How to Bolt a Home Safe to the Floor

Having a safe is only a part of securing valuables. If the safe is small and easily lifted, people interested in its contents may just pick the entire safe up and leave with it. To properly guarantee the effectiveness of a safe, it is necessary to bolt the safe securely to the floor. Since the safe is secured from inside the safe's cavity, removing the safe is difficult without access to the inside of the safe. This makes taking the safe from one room to another easy for the owner, but difficult for everyone else.

Pencil
Drill bits
Power drill
Adjustable wrench
Socket set

Instructions

- 1
  Position the safe on the floor where you want to install it.
- 2
  Open the safe door and locate the mounting holes at the base. Reach inside and draw an outline in each hole using a pencil to mark the location of the holes on the floor.
- 3
  Remove the safe again and make sure the hole marks are distinguishable. Darken them if necessary.
- 4
  Drill holes straight down through the flooring at your drawn hole marks using a power drill and a bit that is smaller than the bolt's diameter.
- 5
  Insert one end of the bolt through the hole and use an adjustable wrench to screw it down into the floor until the threads are no longer visible on that end. Ensure that the bolts go in straight, or they will not line up with the holes in the safe.
- 6
  Lift the safe and slowly settle it down over the top of the bolts. Adjust the alignment until all four fit through the holes in the safe and the unit is securely planted on the floor. Fit the washers and nuts over the ends of each bolt and tighten them down using a socket wrench.
- 7
  Fit the plastic caps over the tops of the bolts and nuts to hide them from view.

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