall. The unfortunate part you ask? They ain't no way in hell I'm gonna be able to take it with me if I sell the house, unless I have the house demolished first. In addition, each room of the house has a built in biometric safe built into the concrete wall with a smith and wesson thunder ranch revolver in 45acp with a viridian green laser attached to the pic rail under the bbl.

 

[the ringo kid]

My safe weighs 1950 lbs empty. I have no clue what to do if I move!

Pray...... )

 

[the ringo kid]

In the interest of brevity, I omitted from my opening post that there's a second safe in the house, also mounted on a concrete pedestal and far more conducive to general homeowner use. It's where my handguns are kept and I'm leaving it for the next owner (without the handguns).

Also, prices vary depending on locality. Long Island, NY, along with California, has the highest real estate taxes in the country and the general cost of living is through the roof. This accounts, in part, for the high cost of doing anything.

In response to Bullet Bob, I'm heading for North Carolina.

Very glad to see you are escaping ) but at the same time, I wish you were moving to Texas. North C is bursting at the seams with people, we still have lotsa room to spare.

See-not enough people here to fully populate all of our villes ya know:
Manor, Texas:

Glennrio, Texas:

Terlingua, texas:

Stiles, Texas:

Well, you get the jist.

 

[ladder13]

The best part of leaving, to me, was seeing those "Welcome to New York, the Empire State" signs in my rear view mirror..

 

[Golddollar]

The best part of leaving, to me, was seeing those "Welcome to New York, the Empire State" signs in my rear view mirror..

I felt the same way when I moved out of Maryland.

 

[bushmaster1313]

the odds of finding a buyer who would want my gun safe seemed remote, at least in my blue state where most people are afraid of guns.

You could have told any non-gun friendly potential buyers that if anyone breaks into the house while they are at home they can hide in the safe while calling the police

 

[bushmaster1313]

The best part of leaving, to me, was seeing those "Welcome to New York, the Empire State" signs in my rear view mirror..

I shoot at ranges in Pennsylvania just across the border with New Jersey.

This is what I think driving into Pennsylvania

This is what I think driving back to New Jersey

 

[Fishslayer]

No brainer. Leave the old one and buy a new, BIGGER safe for your new place.