Even if it’s strong or high security but what if a robber found it in closet or something and some how cracked it but say it’s like somewhere under the floor in a secret compartment they would never find it
This was very informative. We learned the value of a safe AFTER our house burned down several years ago! Fortunately, we survived - but we now have a fire proof safe from ACME that has all our important papers (just the right size for us). Your post reminded me that I need to update the safe contents with pictures & saved receipts for large purchases because those "Pesky" ( a polite term) Insurance Companies will not replace or reimburse anything from a disaster without a truck load of documentation.
I remember delivering a safe into a garage. Then he gutted out a Pepsi machine the safe fit into that gutted out Pepsi machine perfectly. Plus he locked the Pepsi machine door as well.
I was just thinking that curtain would only be effective if no one saw it blowing, but you could gut an appropriately-sized cabinet and put it in front/around the safe.
I was installing carpeting in a house near Cleveland. In a closet by the front door, behind the fireplace a safe was mortared into the masonry of the fireplace about 4 ft off the floor. Very cool old safe.
Wall safes CAN be made to hold much more than they were designed for, especially if you have a brick/stone/block-built house. My UK 30's-built one has nooks and crannies in various places. Rather than have "all my eggs in one basket", I decided on wall safes in multiple location but built some into a small, false, brick/breeze-block wall, with a decent cavity behind. A typical place would be behind the bottom of a staircase (if enclosed, not open to view), a foot or two away from the bottom corner. Another place would be up in the loft/attic/roof-space, adjacent to a chimney stack, so it looks to be part of it. A bit of imagination is all that is needed. The back of the wall safe can then have a hole (round or square) cut into the back before the safe is cemented in. You now have a much larger safe still protected by the same door security it originally had. Your valuables can then be passed through into the cavity behind (remembering to make the hole big enough for a hand clutching larger objects and to remove sharp edges.) Pick a hard-to-get-at location and disguise the wall with a decorative wood/painted/wall-papered panel, clutter, furniture, etc, to hide the safe front. An alcove in a room each side of a chimney breast could be bricked up part way for the safe/cavity, open shelves above, and a bed/furniture placed in front of the removable decoy wall covering. With my stash broken up and well hidden, I feel quite secure. I would never have one big, obvious safe on show where a brandished knife or gun threat can force its owner to open. I once bought a silver coin off someone on Ebay. He took me to his house in town and opened a massive safe in his living area to give it me! A very risky move I thought.
Like attic chimney stack idea! I have a clean and dry dirt crawl under my home, and was thinking of putting one down there. Nobody is going to take the time to remove a crawl door and look around down there. Lol
Planning to put a safe in during construction is letting the entire construction crew know where you are putting the safe and that you will have valuables in the home once complete.
Not sure why many commenters keep raising the concern about contractors knowing about safe installations. First for this sort of thing deal with reputable contractors, second not everyone it out to rob you. Take a deep breath and get a hold of yourself
Always have at least two safes; one with few valuables in it that you "allow" burglars or home intruders to find easily and get away with, and one main, hidden safe.
I was thinking the same thing. Load up the decoy safe with gold painted bricks to make it heavy. But, maybe not because you don't want to piss them off to bad.
I got one of those shelf safes... installed the bolts into it. Bottom and back...I had several brick features in the house that were designed as toy boxes or blanket boxes...put the safe inside one...then poured cement around it...turned into an extremely secure hidden floor safe. Toys or blankets back on top...even if its found it will need 20 mins with a hammer and chisel to get out...its sitting in 50 pounds of cement. It is bonded to the main floor and solid brick with very little room to work.
What about a fairly obviously placed dummy safe? Like when you go to Brazil and you bring a dummy wallet with some limited cash and worthless store cards in it and a crappy broken phone to hand out if / when you get mugged. If you get burglarized or robbed, having a safe with some (relatively) cheap stuff in there could help give the criminals the sense that they have taken what you have to take and thus cues their getaway?
If using a grounded safe, put your valuables in some plastic bags or other to protect them in case water does happen to get inside. The glaring downside to these videos is that while they're informative, they're not just informing potential customers.
It'd take a looooooong time to find that rock in the yard & or that "special" book in many many home libraries or book collections. So I beg to disagree.
Oh man that thing with the cabinet just made my day! The floor safe however is something that I ALWAYS wanted to have! Bad thing is... German houses are VERY well built and even though we have floors that are made of 20-30cm of pure concrete it is still not deep enough to but a floor safe in. The only way you are going to be able to install one of these here would be building a new house. Too bad... Great video! Best wishes, Adrian
@@LocksmithRecommended Hey Robert, you are welcome too! Safes are built differently here than in the U.S. but also housing security is much different. Here the focus is more on door and housing security than on safes but I guess that comes with the more "solid" built houses. But some nice security doors and windows in and you are pretty much set. In the U.S. doors and windows can simply not upgrade your security as much as here and I believe that is why you guys focus more on safes and other "inside" security measures. And here is the interesting thing: If you would have a floor safe in a German house, burglars would NEVER find it yet even look for it. Just beause it is not "common" here and the bad guys also know what is common. That is why I always wanted one :) would be the most secure hideway!
