I just have a question and I would like as many opinions as possible.
I will in less than two weeks be moving to a house with a large basement. This house is six years old and has not had any issues with any basement leaking.
In the Basement is a large 6 x 10 concrete vault room under the front porch of the home. The walls and roof in addition to being solid concrete are also timber framed for later completion. The doorway is also framed in 2x 10 lumber. There is also a light in the room.
I have seen these rooms in my area finished out and framed wall in old barn wood with shelves and built in gun racks. They also use old rusted tin for the roof in these rooms. It makes a very impressive gun room that is still accessible in the event of an emergency and can be used as a safe room. A lot of people put a huge steel vault door on these to seal them off. The door is almost like the door of a gun safe.
So I have a lot of guns and thus far I have only used two green Sentinel gun cabinets that you commonly buy from Walmart or Bass Pro. The kind that can be accessed with a screw driver or butter knife in about 60 seconds. They were just really to keep my kids (ages 4/1) away from the guns.
My other option is to buy a large gun safe and just use that instead. Gun safe's are fire rated and are still harder to get into that this home made vault room would be. I have never owned a big gun safe. Most people I know who own one its never locked to be honest.
I don't like the idea of not being able to see my guns or having to cram them in a gun safe but I want them to be safe from thieves and my kids.
SO a good gun safe cost as much as finishing the vault room. Which Would you choose and why???????
Also I have a very large stock pile of ammo like 25k plus rounds that I will also need to store. I could store it all in the gun vault room or use my old gun cabinets just to store ammo if I purchased a big gun safe. Thanks for any comments or suggestions.
I will in less than two weeks be moving to a house with a large basement. This house is six years old and has not had any issues with any basement leaking.
In the Basement is a large 6 x 10 concrete vault room under the front porch of the home. The walls and roof in addition to being solid concrete are also timber framed for later completion. The doorway is also framed in 2x 10 lumber. There is also a light in the room.
I have seen these rooms in my area finished out and framed wall in old barn wood with shelves and built in gun racks. They also use old rusted tin for the roof in these rooms. It makes a very impressive gun room that is still accessible in the event of an emergency and can be used as a safe room. A lot of people put a huge steel vault door on these to seal them off. The door is almost like the door of a gun safe.
So I have a lot of guns and thus far I have only used two green Sentinel gun cabinets that you commonly buy from Walmart or Bass Pro. The kind that can be accessed with a screw driver or butter knife in about 60 seconds. They were just really to keep my kids (ages 4/1) away from the guns.
My other option is to buy a large gun safe and just use that instead. Gun safe's are fire rated and are still harder to get into that this home made vault room would be. I have never owned a big gun safe. Most people I know who own one its never locked to be honest.
I don't like the idea of not being able to see my guns or having to cram them in a gun safe but I want them to be safe from thieves and my kids.
SO a good gun safe cost as much as finishing the vault room. Which Would you choose and why???????
Also I have a very large stock pile of ammo like 25k plus rounds that I will also need to store. I could store it all in the gun vault room or use my old gun cabinets just to store ammo if I purchased a big gun safe. Thanks for any comments or suggestions.