Mounting Gun Safe On Carpet

The right bolt length will depend on many different factors including the type of flooring and gun safe fireproofing.

Mounting gun safe on carpet. The damn thing has these rails that it sits on. We ll share how to secure a safe without bolting it to the floor so you can feel more secure about your gun storage. Smaller gun safes may have anchor holes on the back or side. But it s a big safe and not likely to be pulled open or over by its own door opening.

I have a 24 gun safe in the basement sitting on a berber carpet over standard carpet padding. Fireproof gun safes often place holes at the center. This post is a collection of general installation tips to consider when setting up your gun safe. Always consult your manual before you get started i m not speaking lightly here improper installation could not only mean a wasted investment but a dangerous one as well.

Mounting a gun safe with no fireproofing directly to an epoxy sealed slab will require the shortest bolts. They make the safe highly unstable on carpet it s annoying. With the proper tools anyone can do this. If you have a gun safe you probably want to securely mount or install it somewhere.

If you have carpet on the floor where you will be placing the safe use a knife to cut a circle out of the carpet that is large enough to accommodate the bolt and the mounting hole. The rails life the safe a couple inches off the floor so i don t see any way to secure it to the floor without having bare bolts spaning the gap between the bottom of the safe and the floor. Traditional gun safes tend to put anchor holes in the corners. I guess it might depend on the carpet and a bit on the footprint vs height.

Not attached to the walls or floor not raised stable as a rock door opens without issue. You may even consider cutting away all carpet under the safe as this can prevent you from getting the safe bolted really really tightly to the floor. A lag screw or cement bolt passes through the hole in the gun safe to sturdily connect it to cement underneath. This video shows how to bolt a gun safe to a concrete floor.

Most medium and large gun safes are made with an anchor hole in the bottom. After all a safe is no good if people can just walk off with it. When you are deciding be sure to take the weight and measurements of the safe into. Finding the right location can be tricky.

Locate the anchor hole. If you have hardwood floors or ceramic tile over your concrete slab that will require longer bolts.