I consider a wall safe to be good as a dummy safe. Put $100 bucks in there and the thief thinks he's found "it" and moves on, not bothering to look further for another safe. The best way to hide a safe the garage is to install it in an old refrigerator or freezer.
Kinda related : I always get a kick out of seeing those stealthy product 'cans' for hiding money, jewelry, etc.. You unscrew the bottom of the hollow can and put it back on the shelf or in the fridge. Problem is, they're always something a burglar might want: a soda, some macaroni, a can of beer. Needs to be a can of hominy or prunes.
I found the attic is a good place to store some valuables. Will not protect from fire etc... but a thief would not know what is up there and don't know what part of attic you have valuables under insulation. Then also don't think most thieves would waste their time to search all parts of the attic.
A wall safe behind a painting is like THE MOST cliché place to place a safe EVER!!! That’s literally the place you see a safe hidden 9 out of 10 times in a movie!!! 😁
I feel like wall safes haven't been a secure option since movies popularized them. Any sort of burglary, or high level criminal activity in the movies and it's always a wall safe.
Depends on how well you hide them, I suppose. You could make it look like an electrical box, or put it inside a cabinet. You could also put it down where the nightstand is, or behind a large piece of furniture that doesn't get moved often, like a couch.
One issue with a floor safe is that they are in the floor so you have to get down on the floor and reach down into them. Putting things in cloth bags can make things easier to remove. Access to floor safes can be an issue especially for older folks.
Or you could use a rifle style floor safe. It has more of a foot print in the concrete as it is much longer in length but much more shallow (usually at a foot or less) so they are easier to reach into. Items could be organized and stored by water proof plastic containers like small Pelican cases. However if fire is your main concern, plastic won't be a viable option for storage as it would melt and destroy documents, most likely jewelry. All metal non polymer firearms are probably the only thing the plastic won't destroy. Said firearm(s) will likely never look the same but the melted plastic to protect from water and moisture can be chipped off and the firearm will still function properly. In reality, I don't store anything within my home or other structures on my property that I am not willing to loose including important documents.
I think there are reputable bonded safe installers and licensed insured contractors that you can find. If you have some drifter you met at a buss stop and only works for cash do your safe installation caveat emptor
I had a safe delivered to the house years ago and the delivery guy is telling me my combination and how to open it. Then he asks me what I will be storing inside. I told him I had a .22 rifle and some ammo I want to keep away from my kid. He looked disappointed. Like I was going to say anything valuable.
Thieves ALWAYS check behind mirrors and wall hangings. They always pat down hanging clothing for full pockets. I am thinking of building a floor safe into the base of my old chimney after I take it down to put in a pantry-so it's in the pantry floor.
If putting a big one in a garage. I'd camo it as a tool chest. Catch being that for a drive-by thief, a big tool chest could be as much of a target as a safe.
Very good info. I work construction and if you install it before the concrete pour or even put a block out for it to many people will know about it and they even tell their friends. I bought a fire proof safe and wood framed it in and dry walled it in and got a big A/c vent and a air filter in front of it. It looks just like a return air for my A/C. nobody will ever notice I have 2 return air vents. My house was burglarized 2 time when we was at work. My Question for ACME Locksmith is the fire proof safe I got all my cash starts to mold after about a month. I live in Florida a very humid State. Is that normal?
You can purchase a desiccant designed for gun safes in order to keep the humidity from damaging your valuables. Approximately once a month you’ll need to place the desiccant in the oven for a couple of hours to remove the trapped moisture. Good luck.
You can add a dehumidifier rod . Google “goldenrod” dehumidifier they are commonly used in gun safes. Another option is to vacuum seal your cash in bags using a common food vacuum sealer.
i put 4 small blocks out before the concrete pour for 4 of them, only use 2 real ones, the others were filled by myself with leca light concrete; not woried, cash is 100% water proof and heat rises
OK, two questions... Not trying to be a wiseguy here, I'm really interested in whether there's an answer. 1. If I were a burglar, I would look behind every painting or wall decoration in the house, and well as the back walls of closets, and any piece of furniture that isn't too big to get behind easily. 2. If I found a wall safe, and knowing that it's just anchored to a couple of 2x4 studs, I'd bust it out and take it with me. Any thoughts?
There are some wall stafes that are heavy duty and very very difficult to get out. But they need to be put into a space that was built knowing that the wall safe was going to go into it, because they're much deeper and much heavier.
A wall safe hidden behind a picture works fine, with the alarm blaring no thief is going to putz around looking behind hanging pictures. Once they find it they still have to open it. And it may be empty.
The disadvantages with floor safes is that they collect dirt and if there's a flooding in the area they would be filled up. A fireproof safe is definitely a better choice since burglary is not the only problem you need to protect yourself against.
I intend to buy a truck and truck camper. I would love to have a safe in there for my laptop & some cash etc for when I go hiking or stop at a restaurant/hotel. Of course, someone might just drive off with the while rig if it isn't secured. But lets say it is an old model that looks like junk from the outside & nobody would think there was anything valuable inside. Any ideas for that situation? Or just RVs;trucks in general.
