Gun safe weight and manufactured homes

[mrblond]

I am waiting for my floor to cave in. The houses floorboards used to be part of Camp Adair

 

[Velzey]

When I was in a mfg home I had the wall crack in the bedroom, and a huge crack in the ceiling after about a year...And this was not from some little pansy sentry safe sitting in the bedroom, lets just say something large... After a year of the house settling a little and all that weight in the corner of the bedroom..I had problems.
I put in two large house jacks I found at a pawn shop right under it, and while I was at it I got some help and re leveled the whole house.
No more cracks!

 

[Raidingtime]

A relative who lives in a manufactured home is currently shopping for a gun safe. He called to ask me if I had heard of any issues with the floor not being able to support the weight of a proper 1100lb gun safe. I hadn't, but I can see how it might be an issue. He doesn't have a good alternative aside from inside the home.

Anyone have any experience here?

modify a closet:
- add security hinges
- add a dead bolt
- add a metal door

-..... add lasers, attack dogs, cameras, spooky skeletons, and you're golden

I do this and have a small 4 rifle safe inside that my dad built me for a previous birthday (best birthday present ever). I keep the expensive firearms inside the small safe and least expensive outside of it along with ammo stored on a shelf that spans the width of the closet. Working well for the stuff I have packed in there along with emergency food rations.

good to go!

Unless you're looking for fireproof.. maybe you have a brick closet?... Then see anyone else's comment and regard me as a rambler

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

I am waiting for my floor to cave in. The houses floorboards used to be part of Camp Adair

My grandfather was a Army Engineer who worked in building Camp Adair. He also worked on Bonneville, Lookout Point, Dexter, The Dalles and Hills Creek dams. I lived at Lowell, OR for the first 8 months of my life in 1951.

 

[oknow]

If your worried about the floor under the safe. don't fill your freezer completely with meat because you will be looking at about the same size footprint / psi on the floor.

 

[Roger65]

I have a 95 gallon aquarium (1100 lbs), so I think about this stuff a lot. In my case it is the base that concerns me. As for your home, have you ever had a party or get together? Would you be concerned about ten adults standing around a table? That is 1500 lbs right there.

If everything is sound (no dryrot) I wouldn't sweat it.

 

[jluck]

I have a 95 gallon aquarium (1100 lbs), so I think about this stuff a lot. In my case it is the base that concerns me. As for your home, have you ever had a party or get together? Would you be concerned about ten adults standing around a table? That is 1500 lbs right there.

If everything is sound (no dryrot) I wouldn't sweat it.

Ten adults spread out over 60 square feet for a few hours is totally different than a thousand pounds sitting on a nine square foot spot.

 

[Roger65]

Ten adults spread out over 60 square feet for a few hours is totally different than a thousand pounds sitting on a nine square foot spot.

True, but at a party or gathering people often do congregate over a small area. I think of my aquarium like four 250lb guys standing around bs'ing. Not an impossibility in my family!