Vault Door Recommendation

[CodeRed30]

two double schlag deadbolts.

I would upgrade those. Many schlages are bumpable or pickable. Spend the money on a quality lock like Abloy

[Flyinlow]

These look nice, although they may be pricey:

http://www.libertysafe.com/safe-vaul...fes-ps-13.html

[nova3930]

Thanks for the follow up and mention of how you did the walls. Didn't have to do any additional foundation work? How did you handle running a/c duct work in there? The architorture geek in me is interested in as many details as you can give

House is built on a slab on chainwall. Foundation block underneath the vault goes all the way down to the footing. Imagine the foundation layers as this: undisturbed earth -> footing -> chainwall of 8" filled block -> 4" concrete slab -> 8" filled block vault walls - 4" concrete cap

When they poured the concrete cap, they framed up a spot for a normal ventilation duct along with some conduit for electrion. HVAC man is on tap to put a fire damper on the supply to suppress smoke in the event of a fire.

Thinking about finishing out the inside with tongue and groove pine to make everything look nice but I don't know yet.

I'm now looking for some nice gun racks if anyone can recommend some....

[nova3930]

These look nice, although they may be pricey:

http://www.libertysafe.com/safe-vaul...fes-ps-13.html

They're way pricey. They're claiming $7k for that door delivered with a 3/8" outer door skin and a 10 gauge inner skin. I paid $4200 delivered and mine has a 1/2" outer skin and 1/8" inner skin. The smith is a full 36" door as well instead of a 30" door. All the other specs appear similar.

ETA

You could get the Magnum Extreme which has an outer door skin of a full 1" and it would only be about $500 more than what I paid for mine, still significantly less than the liberty...

[hunt_ak]

What did Diebold quote you?

[nova3930]

What did Diebold quote you?

A lot. Nearly $10k. Granted they had the best overall specs and that was an installed quote so I don't think it's out of line, I just didn't have that much to drop on the door. My budget for the whole vault was around $10k and that was stretching it.

[Aegis]

I also would stay away from the block construction.

Another thing to consider is make sure you're decided on what door before you construct the room so your rough opening is true to size for the for the door.

You see people create a "universal " opening and when it comes time to add the door they end up having to build up the frame area creating a substantial weak link the in the set up.

[nova3930]

I'm glad people are now seeing fit to tell me how I should do things long after the thing is built

The block is in place, it's filled with concrete and rebar and it's not going anywhere. I think it will do it's job just fine. And I made sure that the opening was built to the door manufacturers specifications. Double checked it when they laid everything out. Door should fit perfectly.

[Aegis]

Sorry guy,

I read your first post and got lost in the drifting posts so just put my 2 cents in.

you should have a pretty good set up.

Keep a humidity gauge in the room and in your safe if you have one inside just to keep an eye on the moisture.

[nova3930]

Sorry guy,

I read your first post and got lost in the drifting posts so just put my 2 cents in.

you should have a pretty good set up.

Keep a humidity gauge in the room and in your safe if you have one inside just to keep an eye on the moisture.

It's all good. I find it funny more than anything. When I was actually designing the thing I couldn't get a comment. Now that's it built I can't beat commenters off with a stick lol

I can get a humidity sensor with my alarm system so I'm probably gonna do that. Then I can check it from anywhere. That plus the HVAC vent inside and I should be safe.