There are some manufactures making under the seat lock boxes. I have no experience with them though. Aside from that, small pistol safes are probably your best bet.
campers usually have a boxed-in storage area under a seat/bed. I'd mount a wall or floor safe to the bed of the truck then cut a panel out of the floor of the camper inside that storage area for access to that safe. It's well hidden, securely mounted (bolted directly to the bed of the truck), and if you get a quality model it can be plenty strong too. Check the measurements of both the truck and the camper to determine if this solution is viable for your uses. Check out Sturdy safe for a quality, fairly priced safe option to suit your needs. If they don't have one they can make you whatever you need.
Where is the secrecy when you have to use trades people to prepare for a floor safe? My advice is ensure your safe is UL rated and that your insurer's are happy with the what you are securing within. Insurers are the real experts employing reliable risk managers and surveyors who know all the tricks making their loss and more importantly those unsuccessful attempts available for the benefit of their policy holders.
Thanks for the comment. Check out our two videos on UL ratings. Burglary Ratings Explained: th-cam.com/video/9u-asS7Ldys/w-d-xo.html Fire Ratings Explained: th-cam.com/video/5SwZj72j2n0/w-d-xo.html
If you are planning to have a floor safe when the house is being built, catering for it is self destructive, in as much as the all of the construction workers on the house will know where the safe is!!
Jay Anderson. Not true. It depends what kind of safe. Some jewelry safes weigh over a ton and will take at least 8-12 hours to cut into with professional cutting tools and torches. And the noise that these tools make are extremely loud. Many of these jewelry safes have wireless alarms inside that detect movement or interior light change. Any type of movement or interior lighting change notifies the owner on cell phone.
Imagine being a custom home builder employee or owner say it’s ww3 or something else and you know that if you go to this house you can fine money/gold/jewelry
Is it seriously that hard to waterproof these things? All of should take is a simple rubber gasket around the door frame, but I've only found one gun safe so far that was advertised as waterproof, and that was only up to two feet of water for a couple hours.
It can be. Almost all good safes have holes in the bottom to bolt them down. Some will have those holes covered with plastic, but if you want to use them, there goes the water resistance. www.acmelocksmith.com/articles/are-gun-safes-waterproof/
Does anyone here want to buy the safest/ the heaviest safe and conceal it into the wall or in the ground with the help of a contractor... so no one will find it ? :)
I knew this family who went 'OVERKILL'' with their safes. (Both in the basement) 1 a small lock box, inside a 100lbs + floor safe 2 inside 1 of 2-gun safes 3 inside a bank like vault. 4 that door 2 dials 1 went LRL the other RLR 5 the numbers went 1 2 3 the other 3,2 1 (NOT the real numbers) 6 that door behind a bookshelf that you need to pull out and push in a series of 10 books. Their son and daughter and biological siblings of the parents only ones to know the combo. *** The bother of one of the parents also had a vault as such. 4 numbers. The uncle's SS# He also had a door hidden in the basement behind drywall, with a dial that had 100#s the combo was 6 numbers. MONTH DAY YEAR. 19** 19** This guy and his uncle were born X number of years apart. (The door went into a hidden area for cars, a lift that went through a garden so you wouldn't know anything was there). The nephew the only person to know the combos.
This reviewer, I'm sorry to say, is quite naive if he thinks a safe behind a picture is a well concealed safe. The first thing burglers do, is to pull all the pictures off the walls as they look for a safe.
He's mentioning clichés, sure, but you can get creative with wall safes, too. Put it inside the pantry, for example. It can also go behind furniture or tall bookcases that don't get moved much.
Seems that a simple paint job may not cover the overall profile of a safe too well. I could paint my Honda Civic the same color as a Mercedes but the profile of the car sticks out like a sore thumb Not to mention the customization costs of color, shade, etc. to match each persons space. Production time for custom works, demand for it, etc...? Probably not worth it to just offer a paint job. Over time the paint could chip off and reveal the safe as well
I just can't think of putting a large safe in a garage that's in sight from the street. If I were robbing a house, I'd probably skip the garage. But if someone saw tools or other items in a garage and figured that'd be the fastest, easiest grab...I'd look under a sheet, open up cabinets, etc. Just seems like a bad idea if it's avoidable
if at all possible always avoid putting your safe in the garage. Garages are terrible options for many reasons. 1- temperature/humidity fluctuations suck. 2- theyre typically the least secure place in the house. 3- garages and kitchens are the top 2 most likely places in the house to have a fire. 4- safes tend to be visible in a garage. Garages should always be a last resort for safes
there are safe companies that do exactly that. Sturdy Safe for example (The company I prefer) offers this option on some of their larger safes so you can have 2 layers of security for your most valuable items.
True, I should have been more clear like in our "Fire Ratings Explained" video: th-cam.com/video/5SwZj72j2n0/w-d-xo.html The point I was making though is that there is a BIG difference with a safe that has a fire rating and a safe that has no fire rating. Thanks for watching! ✌
I would be more interested is more foolproof ways to hide a wall safe (for example), not just covering it with a mirror or picture. That's the first place an experienced burglar would look. If they find it, they don't even have to open it there, they can just pry it loose and take it away with them.
That's a valid point. Most are not built very well. There are good ones with burglary ratings, but the wall really needs to have been planned with the installation of a wall safe in mind (bigger than a standard 2X4, extra wood, etc...).
This is a "fool" proof inexpensive home security system: U will need: a bunch of bananas, a jar of crunchy peanut butter, a pack of condoms. Take the unpeeled banana and put a condom on it... coat the banana liberally with chunky peanut butter. Leave on top of what U want safe.
Why are you telling everyone where the safes are hidden? It’s just irresponsible. You think thieves don’t have iPhones and don’t watch TH-cam? I’m watching to rule OUT places to hide a safe.
better not hide a safe anywhere you may live then because theres a youtube video that shows every place imaginable including but nowhere near limited to hidden walls, in floors, in underground safe rooms, in the tool shed, in an a/c duct, in the attic, in the basement, in the water heater closet, in a dresser, etc. No place is ever perfectly safe.
After I purchase a high security safe I realized that my most valuable possession was the safe.
as it should be. It is the single most valuable item but it protects multiple other high value items.
😂
Just make the room fire safe :)
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AH MAYBE COVER THE SAFE WELL!
You're wife needs to buy more
Even if it’s strong or high security but what if a robber found it in closet or something and some how cracked it but say it’s like somewhere under the floor in a secret compartment they would never find it
This was very informative. We learned the value of a safe AFTER our house burned down several years ago! Fortunately, we survived - but we now have a fire proof safe from ACME that has all our important papers (just the right size for us). Your post reminded me that I need to update the safe contents with pictures & saved receipts for large purchases because those "Pesky" ( a polite term) Insurance Companies will not replace or reimburse anything from a disaster without a truck load of documentation.
Which is why you should have consulted your potential insurers first rather than dealing with a call centre or on-line brokerage.
Take pictures of your receipts or scan them and email them to yourself. Make a folder and you have a copy of your receipts forever.
The cloak for the safe was neat. They should make it look like a bunch of stacked cardboard boxes.
I remember delivering a safe into a garage. Then he gutted out a Pepsi machine the safe fit into that gutted out Pepsi machine perfectly. Plus he locked the Pepsi machine door as well.
I was just thinking that curtain would only be effective if no one saw it blowing, but you could gut an appropriately-sized cabinet and put it in front/around the safe.
Cardboard box for smaller safes marked with a black sharpie "baby clothes" will always get overlooked. 👍
Simply one of the best vids I've ever seen on YT, & I've watched a ton. THANKS!
Thanks!
You're welcome!
I was installing carpeting in a house near Cleveland. In a closet by the front door, behind the fireplace a safe was mortared into the masonry of the fireplace about 4 ft off the floor. Very cool old safe.
Wall safes CAN be made to hold much more than they were designed for, especially if you have a brick/stone/block-built house. My UK 30's-built one has nooks and crannies in various places. Rather than have "all my eggs in one basket", I decided on wall safes in multiple location but built some into a small, false, brick/breeze-block wall, with a decent cavity behind. A typical place would be behind the bottom of a staircase (if enclosed, not open to view), a foot or two away from the bottom corner.
Another place would be up in the loft/attic/roof-space, adjacent to a chimney stack, so it looks to be part of it. A bit of imagination is all that is needed. The back of the wall safe can then have a hole (round or square) cut into the back before the safe is cemented in. You now have a much larger safe still protected by the same door security it originally had. Your valuables can then be passed through into the cavity behind (remembering to make the hole big enough for a hand clutching larger objects and to remove sharp edges.)
Pick a hard-to-get-at location and disguise the wall with a decorative wood/painted/wall-papered panel, clutter, furniture, etc, to hide the safe front. An alcove in a room each side of a chimney breast could be bricked up part way for the safe/cavity, open shelves above, and a bed/furniture placed in front of the removable decoy wall covering. With my stash broken up and well hidden, I feel quite secure. I would never have one big, obvious safe on show where a brandished knife or gun threat can force its owner to open. I once bought a silver coin off someone on Ebay. He took me to his house in town and opened a massive safe in his living area to give it me! A very risky move I thought.
Like attic chimney stack idea! I have a clean and dry dirt crawl under my home, and was thinking of putting one down there. Nobody is going to take the time to remove a crawl door and look around down there. Lol
Planning to put a safe in during construction is letting the entire construction crew know where you are putting the safe and that you will have valuables in the home once complete.
yep, that's definitely an issue
i haven't thought about that....
Don't do it...Lol! You won't sleep right 😁😁
Not sure why many commenters keep raising the concern about contractors knowing about safe installations. First for this sort of thing deal with reputable contractors, second not everyone it out to rob you. Take a deep breath and get a hold of yourself
jeffhreid: The contractor could be reputable but what about their employee's, alternatively those delivering ready mix concrete and other materials?
Always have at least two safes; one with few valuables in it that you "allow" burglars or home intruders to find easily and get away with, and one main, hidden safe.
I was thinking the same thing. Load up the decoy safe with gold painted bricks to make it heavy. But, maybe not because you don't want to piss them off to bad.
Typical democrat logic 😂😂😂
@@wattsupwiththat1463 yeah, fill the decoy safe with stacks of foreign currency(worth $50 bucks or less), cheap costume jewelry, misc, trinkets.
Two safes are the best one visible one hidden
yes, a decoy safe that weighs about 50lbs so the thief is able to carry it out & leave.
The old cardboard box over the top routine works good too
I got one of those shelf safes... installed the bolts into it. Bottom and back...I had several brick features in the house that were designed as toy boxes or blanket boxes...put the safe inside one...then poured cement around it...turned into an extremely secure hidden floor safe. Toys or blankets back on top...even if its found it will need 20 mins with a hammer and chisel to get out...its sitting in 50 pounds of cement. It is bonded to the main floor and solid brick with very little room to work.
Well done.👍
How ingenious.....
I thought I was here to solve a fun "Where's the safe?" mystery game. No mystery to these locations.
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Great video. Thank you for this information.
What about a fairly obviously placed dummy safe? Like when you go to Brazil and you bring a dummy wallet with some limited cash and worthless store cards in it and a crappy broken phone to hand out if / when you get mugged. If you get burglarized or robbed, having a safe with some (relatively) cheap stuff in there could help give the criminals the sense that they have taken what you have to take and thus cues their getaway?
If using a grounded safe, put your valuables in some plastic bags or other to protect them in case water does happen to get inside.
The glaring downside to these videos is that while they're informative, they're not just informing potential customers.
yeah, now that he told everyone, those places aren't good.
It'd take a looooooong time to find that rock in the yard & or that "special" book in many many home libraries or book collections. So I beg to disagree.
Considering the cost of a floor safe, they could make it water tight. It wouldn't be hard to do.
Based on the THUMBNAIL PHOTO, I was expecting to see some installations.
Oh man that thing with the cabinet just made my day! The floor safe however is something that I ALWAYS wanted to have! Bad thing is... German houses are VERY well built and even though we have floors that are made of 20-30cm of pure concrete it is still not deep enough to but a floor safe in. The only way you are going to be able to install one of these here would be building a new house. Too bad... Great video! Best wishes, Adrian
Thanks Adrian! Loving the education on German homes & security from this and some of your other posts! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@LocksmithRecommended Hey Robert, you are welcome too! Safes are built differently here than in the U.S. but also housing security is much different. Here the focus is more on door and housing security than on safes but I guess that comes with the more "solid" built houses. But some nice security doors and windows in and you are pretty much set. In the U.S. doors and windows can simply not upgrade your security as much as here and I believe that is why you guys focus more on safes and other "inside" security measures. And here is the interesting thing: If you would have a floor safe in a German house, burglars would NEVER find it yet even look for it. Just beause it is not "common" here and the bad guys also know what is common. That is why I always wanted one :) would be the most secure hideway!
I consider a wall safe to be good as a dummy safe. Put $100 bucks in there and the thief thinks he's found "it" and moves on, not bothering to look further for another safe. The best way to hide a safe the garage is to install it in an old refrigerator or freezer.
Lots of good advice thank you very much
Kinda related : I always get a kick out of seeing those stealthy product 'cans' for hiding money, jewelry, etc.. You unscrew the bottom of the hollow can and put it back on the shelf or in the fridge. Problem is, they're always something a burglar might want: a soda, some macaroni, a can of beer. Needs to be a can of hominy or prunes.
lmao!!! or x-lax so they think it's chocolate🤣
I found the attic is a good place to store some valuables. Will not protect from fire etc... but a thief would not know what is up there and don't know what part of attic you have valuables under insulation. Then also don't think most thieves would waste their time to search all parts of the attic.
Just don’t forget where you put it otherwise you will be lifting up lots of insulation. Been there done that.
@@aussie8114 If its really valiable, I doubt most people will not forget.
A wall safe behind a painting is like THE MOST cliché place to place a safe EVER!!! That’s literally the place you see a safe hidden 9 out of 10 times in a movie!!! 😁
Very interesting 🤔
Thanks 👍
Yep... Behind stove-Refrigerator-washing machine...works for me.
I feel like wall safes haven't been a secure option since movies popularized them. Any sort of burglary, or high level criminal activity in the movies and it's always a wall safe.
Depends on how well you hide them, I suppose. You could make it look like an electrical box, or put it inside a cabinet. You could also put it down where the nightstand is, or behind a large piece of furniture that doesn't get moved often, like a couch.
I wish I had valuables that needed hiding, but this is good research for fiction writing.
One issue with a floor safe is that they are in the floor so you have to get down on the floor and reach down into them. Putting things in cloth bags can make things easier to remove. Access to floor safes can be an issue especially for older folks.
Or you could use a rifle style floor safe. It has more of a foot print in the concrete as it is much longer in length but much more shallow (usually at a foot or less) so they are easier to reach into. Items could be organized and stored by water proof plastic containers like small Pelican cases. However if fire is your main concern, plastic won't be a viable option for storage as it would melt and destroy documents, most likely jewelry. All metal non polymer firearms are probably the only thing the plastic won't destroy. Said firearm(s) will likely never look the same but the melted plastic to protect from water and moisture can be chipped off and the firearm will still function properly. In reality, I don't store anything within my home or other structures on my property that I am not willing to loose including important documents.
You could just build a cabinet around your gun safe.
hahaha
Always put decoy cash in the same room as the safe. One the stupid theives grab that they will usually forget about looking for a safe.
Maybe its just me, but choosing to rob a place due to the fact YOU KNOW they have guns, may wind up being your last bad decision.
0:08 "I am 'Robber' with Acme Locksmith"
Great safes informations 😎
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The only problem here is that the people or company you hired to install your safe are now robbing you because they know where to find it.
so what is a solution to this then!
@@adityagupta-ri1si Do it yourself.
I mean there are safes that you can install yourself.
I think there are reputable bonded safe installers and licensed insured contractors that you can find. If you have some drifter you met at a buss stop and only works for cash do your safe installation caveat emptor
I had a safe delivered to the house years ago and the delivery guy is telling me my combination and how to open it. Then he asks me what I will be storing inside. I told him I had a .22 rifle and some ammo I want to keep away from my kid. He looked disappointed. Like I was going to say anything valuable.
Thieves ALWAYS check behind mirrors and wall hangings. They always pat down hanging clothing for full pockets.
I am thinking of building a floor safe into the base of my old chimney after I take it down to put in a pantry-so it's in the pantry floor.
The "Safe Cloak" that looks like a cabinet isn't so great. I would have made it look like an old refrigerator.
Neat idea.
Old refrigerator. Hahahaha. LOL
If putting a big one in a garage. I'd camo it as a tool chest. Catch being that for a drive-by thief, a big tool chest could be as much of a target as a safe.
In times like these, refrigerators might be the true treasure. You never know when we'll get hit with famine and people go crazy.
Very good info. I work construction and if you install it before the concrete pour or even put a block out for it to many people will know about it and they even tell their friends. I bought a fire proof safe and wood framed it in and dry walled it in and got a big A/c vent and a air filter in front of it. It looks just like a return air for my A/C. nobody will ever notice I have 2 return air vents. My house was burglarized 2 time when we was at work. My Question for ACME Locksmith is the fire proof safe I got all my cash starts to mold after about a month. I live in Florida a very humid State. Is that normal?
you can buy a rechargeable dehumidifier
You can purchase a desiccant designed for gun safes in order to keep the humidity from damaging your valuables. Approximately once a month you’ll need to place the desiccant in the oven for a couple of hours to remove the trapped moisture. Good luck.
You can add a dehumidifier rod . Google “goldenrod” dehumidifier they are commonly used in gun safes. Another option is to vacuum seal your cash in bags using a common food vacuum sealer.
i put 4 small blocks out before the concrete pour for 4 of them, only use 2 real ones, the others were filled by myself with leca light concrete; not woried, cash is 100% water proof and heat rises
what fire safe would you recommend that would be about a shoe box size that perhaps (if possible) can be secured via screws/bolts
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OK, two questions...
Not trying to be a wiseguy here, I'm really interested in whether there's an answer.
1. If I were a burglar, I would look behind every painting or wall decoration in the house, and well as the back walls of closets, and any piece of furniture that isn't too big to get behind easily.
2. If I found a wall safe, and knowing that it's just anchored to a couple of 2x4 studs, I'd bust it out and take it with me.
Any thoughts?
There are some wall stafes that are heavy duty and very very difficult to get out. But they need to be put into a space that was built knowing that the wall safe was going to go into it, because they're much deeper and much heavier.
Would you look behind a Fridge -Stove -or Washing machine ??
Maybe, maybe not.
I think it would depend on the situation.
A wall safe hidden behind a picture works fine, with the alarm blaring no thief is going to putz around looking behind hanging pictures. Once they find it they still have to open it. And it may be empty.
Most wall safes are pretty easy to get into.
The disadvantages with floor safes is that they collect dirt and if there's a flooding in the area they would be filled up.
A fireproof safe is definitely a better choice since burglary is not the only problem you need to protect yourself against.
I tend to agree.
The problem I think with a fire safe is how do you get into it after the electronic lock melts during the fire. It’ll have to be drilled right?
money is 100% water proof,it can even go into the washing machine,and does,sometimes,by mistake
@@josepeixoto3384 You're acting like money is the only thing people put into safes 🙄
#1. Don't put the safe in the master bedroom. That's the first place a thief heads to.
Yep! Did you watch th-cam.com/video/uEv7u0WFHww/w-d-xo.html
Best place the dunny safe.. RIGHT ??
I intend to buy a truck and truck camper. I would love to have a safe in there for my laptop & some cash etc for when I go hiking or stop at a restaurant/hotel. Of course, someone might just drive off with the while rig if it isn't secured. But lets say it is an old model that looks like junk from the outside & nobody would think there was anything valuable inside. Any ideas for that situation? Or just RVs;trucks in general.
There are some manufactures making under the seat lock boxes. I have no experience with them though. Aside from that, small pistol safes are probably your best bet.
campers usually have a boxed-in storage area under a seat/bed. I'd mount a wall or floor safe to the bed of the truck then cut a panel out of the floor of the camper inside that storage area for access to that safe. It's well hidden, securely mounted (bolted directly to the bed of the truck), and if you get a quality model it can be plenty strong too. Check the measurements of both the truck and the camper to determine if this solution is viable for your uses. Check out Sturdy safe for a quality, fairly priced safe option to suit your needs. If they don't have one they can make you whatever you need.
Thank you
Are stealth safes any good or are they junk?
I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with that brand. You can check out our video on safe burglary ratings explained. th-cam.com/video/9u-asS7Ldys/w-d-xo.html
Good video
Thanks
4:30 well now they kno
🤣 same thing I was thinking
Wall safes are great as DECOYS. Put your real stuff in another safe.
A good strategy? Have 20 "decoy" safes so the criminals won't want to spend time finding the one holding your stuff.
Put a safe in a safe for extra SAFEty.
@@phoonster_ 🤪😄
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Hello my name is Rob, it is also what i do. Im sitting here drinking an ice cold csn of beer reading all your hiding places. Sleep well tonight
hmm, it would be nice to have a disguised safe inside a clothing cabinet
Post tension slab? Not in any homes I’ve ever owned.
Nice video.
Thanks!
Where is the secrecy when you have to use trades people to prepare for a floor safe? My advice is ensure your safe is UL rated and that your insurer's are happy with the what you are securing within. Insurers are the real experts employing reliable risk managers and surveyors who know all the tricks making their loss and more importantly those unsuccessful attempts available for the benefit of their policy holders.
Thanks for the comment.
Check out our two videos on UL ratings.
Burglary Ratings Explained: th-cam.com/video/9u-asS7Ldys/w-d-xo.html
Fire Ratings Explained: th-cam.com/video/5SwZj72j2n0/w-d-xo.html
If you are planning to have a floor safe when the house is being built, catering for it is self destructive, in as much as the all of the construction workers on the house will know where the safe is!!
How do I crack these safes?
Lots of YT videos about that.
A circular saw with a concrete blade slices through a "safe" like a hot knife through butter!
Jay Anderson. Not true. It depends what kind of safe. Some jewelry safes weigh over a ton and will take at least 8-12 hours to cut into with professional cutting tools and torches. And the noise that these tools make are extremely loud. Many of these jewelry safes have wireless alarms inside that detect movement or interior light change. Any type of movement or interior lighting change notifies the owner on cell phone.
Behind a painting is the first place any burglar would look. The other two are clever
nowadays everybody knows the safe is behind the piece of art
Imagine being a custom home builder employee or owner say it’s ww3 or something else and you know that if you go to this house you can fine money/gold/jewelry
Is it seriously that hard to waterproof these things? All of should take is a simple rubber gasket around the door frame, but I've only found one gun safe so far that was advertised as waterproof, and that was only up to two feet of water for a couple hours.
It can be. Almost all good safes have holes in the bottom to bolt them down. Some will have those holes covered with plastic, but if you want to use them, there goes the water resistance. www.acmelocksmith.com/articles/are-gun-safes-waterproof/
I use a $5 black sheet I got from walmart
Does anyone here want to buy the safest/ the heaviest safe and conceal it into the wall or in the ground with the help of a contractor... so no one will find it ? :)
I prefer the portable safe, you can carry it easily from room to room.
And the robbers can easily carry it from your room to theirs...
If you can carry it from room to room it’s not really a safe, something like that would better be called a lockbox
I put my valuables in a bag of flower marked "dope"
Don't waste your time and money on these things! Be like me, a map with a big X
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All my valuables are kept at my ex wife’s house 😟
Diddo 🤣
Diversion safe is safest.
Seeing comes before wanting…
It's not hidden anymore, you've just let all the crooks know where it's hidden 🙄
My friend used where the basement window was after expanding his house.
I knew this family who went 'OVERKILL'' with their safes.
(Both in the basement)
1 a small lock box, inside a 100lbs + floor safe
2 inside 1 of 2-gun safes
3 inside a bank like vault.
4 that door 2 dials 1 went LRL the other RLR
5 the numbers went 1 2 3 the other 3,2 1
(NOT the real numbers)
6 that door behind a bookshelf that you need to pull out and push in a series of 10 books.
Their son and daughter and biological siblings of the parents only ones to know the combo.
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The bother of one of the parents
also had a vault as such.
4 numbers.
The uncle's SS#
He also had a door hidden in the basement behind drywall, with a dial that had 100#s the combo was 6 numbers. MONTH DAY YEAR.
19** 19**
This guy and his uncle were born X number of years apart.
(The door went into a hidden area for cars, a lift that went through a garden so you wouldn't know anything was there).
The nephew the only person to know the combos.
There is one glaring omission to all these ideas. Change the safe combo and location after a divorce!
Truth.
This reviewer, I'm sorry to say, is quite naive if he thinks a safe behind a picture is a well concealed safe. The first thing burglers do, is to pull all the pictures off the walls as they look for a safe.
He's mentioning clichés, sure, but you can get creative with wall safes, too. Put it inside the pantry, for example. It can also go behind furniture or tall bookcases that don't get moved much.
Or just go John Wick style and dig a whole in the basement and cement over it.
why don't they just paint it to look like a cabinet?
Seems that a simple paint job may not cover the overall profile of a safe too well. I could paint my Honda Civic the same color as a Mercedes but the profile of the car sticks out like a sore thumb
Not to mention the customization costs of color, shade, etc. to match each persons space. Production time for custom works, demand for it, etc...? Probably not worth it to just offer a paint job. Over time the paint could chip off and reveal the safe as well
I built my house around my floor safe, bad guys are gonna have a hard time toting off my house.
Yeah, what burglar would think to look behind a nice piece of art…and take the art too?
Put the safe in your garage and throw a sheet over it no one will know what it is
I just can't think of putting a large safe in a garage that's in sight from the street. If I were robbing a house, I'd probably skip the garage. But if someone saw tools or other items in a garage and figured that'd be the fastest, easiest grab...I'd look under a sheet, open up cabinets, etc. Just seems like a bad idea if it's avoidable
if at all possible always avoid putting your safe in the garage. Garages are terrible options for many reasons. 1- temperature/humidity fluctuations suck. 2- theyre typically the least secure place in the house. 3- garages and kitchens are the top 2 most likely places in the house to have a fire. 4- safes tend to be visible in a garage. Garages should always be a last resort for safes
If you have the budget, why not a safe inside a safe?
there are safe companies that do exactly that. Sturdy Safe for example (The company I prefer) offers this option on some of their larger safes so you can have 2 layers of security for your most valuable items.
Many safes are built that way. Sometimes the inner safe is called the till
NOTHING is "fire proof"! Words have meaning, therefore they matter.
True, I should have been more clear like in our "Fire Ratings Explained" video:
th-cam.com/video/5SwZj72j2n0/w-d-xo.html
The point I was making though is that there is a BIG difference with a safe that has a fire rating and a safe that has no fire rating.
Thanks for watching! ✌
All a thief has to do is spend 20 minutes on TH-cam.
Pitiful ! I know 10 better locations, but I’m taking them to my grave !
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I would be more interested is more foolproof ways to hide a wall safe (for example), not just covering it with a mirror or picture. That's the first place an experienced burglar would look. If they find it, they don't even have to open it there, they can just pry it loose and take it away with them.
That's a valid point. Most are not built very well. There are good ones with burglary ratings, but the wall really needs to have been planned with the installation of a wall safe in mind (bigger than a standard 2X4, extra wood, etc...).
False wainscoting held in place with magnet cabinet catches is super easy to make and totally invisible to most searches
Fort Knox safes
I would fill mine with Monopoly money and keep my real money in the bank.
Well, you don't hide a safe on youtube....
.... and you didn't even watch the video did you 🤦🏻♂️. ✌️
YOU TUBE ARE CROOKS ???
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Why would anyone want to tell the word where they have their safe ? You aren't very smart !
Because they can't spell
Don’t burden yourself with stuff that burglars want to steel, then you won’t need a safe, problem solved.
My decoy safe has a nail bomb right at eye level.
Try doing it in a small motorhome.
THAT'S EASY...GRAB THE FRONT GRILL OFF OF A WINDOW A/C UNIT OR SPACE HEATER OR FAN AND ATTACH IT TO THE FRONT OF THE SAFE...POOF ALL HIDDEN.
@@DUMB_AND_DUMBERER Don't forget to put the back of the Window unit on the outside of the same wall. Some crooks are smarter than the average bear!
This is a "fool" proof inexpensive home security system: U will need: a bunch of bananas, a jar of crunchy peanut butter, a pack of condoms. Take the unpeeled banana and put a condom on it... coat the banana liberally with chunky peanut butter. Leave on top of what U want safe.
I don't get it. What would that accomplish?
@@DeborahHMarks Caca Poopoo
I just use a fake peanut butter jar
@Ben Jones Damn, can't find anything decent to steal, so I'll take the sugar and coffee...
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I stopped watching after this man tried to make me believe that 2 and 1/2 inches isn't a lot.
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Hide your valuables in hollowed out books, they are crooks kryptonite
Why are you telling everyone where the safes are hidden? It’s just irresponsible. You think thieves don’t have iPhones and don’t watch TH-cam? I’m watching to rule OUT places to hide a safe.
better not hide a safe anywhere you may live then because theres a youtube video that shows every place imaginable including but nowhere near limited to hidden walls, in floors, in underground safe rooms, in the tool shed, in an a/c duct, in the attic, in the basement, in the water heater closet, in a dresser, etc. No place is ever perfectly safe.
Woodglut is nice for that.